Word: patentedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...views education as one of the great frontiers where information-based service and advanced technology can improve people?s lives." Lofty sentiments aside, Microsoft researchers will have access to MIT's facilities and the brainpower of its faculty and students, and, most important, will also get first options on patent innovations arising from the project...
AstroTurf recently introduced a similar product, provoking a nasty battle and a patent-infringement suit. A new turf war is on, but grass may be the ultimate winner...
...Still, a mystery remains. What happened to Lieserl? And after they married, why didn't the couple bring her back to Switzerland and legitimize her birth? Was she given up for adoption, as many scholars believe, because she might have endangered Einstein's new career as a patent-office examiner in Calvinist Bern? And might she even still be alive somewhere in Serbia, a wizened relic of the great relativist's youthful indiscretion...
Even so, Tsien has no plan to try tinkering with human genes--nor could he under current ethical guidelines. Drugs that can boost the action of the NR2B molecule, however, are not only ethical but already being contemplated. "Princeton has applied for a use patent for this gene," says Tsien, acknowledging his contacts with drugmakers, "although we wouldn't try to patent the gene itself...
Although I take 250 mg of vitamin C each day, I'm pretty much a skeptic when it comes to dietary supplements. Most of the ones I've seen are basically patent medicines whose proponents, seizing on a few isolated facts about the body, tout a treatment plan that has more to do with magic than medicine. But occasionally a supplement like SAMe (pronounced sam-me) comes along that piques even my interest. It's supposed to combat depression, ease aching joints and possibly revitalize the liver. I'm not convinced these claims are true, but I think they...