The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decides that isolated DNA claims are patentable

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany A. Reiter ◽  
Ryan S. McQuade
Keyword(s):  
Circuit Court ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Federal Circuit

Under the Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (7) ◽  
pp. 76-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Underwood
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Circuit Court ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
The North ◽  
Federal Circuit ◽  
The Law ◽  
Teacher Contracts

Many states are changing teacher contracts to eliminate opportunities for tenure. Julie Underwood explores the constitutional implications of these changes, noting that a federal circuit court of appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court both found that states cannot retroactively revoke tenure that had previously been granted.

Patent Conflicts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tejas N. Narechania
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Authority ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Patent Policy ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Relative Preference ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Federal Circuit ◽  
Indirect Action ◽  
Striking Effect

Patent policy is typically thought to be the product of the Patent and Trademark Office, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and, in some instances, the Supreme Court. This simple topography, however, understates the extent to which outsiders can shape the patent regime. Indeed, a variety of administrative actors influence patent policy through the exercise of their regulatory authority and administrative power. This Article offers a novel description of the ways in which nonpatent agencies intervene into patent policy. In particular, it examines agency responses to conflicts between patent and other regulatory aims, uncovering a relative preference for complacency (“inaction”) and resort to outside help (“indirect action”) over regulation (“direct action”). This dynamic has the striking effect of shifting authority from nonpatent agencies to patent policymakers, thereby supplanting some regulatory designs with the patent regime’s more general incentives. This Article thus offers agencies new options for facing patent conflict, including an oft-overlooked theory of regulatory authority for patent-related regulation. Such intervention and regulation by nonpatent agencies can give rise to a more efficient and context-sensitive regime that is better aligned with other regulatory goals.

Constitutional Law in 1942–1943: The Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the October Term, 1942

1944 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-288
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
West Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Circuit Court ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right

On February 15, 1943, Wiley B. Rutledge, Jr., a judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, took the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by the resignation in October, 1942, of Mr. Justice Byrnes. There were no other changes in the Court's personnel. Disagreement among the justices abated somewhat. In only a dozen cases of importance did either four or three justices dissent, as against some thirty cases in the last term. The Court overruled two earlier decisions, both recent; and the reversal in each case was made possible by the vote of Mr. Justice Rutledge.A. QUESTIONS OF NATIONAL POWER1. WAR POWER-CIVIL VERSUS MILITARY AUTHORITYWest Coast Curfew Applied to Japanese-American Citizens. In February, 1942, the President issued Executive Order No. 9066, which authorized the creation of military areas from which any or all persons might be excluded and with respect to which the right of persons to enter, remain in, or leave should be subject to such regulations as the military authorities might prescribe. On March 2, the entire West Coast to an average depth of forty miles was set up as Military Area No. 1 by the Commanding General in that area, and the intention was announced to evacuate from it persons of suspected loyalty, alien enemies, and all persons, aliens and citizens alike, of Japanese ancestry.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document