Since a federal appeals court affirmed the USPTO in In re Bilski, lower courts around the country have adopted the same logic, saying patents must involve a machine or a process that transforms some type of material substance.
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For example, such options include the selection of a military option that will work if an adversary does what is expected, a network that has only the links that are expected to be used, or a process that restricts participation, but is fast.
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We see it over and over again, some of the best products and experiences all seem to come from the trailblazers who are simply trying to solve a problem or improve a process they have come across.
Caucuses are about intensity of feeling and real dedication to a particular candidate or to a process.
It turns out, though, removing mug shots from florida.arrest.org is not as labor-intensive or arcane a process as the reputation companies claim.
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If the methane is produced by geological activity, it could either originate from active Martian volcanoes or from a process called serpentinisation.
The Pentagon would also speed up the arrival of replacements by a month or more, a process that could continue into the new year.
"The only alternative is really hell, or a political process, then we have got all of us to work ceaselessly for the political process, " Mr Brahimi said.
Sure, they may remember a few items, but if you are discussing a process or a pattern, the details about the value or necessity of what you wrote may be forgotten over time.
The organizational unit through which these results are to be achieved at Haier is the ZZJYT: small, autonomous units of ten to twenty people, each with direct responsibility for a geographical area, a product, or a manufacturing process and seen as an entrepreneurial platform in an otherwise large, complex organization.
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Holding a mirror to the candidate, guiding him or her through a process of self-reflection, will help to refine the way they present themselves so that they communicate their unique story, experience and goals in an authentic way.
Professor TIEFER: It would be a majority vote of the Senate to either totally refuse him or to start a process for deciding it.
These two aspects having an unknown range of responses, and unknown predictability in getting a response of any kind at all is what separates a collaborative or community activity from a process oriented one.
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Potential users of marketing analytics may not have a strategic planning process or marketing decision making process that builds in a step to use available analytics.
The Supreme Court has already said that abstract ideas, natural phenomena and laws of nature cannot be given a patent, which gives an inventor the right to prevent others from making, using or selling a novel device, process or application.
Scrum is not just a set of tools, or a new business process, or an engineering framework for software development.
"Let me be clear: While this country has indeed changed, and real progress has been made, we are not yet at the point where the most vital part of the Voting Rights Act can be described as unnecessary or a product of a flawed political process, " the attorney general told the National Action Network.
When you first read the book, did you quickly develop a sense of how to adapt it, or was it a difficult process for this story?
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The "U.S. Markets Security Act" is an indispensable first step in putting into place a sensible monitoring or screening process which seeks to protect, in a non-disruptive, prudent fashion, the national security interests of the United States against an increasingly sophisticated array of global bad actors.
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"It's one thing to absorb regulatory or legal review or another round of process on a five- or six-megawatt project, " says Thornton.
On a broader level, you could find out that your team wants additional training on the company CRM software or a workflow that clearly documents a new process.
We have to accept either that future economic development is at the mercy of a hugely wasteful process, or that we can refine this new system to make it a significantly more efficient resource allocation process.
Did you get a chance to offer some advice and feedback or was this a pretty close process?
Think of all who have come home and settled on in a quiet life of service -- as a doctor or a police officer, an engineer or an entrepreneur, as a mom or a dad -- and in the process, changed countless lives.
He thinks the council may stand or fall by a new process, known as universal periodic review.
This is a clear indicator that the design is a significant improvement versus a process or node change.
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At the moment it comes from natural gas, oil or coal, in a process that spits out carbon dioxide.
Sentiment analysis has evolved over the last five or six years into a process which makes it more reliable and consistent, he explained.
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Human dynamics inject another level of complexity into the workplace one that cannot always be addressed with a process or system change, or the right mental state.
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Yep, if you use a process or technique that is covered by some patent that has already been awarded then the patent holder could come after you for infringement.
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