Word: patentedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even after the U.S. and France struck a deal to split patent royalties fifty-fifty, the controversy swirled on. Finally in 1991, when Gallo and Montagnier had their staffs again analyze the original HIV samples, the mystery was solved. The strain that Gallo had presented as the AIDS virus -- and used to develop a blood test for the disease -- had been accidentally contaminated by a virus from a French sample. Gallo insisted that this mistake did not diminish the achievements of his researchers, because they had also isolated several other strains...
...premature. "You don't think I would just come up with something like this, throw it out there and say, voila, take it?" he asked. "We have had these results in hand since April and have repeated the whole series of experiments a dozen times. We applied for a patent several months ago. We have proved it is reproducible...
...Washington University in St. Louis, and Robert Fogel, 67, of the University of Chicago, are the first economic historians to win the Nobel. North's research showed that contrary to popular belief, free-market forces alone won't generate growth. Strong political and legal institutions, including courts and patent laws, are needed as well. Fogel contested the orthodox view that slavery was unprofitable in the U.S. and thus destined to fail. He found that it was economically efficient and collapsed only because of the Civil War. Attacked for having an idea that violated political correctness even before the term...
Carol Moseley Braun embarrassed the Senate and persuaded over 30 senators to reverse their earlier vote to renew a patent on the Confederate flag. An angry and increasingly immature Jesse Helms threatened to sing Dixie until Sen. Moseley Braun cried, and then challenged her credentials as a genuine descendant of slaves. No one investigated Helms' own lineage to see if he is a genuine descendant of slaveowners...
...federal jury in Los Angeles found that Honeywell infringed on a Litton Industries patent covering airplane navigation systems. The jury awarded Litton $1.2 billion, which is pending approval by a judge this week...