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In addition, if the focus is on public health rather than creating a patentable product, this route of direct funding would also encourage research into dietary or environmental factors that could significantly impact health.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024

That dispute hasn’t directly affected Apple Watch sales yet because another regulatory body had ruled that AliveCor’s technology isn’t patentable.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023

Among the largest players is London-based Compass Pathways PLC, which has adopted the conventional biotech strategy of modifying naturally existing psilocybin into a patentable drug and taking it through clinical trials.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2023

Stinis got a patent on an image-generating computer program in 1964, and his descendants have kept up the patentable innovations.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022

His insight was reinforced by a demand from the Research Corporation’s Howard Poillon that he bring the X-ray tube to a patentable stage without delay and without disclosing his design to outsiders.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik