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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JURIST

OCTOBER 12, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Friday vacated a previous ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Oklahoma-based Muscogee (Creek) Nation, who challenged the construction of a casino in Alabama on land they claim is sacred.

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Livornese — Last week, FDA issued a draft guidance entitled “Considerations for Rescinding Breakthrough Therapy Designation” (the Draft Guidance ), authored by CDER, CBER, and the Oncology Center of Excellence (it is interesting, though not surprising, to see the OCE as an author on this document,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

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The letters revealed case-by-case examples that McKinsey provided consulting services to key Chinese government agencies, including the National Development and Reform Commission, which drafts Beijing’s five-year economic plans. These blueprints shape China’s economic strategies every five years.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

OECD reported that immigrants accounted for over 20 percent of the total employment, mainly in sectors such as manufacturing, fishing, tourism and construction. The ministry appointed a steering committee and began work in early 2023 to draft a policy on immigrant and refugee matters.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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MyCase

JUNE 7, 2024

Redundant Back-and-Forth Client Communications : AI can reduce the need for repetitive communications by providing clearer initial drafts and automated follow-ups. AI for drafting legal documents ensures that routine tasks are handled efficiently. Here’s a breakdown of how AI contributes to different legal functions.

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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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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

JULY 2, 2024

(drafted by Liu Zuozhen and revised by Tu Guangjian) In recent years, China has put much emphasis on foreign-related rule of law.

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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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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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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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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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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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Patently O

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The functional format also simplifies claim drafting for complex inventions and supports filing patents amidst technological uncertainty before landing on a final design. Williamson established the absence of the term “means” no longer creates a strong presumption against applying MPF construction. Citrix Online , LLC, 792 F.3d

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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

MAY 1, 2022

The FCC released a draft Order that, if adopted, would allow FM and LPFM broadcasters using directional antennas to use computer modeling to verify the antennas’ directional patterns. Watch for a vote on this item at the FCC’s May 22 Open Meeting. ( Draft Order ). FEMA is planning for the next test to occur in the early part of 2023.

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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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LexForti

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The recent inclusion of substituted performance as a statutory relief in the Specific Relief Act , 1963 has been considered to be of significance to construction contracts, for the reason that it will help to reduce delays and costs. [1] Turnkey Contracts.

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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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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2019

The changes proposed are set out in our article summarizing the FCC’s NPRM when the draft was first released. They would affect everything from requirements for the governing documents of applicants for new stations to holding periods for new stations to the length of LPFM construction permits.

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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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Patently O

JULY 24, 2023

providing guidance on enablement, written description, and claim construction for method claims. And on this record, with the district court’s claim construction, the claims are adequately enabled.” by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court decision in United Therapeutics Corp.

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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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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Both of these electronic templates were free to use and offered: automatic construction and auto-filling content; content and structure that is complementary to CDRH internal review templates; integration with FDA databases and guidance documents; and automatic verification. Draft Guidance at 8.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Valentine — As we begin the final quarter of 2022 and the leaves here on the east coast begin to turn and fall, it seems the clock may be running out on FDA and the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) to meet its goal of publishing a draft guidance on confirmatory evidence this year.

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