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...were promoting schemes to produce it from Mexican guayule shrubs and Russian dandelions. The program started to get on track when the War Production Board decided to go basically with one type of synthetic, Buna-S, made from butadiene and styrene; Standard Oil of New Jersey held the U.S. patent rights for Buna-S. Production goals were set at 800,000 tons a year. Arthur Newhall, a former rubber-company executive, was appointed rubber coordinator, directing the whole program...
...Cambridge are a microcosm of the national debate on the issue. Harvard, primarily because of President Bok's opinions, has officially opposed the formation of the department. While the legislation is not the top priority of the Office of Government and Community Affairs--the University is more concerned with patent legislation and research allocations in the fiscal 1980 budget, as Cottington explains--Harvard has joined a group of about 60 universities criticizing the legislation. "We feel there should be more debate and discussion before a department is created," argues Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, who handles...
Four months after the twins were born, Margaret qualified as a barrister specializing in tax and patent law. She also kept her political ties. In 1959, when the twins were six and in boarding school, she was adopted as the Conservative candidate for Finchley, a safe Tory seat in the London suburbs. Thatcher romped home with a majority of 16,260 in the Conservative landslide, and her political career was launched...
...been announced). Chief Justice Warren Burger was so upset over O'Brien's leaks that he did some detective work. The result: last week John A. Tucci, a Government Printing Office employee who sets Supreme Court rulings in type, was transferred to the U.S. Patent Office. Burger will not say how he concluded that Tucci was the culprit; Tucci says that Burger has no proof...
Vellucci charges that private firms are bankrolling lab investigations "with the hope of securing patent rights" and hence profits. "They are tax-exempt only because the building is used for educational purposes," Vellucci said early last week...