Even if you ultimately decide not to make a career move, your path will likely change just by virtue of having gone through the process of self examination.
The USPTO examination process for design patents used to take over a year, which would often exceed the life expectancy or actual lifespan of many designs in the rapidly changing world of fashion.
This requires both an increase in examination capacity achieved by increasing strategic hiring and creating better working conditions to decrease attrition, and improved efficiency achieved by streamlining the examination process and providing better tools and IT infrastructure.
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It makes sense that the value of companies is based upon the right to exclude all others for 15 years or more (U.S. patents are valid for 20 years from the filing date, but the examination process in the Patent Office will eat up a significant amount of time).
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Of equal concern is that, when it comes to publication of the results, the cashing in process was complicated further at the examination entry stage when the question was asked on the entry forms whether AS results would be cashed in.
However, acquiring a gun is not an easy process -steps to gun ownership include a medical examination and a written test.
And I think what we've also recommended -- although this has not yet been adopted -- is that if it's inconclusive, then we can set up a process here in Congress that would lead to further examination of what our options would be.
An examination of the regulation of participants in the investment management process reveals a certain perversity.
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Barts and The London say the selection process was fair and that they rejected the idea of selecting by examination because they thought it would prejudice against certain candidates.
Board certification, a designation conferred by a private organization, is often the capstone of an arduous process of training and the requirements to even sit for the board examination exceed the requirements for state licensure.
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Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment.
Because of the European Parliament, because of civic society, because people have raised issues through the petition and other mechanisms, parliament is giving close examination to this issue, and it's slowed the whole process down.
Samsung lawyers, in their cross-examination of Ms. Kare, focused on the start-up process for a Samsung phone, including when it initially says "Samsung" on the screen, shows an animated "Droid" advertisement and then a home screen with a Google Inc.
It signals the start of the technical process known as the generic assessment design (GDA), which makes a detailed examination of all aspects surrounding nuclear reactors.
Under cross-examination by Justice Department lawyer Elizabeth Shapiro, Hall acknowledged that her technical expertise is limited on the recovery process and that she is "speculating" about exactly how long it would take.
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