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Raised Brows. To protect its patent rights, the self-supporting Pasteur Institute has not yet documented its find in scientific publications. Partly for that reason, some scientists still kept their eyebrows raised. How, they asked, could anyone be certain that he had anticipated all the mutants that resourceful nature might produce? It may take five years, they concluded, to prove the institute's claim that this was indeed a "revolutionary discovery...
...make the effort: no Stanford graduate who has taken to frying eggs and making beds wants to tell her son that he should abandon his dreams. All of this becomes obvious almost from the time Pat arrives and begins making an overt effort to "understand" her son's patent inadequacies (like his helplessness in seeking a job). For the remainder of the hour, the point is ground home with unbearable repitition...
...controlling interests in British and Japanese copier companies. Also, the Government wants Xerox customers to have the option of buying all Xerox equipment, rather than being forced to lease it, as the company sometimes demands. By far the most radical proposal was that Xerox should offer all its patents, royalty free, to licensees-in effect throwing open one of the most tightly protected patent systems in the world...
...promising to fight "every aspect" of the FTC's case, Xerox Chairman C. Peter McColough saved his heaviest fire for the patent-giveaway idea. Said he: "What is being challenged here is the very basis of the patent system-the concept that an inventor should be awarded exclusive rights to his invention for a period of time." The Government has, in fact, challenged that idea a few times before. In the interest of promoting competition, General Electric was forced to pass out patented electrical know-how to competitors in the early '50s. But rarely if ever...
...Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it will issue a complaint charging that the Xerox Corporation has monopolized the $1.7 billion office copier industry by engaging in unfair marketing and patent practices...