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In one deposition, Mr. Woods - who patented a steam boiler furnace and an electric incubator for chicken eggs - referred to a trunk stored in Monsey, N.Y., that was filled with correspondence covering 25 years.

Founded in 1996, Acumen owns or has licensed the critical patents underlying the ADDL mechanism now widely believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease.

Groves patented the device and founded a company, Synamem Corp., that licensed the original technology to look for new drugs that suppress the body's immune response or fight infection.

Those dear friends are ruthlessly not there, so patently obvious, as it is, that they both have vanished long ago.

In January, 2006, the sealed container will parachute to Earth, where it will be examined at a NASA lab in Houston.This week, a US District Court judge upheld a jury verdict against Microsoft that required the company to pay US$520 million plus US$45 million in interest for violating a controversial Eolas Technologies web browser patent.

Zagel ruled yesterday that Microsoft had indeed infringed on the patent.

Although many Microsoft critics would typically celebrate such a ruling, the Eolas trial is sending shock waves around the entire computer industry because of the patent's vagueness and generality.

"We feel good about our prospects on appeal and remain steadfast in our belief that the Eolas patent is not valid," a Microsoft spokesperson said yesterday.

In a related development, the US Patent and Trademark Office recently took the unusual step of reconsidering the Eolas patent, and a decision is still pending.

The office noted that proof of "prior art" (ie: software designs that provided the Eolas functionality before the company supposedly invented it) could merit a revocation of the patent.

Continuously assailed by his rivals for evasions, contradictions and misstatements of fact, Dean is successful on the stump and in the town meeting because he has patented a style for communicating the appearance, at least, of straightness and candour.

Anything, really, would have been enough, but his body waited, almost naked with expectation as she brushed past, in her navy blue shirtdress with the little patent leather belt, a whisper of lavender scent against the wood bench behind him.

Ryder was laughing as she turned on her chunky black patent leather heels and walked down the steep marble stairs.

In step with the flowing sweep of her garments, an undercurrent of rhythm, she cut the final strings of attachment, her children, and on a rich spring day cut a red path to New Mexico—what business had a nigger there; New Mexicans had yet to invent the word—for a man eternally bound to a rakish fedora, his sweet face like a mask beneath it, pinstripe suit, diamond horseshoe tiepin, and two-toned patent-leather shoes.

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