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It also might consist of such quantitative measures as bibliometrics (for example, publication counts, citation counts and analysis, and peer evaluation); patent counts and analysis; and science "indicators" that assess the ongoing vitality of the research (for example, statistics on scientific and engineering personnel, graduate students and degree recipients by field and sector).
You come up with a no-nonsense product designed to remove widgets, patent it, and market it under the straightforward name Widget Terminator.
India's Asian Age led its front page Monday with the news that India plans to cash in on the Viagra craze by exporting its essential chemical ingredient to countries not yet covered by Pfizer's patent.
When the patent expired, new manufacturers simply used shredded wheat as a descriptive term.
Elvis knows this is an obsession of mine; in Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times I published a long article that questions widespread beliefs about the Texas Instruments digital projection system and extols a much cheaper film projection system called MaxiVision48, which uses existing, proven technology, and produces a picture its patent holders claim is 500 percent better (not a misprint) than existing film or digital projection, take your choice.