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Even though the Supreme Court had agreed to rule on The Commissioner of Patents v. Gary R. Benson and Arthur C. Tabbott, the case hardly seemed likely to attract more than passing attention. But Plaintiffs Benson and Tabbott, the Government claimed, were not seeking protection for a mere material invention or even for a unique process; what they wanted was to have the U.S. Patent Office register an idea...
...latest observations of the Loch Ness monster come not from bibulous tourists or imaginative locals but from a group with apparently impeccable credentials: the Boston-based Academy of Applied Science. An organization of inventors, engineers and other science buffs, the academy was founded by a well-to-do patent attorney and M.I.T. physics graduate named Robert H. Rines. For the past three summers, in collaboration with Britain's own Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, academy investigators have kept patient nightly watch on the waters of the loch, using the latest underwater cameras and sonar gear...
...life. One was the demand for "relevance," another was the glorification of the "happening" ("anything was good as long as it expressed the real, now self"), and the third was "trashing," an ugly resort to violence. Brewster concluded that despite a residue of change, some of it beneficial, these "patent medicines" bred disillusionment and fostered a cult of unreason. Such attitudes left no room for a university's proper, enduring concern with truth and beauty as embodied in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The end result, argued Brewster, was "a yearning for structure, a sense...
CURTIS HAYWORTH, president of Manhattan's World Patent Development Corp., trades in technology. At first the firm specialized in acquiring rights to Eastern European technology and offering them to U.S. customers; for example, Hayworth is making available to U.S. libraries a Czech method for preserving old books. "Then we started to know the Eastern Europeans, and they started to trust us," says Hayworth. "So now they come to us for U.S. technology." Czech pharmaceutical officials, to cite an instance, want to buy American machinery for making plastic pill bottles. World Patent intends to export to Eastern Europe an American...
HENRY SHUR, a Washington patent lawyer, sells Soviet expertise in the U.S. His firm, Patent Management, Inc., started acquiring rights to Soviet processes in 1969 and holds rights to 15 of them in metallurgy, metalworking and welding. Patent Management recently licensed Kaiser Aluminum to use a Russian alumina smelting process for castings. The firm has also arranged for Carpenter Technology Corp. and the Wolverine Tube division of Universal Oil Products Co. to turn out high quality zirconium and stainless steel tubing under a Soviet process. At the moment. Patent Management is offering rights to a Russian electroslag refining process that...