December 26, 2024
Intangible Assets

Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on What Claims Can Properly Serve As Obviousness-Type Double Patenting References

In a precedential decision issued on August 13, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a first-filed, first-issued, later-expiring claim cannot be invalidated by a later-filed, later-issued, earlier-expiring reference claim having a common priority date.1 Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) is a judicially created doctrine dating back to

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Fixed Assets

Former executive risks 40 years in prison after allegedly doling out cash bribes at hotels, airports, and in a parking lot

Ex-Vitol Group oil trader Javier Aguilar faces as much as 40 years in prison and will forfeit more than $7.1 million in two U.S. bribery cases after entering a guilty plea in federal court. Aguilar, 50, had already been convicted in Brooklyn, New York, in February of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to bribe Mexican and

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Tangible Assets

REVEALED: The Labour cabinet ministers who are using YOUR cash to warm THEIR homes after stripping ten million pensioners of their winter fuel payments

Cabinet ministers were branded ‘hypocrites’ last night for claiming soaring amounts on expenses to heat their second homes while stripping ten million pensioners of their winter fuel payments. Eleven of Sir Keir Starmer‘s Cabinet have relied on taxpayer-funded help to pay their energy bills, analysis of expenses receipts reveals, with the amount they claimed soaring

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Tangible Assets

Hydrocarbon Engineering Spotlight with Sabin Metal Corp.

Save to read list Published by Callum O’Reilly, Senior Editor Hydrocarbon Engineering, Thursday, 08 August 2024 14:00 In this Spotlight interview, Brad Cook, Vice

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Operating Assets

Vendor’s wide services across planning, building and operating assets underlie strong rankings performance

Hitachi Energy’s wide portfolio spans support for planning, building and operating assets. Energy Risk speaks to the vendor about how this has contributed to its strong Software Rankings performance in 2024 Sporadic market events such as supply disruption, and longer-term trends such as decarbonisation, have given energy companies a lot to think about when it

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