Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 307 I. The Federal Circuit’s Supervisory Role in Patent Law .......................................... 308 II. District Courts as the Federal Circuit’s Patent Laboratories .............................. 311 A. District Courts’ Centrality to Patent Law .................

the legal system of any given society, whether national or international, requires that legal disputes between the parties must be finally concluded and settled. abiding by judgments made by international courts and prevention of contradictory judgments are related to international public order. variety of international courts, arbitration tribunals and commissions increases the possibility of ...

This publication highlights notable procedural fairness scholarship released over the past quarter by topic. Each quarterly issue will also include a listing of other articles that are of particular relevance to procedural fairness the courts. Recent news and events, if available, complete the report. Articles that are not yet in print, but available on the publisher’s website are indentified w...

Given two points in a plane, each with a prescribed direction of motion in it, the question being asked is to find the shortest smooth path of bounded curvature that joins them. The classical 1957 result by Dubins gives a sufficient set of paths (each consisting of circular arcs and straight line segments) which always contains the shortest path. The latter is then found by explicitly computing...

Although the Constitution of Republic South Africa, 1996 guarantees everyone right access to courts and civil justice, many people still find themselves in a position where they cannot African justice system, specifically concerning legal matters. While this problem has been recognised by various academics, authors, even Constitutional Court judges, understanding what means empirically only rec...

Title: ASSESSING THE CITY-LEVEL IMPACT OF DRUG COURTS ON CRIME RATES, 19852000. Erin Anderson Orrick, Master of Arts, 2005 Directed By: Professor Gary LaFree Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Drug court effectiveness is widely debated within the literature. Numerous evaluations of individual drug courts have been conducted, however, only recently has a consensus begun to emerge abo...

deep economic and social developments in two recent centuries beside other important alterations, created important changes in contracting aria among them placing weak and strong parties against each other in contracts. freedom of contract, that before enjoided from some kind of sancity,could not provid contractual justice in this new conditions. therefore adjustment of this tool(contract) in a...

[Shareholder actions arising from misstatements and nondisclosure have been part of the legal landscape in the United States for some time. The Wall Street stock market crash of the 1920s saw the early development in the United States of strong laws for the protection of investors in the stock market, and the mechanism of the class action meant that large numbers of investors were able to seek ...