Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming

the effect of functional/notional approach on the proficiency level of efl learners and its evaluation through functional test

in fact, this study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any difference between the effect of functional/notional approach and the structural approaches to language teaching on the proficiency test of efl learners? 2. can a rather innovative language test referred to as "functional test" ge devised so so to measure the proficiency test of efl learners, and thus be as much reliable an...

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...

Claiming ownership in the technosciences: Patents, priority and productivity

Intellec tual property (IP) in and around the sciences is nowadays a matter of high public as well as historical interest. Here we propose an integrative concept of IP that, drawing upon insights scattered across decades of scholarship, forges from them a framew ork for a new style of historical research. This expanded concept of IP takes in patents, copyright and other legal instruments (or th...

R&D, Patents and Stock Return Volatility

The Evitability of Software Patents

30 Computer The Evitability of Software Patents A n Australian patent examiner more than 40 years ago, I’ve maintained a sporadic interest in the law of intellectual property and been disturbed by the developing saga of software patents. Although the intellectual property laws of any two countries—such as Australia and the US, for example—exhibit significant differences, my disquiet goes far be...