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...single creation win both a copyright and a design patent? A copyright protects a work for as much as 56 years; a design patent lasts for 14 years but protects the creation even when another innocently comes up with the same idea. Generally, copyrights are for the protection of authors, while patents are for inventors. Still, said the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, there can be an overlap; and in such cases, the author-inventor may ask for both forms of protection. The new winner in this fledgling category is Richard Q. Yardley, who created the Spiro Agnew...
Xerox has been granted patents in the U.S. and Britain for the process. But company officials clammed up when an abstract of the patent was published last month in an obscure technical newsletter-which, ironically, could probably profit from being made copy-proof. A Xerox spokesman insisted last week that the company had no firm plans to market the fluorescent foiler. Wall Street analysts who follow the company say that if the product is ever introduced, sales probably would be restricted to the Defense Department, and others who could demonstrate a compelling need. Company officials do note that the fluorescent...
...fighting for a share of the more than $60 million that industry sources expect to rack up this year from selling electronic games. This hunt for profits could wind up in court. Atari, whose Pong machines were the first to show up in penny arcades, has secured a patent on the electronic circuitry that makes the games possible. Its management contends that other manufacturers should therefore be paying Atari a royalty on each game they produce. To the true pinball aficionado, of course, all this is beside the point; what the industry lacks is a sophisticated electronic game that...
...case in its entirety a frameup concocted by the F.B.I.? Or, if indeed espionage did take place, was it really of such consequence that the death penalty should even have been considered? The answer to the second question was stated succinctly by scientist Phillip Morrison who holds a co-patent on the atomic bomb, on the television program The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: "There is no secret to the atomic bomb." Clearly the Rosenbergs were executed for invalid reasons in the sense that it was simply impossible to attribute Soviet possession of the atomic bomb to their...
...fields. Coors manufactured all of the 2.46 billion beer cans that it used last year, and in 1970 became the first brewer to buy back used cans from consumers (at 10? per lb.) for recycling. When Bill Coors designed a two-piece aluminum beer can, the company sold the patent to major packaging firms rather than go big in the can-making business. Reason: that would have meant borrowing money, and in all its 100 years Coors has never borrowed a penny...