Patience pays laser inventor in lifetime battle over patents?
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Lawsuits over laser patents raise serious issues for physicians, patients.
Apatent-infringement lawsuit filed against several Canadian physicians who perform refractive eye surgery continues to send shivers through the ranks of Canada’s ophthalmologists. Other physicians should be worried too, because this is an emerging trend. The 1995 suit by an American company, Visx, alleges that the physicians and 3 equipment manufacturers have infringed its Canadian patents for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/330100a0