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25 Feb 2007, 8:24 pm
"The Board's starting point was "to discern the intent of the Pan American Convention," which it found to be the creation of "a uniform system for the protection of foreign trademarks. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 2:00 pm by Joe Mullin
These proposed regulations will destroy the U.S. system for post-grant patent challenges. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 1:12 pm
The decreases appear to be related primarily to reductions in non-patent appeals (e.g., Merit System Protection Board, CAVC, etc.). [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 5:31 pm by Kent Scheidegger
The fact that they weren't executed is evidence that our system, with all of its procedural and due process safeguards, works.The claim that "20 innocent" people have been executed is without merit. [read post]
23 May 2022, 7:07 pm by Guest Author
Notwithstanding the tenure protections afforded by the Merit Systems Protection Board, ALJs do not select which cases they will hear, and the SEC has the final say over decisions that ALJs reach at the conclusion of their hearings. [read post]
12 Jun 2024, 9:50 am by Geoff Schweller
Travis will be assisting my esteemed predecessor Henry Kerner as Henry joins the Merit Systems Protection Board. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 10:26 am by Quinta Jurecic
We request this investigation under your sua sponte authority to challenge merit system violations. [read post]
Board of Education, under which even on-the-job speech by public employees is protected if it involves a matter of public concern, unless the speech would impair a sufficiently strong interest the public employer has in the operation of the public entity in question. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 2:35 pm
The challenge failed, in a March 21, 2007, decision by U.S. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 1:38 pm by Richard Renner
For example, the Senate's new WPEA bill still provides the Merit Systems Protection Board with sweeping new powers to dismiss whistleblower cases without a hearing and to act as gatekeeper for court access. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 1:38 pm by Richard Renner
For example, the Senate's new WPEA bill still provides the Merit Systems Protection Board with sweeping new powers to dismiss whistleblower cases without a hearing and to act as gatekeeper for court access. [read post]
19 Dec 2019, 11:59 pm by Roel van Woudenberg
Nevertheless, the Guidelines and some Boards indicate that there is a prohibition of double patenting in one or more of the above situations, where protection is sought for the same scope of protection (using the same wording or wording with the same technical meaning) or even for overlapping scope of protection - the presumed prohibition being derived from Article 125 EPC (general principles of procedural law in contracting states) with the general principle… [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 12:15 pm
U.S. shoe designers have to rely on trade mark, trade dress, or design patent to protect their creations, as shoes cannot be protected by copyright in the U.S., because copyright does not protect “useful articles. [read post]
23 Jul 2016, 12:00 am by The Public Employment Law Press
The Merit Systems Protection Board upheld OPM’s calculation, which relied on a particular official record. [read post]