In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: Majority Leader Hoyer Statement on House Floor Schedule WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement tonight on the schedule for the U.S. House of Representatives: "Due to the weathe ...

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According to the BBC, the signs warn drivers to be more aware of motorcyclists and follow a campaign by friends and relatives of motorcyclist David Loudon who died in a crash in February 2008. Campaigners said that some drivers perform dangerous U-turns, without thinking about motorbikes. Steve Mear ...

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David Dow is a law professor at the University of Houston Law Center and Litigation Director of the Texas Defender Service. His latest book The Autobiography of an Execution (Amazon) was just published last week. He had a very interesting interview on Fresh Air on NPR 20 Years Of Defending Death Ro ...

The IPKat was puzzled and intrigued by a recent decision from the UK IPO (O/021/10).  The decision relates to UK patent application GB0716959.2 (published as GB2453318), filed in the names of Marc and Idan Zuta, who together run an Israeli company known as Patent4U Limited. The company claim ...

So suggests John Avalon, in a Daily Beast column “The Secret History of the Birthers.” He traces birtherism to a Texas woman named Linda Starr, who was a Hillary Clinton delegate to the 2008 Texas state Democratic Convention. Avalon writes that Starr “was also cited as a key source for CBS’ discredi ...

Blogs and mainstream media have been buzzing with a flurry of rumors regarding New York Governor David Paterson. Many of the rumors have centered on a supposed article regarding Paterson that the New York Times will allegedly publish. Several commentators have stated that the article will focus on ...

ResQNet sued Lansa in 2001 for infringing five patents related to terminal emulation. Lansa found art, two unpublished user manuals for a software product called Flashpoint, that it argued anticipated one of the asserted patents, 6,295,075. But the district court wouldn't admit the art as public ...

Patent Law - New Proposed Legislation || USPTO Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2011 || Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) David Kappos has announced President Barack Obama’s $2.322 billion fiscal yea ...