Defending Progressive Prosecution

Progressive independence in clinical training: a tradition worth defending?

BACKGROUND Progressive independence is a traditional premise of clinical training. Recently, issues such as managed care, work hours limitation, and patient safety have begun to impact the degree of autonomy afforded to clinical trainees. This article reviews empirical evidence and theory pertaining to the role of progressive autonomy in clinical learning. METHOD A computerized literature sea...

Patent Prosecution in Proteomics

This paper presents a brief overview of intellectual property rights and the various areas in proteomics to which IP rights may be applicable. Technology transfer, including licensing and business agreements, are not covered in this paper. Instead, issues and complications related to national and overseas patent prosecution in this relatively new field will be discussed.

Rethinking Prosecution History Estoppel

Under the rule of prosecution history estoppel, patent applicants who amend their claims during the course of patent prosecution assume a significant risk: the risk that a court will later construe the changes as concessions that should be read to limit patent scope. This risk is exacerbated by strong evidentiary presumptions under which courts are to assume, unless the patentee presents suffic...

Sub-Category A-ii: Arrest and Prosecution

Prosecution of rape and sexual assault.

reflected in the low numbers of successful convictions across jurisdictions. Research conducted in the last 20 years has highlighted that the majority of victims of sexual assault are female, most perpetrators are male, and a very small percentage of victims report this crime to the police.1 Media portrayals of ‘real rape’ present it as involving women being attacked outside their home, at nigh...