By Peter Leung, Bloomberg BNA The nation’s patent appeals court reopened a dispute about whether patent filers who contest rejections in district court must pay the Patent and Trademark Office’s lawyer fees. A majority of a three-judge panel in June said that appealing patent filers must pay the lawyer fees, because a statute requires the filer to pay the PTO’s “expenses,” which include lawyers’ salaries. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided Aug. 31, without request from the parties, to rehear the case before the full court. NantKwest Inc. sued in district court after the PTO rejected its patent application for a cancer treatment. After winning, the PTO moved for its expenses, including attorneys’ fees. The district court rejected the request for those fees, and the PTO appealed. If the Federal Circuit sides with NantKwest, it would create a split between patent and trademark law. Trademark law has a provision with largely identical wording, and the U.S. C...
Russia’s plan to reorient its energy trade towards the east has taken a leap forward with the start of oil exports through a new pipeline to China. The pipeline, running from Skovorodino in east Siberia to Daqing in north China, is an offshoot of a new oil export route Russia is building to the Pacific Ocean, providing the world’s top oil producer with a strategic window on the energy-hungry markets of Asia. When it is completed in 2013, the 4,070km pipeline can carry up to 1.6m barrels a day of oil, about one third of Russia’s current exports. Russia began commercial oil deliveries through the new pipeline to China on new year’s day consolidating increasingly close energy ties with the world’s fastest-growing oil consumer. China lent Russia $25bn in 2009 to help fund the project and pledged to import 300,000 barrels a day through the new pipeline for 20 years. Rosneft, Russia’s state oil company, has been supplying about 300,000 b/d of oil to China by rail, but the new pipeline w...
Hi PM. David, Confused, are you? How will British Prime Minister David Cameron ever come out of his now broken promises, which were sold with promises appearing to be exiting to the general public during election time? We have seen many election campaigners throw strong reform promises but they change them to the opposite values after being crowned! How can the British buy a misleading product? One can clearly step into the local business bureau to complaint if a seller has sold goods or services below standard or quality. But, how can anyone go back and claim that David Cameron had made good promises but has let everyone down by making all the...
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