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...course Ike would not get away with any of this if he did not have his own immense style. He stands there glowing in his tan jumpsuit and ocher-print blazer and patent leather boots and says, "I want you to be proud of the way I look, because you spend $1,000 a week* to buy my clothes. I go down to Tiffany's, and these rings and things [he is wearing two big gold rings plastered with diamonds, a watch to match and an oversized topaz] just crawl up on my hands." Then it's donation...
Benson and Tabbott, employees of AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories, had devised a set of mathematical instructions, or a "program," for a computer as part of a telephone switching system. For years AT&T, to which Benson and Tabbott have transferred their patent claims, had been trying to get U.S. patent protection for the computer programs developed by its researchers...
Last week, in a 6-0 ruling (three Justices abstaining), the high court agreed with the U.S. Patent Commissioner-and with the policy generally followed by other nations-that computer programming is "essentially a series of mathematical calculations or mental steps" and thus does not fall into any patentable category. If computer programs-the so-called software-are to secure more extensive protection by the law than is provided by a simple copyright, said the court, Congress will have to enact legislation...
Bennett and other software executives had hoped that patent registration would go a long way toward helping them to protect the investment that they make in advanced computer programs-some $750 million annually...
Detroit auto men who have seen the design are skeptical. They point out that a full-scale working model has not yet been completed or put into a car. But Pennsylvania's Anidyne Corp., which has bought the patent rights from Karol and is sponsoring the developmental work in Britain, is convinced that design can be turned into reality. "It can be hellishly complicated," admits Ansdale, who helped develop the Wankel, "but none of the problems are beyond the range of known technology...