If you publish software that solves an NP-complete problem in polynomial time, it would be reverse-engineered very quickly. You might be able to sue, but the cat would be out of the bag.
Note to self… figure out how to publish software that will make as much $$$ as possible before it gets reverse-engineered. 
Pharmaceuticals checking in here.
I’d like to say that it’s a “cure for cancer” that everyone’s hoping for. And they are, to some extent.
But I think the real holy grail is the real money maker - a pill that cures obesity.
I am also in the heath insurance industry but our division deals with the pharmacy side. And yes the retail pharmacies have been doing this for years but one of our departments still bills on paper for certain clients (i.e. Rosters, HCFA 1500, Medicaid Forms and UCF forms) and they also still get paper remits from payers that need to be batched and keyed. We have a member services helpdesk and even in real time there are plenty of calls.
I deal with the ASC X12N 835 file being created and recieved for clients. I know this file was created so it could be used by everyone in the healthcare industry but somedays it just hurts. My personal holy grail will be when I can look at this file in raw data format without having to reach for the spec every 2 seconds :smack:
See, but I thought they found quite a bit of his stuff. Certainly, Kiwi cinema will never be the same. 
And I’m obliged to add the lost Ambersons footage in addition to the large silent list I posted (which did, obviously, include the missing von Stroheim material).
As a small business owner, our HG is known as “making a living”.
As a record store owner, anything on this site would probably be a good place to start.
For myself personally… It Came From Canada Volume 4 (OG Records)
In library preservation, a magic deacidification ray, I suppose. Something that’s cheap, saves brittle books (or we’d settle for saves almost-brittle books), and dosen’t hurt the ink or the binding or anything else about the item. Seems like we’ve mostly just given up on the acid paper problem because everybody hates microfilm and the problem is just so big - all the money’s in digital preservation now. Expect that to be a serious train wreck in ten years.
Keep your paper journals, folks. Seriously. Particularly the ones you’ve got articles in.
CURE?? Are you mad?
The Pharmas would much rather develop a pill that, taken daily, will reduce obesity without dieting. And, of course, no harmful side effects appear until someone suggests making it OTC.
I wasn’t implying it didn’t, just that I thought that the Stroheim footage might supercede some of the lesser known titles on the list.
I’m in consulting so I guess it would be a new paradigm that forces stakeholders to reevaluate their core values in response to dynamic shifts in industry benchmarking practices.