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Show Thursday, November 22, u u w . a Gun ... Ma. Gen. William "Gus" the Pa-gon- is, UJS. Army's logistics chief, gave Wolf's name to the the military's treat d for the GI junkie stranded in the sand dunes and food-mobil- fast-foo- surviving on cold rations, hot dinners and an occasional hot cooked meal. "We have a generation of soldiers including myself that grew up. on hamburgers and french fries, and so we're going to vide that," Pagonis said. "Out in the desert, you're going to see these Wolfmobiles." TV-sty- le The first Woifmobile left Friday for the 1st Cavalry Division camped in the desert in eastern Saudi Arabia and the two Army cooks manning it will start grilling Wolfburgers and hot dogs on Sunday, Wolf said 80 Woifmobile trucks were being dispatched to the desert, where they would move units. among the front-lin- e : Even if the Wolfmobiles cant get to every forward unit, Pagonis said, at least "when the soldiers come back to their base camp they can get french fries and a hamburger." Much of the, griping from Americans deployed here following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 has focused on food, and the complaints have been loudest from front-lin- "That's when we came op with the idea of a mobile-typtruck," ent infringement lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. last week. And he e said. "We thought, well there's no reason that we can't ... put a couple of military cooks in there, get the supplies from the Saudi government Then, the soldiers can just walk up and order a hamburger, fries and a soda and Just walk away without pay-- ingforit" , Saudi Arabia is supplying all food for the U.S. forces here under an agreement with the United. States. The Woifmobile is a two-to- n truck with a fold-owindow and a ramp to walk up and order food. It's equipped with a Franklin stove, grills, a deep-ffryer, freezer, refrigerator, a grilled-chees- e maker and eight heat lamps to keep the food warm. Each truck can feed between 500 and 800 soldiers before it needs to be resupplied. Even though Wolf isn't planning to retire from the army yet, the rangy soldier likes the idea of franchising Wolf burgers some ' day. And he's already got the slogan: "A burger on every ut forced to eat more prepackaged combat rations. "Gen. Pagonis insists that the soldiers in the desert receive the same quality food that we're giving to the soldiers back here in the rear," Wolf said. "He doesn't care what is forward as . and he's far as equipment at very, very concerned ' about that." Short-ordfood is more popular than regular hot meals at Army bases in the states. So Wolf and Pagonis first decided to d dining facility. open a er fast-foo- It's called The Pentagon and is open nightly, serving pizza, hot Reams settled a that the basically the same thing companies profited from his wind-shiewiper patent and he should share the ooaey they made. Settling the cases or winning in jury trials could mean more millions for Reams. And millions more for attorneys. ld one would expect from someone about to get a fl9i million check from a huge corporation. To the inventor, getting justice tram the patent system is even more important than the money. units e - Robert DETROIT (AP) Reams' voice lacked the giddiness dogs, hamburgers and chili, but it's only available to soldiers in rear-lin- e units. Then it was time to take care of the soldiers in the desert Wolf pat- still has similar suits pending against other automakers. At issue was his patent for inter- mittent windshield wipers, which go on and off periodically. They are a part of nearly every new car sold these days. For Reams, who lives in a rented apartment with rented furniture in Houston, the money isnl bad, but the case is mainly about winning fairness. "I don't mean to be so harsh on the patent system, but an infringer can just follow what has happened in this case and usurp the ability of inventors to start new businesses," Reams said in a telephone interview from a friend's house in Maryland, where the settlement was approved. Ford attorney Malcolm Wheeler said the settlement was fair but Ford would have won if the case had been retried. There will be several million left for Reams after the Ford settlement is shared with his attorneys. It . will easily be enough to buy a house he wants in Texas and to finance his legal battles against 19 other automakers. "If I dont go further, there really isnt a patent system," he said. Each of Reams' suits alleges m Kearr.3 and one member of his legal team, Bill Durkee of Houston, declined to say how much foe case against Ford cost There have been estimates that legal bills ran more than standard A $300,000. contin- gency fee of one third of the settlement would give Durkee's firm $3 million to $4 million. ' "(Lawyers) are running a business," Reams said. "I'm naming a , cause." c Reams had claimed he installed a set of intermittent wipers on a Ford and took it to the automaker. Reams, a professor at Wayne State University In Detroit at the time, ; . The problem as Reams sees it is the patent system's failure to protect small inventors from predator corporations by making it difficult to prove the validity of their patents. The mere mention of some similar device recorded somewhere before the patent was issued could be ammunition in a corporation's legal guns. "The inventor Is up against every dusty library in the world," Reams said. In some cases, the patent system works fine. "If a person was an Inventor : whose only intent was to conceive of something and then pass it on to someone else, maybe that's still ; viable," Reams said. But when someone like Reams wants to bring an invention to market, the patent system Is a roadblock because it allows for a legal morass like the one Reams found himself in. And that goes back to money. "I think the thing that would help the inventors most would be fast trials," said patent attorney Richard Samuel of Philadelphia. 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Originally, Reams sought $141 million from Ford. In July, a jury ordered Ford to pay $5.2 million, laser. plus interest, for patent infringe"I think that probably from a . ment, for a total of $8.5 million to ' legal perspective, the problem is $11.5 million. Reams appealed the more one of the cumbersomeness award and the settlement was of the courts," Samuel said. "It's reached before the appeal could be an expensive process and the indidecided. vidual inventor can't afford to go Ford dealers have sold an esti: through the courts." mated 20 million Ford, Lincoln and Samuel said things are getting Mercury cars with intermittent better for inventors though. In the wipers. After legal defense costs, early 1980s, a federal appeals court the settlement nets Reams 33 cents was established just for patent per car. cases. . Modem funerals changing tactics "showrooms." Computer graphics systems now make headstone carving a snap. 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