Now, however, as these companies face a clear need to file more and file faster, they are additionally hard-pressed because they commonly rely on key business and engineering personnel to manage the patent process.
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In some cases details of key clauses, commitments and obligations are provided to the relevant personnel throughout the business in a timely fashion, but this is an exception rather than the rule.
Mr Moore met local politicians, community and business leaders, as well as personnel from the base on Thursday.
ReachLocal has about 800 sales personnel associated with its marketing business to carry these out, Gordon explained.
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If you're in the people-selection business-in, say, a personnel or college admissions department-your job assignment can trigger a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, that being the mental disarray that comes from simultaneously holding two contradictory positions.
Secretary Rumsfeld proposes to draw on this experience, the recommendations of numerous independent review panels and the insights he and others have garnered in the business sector, to devise a new National Security Personnel System.
In the traditional mobile model, companies like Asian Paints in India are already gaining newfound business capabilities by implementing mobile platforms that allow sales personnel to connect, manage and analyze customer requirements in real time.
Those who work in retail stores or restaurants, reporters and others in the media industry, gas station attendants, utility workers, hotel and airport personnel, public transportation workers, and business owners, among many other professionals, could also be on the clock tomorrow.
But their idea of one-stop shopping involves not just a collection of different legal specialties, but advice on business strategy, financing, management, computer systems and personnel as well.
It put an end to investments on the part of that state's firefighters, police officers, National Guard personnel and other public employees in companies doing business with the Islamofascist and genocidal regime in Sudan.
They will, for instance, require new personnel in areas that create value, such as business design, business analysis, and financial development.
The first order of business should, instead, be to secure the immediate withdrawal of UNPROFOR personnel.
Before he boarded the US Airways flight, Jernnard had a disagreement with airline personnel who could not accommodate his request to be upgraded to business class, police said.
They tend to get sellers who wander into the business for want of something better to do, says Kenneth Jackson , personnel director for Asbury Automotive (nyse: ABG - news - people ), a Stamford, Conn.
It is quickly clear, though, that FPI's plaudits are narrow - limited to the business of stepping up our Afghanistan commitment by 21, 000 troops and thousands of support personnel.
In business, and especially during the Great Recession and its aftermath, companies had to make tough personnel decisions.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily subject to associated risks related to, among other things, the retention of employees of Motorola Home Business and the ability of ARRIS to successfully integrate Motorola Home's opportunities, technology, personnel and operations.
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What is sinister, if true, was the recorded phone call of Raj with Galleon personnel to create an email to make it look as if there was a legitimate business dealing when instead a trade had been made based on a quick phone call from an insider.
For instance, the Defense Business Board found last year that 40 percent of the 1.4 million active-duty military personnel in the joint force had never deployed for combat, and an additional 30 percent had only deployed once.
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Instead, after graduating with a business degree from Seattle University in 1965, Sullivan went to work for Allstate Insurance and ended up in the personnel department.
The MPs also question the adequacy of having "a monopoly supplier business model in police procurement" and note that the new official Taser supplier consists of "more or less identical personnel operating in the same premises with a near-duplicate website" as the former distributor.
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