Word: patentable
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...company's scientists win 600 to 700 patents a year and turn over all their patent rights to the company, as is standard practice throughout industry. But Du Pont encourages its scientists by letting them share in the profits of their inventiveness. Through a special bonus system, more generous than in most other companies, it yearly pays upwards of $50,000 each to several scientists, and over the years it has made millionaires of many of them...
...that manufacturers have since imitated them in mass production. Calder himself has clung to few mechanical tools, prefers rivets instead of welding, paints his mobiles with brushes instead of spraying them. Sprung from the modern esthetic that sees wisdom in childhood, his work is a comment on, rather than patent approval of, the Machine Age. For the fun of it, Calder makes his own family kitchenware-ladles, forks, spoons-using leftover scrap metal; he snips out toys for his grandchildren and jewelry for his wife. He is, in effect, a sophisticated primitive who sees the root of art in craft...
Fieser has just returned from another trip-this one for the U.S. government. He went to Washington on Nov. 4 to testify that a patent on a process for producing D and L. Lysine, two varieties of an amino acid, should not exclude a separate patent on the L. Lysine process...
...Swiss chemist is seeking the patent on L. Lysine to sell to a U.S. firm. The Federal District Court of Washington, D.C., called Fieser into the case because of a comment in his Chemistry 20 textbook, Advanced Organic Chemistry. He had noted that the Swiss's process for isolating L. Lysine was "very ingenious...
...screen. U.S. moviemakers, struck by the popularity of TV programs about physicians and by the international success of some British medicomedies, all too often call in a pill pusher to remedy the money megrims. And the remedy often works. In 1962 The Interns, a patent preparation that cost less than $2,000,000 to manufacture, was one of Columbia's major moneymakers...