But unlike the owners of other major labels, Sony is also one of the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturers and holds lucrative patents on CD technology.

They're obviously looking for some lucrative patents.

"Some lucrative patents," he said, with a shrug.

He also received many other marks of the king's favour, including the grant in 1633 of a lucrative patent for making gold and silver money in the Tower.

The interim policy calls for universities to share the proceeds from highly lucrative patents with the state in some still unspecified way.

Those early cables were eventually made to work, albeit not without founding whole new fields of scientific inquiry and generating many lucrative patents.

The title comes from a term commonly used to describe potentially lucrative patents that sit collecting dust in a company's file cabinets.

Her uncle Richard Arbenz was only an inch shorter, a double Ph.D. responsible for two of those lucrative patents.

This patent was Stanford's most lucrative patent at one time, eclipsing many in electronics, computer science, and biotechnology.

With the help of his connections, Day was able to obtain a lucrative patent to print William Cuningham's Cosmographical Glasse.