Thanks to the Benefit of Hindsight blog for concisely explaining Ex Parte Matsuoka (October 29, 2007) where the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences upheld the obviousness rejections of the claims of U.S. [read post]

".Looking ahead, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Ex Parte Jose Ernesto Medellin holds that President Bush was powerless to force the Texas judiciary to disregard its rules of procedural default to consider on the merits a Mexican national's Article 36 Vienna Convention claim. [read post]