4 Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Thursday, November 12, 1987 'U' charges jet corp. withviolating patent By JAMES BRAY The University of Michigan filed a federal lawsuit last month against Gates Learjet Corp. for patent infringement. University officials claim that Gates Learjet installed a device which had been patented by emeritus aerospace engineering Prof. Arnold Kuethe in 1971. This device promotes smoother airflow over the wings of planes and improves flight performance. The device, referred to as a Boundary Layer Energizer, can also be attached to helicopter rotors, turbine fans, and engine inlets. The University is defending Kuethe in his suit because of a policy that gives the administration partial rights to faculty discoveries. A jury trail, an injunction against the corporation, and an unspecified amount of monetary damages are being sought by the University. Gates will have to pay three times the damages if the corporation willfully disregarded the patent. Gates received the litigation material yesterday but would not comment on the suit, citing litigation policy and a lack of information. The case was . brought to the University's attention when Kuethe was in the process of licensing his product for commercial use. After meeting with Gates, Robert Gavin, University intellectual properties counsel, said, "It looked to me like Gates was indee4 infringing upon the patent rights." Gavin said he spoke with officials of Gatesnabout thedalleged infringement and found t h em unwilling to settle. The University currently has about 60 patents, but this is the first suit filed on behalf of a professor. Kuethe joined the University faculty in 1941 and became a professor emeritus of aerospace engineering in 1974. He received his doctorate from California Institute of Technology and received the Pendray Aerospace Literature Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1978 for co-au- thoring the textbook "Foundations of Aerodynamics." C aQ paC Fall cleaning Fall colors aren't the only thing in the trees as Monnie Holt cleans up a mess of toilet paper in the Diag. mn Lawyer, U'professor STREET debate proposed code 0 mOTORSE Quality Care ForYour FineImported Automobile WE OFFER6 Phone66 - 44 SENIOR SAVINGS.. MON.-FRI. 9AM-6PM. 1 . - MAIN STREET MOTORS 906 North Main Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports Lebanon explosion kills six BEIRUT - A briefcase packed with explosives blew up in a crowded passenger terminal in Beirut's airport yesterday, killing six people, including the woman who carried it, and wounded 73 others, police said. The blast occurred a day after the international airport reopened following a five-day general strike. The woman who carried the deadly briefcase was posing as an outgoing passenger, police said. She was identified as Soraya Sahyouni, a Sunni Moslem Lebanese. "The explosion split her in two," said a police spokesperson, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. He refused to speculate on the motive behind the attack. Five other Lebanese died, police said, adding that most of the injured were Lebanese and other Arabs bound for gulf nations. Soviets oust Gorbachev critic MOSCOW - Boris Yeltsin, a protege of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who had criticized the slow pace of reform, wasremoved yesterday as Moscow party boss, state-run television said. Yeltsin, 56, was replaced by Politburo member Lev Zaikov. Yeltsin had tendered his resignation at an Oct. 21 meeting of the Communist Party Central Commitee at which he criticized the style of Soviet leadership and the slow pace of Gorbachev's reform campaign. Soviet television said a meeting yesterday of the Moscow party commitee found Yeltsin had committed "major shortcomings" in his work as party leader in the capital, and relieved of his duties. Gorbachev, the Soviet Communist Party general secretary, was among those who attended the meeting, the television said in its nightly news progran "Vremya." The report said Gorbachev spoke, but gave no details. U.S. may reach budget accord WASHINGTON - White house and congressional negotiators, working on a federal holiday, are "on the threshold" of creating a framework for cutting the budget deficit, a Republican participant said yesterday. The negotiators worked against a self-imposed deadline of Friday for coming up with a package of tax increases and spending cuts that would reduce the deficit by at least $23 billion, meet the requirements for the Gramm-Rudman law and signal to a jittery world economy that the U.S. government could control its finances. After meeting for more than five hours in hopes of reaching an agree- ment, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., ranking GOP member of the Senate Budget committe, when asked if they had finished, responded, "No, but we're getting as close as can be." Rep. Silvio O. Conte, R-Mass., top GOP member of the House Ap- ropriations Committee, said: "We're on the threshold." sViet newspaper expOSeS flaws in psychiatric diagnoses MOSCOW - Arbitrary diagnosis, abuse of power and bribery have tainted Soviet psychiatry, and a citizen can be found insane simply for not kowtowing to employers, a Soviet daily said yesterday in a stunning expose. "Psychiatric science and practice have long ago been shut off from openness by a high and solid fence," the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said. "Behind the fence, there is lawlessness," it added. The paper's six-column article was the longest on psychiatric abuses to appear in the state-run press, and was clearly linked to the current campaign for "glasnost," or greater openness on social problems. EXTRAS Pint putsch putzing out Perhaps some of you may have forgotten, but the Michigan vs . Ohio State blood battle is still brewing. But Red Cross Regional Representative Neal Fry said yesterday, "I'm concerned greatly because students aren't donating blood. We really need participation." Dorms are falling short of their predicted goals, she said. The Red Cross expected to collect 330 pints of blood at Bursley on Monday but only managed 181. Couzens also fell short by about 100 pints. The blood drive will be in Stockwell today and Mary Markley on Friday from1 p.m. to 7p.m. Meanwhile, hospitals were expecting certain amounts of blood from the drive. Fry said that if the blood drive continues to run dry, hospitals may have to cancel some elective surgeries. "That would be disastrous," Fry said, As for the competition, Ohio State leadsl,417 pints tol,388 pints, she said. -Sheala Durant If you see news happen, call 76-DAILY. Vol. XCVIII - No. 46 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$25 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the city. One term: $13 in Ann Arbor; $20 outside the city. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and subscribes to the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the National Student News Ser- vice. r t BUYA YUGO Vacationt in Florida On Us. By ROSE MARY WUMMEL Fifty students gathered to hear a debate on the proposed code of non- academic conduct last night, continuing four years of controversy surrounding the issue. Jonathon Rose, private attorney and opponent of the code, argued with History Prof. Shaw Livermore that a code would give the University power to curtail student rights and to chill dissent areoing student leaders. Rose, former director of Student Legal Services, has sat in on meetings of University Council - the group appointed by University President Harold Shapiro three years ago to begin drafting the code - although he is not a member of the council. Livermore, a co-chair of University Council and code proponent, described the University as a place where people are drawn into unnaturally close quarters with one another, as in a dorm or in stu- dent-faculty relationships. He said a set of rules offering even greater protection of rights should be adopted to accommodate the special needs of the University. Rose said the code would violate first amendment rights which protect free speech, and fourth amendment rights which protect privacy. He added that the code is not necessary because the existing legal system is sufficient to protect public safety. "A code is corrupt a n d WEEKEND MAGAZINE Fridays in The Daily 763-0379 incompetent. I'm going to continue to fight it til my last living day," Rose said. Livermore argued that a code would grant the University community more power. "In the absence of a code, a few constitutionally designated administrators and agents make decisions. I think we can do better," Livermore said. 'A code is corrupt and incompetent. I'm going to continue to fight it til my last living day.' --Jonathon Rose, attorney Includes 4 days and 3 nights of: -r Deluxe Accommodations at the Hilon Inn - Florida Center or Hilton Inn - Gateway for Two Adults -r Welcome Split of Champagne°: First Morning Continental Brakfast for Two . 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