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Provided herein are processes for adjusting a fermentation medium to reduce the activity of one or more carboxylic acids. The processes comprise (a) providing a recombinant microorganism comprising an engineered butanol biosynthetic pathway, (b) contacting the recombinant microorganism with a fermentation medium whereby butanol is produced and wherein the fermentation medium comprises one or more carboxylic acids, and (c) adjusting the fermentation medium to reduce the activity of the one or more carboxylic acids. Also provided are processes for reducing the activity of one or more carboxylic acids in a feed. The processes comprise (a) providing a feed from a fermentation vessel, wherein the feed comprises a composition produced by a recombinant microorganism comprising an engineered butanol biosynthetic pathway, wherein the composition comprises butanol, water, and one or more carboxylic acids; and (b) adjusting the feed, wherein adjusting the feed reduces the activity of the one or more carboxylic acids.
In the "international search report" [ISR], other documents by DuPont / Butamax were cited against PCT '036.
CAFC discusses "printed publication" in Suffolk v. AOL: the matter of "sufficient dissemination"
Within Suffolk v. AOL , the CAFC goes through the printed publication cases In re Klopfenstein, MIT v. AB Fortia, and SRI v. Internet, to conclude a message posted to a newsgroup was a printed publication. A grant of invalidity on summary judgment by EDVa was thus affirmed.
In re Klopfenstein, 380F.3d at 1350–51.
While proponents of quick-fix legislation express frustration over Senate Judiciary Committee’s decision to halt work on a bill, I see a legislative process alert to the risks involved in enacting wholesale change to the greatest innovation engine the world has ever known — the U.S. patent system — without taking the time to get it right.
HIMPP, an inter partes challenger of Hear-Wear's patent, appealed a decision of PTAB to the CAFC. The CAFC affirmed PTAB, and the patentee won.
more evidence than conclusory statements.
common sense could operate. The matter of official notice arose.
Judge Dyk dissented. Judge Dyk felt that KSR did impact this case.
Scott Pelley on post-traumatic stress disorder.
Lesley Stahl on different pharmacy doses for women.
Scott started with scandal at Dept of Veterans Affairs. One of five vets has PTSD. Troubled vets live the war within. VA Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas where they will live for eight weeks. One person started with alcohol, then crack. One treatment is called "prolonged exposure." The soldier will re-live the attack five times per session. Staring the dragon in the eye. Get beyond survivors guilt.
The reports contain verbatim content from a previous report the Alexander Group wrote for the state of Arkansas (with just the names of the states swapped).
Al Tompkins, a senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in Florida, said he’s never heard of an instance in which a policy consultant group lifted whole chunks of information without proper attribution.
Charles Osgood introduced the stories for May 25, 2014, Memorial Day Sunday.
A title change, is the cover story by Barry Peterson, on Colorado's law on marijuana. Colorado marijuana. Second, Mo Rocca on MacDonald on Broadway as Billie Holliday. Third, Lee Cowan on O Henry punoff. Fourth, Anthony Mason on Barry Gibb. Fifth, Rita Braver. Sixth, David Martin. Seventh, Steve Hartman. Headlines: Isla Vista killer, Elliott Roger. Shooting in Brussels, Belgium. Pope Francis in Bethlehem. Ukraine presidential elections. Kanye West married in Florence (Belvedere Fort). Weather: Storms in midwest. Rain in northeast.
First up, Osgood on killings in Isla Vista. Danielle Nottingham is there. Billie Maples interviewed. Jacklyn Taylor. Elliott Roger is the killer. Santa Barbara sheriff Jim Brown. All weapons involved were legally purchased. Richard Martinez talked of his son, Chris, who died.
Osgood makes reference to "Rocky Mountain High." Then byop, bring your own pot. 80,000 people at marijuana celebration in April 2014. John Hickenlooper opposed the pot law. "High on the Range" (1929). Keith Straup of NORML. Cab Calloway, funny reefer man. Then, reefer madness campaigns. Marijuana outlawed by federal government in 1937. In 1996, California allowed marijuana for medical use. Hickenlooper: marijuana creating jobs and taxes. But, growers and sellers have to deal in cash.
"Medicine Man" is a thriving business, but has to pay in cash. Sales in Washington will begin in the summer 2014. Obama administration has taken a look the other way approach.
48% of Americans say they have tried marijuana.
Almanac. May 25, 1889. Igor Sikorsky born in Kiev. By age 20, built first helicopter, that didn't fly. Then, four engine aircraft. Worked with Charles Lindberg on Pan Am. In 1940, VS-300. He died in 1972 at age of 83. Company makes Blackhawk. Also, Marine-1 helicopters.
Rita Braver on the real Gerber baby. Ann Turner Cook. Now 87. Dorothy Hope Smith entered sketch in 1928 in contest. Gerber HQ in Fremont, Michigan. Sally Gerber daughter of Dorothy Gerber. Cook became a high school English teacher. I can't think of anything nicer than to be a symbol for babies, and that's what I became.
David Martin on James Webb. Marine Corps gallows humor. Webb in Viet Nam in 1969, "Fields of Fire". We just went round the bush, and then we left. "I heard my country calling," published by CBS' Simon & Shuster. His office includes some "sands of Iwo Jima." James C. Ward, died May 9. "Arizona Valley." Incident between Bush and Webb about Webb's on in Iraq. If you were there, I don't need to explain it to you. "Not for fame or reward, (...) but in simple obedience to duty." The story ends with a tabulation of "the fallen."
Clip from 1980 film Airplane. Once a pun a time. Lee Cowan. O. Henry Pun-Off in Austin, Texas. Gary Halleck, chief kook and bottle washer. Linguistic terrorist. Matt Pollock. punpunpun.com . Darrin Walsh in a chicken suit. Had to Book a Rest. Alexandra Petri. Tanks but not tanks. Check my eyes an hour later. Ben Zeek. Pun on queue. I don't know if you're reggie jackson. Osgood: as good as it gets. When Bush comes to shove. Punslingers competition. I wasn't blackboard yesterday. Matt Pollock won the contest.
Next week on Sunday Morning: Mike Myers.
Moment of nature. Spiriva. Deep Hole at Myakka River State Park in Sarasota County, FL.
Kennedy on patent reform: "it comes down to who has more lobbyists."
Gil Amelio's post reveals the ambiguities in defining licensing behavior as evil and troll-like.
See post Bell Labs Restored to Former Status.
One might ask "which" status? That of the 1950's, or of the 1980's?
"As more patent applications are filed, the quality of each new patent increases"??
Today's Financial Times has an article with the headline "Asia ahead in race to develop graphene". This is a technology that the British Chancellor of the Exchequer described as a "great British discovery". However, the UK has only filed 101 of the 11,372 patents and patent applications filed worldwide in the field of graphene - a mere 0.9% of the total.
One notes that the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics went to two Russians, Geim and Novoselev , "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene." From a Nobel Prize press release : Both of them originally studied and began their careers as physicists in Russia. Now they are both professors at the University of Manchester.
Despite the inevitable protestations of "quality versus quantity", experience curve effects mean that as more patent applications are filed, the quality of each new patent increases.
Capon v. Eshhar, 418 F.3d 1349, 1357-58 (Fed. Cir.
F.3d 1357, 1363 (Fed. Cir. 2006) (citing Vas-Cath, Inc. v.
that the Chinese military leadership is behind an enormous organized campaign to steal American intellectual property and designs for its own profit.
The suit is being brought by the founding bassist [ Mark Andes] of Spirit, an obscure 1960s band that Led Zeppelin toured the U.S. with back in 1968 and 1969.
“I could show them a Star Trek episode from the 1960s” that had a similar concept, [Chris] Hulls said.
Yet, many smart people assume that the patent licensing business model—and the buying and selling of patents themselves—is an entirely recent development. In 2006, for instance, Justice Anthony Kennedy stated as simple fact in eBay v. MercExchange that “An industry has developed in which firms use patents not as a basis for producing and selling goods but, instead, primarily for obtaining licensing fees.” Commentators now assert in prestigious law journals that the “patent marketplace is a relatively new secondary market.” Now we’re seeing calls that the patent laws should be changed in response to this “new” development by mandating that all patent owners manufacture or sell their patented innovations in the marketplace.
Although some people, such as Adam B. Jaffe, and Josh Lerner, suggest the patent problems are of recent origin, with changes in the last 20 years which have led to a decline in patent quality but a strengthening in patent rights, the empirical evidence for this is thin. Many of the issues we see now have been around for a long time.
LBE's article was so popular at the time that it was repeatedly plagiarized.
"Edison as a patent troll"
"We're like a banana republic here," as Diane finds the key vote in the battle for control of Lockhart Gardner belongs to Howard Lyman.
Eli to Alicia, who feels bad about deep-sixing good guy Finn Polmar: put your political hat on.
Of a significant legal point, the subject of inadvertent disclosure arises in the episode. Alicia, Cary and others at Florrick Agos observe an inadvertenly unclosed video link from Lockhart Gardner discussing strategy to remove Diane and to destroy Florrick Agos.
Under Rule 4.4(b) of the Model Rules, the lawyer must at least inform the sending party of receipt of the document. Rule 4.4(b) reflects the conflict between the recipient’s obligation of zealous representation of the client and acknowledging the confidential relationship between the opposing party and his or her client. Since 2005, ABA ethics opinions note that Rule 4.4(b) solidifies the recipient’s obligation to inform the disclosing attorney, but an attorney is no longer explicitly prevented from examining the materials or required to comply with instructions to return or destroy the materials.
In the episode, Alicia and co-workers do NOT inform the "sending" party of the transmission.
Peter discusses backing Diane for state's attorney after his previous backed candidate (Polmar) runs into problems.
a failed adoption and a bribe to a tribal counsel member.
Alicia on the two mothers preparing lasagna: I would go there myself with a hatchet.
There is a proposed merger of the two firms.
Cary meets with Canning. Cary lets Canning know of Diane's plans for merger.
At the end, Eli asks Alicia if she would run for state's attorney.
Robert King: In the writers’ room, we have three lawyers in there, and this was an issue that raised more arguments than any issue this season — whether [the camera being left on] was an unintended disclosure, and, even if it was an unintended disclosure, what you had to do based on that fact. I thought [our writers] were going to come to blows, and then we had our tech advisor, Irv Miller in Chicago, getting on the phone, and he had a completely different opinion that was a little more pragmatic and a little more like Alicia’s. [Laughs] What we loved about it is that it seemed to create quite a stir between between people who know the law. All the lawyers on our staff did exactly what the lawyers on the show did. They all started pulling out their iPhones and looking up what was said online about the ethics, the American Bar Association, and all that.
Arbitrating control of a robot?
Health (“InTouch”) and VGo Communications, Inc.
(“the ’030 patent”) (collectively, “the asserted patents”).
in another location through a computer.
to control” and the “arbitrator” together.
Inc. v. Apotex, Inc., 480 F.3d 1348, 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2007)).
A decision enumerating what was NOT decided!
a few of the issues that we do not decide.
A movant-appellant was Niro, Haller and Niro.
Unhappy engineers create patent lawyer?
So he was one of those farsighted guys who realized that a technical background would help in law? No, he intended to be an engineer, but while he was in college, he worked at McDonnell Douglas and met some engineers who were unhappy. Then he met a lawyer who told him a background in engineering would help with patent law.
See New Book, New Allegations about charges against Arizona State University professor of history Matthew C. Whitaker .
Donna Shear, director of the [University of Nebraska] press, said she hadn’t edited Whitaker’s book personally and couldn’t speak to the exact nature of his review process. She said the press does not and cannot check everything it publishes for plagiarism and that authors sign a statement saying they have not plagiarized, indemnifying the press from such charges.
This seems to be a “personal issue, not a professional one,” Shear added.
in accordance with law, this court affirms.
Note the affirmance in Samsung v. ITC and Apple.
A Forbes post Abuse From Patent Pools could have benefitted from a discussion of past patent pools, such as for aircraft circa 1915 and sewing machines even earlier.
Forbes on "the clear blue line"
Within the Forbes article titled Why Apple Is Fighting The Patent Battle So Hard; What Other Protection From The Competition Does It Have?
And no supplier ever would like to be selling in such a perfectly competitive market, having to use price and price alone as the come on. So, Apple, just like every other producer of anything ever, is desperately trying to find some method of making sure that there’s a clear blue line between what it can offer to the market and what others can. Branding is important, yes, but branding won’t deliver the majority of the market, only that high end (and gorgeously profitable) niche. And despite the fact that Apple is fighting so hard to use those patents as a method of producing that line, sadly for the company it’s not working all that well. As things are turning out there’s very little that cannot simply be worked around to provide the same functionality.
And, when the patents work well, the next thing one has is a patent pool. Recall the outcome of the Wright/Curtiss wars.
Kappos ridicules idea that "patent system is broken"
The same anecdotes and flawed studies are trotted out time and again to the delight of those who wish to substantially restrict the patent rights of operating companies in favor of their own narrow business interests. What these sound bites don’t tell you is that the cost of reducing or eliminating the incentives for innovation would be devastating for nearly all sectors of the U.S. economy. Worse, it could make slow growth permanent by ceding our position as a global high-tech leader to foreign competitors.
Steve Croft on Washington's Open Secret", a followup from a story in fall 2013.
Peter Sweitzer on life-style subsidy. Ethics reform act of 1989. Leadership pacs are exempt from personal use. Trevor Potter. Leadership pacs are political slush funds. John Edwards used leadership pacs. Robert Andrews of NJ used money to fly his family to Scotland. Leadership lacs are a political annuity. Leaders use it in retirement.
Pail Gillmor died but money was used after. Melanie Sloan tracks campaign expenditures. Sloan says 75 members of Congress have hired family members. Rodney Alexander. Congress has created a domain where they decide ethics.
How would the Bass/Tuschl dispute be resolved under the AIA?
The new patent law, the AIA, has two sections which deal with resolution of patent rights through derivation proceedings. However, to get into the game, the challenger must have filed a patent application. Recall the dispute over the "Tuschl" patents.
University of Utah Professor Bass published an idea about RNA interference in an April 2000 review of Tuschl's published work and also described it at two conferences. Bass also discussed it with Tuschl at a conference dinner.
Under patent law, those who collaborate on research that results in a technological breakthrough are supposed to share the patent and the financial rewards that flow from it.
The U.'s [University of Utah's] lawyers say Bass and Tuschl collaborated in that they were working toward the same end of characterizing the molecules that mediate RNA and often consulted one another at various meetings.
Defense lawyers ridiculed the U.'s case, saying its arguments are a "mockery" of the collaboration requirement, wrote attorney Thomas Maffei in a motion to dismiss the case.
"All scientists studying RNAi could be said to be working to this same end," he wrote. Nor should reading another scientist's published research count as collaboration.
Maffei continued: "If Utah's slippery standard for collaboration were the law, it would have a chilling effect on the free exchange of ideas among academic researchers at scientific meetings."
It would mean that people would be afraid to have those dinner conversations. That would hurt science because they'd be afraid, if they shared their exciting insights and their lab [experiments], they'd lose all," Saris told Maffei's colleague, attorney David Grindler.
"[Bass] would have clammed right up because she would be afraid that if she shared what happened in her lab, that he could then use it to get the patent and she'd lose out completely."
Grindler replied that Bass would have a simple remedy: File a patent application.
"We wouldn't be here today, your Honor, if Dr. Bass had done what any other inventor does if they want a patent," said Grindler, a partner with the Los Angeles firm Irell & Manella.
See Recusals Spur Patent-Case Revisions on two recent recusals by Judge Rader.
a background comprising a white cyclorama; a front light source positioned in a longitudinal axis intersecting the background, the longitudinal axis further being substantially perpendicular to a surface of the white cyclorama; an image capture position located between the background and the front light source in the longitudinal axis, the image capture position comprising at least one image capture device equipped with an eighty-five millimeter lens, the at least one image capture device further configured with an ISO setting of about three hundred twenty and an f-stop value of about 5.6; an elevated platform positioned between the image capture position and the background in the longitudinal axis, the front light source being directed toward a subject on the elevated platform; a first rear light source aimed at the background and positioned between the elevated platform and the background in the longitudinal axis, the first rear light source positioned below a top surface of the elevated platform and oriented at an upward angle relative to a floor level; a second rear light source aimed at the background and positioned between the elevated platform and the background in the longitudinal axis, the second rear light source positioned above the top surface of the elevated platform and oriented at a downward angle relative to the floor level; a third rear light source aimed at the background and positioned in a lateral axis intersecting the elevated platform and being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the third rear light source further positioned adjacent to a side of the elevated platform; and a fourth rear light source aimed at the background and positioned in the lateral axis adjacent to an opposing side of the elevated platform relative to the third rear light source; wherein a top surface of the elevated platform reflects light emanating from the background such that the elevated platform appears white and a rear edge of the elevated platform is substantially imperceptible to the image capture device; and the first rear light source, the second rear light source, the third rear light source, and the fourth rear light source comprise a combined intensity greater than the front light source according to about a 10:3 ratio.
GE wins wind turbine inventorship case: "without credible testimony from Wilkins, there was nothing to corroborate"
GE prevailed in the Wilkins case concerning inventorship.
At one point, Wilkins worked for GE in the area of wind turbines.
he retained ownership rights in the ’985 patent and U.S.
in actions against GE regarding the ’985 patent. Id.
Co. v. Wilkins, No. 10-0674, 2011 WL 1740420 (E.D. Cal.
court “obtuse,” “overly assumptive,” and “ignorant.” Gen.
that Wilkins had undermined his own credibility.
witnesses I have ever seen.” J.A. 842.
Wilkins had involvement in the technology in question while at GE.
district court’s underlying findings of fact for clear error.
entitled to strong deference. See Celsis In Vitro, Inc. v.
credible testimony that only then must be corroborated.
story. Loral Fairchild Corp. v. Matsushita Elec.
of the inventor’s story may be reached.”).
preparing the Design and Cost Analysis. J.A. 2365–66.
perform LVRT was not novel in 2002. Id. at 591–92.
anticipated and obvious under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102 and 103.
We affirm the Board’s rejection of the claims under § 101.
patent). The ’258 patent is not before us in this appeal.
The CAFC panel of Judges O'Malley, Plager, and Taranto issued a per curium presidential opinion in In re Packard , with an interesting concurring opinion by Judge Plager.
The major issue was the conflicting standards for indefiniteness (old law, 112 P 2), with the Appellant Packard arguing that the Board had to meet the "insolubly ambiguous" standard to his claims, which he argued he would have passed.
rejection. That approach decides this case, because Mr.
indefiniteness rejections in this case.
of claim language problems. He ignored some entirely.
not argued by either party.
the proper administration of the governing statutes.
I join the per curiam opinion of the court, and fully support the conclusion stated therein. While the per curiam opinion reaches the right result and, as far as it goes, for the right reasons, it decides the case on grounds not argued by either party.
I write separately because I am of the view that a petitioner to this court seeking reversal of a decision is entitled to an explanation of why the arguments on which he relied for his appeal did not prevail. I also believe that the significant issues raised by Mr. Packard deserve to be addressed directly.
Timothy B. Lee [ timothy.lee@arstechnica.com ] resurrects the old Cecil Quillen "high grant rate" saga in a post Study suggests patent office lowered standards to cope with backlog.
Going back to the past, see for example 4 CHI.-KENT J. INTELL. PROP. 186 and Patent Grant Rates"
In a study of 90+ year olds! it was found that 15 minutes of exercise enhanced longevity. 45 minutes was optimum.
Vitamins, including A,C and E, gave no benefit.
Moderate alcohol and coffee did enhance longevity.
As to weight, maintain or increase. It's not good to skinny when you are old.
As to the future, the number of 90+ will quadruple by mid-century.
As to dementia, the risk after age 65 doubles every five years.
But the correlation of plaque and dementia was questioned.
Charles begins talking about autistic children. Lesley Stahl does cover story. Owen Susskind. Second, Ben Tracey gives sneak peak on summer movies. Third, Erin Moriarty on degenerate art. Fourth, Anthony Mason on Kevin Spacey on House of Cards. Martha Teichner. Steve Hartman.
First story, breaking through. Ron and Cornelia Susskind on their son Owen. Year 1994. Doctors say autism. Now, 2 in 68 diagnosed. With autism. Owen would watch Disney movies for hours. After 4 years, Owen speaks. Walter does not want to grow up. Book: Life Animated. Owen at Riverview School.
Kevin Pelfrey at Yale. Affinity therapy on autistic children. Owen has girlfriend Emily.
Owen started a Disney club at school. Owen likes Aladdin. Happy diamond in the rough.
Almanac. May 4, 1932 Al Capone entered federal prison. Went to Atlanta. Two years later to Alcatraz. Released in 1939. Died in 1947.
The case GE Lighting v. AgiLight involved issues of claim construction at the summary judgment stage.
the “deficiencies [that] make it difficult” to use.
USA Inc., 450 F.3d 1350, 1354–55 (Fed. Cir. 2008).
as essential, or as important.
Oatey Co. v. IPS Corp., 514 F.3d 1271, 1277 (Fed. Cir.
over AgiLight’s expert’s cross section.

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