Midshipmen studying Ocean Engineering traveled to the University of Delaware as part of a course taught by CDR Janice Rice, EN286 - Ocean Measurement and Analysis. The midshipmen got underway on the R/V Hugh R. Sharp, a state-of-the-art coastal research vessel that operates as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS). [insert link to the website about the vessel] The vessel traveled to Red Bird Reef, an artificial reef created by sunken military vehicles, subway cars, and two steel-hulled ships. The reef enhances marine biodiversity and productivity, supporting over 10,000 angler trips annually.
The class deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and a marine biosampler to conduct measurements of the ocean environment. Students also conducted multi-beam bottom mapping of the ocean floor, as well as analyzed CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth) probes about the physical properties of the sea water. Perhaps most beneficially, midshipmen conversed with post-doctoral students, gaining an appreciation for the challenges with designing an ocean measurement system.
No matter what the future surface force might look like, the Navy first needs to invest in educating its people. The best place to start is a Naval Surface and Expeditionary Warfare Command.
The budget charts on which we try to plot the future force structure of the surface Navy are all stamped “Dangerous Ground.” We simply do not know what its size will be in the coming years. Regardless of the force structure we have, we must be able to skillfully fight our ships to meet our Title X obligation to be prepared to conduct prompt and sustained combat operations at sea. Indeed, we can expect the demand for naval forces to continue unabated, regardless of that structure, so it is more important than ever that the officers and crews of our ships be the best trained, most tactically proficient in the world. Put another way, the best place to invest is in our people.
Petitions regarding the filing of patent applications, revival of abandoned applications, reinstatement of expired patents, withdrawal of patent applications from issue, small entity entitlement, review of previous decisions of the Technology Centers, suspension of regulations, questions not specifically provided for by regulations, and other petitionable matters are administered by the Office of Petitions within the Office of Patent Examination Policy.
To learn more about the organization and operation of the Office of Petitions, please see the Office of Petitions page.
Access the Patents Petitions Timeline page to determine what types of petitions can be filed with the Office during each stage of the patent prosecution. The Patents Petitions Timeline provides applicants access to petitions that can be submitted during each stage of patent prosecution process and information related to each specific petition and deciding office. Also, the timeline provides information on both the historical grant rates and the pendency of decided petitions.
10 - Revival based on failure to notify the office of a foreign filing after submission of a non-publication request
17 - Acceptance of maintenance fee payments based on a refusal to accept and record maintenance fee payment filed prior to the expiration of the patent
19 - Acceptance of delayed payment of a maintenance fee after expiration of the patent based on unintentional delay
20 - General supervisory review by the Director of USPTO of a decision by a director of the technology center
29 - Petition requesting reconsideration of the patent term adjustment before issuance of the patent
No. Ordinarily, an objection is petitionable, and a rejection is appealable, but when the objection is "determinative of the rejection" the matter may be addressed by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. See MPEP § 1201 for additional information.
No. Petitions are decided in accordance with the delegation of authority as indicated in MPEP § 1002. The Patents Petitions Timeline provides applicants access to petitions that can be submitted during each stage of patent prosecution process and information related to each specific petition and deciding office.
The Patents Petitions Timeline provides information on both the historical grant rates and the pendency of decided petitions.
An e-Petition is an electronically filed petition, submitted via EFS-Web that automates the petition process and allows petitioners to directly input the requisite information into a secure Web interface and immediately receive an ePetition decision if all requirements are met.
Except for a petition filed under 37 CFR 41.40 to designate a new ground of rejection in an examiner’s answer, the mere filing of a petition will not stay any period for reply that may be running against the application, nor act as a stay of other proceedings. See 37 CFR 1.181(f).
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Shawn Treier is a Research Affiliate of the US Studies Centre. Treier is a Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. He received his PhD from Stanford University and his research interests include the US Constitutional Convention and American political development, the US Congress, political behaviour and public opinion, and Bayesian measurement models. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Public Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Research, and the Journal of Law and Courts.
Treier is currently finishing a book manuscript, co-authored with Jeremy Pope, on the US Constitutional Convention. This work, initiated during his 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre, characterises the issues that defined the debates at the Convention, the positions taken by the Convention delegates on these issues, and the economic, social and ideological factors that determined their positions.
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