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...Washington memorabilia shop, had started selling his Inaugural trinkets to the public. The committee fired off a "cease-and-desist" letter. Harlin scooped it by applying for a trademark for the Inaugural seal seven weeks before the Clintonites did. Approval is pending for both sides. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office says that although the trademark has not been maintained, use determines rights. Hence, lack of a trademark registration does not preclude protection. So which is which...
DIED. CHARLES HAMILTON, 82, handwriting expert who in 1983 was one of the first authorities to expose the so-called Hitler diaries as "patent and obvious forgeries"; in New York City...
...deliciously catty mother Hannah (Lauren Bacall) and sister Claire (Mimi Rogers). A cross between a hopeless romantic and a mental case, Rose cancels all her dates with the weirdos who pursue her, and instead lays around in pajamas eating cookies and watching baseball. Barbra has had a patent pending on this role for decades, and she plays it with ease and style and old-fashioned Jewish humor...
Demon is sadly one of few satirical journals on the Harvard campus, providing the most patent vindication of Adam Smith's thesis that the quality of goods diminishes proportionately with a decrease in competition. Such "humor" would cease to intrigue if higher quality goods were available in our humor market. A few more humor magazines and Demon would be compelled by the rationale of supply and demand to undertake a wholly new and revolutionary enterprise: to create humor that is at the same time clean, engaging, tasteful and intellectual, or, at the very least, inoffensive...
...mifepristone. It has been available in Europe since 1988, but the French manufacturer, Roussel Uclaf, fearing harassment by militant antiabortionists, refused to market it in the U.S. In 1994, though, the New York City-based Population Council offered to take the heat and acquired the drug's American patent rights. After two years of clinical trials, the organization applied to the FDA for permission to sell the drug. In July an advisory committee recommended approval...