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...rise boots because "they give my legs a sleek stocking look, and besides, without them I'd look like an overgrown teen-ager." On fatter legs, they often verge on the ludicrous. "Have you ever seen a bowlegged girl wearing them?" asks a Boston secretary. "They look like patent-leather parentheses...
...world's archaic maze of patent laws and procedures has long been a major nuisance to international-minded businessmen, who insist that it inhibits the global spread of patent benefits through new technology, new industry and expanded markets. Last week delegates from 22 major countries-including the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union, which account for 80% of the world's patent applications-reached preliminary agreement in Geneva on some overdue reforms...
...muddle the conferees approved the provisions of an international treaty that requires a separate application in every country where businessmen want to protect inventions from covetous competitors. That fragmentation saddles companies with onerous costs (as much as $40,000) of filing for patents in dozens of nations with differing requirements (and languages). It has also engulfed national patent offices in wasteful duplication of patent searches and paper work on about half of the world's 650,000 annual patent applications. As a result, it now takes the U.S. 21 years to issue a patent while Germany takes five...
...psychic phenomena doubted their results, suggesting an ample variety of ways that a middling to clever fraud could have hoodwinked an observer in the many phases of picture-taking and development that made up 19th century photography. Many of the pictures themselves appear to a McLuhanized eye to be patent fakes, double exposures and paste-ups. In 1869 Mumler, along with his wife and a convert, William Guay, was charged with fraud in New York. Despite a grandiose, sneering summation by the then Public Prosecutor, Eldridge T. Gerry ("If the prisoner's innocence is as strong as his supernatural powers...
Audio-Visuel France expects to receive an American patent this month, plans to market Magic Mirror in the U.S. soon afterward. For American teen-agers who shop with their mothers, the system will hold a surprise blessing. Said an appreciative young mademoiselle, after a painless session in front of the mirror at Au Printemps: "Now Mother can say no before I go to the trouble of trying on an outfit and falling completely in love with...