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Prancing and gesturing in front of a giant photograph of Renoir's painting The Dance at Bougival (taken by an experimental Polaroid camera that reproduces works of art with startling fidelity), Land put on a virtuoso performance for the stockholders. He passionately defended the U.S. patent system: "We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents." He' twitted Kodak's new camera, saying that "the new group would like to confine...
Visions of Doom. The report notes an increase in foreign innovation. A decade ago, foreign inventions accounted for only 18% of the patents issued by the U.S. patent office; by 1973 they accounted for 30%. The NSF report also claims U.S. scientific literature has declined in both quality and quantity...
...body." Tiny but muscular, the 77 year-old Gaposhkin is irrepressible. In the midst of conversation he stretches his arms up to the ceiling and implores God, "Why did You give me this incredible desire?" He is a bit of a dandy too; his yellow and brown patent leather shoes dictate the tone of his dress...
...Xerox is also getting some unaccustomed competition from fellow corporate titans. Shielded by a patent structure that seemed impenetrable, Xerox for a decade monopolized the field of "plain paper" office copying. Other companies made copiers-some under license from Xerox-but their machines required specially treated paper. In 1970, however, IBM came out with a plain-paper copier of its own, touching off a still unsettled suit by Xerox that charges 22 infringements of its patents. Last year Xerox assured itself of still more trouble by deciding not to fight a longstanding Government antitrust suit and instead signing a Federal...
...must gravitated to each other, cause everybody else was there to see Johnny Mathis, and we were there to see this guy play out front for the Isleys. This guy played like a maniac and we both knew he was gonna end up being Jimi Hendrix. Green sharkskin suit, patent leather shoes--he was wearing a do-rag then. He played a Strat--old or fake?--Lefthanded. Custom. Remember when they did "Shout"? how maniac...