From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   Bill Sloman  wrote:   
      
   [...]   
   > When I was working at EMI Central Research in the UK one of my   
   > colleagues in the medical ultrasound group submitted more patent queries   
   > in one year - about fifty - than anybody else in the entire research   
   > labs.   
      
   I seem to remember EMI had a dedicated patents department which made it   
   easy for anyone in the company to try to patent any idea, however   
   trivial.  Many other British firms didn't bother unless the idea was a   
   really outstanding one.   
      
      
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