Patently O

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Claim Construction – The Significance of “A” vs. “The” In the first proceeding (IPR2020-00905), the parties disputed the proper construction of the claim term “fused image with a point of view (POV) of the Wide camera.”

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

The question of the environmental impact of the construction or significant alteration of a communications tower has been a matter of controversy for quite some time. This week, the FCC sought comments on their Draft Environmental Notice Requirements and Interim Procedures for its Antenna Registration Program.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 5, 2024

Requirements like these can help reduce the costs of the energy transition: retrofitting a residential building to add electric vehicle charging infrastructure after construction is complete can quadruple the cost of building the same charging access when the building is new. That process is underway for the latest update of the IECC.

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Law Prose

AUGUST 7, 2024

He also did it when retyping drafts, which allowed him to amplify, shorten, and perfect what he had done in earlier drafts. He would like to putter with it indefinitely—cutting, adding, polishing, or just brooding constructively over it.” (P. Consequently he hates to turn in a manuscript. Thurber found some 37 unfinished pieces.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2011

The FCC has released the comment dates for its draft rules setting out when Environmental Assessments are needed to formally evaluate the environmental impact of the construction and major alteration of communications towers. Comments on the Commission's Draft rules are due on May 5.

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Mondaq

JULY 23, 2021

Construction contracts should be drafted to ensure a smooth and undisrupted cash flow up and down the contracting chain.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The FCC issued a Public Notice to remind potential applicants of the upcoming filing window for applications for construction permits for new noncommercial educational FM stations. Applications will only be accepted for construction permits in the FM reserved band (channels 201-220, 88.1 through and including 91.9).

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 8, 2022

For instance, commercial litigation paralegals can benefit from CLEs explaining the methods of determining the appropriate type of business organization or drafting contracts.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Most commonly patentees draft claims that cover the physical structure of an invention or the particular steps taken in a process. A “nonce” word is a verbal construct that does not convey a particular structure, such as “element,” “device,” or other generic, non-structural terms.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

Livornese — Last week, FDA issued a draft guidance entitled “Considerations for Rescinding Breakthrough Therapy Designation” (the Draft Guidance ), authored by CDER, CBER, and the Oncology Center of Excellence (it is interesting, though not surprising, to see the OCE as an author on this document, given the popularity of the program in oncology).

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Gravel2Gavel

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

By Pillsbury's Construction & Real Estate Law Team. The trio provide a general overview of the pre-foreclosure process, outline important considerations when drafting a foreclosure complaint, offer guidance on the steps that go into obtaining a judgement of foreclosure and sale, and flag some a variety of important post-sale issues.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As a result of these efforts, we came up with a number of proposed changes and drafted proposed rules for comment. To provide greater fairness and consistency, I thought it important to change the claim construction standard for all patents in AIA trials to the Phillips standard used in federal district courts. . Signing of the DTSA.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Online course and coaching program that gives you proven methods to increase your billable hours, draft better time entries, and be more productive. Her areas of expertise included multi-district litigation such as the Dalkon Shield, L-Tryptophan, and Breast Implant cases, as well as in construction law. Billable Hour Boot Camp.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Again, the Federal Circuit upheld the Board’s construction as entirely consistent with the adaptive alarm thresholds described in the claims. Masimo also challenged the Board’s interpretation of “predetermined” in certain claims as referring to a predetermined formulaic calculation rather than a fixed value.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

All permittees and licensees with a July 13, 2021 expiration date on their digital construction permits must complete construction of their new facilities by that date or their license or permit will be automatically cancelled unless they have received an extension from the FCC giving them more time to construct these digital facilities.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

One interesting item on the agenda was a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to change certain aspects of the criteria used to evaluate applicants for new noncommercial broadcast stations and LPFMs , and the operations of those new stations after a construction permit is issued. The draft NPRM is here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Last week, the FCC released a draft of an order to simplify the proofing of AM stations. The rule changes in the proposed order address AM antenna proofs of performance – principally proofs that are conducted after a station has been initially constructed and licensed. This order will be considered at the FCC’s September 26 meeting.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 14, 2023

As we have noted on our Blog, including in recent weekly summaries, once a station is constructed pursuant to a construction permit, the permittee must file a “license to cover” informing the FCC of the details of the completed construction (see our articles here , here , and here ).

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In the tradition of the JPILs colloquia, each participant provided a draft paper which was circulated before the event. The tone of the discussion was overwhelmingly positive: participants provided one another with constructive criticism and encouragement in a collegial manner. Each session allowed for plenty of time for discussion.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2019

This draft order would adopt the FCC’s proposal advanced last year (see our article here ) to abolish the filing of the FCC Form 397 Mid-Term EEO Report , as that form is no longer necessary as the information gathered by the form is now largely available in every broadcasters online public file – which the FCC can review at any time.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 26, 2022

The FCC has released a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if adopted at the FCC’s July 14, 2022 regular monthly open meeting, would seek comment on whether to update its rules to identify a new publication for determining a television station’s designated market area (“DMA”) for satellite and cable carriage purposes.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 11, 2020

While a world free of lawyers will most likely never come to fruition (to many parties’ chagrin), new technology in the form of smart contracts is changing how legal matters are drafted. Legal departments drafting contracts need to consider details like this in advance. Creating Logic Parameters.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 13, 2023

The same with when I went from doing antitrust to construction litigation. If you’ve read our blog before or listened to some of the podcast episodes , you may remember the story of the construction litigation paralegal who went from in-house paralegal to the executive vice president of the company.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The decision announces tentative winners in each of these groups, whose applications will now be subject to “petitions to deny” and other objections before the award of their construction permit is finalized.

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The Estrin Report

AUGUST 9, 2024

Attorneys who are supervising paralegals may prefer the paralegal to manage day-to-day communications and the drafting of the various probate pleadings, so they can focus their attention on the key legal issues and provide the best legal advice to the clients. My love of writing and my empathetic heart will undoubtedly help many paralegals.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 13, 2022

For example, within litigation – you might be a paralegal working in construction litigation, and what you would be doing would be completely different than if you are a paralegal working in personal injury litigation. Every practice area is unique and has its own ups and downs. We’re not talking about CLE credits.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Both cases grapple with claim construction and the tension between construing claims broadly versus importing limitations from the specification. Although the disclosed embodiments all focused on GSM/UMTS networks, the claims were drafted broadly without a clear disclaimer or redefinition. Sierra Wireless.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 9, 2022

Most lawyers are smart enough to know that, in this scenario, there is no magical construction of words that will spark a response like, “Sure, walk with me to my office and I’ll give you a contract to draft.” She sounds desperate!”. “Oh Oh man, I’ve gotta go!”. As nice as that would be.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

On October 6, the FCC released a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if adopted, would propose a number of steps designed to strengthen the security of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (“WEA”). The draft NPRM is slated for consideration at the FCC’s October 27, 2022 regular monthly open meeting.

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Patently O

JUNE 30, 2021

Although reduction-to-practice is a required element of invention, the Courts and Patent Office have long permitted the filing of a patent application to constructively satisfy the RTP requirement. Many patent applications are not fully reduced-to-practice by the time the patent application is filed. ” Notice.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 22, 2022

The FCC issued a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to be considered at its required monthly open meeting on June 8 that asks for public comment on its proposal to authorize LPTV stations operating on TV channel 6 to continue to provide an analog audio stream that can be received on FM radios at 87.7.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 2, 2022

But what can you do if you are stuck in construction or run into a situation you shouldn’t be blamed for? Here are some Paralegal Resume Drafting Tips. In these cases, the best thing you can do is communicate. It will come to light sooner or later.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That summer, amid the public outcry, the department hired a private consulting firm called OIR Group to conduct a “constructive analysis” of its practices. McCoy’s death, in February 2019, garnered national media attention and sent residents to the streets in protest. Williams called the process a “massive review” and agreed to collaborate.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2022

Advocates quickly dove into the details of sentence construction. Sherry’s statutory construction argument drew a friendly amendment from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who suggested that the noun “determination” was the antecedent for “such matter,” rather than the verb “petition” which the briefing had emphasized.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 29, 2023

This week, the FCC released a draft of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order stemming from the Inquiry to be considered at that May 18 meeting. The FCC’s draft would formally propose and seek comment on rules that would authorize mobile broadband and other expanded uses in some or all of the 550 MHz of spectrum in the 12.7

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 5, 2022

I looked toward our transactional work and learned to draft and file deed transfers (for starters). This is huge, there are numerous similarities between how Construction, all their subcontractors, clients, and project management operates vs. Law firms, vendors, clients, court deadlines, etc. I taught myself our work in Florida.

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Patently O

MARCH 13, 2024

Thus, while the overall trend post- KSR may be towards a more flexible analogous arts test, strategic patent drafting can still play a role in circumscribing the applicable prior art. The patentee particularly argued that under a proper claim construction that Gelb was not analogous because that reference focused on a non-network environment.

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