People at the association, Turkey's leading human-rights body, say the fall was due in part to a new law cutting the length of time a suspect may be held in custody without charge from a week to four days.

ECONOMIST: Turkey

The appeals court held that the agency had misinterpreted both the law governing patent term length and a clause barring the double-counting of overlapping prosecution delays.

FORBES: Novartis Challenges USPTO Patent Extension Policy

Airships demonstrate a law of increasing returns: doubling the length increases the surface area (and hence weight) by a factor of four while the volume (and hence lifting capacity) goes up by a factor of eight.

ECONOMIST: Pushing the envelope