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However, there is a patent difference between a ROTC scholarship and a grant from, say, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. One excludes on the premise of bigotry, the other is designed to offer a specific group the opportunity of an education...
Microsoft's cyberspace monopoly finally halted by a patent suit...
Even after the U.S. and France struck a deal to split patent royalties fifty-fifty, the controversy swirled on. Finally in 1991, when Gallo and Montagnier had their staffs again analyze the original HIV samples, the mystery was solved. The strain that Gallo had presented as the AIDS virus -- and used to develop a blood test for the disease -- had been accidentally contaminated by a virus from a French sample. Gallo insisted that this mistake did not diminish the achievements of his researchers, because they had also isolated several other strains...
...premature. "You don't think I would just come up with something like this, throw it out there and say, voila, take it?" he asked. "We have had these results in hand since April and have repeated the whole series of experiments a dozen times. We applied for a patent several months ago. We have proved it is reproducible...
...Washington University in St. Louis, and Robert Fogel, 67, of the University of Chicago, are the first economic historians to win the Nobel. North's research showed that contrary to popular belief, free-market forces alone won't generate growth. Strong political and legal institutions, including courts and patent laws, are needed as well. Fogel contested the orthodox view that slavery was unprofitable in the U.S. and thus destined to fail. He found that it was economically efficient and collapsed only because of the Civil War. Attacked for having an idea that violated political correctness even before the term...