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From time to time, laches issues arise in patent law. The discussion of "statute of limitations" in the Kavanaugh matter was of interest.
In an article titled Why Maryland police aren’t investigating the Kavanaugh allegations the Washington Post addresses the issue of the relevant statute of limitations which arose during the Senate proceeding on 27 September 2018.
As a misdemeanor, the offense carried a one-year statute of limitations, meaning charges would have had to be filed within a year of an incident, according to John McCarthy, Montgomery County’s longtime chief prosecutor. Lisae C. Jordan, the executive director and counsel for the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and other longtime Maryland lawyers interviewed in recent days concurred.
JULY 6: Christine Ford sends a letter to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) alleging that she was sexually assaulted in high school by Brett Kavanaugh, a leading contender to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Ford also sends a text about the incident to the Washington Post. The assault allegedly took place in the early 1980s, when Ford was 15 and Kavanaugh was 17.
JULY 6 to JULY 8: Christine Ford tells 'beach friends' in California for the first time that she was assaulted by Kavanaugh and asks for advice on whether to go public.
JULY 9: President Donald Trump nominates Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. After the announcement, a staffer in Rep. Eshoo's office calls Ford to discuss her allegations against Kavanaugh.
JULY 10: Ford contacts the Washington Post for the second time, and gets a response. She starts having conversations with a reporter at the paper off the record via WhatsApp. The app is encrypted, meaning its contents cannot be access by a third party. To use it, Ford's phone number would be known to the Washington Post.
Grim's story [ Ryan Grim isthe D.C. bureau chief for The Intercept ], which ran on Sept. 12, reported that Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee 'have privately requested to view a Brett Kavanaugh-related document' held by Feinstein. The story noted that Feinstein had rejected the requests.
court’s dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
process that culminates in final PTAB decisions.
our future jurisdiction. If another court granted Mr.
PTO’s denial of a petition for rulemaking.
The Almanac feature touching on "Typhoid Mary" was a bit grim: And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 23, 1869, 149 years ago today … the day that saw the birth, in rural Ireland, of Mary Mallon – remembered today as "Typhoid Mary."
Truth is: When it comes to alcohol and memory, people assume a lot of things – and a lot of those assumptions are wrong.
One study last year showed that in this situation mild- to moderately-intoxicated people had very similar recall as sober people.
Now, there is a thing known as "blackout drunk." That is not the same as "passed out drunk." Someone who is blacked-out drunk may still be talking and walking. But they might be totally amnestic to the event, meaning they have no memory of it.
The biggest culprit is not necessarily how much you drank, but how quickly they drank it – the binge drinker.
With memory and alcohol you also have to consider how much time has passed. While a mild- to moderately-intoxicated person can remember things pretty well in the short term, their long term memories are much more difficult to retrieve.
And to understand why, it helps to understand how memory works. You take in sensory information – see, hear, feel – and that almost immediately gets transferred to short-term memory. From there, short-term memories get encoded into long-term memory.
It's this last phase where alcohol seems to have the most impact. For someone who's intoxicated, that encoding into long-term memory often doesn't occur very well, or at all. And that is why days later someone may have a hard time remembering something that was so vivid earlier, but can't retrieve the memory from the long-term stores, because the memories were never there in the first place.
If you want to improve your memory, the best things you can really do: pay attention when something is happening; that helps a lot. And don't forget sleep, because it's when you sleep that your body consolidates and transfers your short-term memories to long-term memoriesm the kind you'll have for the rest of your life.
The moment of nature involved dolphins in the Red Sea. Previously, on Jan 21, 2018 , Sunday Morning did sea slugs in the Red Sea.
In a statement on Sunday [23 Sept. 2018], Ford's lawyers Debra Katz, Lisa Banks and Michael Bromwich said their client "has agreed to move forward" with a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 10 a.m. on Capitol Hill. The legal team said that "important progress" had been made with committee staffers after a week of negotiations over the format and conditions of her testimony.
"Despite actual threats to her safety and her life, Dr. Ford believes it is important for Senators to hear directly from her about the sexual assault committed against her," the attorneys wrote. Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley confirmed the hearing would be taking place on Thursday in a statement late Sunday, calling it a "continuation of the hearing to consider" Kavanaugh's nomination. Following Ford's testimony, the statement said, Kavanaugh will then "appear before the committee."
Power Integrations, Inc. owns U.S. Patent Nos.
We affirm the district court’s judgments of infringement.
damages award and remand for further proceedings.
the TV series "Wisdom of the Crowd," which described much the same function.
Life imitating art, but forgotten?
CAFC chastises PTAB in DuPont case: the evidence in this case supports the unremarkable fact that an oxidation reaction is affected by temperature and PO2. No substantial evidence supports the Board’s contrary finding that it made under the wrong legal standard.
Techs. B.V., No. IPR2015-01838, Paper No. 43, slip op.
legal standards for obviousness, and reverse.
accept the evidence as adequate to support the finding.
presumption of obviousness. See Galderma Labs., L.P. v.
Sports, Inc., 392 F.3d 1317, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 2004).
the patentee has the burden of proving criticality. Id.
away from the claimed range. Ormco, 463 F.3d at 1311.
Applied Materials, Inc., 692 F.3d 1289, 1295 (Fed. Cir.
Vaccines & Diagnostics, Inc., 655 F.3d 1291, 1306 (Fed.
results, or other pertinent evidence of nonobviousness.
Galderma, 737 F.3d at 738; see Allergan, Inc. v.
disclosed in the prior art, there is a presumption of obviousness.
of persuasion to prove that the claimed range was obvious.
that prior art. Galderma, 737 F.3d at 738.
thus reversed the Board’s conclusion of obviousness. Id.
in a known process is normally obvious.” Id. at 620.
the variable is sufficient to find the variable resulteffective.”).
is too low, the reaction may not occur at all.
fact. See Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kan. City, 383 U.S.
forth below, we hold the Board did not err in its analysis.
weight” to statements by Dr. Doudna and Dr.
in which they were made and their relevance to its analysis.
in implementing the CRISPR-Cas9 system in eukaryotes.
other prokaryotic systems had been overcome, and Dr.
evidence supports the findings that were in fact made.
Here, we conclude that it does.
when considered in light of all of the circumstances.
Lindemann Maschinenfabrik GMBH v. Am.
Hoist & Derrick Co., 730 F.2d 1452, 1460 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
understood the problem and a solution to that problem.
Monarch Knitting, 139 F.3d at 883.
Board’s finding is supported by substantial evidence.
the validity of either set of claims.
of several claims in each of the Elan and Acorda patents.
patent until it expired on July 30, 2018.
was first identified in 1902. Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v.
neurological diseases resulting in muscle weakness. Dist.
and FDA approval of Ampyra.
not. Coalition for Affordable Drugs (ADROCA) LLC v.
01857, -01858, 2017 WL 950736, at *9–20 (P.T.A.B. Mar.
regimen rather than a stable-dosing regimen.
4-AP were more likely to cause adverse events.”).
stable-dosing regimen. We reject this argument.
of a stable dose of immediate-release 4-AP. Dist.
risk of seizure. E.g., Davis at 187 tbl.1; see also Dist. Ct.
treatment, a stable oral dose is much easier to administer.
condition. Sept. 19, 2016 Trial Tr. 104.
versus placebo. See Acorda Br. 41–42; Acorda Reply Br.
20–21; Oral Arg. at 6:10–30. We reject this contention.
clear error in the district court’s finding to that effect.
placebo (p<0.0001)).13 When Acorda asserts that the “prior art’s [Schwid’s] teaching that 4-AP had a narrow therapeutic window where high doses and high blood serum levels were necessary for any meaningful therapeutic effect,” Acorda Reply Br. 29, Acorda is incorrect, as discussed previously: Schwid reports that a relatively low (17.5 mg twice a day) dose showed a statistically significant improvement in walking and that high serum levels were not required for improvements in timed gait. Schwid, which reports success and no seizure events with a stable dose of 17.5 mg twice daily, also undermines Acorda’s argument that “the prior art’s consistent use of titration to achieve a therapeutic dose because of seizure risk” conclusively precludes a reasonable expectation of success even for a low dose like 10 mg twice daily that avoids high peak serum levels. Id. In the end, Schwid, Goodman as a whole, and expert testimony supply a sufficient basis for the district court’s finding of a reasonable expectation of success in this case.
liability and associated monetary or injunctive remedies.
Kansas City, 383 U.S. 1, 18, 36 (1966)).
We briefly discussed blocking patents in Merck & Co.
v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., 395 F.3d 1364 (Fed.
monosodium trihydrate (Fosamax). Id. at 1366–67.
Merck I, No. 04-1005, 2003 WL 24307848, at *62–63 (Fed.
incentives for others to invent the weekly-dosing scheme.
ideas in the [invalidating prior art].” Id.
(quoting Merck I, 395 F.3d at 1376).
patent’s owner to share the profits from the improvement.
evaluated in light of other investment opportunities.
weight to be given to the evidence in the specific case.
success alleged by Acorda and found by the district court.
obviousness” at all times remained with the defendants.
obviousness.” Dist. Ct. Op. at *41.
evidence of blocking by the Elan patent. See Dist. Ct.
patents practice the Elan patent).
is not clear and convincing evidence of obviousness.
multiple sclerosis would have been discovered and pursued.
In an episode with the first on-air TV interview with Woodward about Fear, CBS Sunday Morning on 9 Sept 2018 led off with a one year old puff piece by Susan Spencer Why parents opt for unusual baby names , recycled from a broadcast on on September 24, 2017. The "highlight" was about a boy named Billion Ayer, and got into the theory of "nominative determinism." Jane Pauley did not refer to this as the cover story, although the web version does so state --WHAT'S IN A NAME is our Cover Story, reported by Susan Spencer --. It might appear that this puff piece was shoved in front while work was still being done on the interview of Woodward by David Martin.
Almanac went to Sept. 9, 1942, marking a bombing raid by a Japanese fighter on Wheeler Ridge on Mount Emily near Brookings, Oregon. The later return of pilot Nobuo Fujita to Brookings was noted. The CBS piece did not note that the I-25 submarine which launched Fujita's seaplane was involved in Pearl Harbor and later sank a Soviet submarine, at a time when the Soviets and Japan were not at war.
Two "inserts" on Sunday Morning observed the anniversary of California statehood in 1850, and a survey finding that 58% of respondents did not have a bucket list.
Woodward: "You look at the operation of this White House and you have to say, 'Let's hope to God we don't have a crisis.'"
[of the New York Times op-ed:] "Well, too vague, and does not meet the standards of trying to describe specific incidents. Specific incidents are the building blocks of journalism, as you well know."
The moment of nature had black bears in Alligator River Refuge in eastern North Carolina.
It's about 1.5 years since "Big Bang" aired "The Application Deterioration" on March 10, 2016.
Having come up with an idea for patenting, the characters learn from the university patent attorney that the university will get 75% of the total proceeds from their idea. Howard, as a NASA (federal) employee will get nothing.
CAFC vacates PTAB in Worlds/Bungie. Issues of real party in interest and issue preclusion.
that decision, given the parties’ focus on that framework.
abrogated on other grounds by SCA Hygiene Prods.
“identif[y] all real parties in interest”); 37 C.F.R.
of the presumed fact highly probable. See 2 George E.
Dix, et al., McCormick on Evidence § 343 (7th ed. 2016).
that likely has inferior access to potential sources of proof.
the burden of persuasion rests with the patent owner.
Light’s statement that it was not approving such a shift.
this proceeding”); see also Icon Health & Fitness, Inc.
J.A. 409–10, 416 (Bungie’s briefing).
of the six IPRs, the Board did not consider issue preclusion.
decisions in these three consolidated appeals are vacated.
reevaluate the merits of the real-party-in-interest issue.
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s (“Supernus”) U.S. Patent Nos.
asserted patents”) are not invalid and would be infringed.
Supernus Pharms., Inc. v. TWi Pharms., Inc., 265 F.
not color our decision-making on appeal.
In the case of multiple sclerosis, there has been some evidence of a genetic effect, although not a defining one. For example, if one identical twin has MS, the other has a 30% chance of MS, not a controlling factor, but one of above average risk.
New evidence in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may suggest an answer.
"Through genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation in disease-discordant monozygotic twins, we have identified a differentially variable DNA methylation signature, in the absence of differential methylation in rheumatoid arthritis," Manchester's Jane Worthington and her colleagues wrote in Genome Medicine this week. "This finding supports the importance of epigenetic variability as an emerging component in autoimmune disorders."
"Plagiarizing" an ad campaign for burgers in South Africa?
Employees at one ad agency for McDonalds went to work for an ad agency representing Wimpys, and created a campaign.
district court’s determination regarding indefiniteness.
we review the district court’s claim constructions de novo.
layer 3, transport layer 4, or application layer 7.
Corp. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n, 566 F.3d 1321, 1334 (Fed.
cites do not meet this exacting standard.
T-Mobile’s urged disavowal of these embodiments.
have done so using the language of claim 19, but did not.
claim from which it depends.
4, and application layer 7.
invention with reasonable certainty.” Nautilus, Inc. v.
objective boundaries for those of skill in the art.”).
“the end-user experience is the final arbiter of QoS.” Id.
CBS Sunday Morning on September 2, 2018 recycled its cover story "Companies open doors to talent with autism" from an earlier episode on 11 February 2018. The Sunday Profile on Twiggy was recycled from an earlier broadcast on May 13, 2018. There was a plug for John Kerry's book "Every Day Is Extra" (Simon & Shuster) both on Sunday Morning and on Face the Nation.
There was a piece on "Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms," which included discussion of the work of Pops Petersen on Reinventing Rockwell. The show “Re-Imagining the Four Freedoms” closes on 2 Sept. 18.
Anthony Mason did a piece on Leon Bridges.
Conor Knighton did a piece on washboards. Other then Bayou musicians [for those in Bridgewater ZYDECO-A-GO-GO], washboards are used by servicemen overseas.
Steve Hartman reported on the interesting First Amendment case involving Lubek Jastrzebski and Nancy Nemhauser, of Mount Dora, Fla.
The Moment of Nature was on Valley of the Gods. It is near Mexian Hat and Bluff, Utah.
Of politics, wikipedia notes: On December 4, 2017, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation that reduced the area of Bears Ears National Monument (proclaimed by President Barack Obama in December 2016), with new monument boundaries that exclude the Valley of the Gods.

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