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t 3®^ I re talking :ould dou- itire lower es with the ouldn’t get ise. If we e the need as by doll- ■ are trying he said, t hopes we ies ire ab Profs want research findings patented United Press International NEW YORK — Not so long ago "patent was a dirty word to most American university professors. They argued that scientific dis coveries by university scientists all should go directly into the public domain and be available to everyone. Many also were imbued with the dassic notion that university scien tists should engage only in “pure re search,” science for its own sake, leaving to the business world and commercial laboratories applied re search which leads to inventions. The agricultural and engineering school faculties were the first to abandon this notion. Now virtually all professors believe either they personally or the university should patent everything useful that is dis covered on campus. The University of Wisconsin’s rich harvest from the discovery in its laboratories several decades ago of how to fortify milk with Vitamin D was the eye opener. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Il linois, Stanford University and Cor nell University have been in the forefront recognizing how important patents can be to a university, both financially and as an incentive to the scientific faculty to be innovative on a practical scale. Stanford recently revealed that since 1970, its office of technology and licensing has distributed more than $750,000 to faculty members from the proceeds of patent licenses. Theodore Wood, manager of Cornell s department of patents and licensing, said Cornell has received more than $1 million in patent licensing fees over the past nine years. Of this, $768,000 went to fac ulty members or departments and the rest to operate YVood’s office. Gas price rising with new rules United Press International WASHINGTON— Federal energy officials have started drafting new natural gas pricing rules that will lead to a rapid price hike and an extension of federal regulation to in trastate gas sales soon after Dec.l. Chairman Charles Curtis of the Federal Energy Regulatory Com mission, calling his agency’s task the toughest job in town,” aban doned regular procedures in the interest of speed. He said the new rules would be completed by the efid of Novtimber. Curtis told reporters Wednesday he expects the bitter controversy that marked congressional gas pric ing debate to spill over into his agency’s effort to put the natural gas section of the energy bill into effect. President Carter is expected to sign the energy hill soon. Under the bill, new gas pricing rules must take effect on the first day of the month after the bill is signed — probably Dec. 1. As soon as the bill takes effect, the government must start removing the lid that has held gas prices down since 1938. Controls will be ex tended temporarily to intrastate sales, but they will be eliminated nationwide by 1985. Curtis said one of the first steps will be authorization of a one-time increase in the wholesale price of 11 trillion feet of gas now in interstate pipelines — virtually all of the gas in the pipelines — to cover the effect of inflation since April 1977, the date on which the hill’s price levels are based. Another step will be to publish maximum allowable prices for premium-priced gas, he said. After that, Curtis said, most such prices will increase slowly at the rate of inflation. Since 1976, Cornell has handled its own patent monies. Before that they were handled by Research Corp. in New York City which rep resents 300 universities and similar institutions on patent matters. The fact that this corporation has so many clients show how extensive the change is in the university fac ulty attitude toward patents. It was not just the money that changed the professors’ minds. They discovered that letting their research findings go directly into the public domain appeared the surest way to stifle them instead of encouraging their development into useful and marketable products. Cornell’s Wood said the biggest spur to this discovery was testimony by officials of the federal labor and commerce departments and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which pointed out that very few firms are willing to try to develop products without strong pa tent protection. They consider it much too difficult to make sustained profits out of something anyone can pick up and duplicate. These federal officials argued that American technology has fallen be hind European and Japanese technology in some respects in re cent years not for lack of innovation but because so many good ideas are not immediately put on the market. Cornell’s graduate business school has moved into the patent act to spur development of marketable products from patents originating in the university. A group of students obtained $500,000 capital from David Abbott, an Ithaca business man, to develop and market a superior solar energy cell discov ered by Gregory Williams, a Cor nell research assistant, after several big companies had turned down the idea. Curiously, the action of the Cor nell group came out of a class as signment by Professor David Ahlers, a banker turned teacher, who directed his class to come up with a complete plan to develop and market an invention. The students not only came up with the plan, they put the show on the road. + * * * ★ * ★ Holleman at Anderson HATE DOING LAUNDRY? 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