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Seitz said he received a patent for his idea in 1975 and proposed manufacturing the diamond, known as carbon 12, to GE in 1987. Scientists at the GE research laboratories responded at the time with lukewarm interest, he said...
...filed patent applications for partial gene sequences that have been found, according to a statement by James D. Watson, director of the National Center for Human Genome Research and the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York...
...holds a patent on the teaching ofChristianity," said Johnson. "The church isconstantly in the process of rediscovering what aChristian life...
...Burns makes his subject come alive by focusing on three crucial people. First is Lee DeForest, who patented the key invention that spawned the radio age -- the three-element vacuum tube -- but emerges as something of a self- promoter and con man. Edwin Howard Armstrong, who made important refinements in De Forest's invention and battled him endlessly in the patent courts, is the film's tragic hero: a bullheaded visionary defeated by people smarter and more ruthless than he. David Sarnoff, the founder of NBC, is one of those ruthless people ("I don't get ulcers; I give them...
Writers certainly have a certain prerogative to entire articles, stories and books they have written, just as inventors can patent their inventions. But what about phrases and "ideas"? Do I really have to cite George Santayana every time I point out that history can teach us lessons? Every time I point out that history tends to repeat itself? Or just every time I point out that "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat...