Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...illustration of the breakdown in communication, Joyce M. Brinton, the director of the University's Office for Technology and Trademark Licensing, said the conflict-of-interest issue--the guiding principle of the committee's report--hadn't been considered policy makers when addressing the equity issue...
...Supreme Court ruled that a human-made microorganism qualified as patentable matter. The same year, Congress passed the Patent and Trademark Amendment Act, allowing universities to receive patents directly, license patent rights and collect royalties on inventions from federally-funded research without seeking waivers from federal agencies...
MCDONALD'S Loses right to trademark in South Africa owing to absence during sanctions...
THERE WAS FIDEL CASTRO, WEARing for the first time in Havana a blue suit instead of his trademark fatigues, on his feet for five hours praising both socialism and multinational corporations in a bravura if not altogether convincing performance. And Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Prime Minister of Russia, taking questions in Moscow's White House on topics ranging from the extent of government corruption to his relationship with Boris Yeltsin. And Do Muoi, Vietnam's Communist Party chief, asking for more foreign investment and affirming that it would be just fine if the path to pure communism first made the Vietnamese...
...that end, Miller has tried to develop her own trademark features. She hopes to interview "offbeat celebrities you may not see elsewhere." Her guests on the first week, however, were the sort of offbeat celebrities TV has managed to overexpose thoroughly, like RuPaul and Roger Clinton. Miller's real twist on the late-night formula is to employ a trio of sketch players who perform three or four skits each night. So far, the material has been topical and clever: one sharp sketch featured a Woody Allen impersonator directing a teenage girl in a Calvin Klein...