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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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.
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.
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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"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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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.
For example, you shut off the unit or the battery dies, and you have to start at the beginning or go through a medieval process of physically recording track numbers.
This is not necessarily a surreptitious or underhanded process.
It said if an overpayment could not be recovered via salaries, it was recovered through the trust's debtors process or a debt collection service, but actual figures were not available as they were not kept centrally.
If you look at the companies that try to follow the processes described in the article verses the companies that follow a UCD or VI process, the success rates favor the UCD and VI style approaches.
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The coalition does not have sovereign authority and has no authority to bring into being an interim Iraqi Government with such authority, or to create a constitutional process leading to the election of a sovereign government.
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