... Court regards declarations of essentiality (or inessentiality) as commercially useful and therefore a legitimate use of Court resources and powers. The Court will take a pragmatic and not overly linguistic approach to comparing patent claims and standards. As many observers have suspected would...

... applicants and their legal advisers will therefore need to adopt an appropriate strategy. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been overwhelmed by the number of patent applications awaiting examination, including both new filings as well as continuation and divisional applications...

... universal acceptance. This article asks whether, and to what extent, countries that are not even WTO Members, and not therefore party to TRIPs, can derive benefit from the proposed regime. On 6 December 2005 the General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) approved a proposed amendment to Article...

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...0 02 01 1997 In Chapter 4 objectives related to learning about individuals and to learning how to assess patients were presented. Many of these objectives related to communication. This chapter therefore starts with a consideration of how students can learn to communicate. It then takes a wider...

... by the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, two narrow straits linking the Mediterranean and the Black seas. Unless one goes completely around the Black Sea, the passage from Europe into Asia Minor is across one of those straits. Therefore, Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul has been an extremely strategic possession...

...0 25 05 1995 A perinatal death is one which occurs between the 24th week of gestation and the end of the first week after birth. It therefore includes all stillbirths and early neonatal deaths. The reason for grouping these deaths together is because their aetiology is often the same...

...0 15 02 1996 We now turn to the latter part of a medical interview, during which the doctor usually needs to outline the options open to the patient, and steer the dialogue towards decision-making. Often therefore this is the crux of the whole interview and sometimes it provides the greatest...

.... We are therefore interested in how good it is, which means we are interested in its value. This chapter is about valuing health—measuring the value of health—rather than measuring the quantity of health. Specifically, it is about the value of longevity. comfortable measure difficulties therefore...

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... and difficult: researchers may die, records lost, and vagaries and variations in diagnostic practice and nomenclature are legion. Account must therefore be taken not only of hysteria but also its bedfellows malingering, somatization, war syndromes, and anxiety reactions for ‘medical disorders create complex...

...0 18 01 1996 In this chapter we wish to raise the profile of administrative tribunals in the debate about how to improve access to justice. It is often not appreciated that far more people have dealings with tribunals than ever come before the courts. Our aim therefore, is to examine whether...

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... and Quintilian, the prose-style of Cato the Elder is rough or hairy, to Gellius it is unkempt; to Ovid and Propertius, the verse of Ennius is shaggy or hirsute. A proper modern style is therefore neat, restrained, and tasteful. An excessive pursuit of innovation prompts talk of perfumes, ringlets, and curling...

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