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...often does around this time, Bob Martin, 47, is standing on his head. Martin has just finished another frenzied day as a patent attorney at Hewlett-Packard's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters, but instead of plunging into rush-hour traffic, he has descended one flight of stairs to the company's yoga studio. Soft music flutes through the room as half a dozen practitioners, high heels and neckties stowed in nearby lockers, bend and breathe to their instructor's directions. "It's wonderful," Martin says, rolling back to his feet. "I come down here and I let everything that...
Nichols began calling pharmaceutical houses in the U.S. and Europe, telling them that if they started making sulindac it would save thousands of lives. But it was about to come off patent, and as a generic drug it didn't offer much of a payoff because of the likelihood of competitive products and lower prices. Moreover, FAP--Nichols' cancer--is a so-called orphan disease, afflicting only 25,000 Americans, so there wasn't much of a market for it. Thanks, but no thanks, the drugmakers said...
...views education as one of the great frontiers where information-based service and advanced technology can improve people?s lives." Lofty sentiments aside, Microsoft researchers will have access to MIT's facilities and the brainpower of its faculty and students, and, most important, will also get first options on patent innovations arising from the project...
AstroTurf recently introduced a similar product, provoking a nasty battle and a patent-infringement suit. A new turf war is on, but grass may be the ultimate winner...
...Still, a mystery remains. What happened to Lieserl? And after they married, why didn't the couple bring her back to Switzerland and legitimize her birth? Was she given up for adoption, as many scholars believe, because she might have endangered Einstein's new career as a patent-office examiner in Calvinist Bern? And might she even still be alive somewhere in Serbia, a wizened relic of the great relativist's youthful indiscretion...