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(Kimberly-Clark's Web site boasts that "On the East Coast only, Kleenex Cottonelle has been given a unique, patented, gentle texture that is designed to give consumers a clean, fresh feeling."
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.
It says Intel denied three companies information about its chips (which they needed in order to develop products for the 80 percent of computers that are based on Intel chips), thereby forcing them to accept Intel's terms for use of their patented technologies.
The book, however, is internally powered by Ballard's patented transformation of cold into hot, turning medical and automotive jargon into spectacularly baroque metaphors: "Thinking of the extensor rictus of her spine during orgasm, the erect hairs on her undermuscled thighs, I stared at the stylized manufacturer's medallion visible in the photographs, the contoured flanks of the window pillars."
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.