In that sense the rule is intentionally overbroad and applies beyond the intended beneficiaries.
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As with the AP subpoenas, this search is overbroad and has a potentially chilling effect on reporters.
It's one thing to complain that Siam Cement is overbroad with more than 100 subsidiaries and tens of thousands of products.
They seem to have support on the Supreme Court, which has taken a skeptical view of overbroad patents in recent decisions.
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An outmoded patent application review process and a thicket of overbroad, overlapping software patents creates minefields for everyone from startups to major tech companies.
The result is overbroad software patents that overclaim their true novelty.
It reveals the typical divide between the technology industry, which tends to fear overbroad patents, and the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry, which favors more liberal patent rules.
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Indeed, Mr. Newmark has lobbied against this overbroad statute.
But in this instance, "the government issued what appears to be an overbroad subpoena, " skipping the step of notifying the journalists ahead of time, which would have given them the opportunity to challenge it.
"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of the Associated Press and its reporters, " Mr Pruitt wrote in a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder.
For purposes of the analysis, rather than examine any particular fact situation, and to avoid an overbroad, far-ranging analysis of the plethora of compliance issues relative to the various SCF investments and transactions, this analysis will begin instead with those specific duties and obligations that might give rise to civil and criminal liability exposure implicated in SCF.
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