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...School students have no patent on Vicki Albright. Undergraduates will also have a chance to meet the U.C.L.A. junior and former Newsweek covergirl while she is in Cambridge April...
...pact is hard to enforce if anyone really wants to circumvent it; Boden-hausen's organization has no legal weapons against transgressors, simply passes along complaints to governments involved. Any member of the pact can unilaterally exempt specific products from patent protection; Italy has done so with Pharmaceuticals, thus enabling Italian firms to copy the world's new drugs as fast as they are invented. Several big nations, such as India, Pakistan, Argentina and Chile, remain outside the system, some of them figuring that they invent too little to profit from it. Nor does the pact protect artistic...
Though the patent accord will move the U.S.S.R. closer to an interchange of technology with the West, the Russians will continue to pirate foreign books as often as they please...
...simpler than open-heart surgery is closure of a patent ductus arteriosus, the shunt that connects the aorta with the pulmonary artery in unborn infants. Normally, the duct closes automatically soon after birth. When it does not, the situation can be remedied either by tying the vessel shut or by cutting it and closing the ends. In major medical centers, mortality from these operations is near zero. But 777 hospitals offer to do them, and 232 hospitals have admitted a death rate of 3.6% from the first type of operation and 9.6% from the second...
...that seems certain to be approved is an increase in patent fees. The Government receives about $9,000,000 yearly from patent processing, but fees have not been revised since 1932 and now cover only a quarter of Patent Office expenses. Under the President's recommendation, higher rates would add another $15 million. Also requested are higher inspection fees for tobacco, grain, cotton and naval stores (which would produce $7,600,000), for special customs services ($1,000,000), and for maritime port services...