INVENTORSHIP WOES.

Authors :: Schulz, William G.
Source :: Chemical & Engineering News. 5/28/2001, Vol. 79 Issue 22, p35. 3p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Black and White Photograph.
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: Focuses on physical chemist Rangaswamy Srinivasan's battle for proper credit. Pitfalls of scientific collaboration; Legal challenges to inventorship of ophthalmologist Stephen Trokel's patents; Description of a phenomenon known as ablative photodecomposition; Use of excimer lasers to treat visual disorders; Visx's settlement of a lawsuit with former United States Air Force physicist John Taboada.