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The difference is that open-source drugs could not be patented in developing countries.
When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace.
With his gold chains and fur collars, Lefty is a howlingly tacky parody of a mobster, and Pacino uses all his blowhard insecurities, along with his patented air of electrified stupor, to elicit from us an astounding degree of sympathy.
A preliminary query by taxon name obtained all available nucleotide sequences from that taxon, then the Limits option excluded ESTs, STSs (sequence-tagged sites), GSSs (genome survey sequences), working draft sequences, and patented sequences from the query set.
But because the process for making it was patented, no other company could produce it, hence the patent holder had exclusive rights to the name of a unique product.