Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sponsored by Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wis.), the legislation originally would have enabled university researchers and small farmers to freely use patented animals for noncommercial purposes without having to fear lawsuits for patent infringement...
...common practice is that research use in a non-commercial sense is never challenged," said Joyce Brinton, director of Harvard's Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing. Brinton said that Leder had already been offering his product to researchers at a rate well below the breeding costs of the mice...
...estimated 30,000 to 35,000 guerrillas in the field, are strong enough to carry out effective military operations in many parts of the country. Soviet officials, who number in the hundreds, are not allowed, for fear of ambush, to travel by car in the countryside or to use the open, bicycle-driven pedicabs that provide most of the transportation in Phnom Penh...
...lake of calm amid the gusts of activity around her. While a hairdresser and a makeup man are fussing over her, an Oprah Winfrey Show producer, Dianne Hudson, is giving her a ten-minute prep session for this morning's show. The subject is B.S. -- people who use it, people who hate it -- and the topic is giving the host some trouble...
Describing herself as a "conduit" in her current job, Thornburgh is the person to whom the faculty coordinators in each of the University's schools turn to for help in making arrangements for students with special needs. "I'm a resource person," she says. "Schools vary in their use...