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...machine remarkably similar to a couple made by Xerox Corp., which has long dominated the field. The venture is IBM's most ambitious foray into a new market in the decade since Thomas Watson Jr. took over as chairman. Xerox countered with a lawsuit charging 22 patent infringements and asking a federal district court in Manhattan to prevent IBM from selling its new product...
...courts will probably take several years to rule on the patent suit. Merely by filing the suit, Xerox served warning to other firms that it will fight hard against all challengers. Solidly entrenched Xerox is likely to suffer less from the new rivalry than other firms in the torridly competitive office-copier field. Xerox's 70% share of the market is based largely on an array of patents that give it a continuing capacity to bring out improved equipment...
Beckwith charged that drug companies use token research to extend their patent rights over the manufacture of particular drugs, and that they "plow back their profits into a campaign of public relations" to monopolize the drug market...
...Patent. Cade was led indirectly to lithium by inconclusive experiments with other substances. What he learned from his crude equipment and his guinea pigs was that lithium carbonate had a profound effect on the manic patient...
...fragrance dissipated too rapidly. The present process is supplied by only two companies, National Cash Register and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, and the competition between them has spread from the marketplace to the courts. NCR, which claims that it developed the micro method first, has filed a patent-infringement suit against 3M. Minnesota Mining extracts a product's aromatic oils to duplicate the product's scent. The essences are enclosed in microscopic plastic bubbles, a million to a square inch. The capsules are coated on a paper strip, which is cut to size and affixed to each advertisement...