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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--A new patent policy intended to encourage professors to design marketable inventions goes into effect this month at Brown University, the Brown Daily Herald reported last week...
...Louis medical supply company also engaged in hybridoma research. The result: a $3.8 million three-year agreement in which Washington University gets funding for research and Mallinckrodt gets copies of all resulting scientific papers-before their publication. If any discoveries are commercially viable, the university will hold the patent and receive royalties; Mallinckrodt will have an exclusive license to market the product. Says Mallinckrodt President Raymond Bentele: "The agreement allows the university to do what it does best-that is, basic research&3151;and it allows us to do what we do best, develop usable products...
...year. At M.I.T. Exxon is financing an $8 million project on combustion research. Harvard Medical School has announced a $6 million grant from Du Pont for genetic research. Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh has signed a $5 million contract with Westinghouse to fund the Robotics Institute, granting Westinghouse first patent rights on any research findings. Dartmouth College receives $75,000 a year from DePuy, a medical manufacturer, to develop prosthetic hip replacements. Columbia University has hired a director of corporate relations just to woo more corporate...
...boost to research and is relatively free of the red tape that often entangles Government grants. Yet one ideal of a university, however fitfully adhered to, is the sharing of information. Most contract grants between business and universities allow the donor corporation to review findings before publication, ensure exclusive patent rights and sometimes keep key data secret so competitors will not get them. While many technological breakthroughs have resulted from purely theoretical research, corporations tend to be more interested in encouraging short-term solutions to specific problems or in developing products. Concedes Wilbert Ferguson, a Westinghouse engineering director, discussing...
...party in Britain, which has aligned itself far more with social reform than have America's labor unions in the last decade, Foot not surprisingly demonstrates a broad compassion and concern for personal liberties. And his alliance with disarmament forces and opposition to Western chauvinism in international politics are patent...