Toyota Motor Corp announced two separate recalls today. The first recall involves a global recall of 437,000 2010 Toyota hybrids—Prius, Lexus, and Sai—over issues with the vehicles’ anti-lock braking systems. Last week, the automaker admitted that there was a problem with the software that controls ...

The subject of antitrust exemptions has been an oft-discussed topic here at TOTM (see, e.g. here and here).  In the latter of those two links I was somewhat critical of the DOJ for taking a neutral stance on the insurance industry exemption, which has now become rather wrapped up in the health care ...

ANOTHER VICTIM OF DEMAGOGUERY: Vegas hotel closes: Luxury hotels have also suffered from the backlash from the so-called “AIG effect,” referring to the uproar caused by American International Group’s decision to fly top brokers and executives to a resort shortly after receiving ...

By Sarah Fendrick -- On Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was closed due to weather. As a result of the closing, the USPTO will consider each of Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010 to be a "Federal holiday within the District of Columbia" under 35 U.S.C. ...

By Sherri Oslick -- A note to our readers: In an effort to catch up with recently filed biotech and pharma cases following a brief hiatus, Patent Docs presents this additional installment of Court Report. Teva Women's Health, Inc. v. Lupin, Ltd. et al. 2:10-cv-00603; filed February 3, 2010 in the Di ...

By James DeGiulio -- This week, Fate Therapeutics of San Diego, CA was issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Application No. 10/997,146 (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2008/0280362), titled "Methods for Reprogramming Somatic Cells." With a priority date of November 26, 2003, the application ...

"Former boy soldier, youngest Guantanamo detainee, heads toward military tribunal": Wednesday's edition of The Washington Post will contain an article that begins, "Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was 15 when he allegedly threw a grenade that killed a U.S. Special Forces m ...

Dan Immergluck (Georgia State--School of City and Regional Planning) has posted From Global Buck to Local Muck: Capital Markets, Public Policy and Neighborhood Wreckage in the U.S. The abstract: The U.S. subprime crisis was the result of a continual movement...

SO HOW’S THAT SMART DIPLOMACY WORKIN’? China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.

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