Prior art encompasses all knowledge disclosed to the public before the patent is applied for.
Likewise, if the deceased spouse would have been older than Full Retirement age when the Survivor Benefit is applied for, there is an increase applied to the Primary Insurance Amount.
In addition, the late payment penalty mentioned above of one-half of one percent of the tax (0.5%) is applied for each month, or part of a month the balance is not paid.
Although its roots are in IT diagnostics Splunk is being increasingly applied for business purposes outside the data center.
As firms in China and India become more active in western markets, the number of patents applied for is expected to rise even more quickly.
The shotgun approach to applications has other drawbacks: When recruiters call candidates about a job, they often don't realize that it is something they have applied for.
This supply glut is likely to continue for years as new drilling technology is applied to fields that were formerly uneconomic to produce.
Theory is favored over applied learning, and there is an urgent need for more social skills development, in particular critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and leadership.
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The civil servant at the heart of the leaking allegations, who has been named in newspapers, was a Conservative activist who is believed to have previously applied for jobs in Mr Green's office.
For this unique look, LG developed and patented the Crystal Reflection process, which is applied to the back of the Optimus G for a luxurious look and feel.
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The Volker Medal is for hydrologists who have applied their research and hydrological expertise to the benefit of society, addressing issues of public interest and development.
Having long monopolised that role, the Law Society of Scotland has applied for registration and is working, very slowly, through the process with the Scottish government.
The treatment ends with a shiatsu foot massage where pressure is applied to acupuncture points that allow for the better flow of energy throughout the body.
In addition, even if an English-only policy is adopted for nondiscriminatory reasons and applied uniformly, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and some courts take the position that such rules burden national origin minorities because they prevent many members of these groups from speaking the language in which they are best able to communicate.
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More public events would be covered by "qualified privilege", so that a fair and accurate report of them would be protected from defamation actions - so the protection applied to reporting what is said at local council meetings, would be applied to, for example, the proceedings of scientific conferences.
One expert on diversity, Steven Scherer of the Center for Applied Genomics, is a coauthor of Venter's paper.
He has applied for a patent and is now hoping his design will attract offers from businesses keen to produce it.
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The foreign staff's troubles began, BP says, when an employee who is also a shareholder of AAR deliberately applied for the wrong number of visas.
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The Navenby Archaeology Group, which was set up in 2000 to monitor discoveries on the site, applied for the lottery money and is match-funding the latest work.
But while the Home Office is adopting a liberal approach to those who applied for asylum before 1995, things will be a lot harsher for the rest.
Vandereycken has applied for the job but it is unlikely that he will get the nod as his name seems to be mentioned whenever there is a change of coach.
Although the text of the report does go on to observe that "these benefits have not been universal, some may decline over time, and potential benefits and risks may become more numerous as the technology is applied to more crops, " some context for this sentiment and Pollack's coverage of it is essential.
This argument is generally applied to the prices of goods and services for current consumption by households or businesses.
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The technology includes finger print and iris scans to help ensure the person zipping through is in fact the customer who applied and was approved for safe travel.
That idea caught on, and is now applied to many other things, including the search for promising drugs.
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