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Withholding publication of scientific research, or secrecy, was prevalent among industry-supported research, with 82 percent of respondents reporting that their companies sometimes require academic researchers "to keep information confidential to allow filing of a patent application...
...inexpensive and environmentally harmless rust inhibitor (under patent by chemist J. Anthony von Fraunhofer...
...days he worries most about the Internet, Usenet and the World Wide Web, which threaten his software monopoly by shifting the nexus of control from stand-alone computers to the network that connects them. The Internet, by design, has no central operating system that Microsoft or anybody else can patent and license. And its libertarian culture is devoted to open--that is to say, nonproprietary--standards, none of which were set by Microsoft...
...whole set of issues come up. The other side may be trying to smear you," says Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert, who has testified in two patent cases this year. "It's not a hobby. It's a serious business...
...harshest of these attacks are true, SoftRAM 95 isn't just one more computer product that fails to live up to its hype; it's a hollow piece of Potemkin programming, devoid of the advanced, patent-pending compression technology touted in its packaging. In short, says Mark Russinovich, a University of Oregon computer scientist, "the thing is a fraud...