When the search engine Ask.com launched a privacy protection program it calls AskEraser last December, it intended to hold out an olive branch to activists that oppose how search engines track people's private information.
Framing the business as a search engine was a key distinction because search engines have legal protection from paying licensing fees if they merely point users to a location where information can be found.
Navistar recently abandoned its flagship engine technology after failing to earn emissions certification from the Environmental Protection Agency, and is now re-engineering its entire product lineup.
For starters, the rear pillar has been reinforced to give total support for the absent top, to accommodate an automatic protection system for passengers, and to provide the engine compartment with ample ventilation.
The stated purpose of this bill is to "streamline" the process whereby inventors - the engine behind American entrepreneurialism and economic vitality - can be given patent protection for their products.