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17 Jul 2019, 5:44 am
In particular, rather than re-configuring time allocations for every examination promotion level, researchers and stakeholders should focus on the variation in outcomes between junior and senior examiners and on increasing training for examiner's amendment use as a solution for patent grant delay. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 5:14 am
Proctoscopic examination under sedation in search warrant for drugs in the rectum was unreasonable, but the good faith exception makes it valid. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 1:30 pm
. * Examiners at the USPTO typically have around twenty hours to examine patent applications, in this limited time the examiners must digest the new material in the application, research the prior art, and draft an office action on the merits of the application. * Only 1.5% of US patents are ever cited in scientific literature. * Patent filings expanded from 3,71M in 2003 to 6,37M patent applications in 2008. * In the USPTO over 450k new patent applications per year. *… [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 2:54 pm
In a recent post on fee sensitivity, many readers commented that (1) applicants pay for their own examination through the examination fees; and (2) the PTO should not change fees in order to influence patent applicant behavior. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 9:48 pm
However, trademark examinations are ex parte- strictly between the applicant and the Examining Attorney assigned to the application. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 6:42 am
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Peggy Focarino I am pleased to report that Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy Drew Hirshfeld issued a memorandum to all patent examiners implementing a new procedure for examining process claims for subject matter eligibility in view of the Supreme Court decision Mayo v. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 8:50 am
Below is a video by a forensic accountant and certified fraud examiner discussing common forms of fraud that cause losses to businesses. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 1:56 pm
You can bring your spouse into the examination room during the examination. [read post]
17 Jul 2017, 12:06 pm
In 2015 and 2016, we discussed certain provisions of the then drafts of the Restatement of the Law, Liability insurance, including the Duty to Cooperate, here, and Duty to Defend, here and here. [read post]
2 May 2006, 3:13 pm
The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACB) has issued a report that provides the first analysis of over 60,000 consumers who have filed for bankruptcy protection since the enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act in... [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 8:02 pm
The Department of Labor (DOL) has released a report evaluating its Limited English Proficiency and Hispanic Worker Initiative project.The program was launched in 2006 with $4.9 million awarded to organizations in California, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, and Texas so they could test innovative strategies for delivering language and employment services to limited English proficient and Hispanic workers. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 12:24 pm
A student in my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is looking closely at the law, policies and practices surrounding banking activities for the marijuana industry, and he has provided for class reading the following links in preparation for his presentation this coming week: American Bankers Association 2014 Synopsis of... [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 5:16 am
Sam Hemingway of the Burlington Free Press reports on the paper's website that on Monday the Attorney General's Office for Vermont announced that the agency will look into competition in the dairy industry. [read post]
29 May 2011, 8:00 am
The IRS is currently attempting to use state land-transfer records as a way to seek out individuals who failed to report family gifts of real estate. [read post]
29 May 2010, 3:59 pm
Here the NY Times speaks of the famous All Souls exam, which was and probably still is the object of much awe amongst Oxford undergraduates and probably others too on that fair isle. [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 9:28 am
A student in my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is looking closely at the laws and policies surrounding marijuana advertising, and he has provided for class reading the following cases (and one video) in preparation for his presentation this coming week: 1. [read post]
29 Jan 2014, 11:52 am
In its $700,000 study of the California stem cell agency, the Institute of Medicine recommended that it finance more work dealing with ethical issues in stem cell research. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 2:59 pm
30 Sep 2009, 5:24 am
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on, and I quote, "Workplace Fairness: Has the Supreme Court Been Misinterpreting Laws Designed to Protect American Workers from Discrimination? [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 7:51 pm
I've often wondered when the white collar prosecution part of the financial crisis would happen (it happened in Enron, after all, and a thousand prosecutions were launched by the S&L crisis of the 1980s), and when an accounting expert characterizes your use of an accounting rule "to create a materially misleading picture of the firm’s financial condition in late 2007 and 2008," you've got a criminal fraud problem, maybe, and plenty of civil issues, too. [read post]
