It was as if Kozmo had invented and patented the idea of delivering stuff.
Novartis created its first DPP4 drug candidate in 1996 and by 1998 had invented Galvus.
Jobs needed a new kind of scratch-proof, nearly unbreakable glass that Corning had invented.
Speedy Taylor, as he was called, had invented a new way to make money.
Worse, some kid out in California had invented a gizmo that seemed likely to kill radio altogether: television.
New Labour licensed Mr Field to think the unthinkable about reforming the welfare state Old Labour had invented.
It was the world's first publicly available microcomputer and ran on a microprocessor that Intel had invented in 1971.
At age 25 he was working for his father, who had invented the automatic car wash, and was bored silly.
More seriously, Dr Fang alleged that Dr Xiao had exaggerated the efficacy of a potentially revolutionary surgical procedure he had invented.
And an advert in The Independent claimed BMW had invented a car with a steering wheel in the middle of the car.
Swiss scientists had invented a novel way to heal broken bones.
Dr Schmidt told the audience of broadcasters and producers that Britain had invented many items but were no longer the world's leading exponents in these fields.
Within a year Langer had invented a new plastic that used proteins to burrow holes big enough to release multiple drugs and cancer-fighting chemicals into the body.
Then a couple of years ago Topkis read a newspaper story about someone who had invented a machine that could print a paperback book in 17 minutes.
He reminded me that before the acquisition I had invented a product line and, by leapfrogging a dozen entrenched competitors, had made it number one in its category.
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Six chemists spent long nights paging through piles of dusty chemistry journals in the Monsanto library to see if anyone had invented a COX-2 inhibitor without realizing it.
He used a new DNA-sequencing technique called whole-genome shotgunning that he and a colleague, Hamilton Smith, had invented, and patented a good tranche of human genes on the way.
Julian Adams, a chemist at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, came to a foundation dinner meeting Giusti had organized at the Boston Hilton with stunning data on a drug he had invented.
Dr. Bob knew that 90 percent of bad breath comes from a dirty tongue, and he was certain he had invented the very best tool for removing those bacteria.
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As a student at Princeton, Eden had been studying the feasibility of installing a solar panel she had invented that rotates with the sun, increasing solar efficiency by 40 percent.
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Henderson, who runs companies that have sued many of the largest technology companies over patents on everything from answering machines to video game technology, needed to convince patent officials that he had invented the device before another patent covering similar technology was granted.
The patent examiner discovered a 1995 patent that appeared to cover some of the claims and so required Henderson and Tendler to submit affidavits that they had in fact invented the technology before 1993, when the previous patentholder said he had invented his.
Mr Wilson reckoned that as well as shaking up the hotel industry he had invented franchising, but Ray Kroc of McDonald's and Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken put in claims (and Charles the Great may have started it around 800 when he granted land rights to his supporters).
More broadly, the fact that any company can demand protection for the basic shape of a device, years before it had invented the actual device or technology, should not entitle that company to claim that it had patented the design for a smartphone any more than Richard Branson can patent business class travel in outer space.
But because the saxophone had been invented in the 1840s, it had missed out on all the great music that was written in the 18th century, and when people heard the horn they had no desire to rewrite that music to include the saxophone in it.
Taxol had been invented at taxpayer expense, and Hauser controlled the leading extraction technology.
As for automobiles:Though cars were still 23 years off, the internal combustion engine had been invented.
The court found the parts had been invented by Nokia and manufactured exclusively for the Finnish company's phones.
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