Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heroes in the Pits. Not that there haven't been defensive stars before. Washington Redskins Linebacker Sam Huff has been a popular figure for years, and Larry Wilson of the St. Louis Cardinals practically holds the patent on the safety blitz. But they are the visible parts of the defense. What six-year-old could fail to spot a blitzing safety man or cheer a cornerback's one-handed interception. The difference is that knowledgeable football buffs have now found a whole new pantheon of heroes in the heart of the defense: the front four linemen, the immense...
...nudge their governments toward six other reforms: 1) a multinational investment guarantee system within the World Bank to ensure against what he called "nonbusiness" (political) risks, 2) an international legal code to protect private property from expropriation, 3) development of the European capital market, 4) more closely meshed national patent systems, 5) broader approaches to antitrust problems and 6) a freer flow of technology. "We have created the illusion of multinationalism without the reality, the shadow without the substance," he argued. "To borrow from Cassius, the fault is not with the concept but with ourselves...
...Overlap. The Geneva accord would end all the costly overlap by establishing a single multilingual international patent application, to be filed with a system of worldwide patent clearing houses. The clearing houses would be set up by the body that drafted the treaty, the United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property, administrator of the Paris Convention of 1883, under which 79 nations agree to give equal treatment to one another's inventors. Individual nations would retain the right to grant or reject patents, but international patent centers would check the novelty of most inventions, issue recommendations...
...form, approved again by the Geneva delegates, then submitted to all 79 Paris pact signatories for ratification. If all goes according to plan, predicts Director Georg Bodenhausen of the International Bureau, the new setup may be in force by 1970. Though some large corporations "view a novelty such as patent cooperation with due suspicion," he says, "I am absolutely certain they will be delighted once it gets off the ground...
...National Association of Manufacturers is already cheering. "We were afraid that this scheme would sell us down the river," says Vice President Reynold Bennett. "But the treaty looks all right." Though the pact stops short of creating an international patent, it is a step in that direction. And for U.S. inventors who file nearly 100,000 patent applications a year in Washington, it promises some fast benefits. Without its load of foreign applications, the U.S. Patent Office figures it can cut its search time to 18 months...