III. LINGERING PROBLEMS FROM FESTO AND JOHNSON & JOHNSTON...........................................................................................516 A. Effects of Festo and Johnson & Johnston on the Patent System ................................................................................516 B. Inequitable Outcomes and Unfairness to Patent Owners ............................................

This paper explains the current ‘digital divide’ in internet use between rural and urban areas using a Logit adoption model with data collected from the August 2000 Current Population Survey. A non-linear decomposition shows that rural – urban household attribute differences account for 66 percent of the digital divide, while place based differences account for the remaining 34 percent of the d...

determinant Samuel Picton Drake, Brian D. O. Anderson, and Changbin Yu Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, South Australia 5111, Australia and School of Chemistry and Physics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 020...

A very rich and reliable bookie posts odds on a horse race. He values a contract which pays a pound of gold if Stewball wins at one ounce of gold. He values a contract which pays a pound of gold if Molly wins at one ounce of gold. He will buy or sell these contracts in any quantity at what he considers the fair price or better. Suppose that he also deals in contracts which pay a pound of gold i...

Agriculture disrupts all freshwater systems hugely from their pristine states. The former reductionist concept of pollution was of examining individual effects of particular substances on individual taxa or sub-communities in freshwater systems, an essentially ecotoxicological concept. It is now less useful than a more holistic approach that treats the impacts on the system as a whole and inclu...