Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidential mansion. He loaded a respirator on the rear end of his rebuilt Buick, and with his wife went peddling respirators in competition with Harvard's long, lean Professor Philip Drinker. Professor Drinker, through Warren E. Collins Inc., the cautious Boston manufacturers to whom he assigned patents on the respirator which has saved hundreds of chest paralyzed cases, sued rambunctious John Haven Emerson for patent infringement...
...angrier, with President Lowell getting sadder-the Harvard Corporation, hoping to quash the suit, last week pinned up this notice in the Medical School and School of Public Health: "No member of either of these schools should take out for his own profit, or make any profit on, a patent upon any invention or discovery that affects the health of individuals or the public. That if, to protect the public against misuse of the invention or discovery, it is necessary to control it by means of a patent, that should be applied for in such a name and under such...
...from patients for medical inventions finally adopted, the Corporation is well rid of an ugly situation which has hung its head for the last year. By conclusively declaring that no members of the Medical School or the School of Public Health should take out for his own profit a patent upon any invention that affects the health of the public, the University has wisely refused to assume any responsibility for the approaching law-suit in which Drinker will attempt to save his name if not his money...
This investment, made a dozen years ago, cost Drug $10,000,000. Since then steady Boots dividends have gone to Drug. But Druggist Liggett, onetime patent medicine drummer, has never interfered much with Boots management, although he has encouraged it to sell picture frames, stationery, leather goods and other nonpharmaceutical lines. Boots management has remained an English management headed by John Campbell Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham...
Realistically brown, wearing a baby-blue coat, red pants, patent leather boots and spurs, Tibbett sat himself insolently on a red plush throne, put his feet up on the arm, began magnificently to impersonate Emperor Jones. In soft, natural Negro dialect, perfectly suited to the smooth, dark color of his voice, he boasted about how he had fooled the natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding...