| |
Two Merck & Co. Inc. researchers have been named cowinners of the Inventor of the Year award, given by Intellectual Property Owners, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit association that represents owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Gary H. Rasmusson and Glenn F. Reynolds will share the $5,000 award, presented at an April 15 ceremony in Washington, for Proscar, a new drug used to treat benign prostate enlargement. Also honored, with Distinguished Inventor Awards, were a team of seven engineers, designers, and chemists from the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio, for their Aquatred tire, which improves braking on wet surfaces, as well as four researchers for Affymax Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., who developed a tool for synthesizing and screening large numbers of different ...
