Our Privacy Notice describes how The Office of Development and Alumni Relations (ODAR) processes your data, helping us develop and maintain engaging services and activities that enrich your experience with the University.
Henry Robinson Hartley's generous donation in 1862 laid the foundations for the University of Southampton. We have since developed into a world-renowned research-intensive University, with a strong educational offering, known for our innovation and enterprise. We have a mission "to change the world for the better" and we work towards this goal in partnership with our alumni, staff, donors and the wider community.
This Notice sets out how the University's Office of Development and Alumni Relations ("ODAR") uses your personal data to help create a mutually beneficial relationship with you, whilst always processing data fairly and securely. We do value your privacy and we recognise the need to treat your data appropriately in accordance with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and, after 25 May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Data refers to personal information that we hold about you from which either on its own, or in combination with other information, you can be identified. A list of the data we process is set out below.
Processing means doing anything with your data, such as collecting, recording or holding the data as well as disclosing, destroying or using the data in any way.
The University of Southampton is the data controller. Our Registration Number in the Data Protection Public Register is Z6801020. We keep this Privacy Notice under regular review and it may be amended from time to time.
i) Biographic details including name, title, date of birth, age and gender. ii) Contact details including home address, business, email, telephone, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. iii) Education information and your other connections with the University and other institutions including student clubs, societies, affiliations.iv) Employment/career details. iv) Career biographies or alumni profiles. v) Information publicly shared on social media. vi) Your interests. vii) Health related information if attending an event e.g. access, dietary requirements. viii) Family and partner/spousal details. ix) Relationships with other alumni or associated constituents. x) Volunteering activity. xi) Philanthropic affiliations. xii) Donation history to the University or to other organisations including bank account details (for processing direct debits). xiii) Records of communications with ODAR and the wider University. xiv) Event attendance on or off-campus. xv) Assessment of capacity to donate – prosperity assessment. xvi) Motivation for giving. xvii) Photographs. xviii) Identification numbers and online Identifiers; xiv) Expressions of opinion about you or indications as to our intentions about you. Some of the information we process, such as disability details for access to an event, is sensitive personal information that we will not process unless we have your explicit consent, or we are legally required to do so.
We also process sensitive data that you have shared with us e.g. where giving in memory of a loved one and providing health details. This will always be done in a respectful and relevant manner.
i) Creating direct marketing communications tailored to your preference - delivered through email and telephone (if consent gained), direct mail and social media. ii) Providing you with a more personalised user experience when using our website, application or any other services we might provide by analysing, segmenting and profiling our database and allowing us to target you with information we think you might be most interested in including products and services. iii) Helping to advance our transformative philanthropic programme through fundraising campaigns and/or meeting with alumni and supporters for fundraising purposes. iv) Tracking details of our communications with you, to help inform our future interactions and make them relevant. v) Storing and maintaining your communication preferences, and consents (when required). vi) Sourcing contact details, if we lose contact with you.
B) Provide you with beneficial services by developing programmes that give you opportunities to: (i) Attend networking/career development events, reunions (ii) Further your learning and development. (iii) Further your study and/or research. (iv) Donate to the University/stewardship of past gifts.
(v) Alumni ID cards (giving access to University and discount membership). (vi) Email accounts and email for life services. (vii) Find a friend services. (viii) Careers support. (xi) Postgraduate fees discount. (x) Participating in University surveys.
C) Inform our interactions by: (i) Creating constituent research profiles, which may include geographic, demographic, biographic, career information, personal connections and asset/capacity related data all sourced from reputable publically available information to help us make an appropriate approach to you. (ii) Prepare staff for fundraising/engagement meetings or events. (iii) Making targeted correspondence relevant to you. (iv) Undertaking automated data analytics exercises to help make strategic decisions. (v) Completing due diligence to ensure gifts are not from an untrustworthy or unethical source. (vi) Managing the processing of gifts and HM Revenue & Customs guidelines. (vii) Fulfilling any statutory requirements. (viii) Managing our work with volunteers. (ix) Adhering to statutory or other necessary obligations.
We will only process your data for the specific purpose, purposes that we tell you, or if specifically permitted by the Data Protection Regulations. We will only process your data to the extent necessary for that specific purpose or purposes.
We sometimes use your data to create automated models or profiles that help us to understand, analyse or predict certain aspects relating to you/your behaviour. We use the outcomes to shape our interactions with you, making them beneficial and timely e.g. tailor the communications you receive to ensure you are told about events or let you know about fundraising campaigns/groups that may interest you. This could include using data models that help predict your personal preferences, interests or behaviour.
Whenever we use automated processes, we base our work on facts found through our database, or from reputable sources, to create tested algorithms/models. We always use appropriate mathematical or statistical procedures for the profiling, whilst continually checking for inaccuracies. We never use the outcome of this work to make decisions that could damage you personally or your relationship with the University. They are only used to help us best manage your data and relationship with us affectively.
If you are not an alumnus and we have not gathered your data directly from you, we will inform you about the personal data we hold at the time of our first communication with you.
We always aim to keep your data accurate and up to date. Data that is inaccurate can be amended on your request. Please notify us if your personal details change or if data we hold about you is inaccurate. Depending on your privacy settings, we may use social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and/or other data enrichment services to validate your data and help us maintain our communication with you.
We create and hold your data both electronically and on paper. The Office of Development and Alumni Relations consider its relationship with alumni, supporters and potential supporters as ongoing and as such will maintain a record until you tell us you no longer wish to keep in touch or we have a requirement to delete information.
As an alumnus we may need to retain some information about your education with us and for identification purposes. If you are not an alumnus or donor and do not engage with us, we will remove the majority of your details, but retain a small amount to know you have not engaged and we will not pursue the relationship.
We will never sell or share your data to third parties for the purposes of other marketing. We sometimes work with external providers to develop and improve the data we store. These include data enrichment and screening companies (like, for example, Factary, Tracesmart, Experian, Prospecting for Gold, and other research companies such as Thomson Reuters World-Check).
If you have given a donation, we may share data to process your donation with your bank, under your instruction and/or with HMRC to collect Gift Aid on your behalf where we have a Gift Aid declaration from you.
i) Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors to deliver our work or something promised to you (for example, to an event venue for Health and Safety purposes, to our own Students' Union for a specific purpose). ii) Advertisers and social media platforms (like Facebook, LinkedIn etc) that require your data to ensure relevant and tailored adverts to you and others on those platforms. iii) Analytics and search engine providers who help us in the improvement and optimisation of our site. iv) Software providers whose technology allows us to fulfil our work (for example, Eventbrite, Mailchimp, Blackbaud, Smarteezie).
We may have to disclose your data if required to do so by law in order to comply with a legal obligation, for example, to complete The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (created by the Higher Education Statistics Agency), to protect or defend our rights, interests or property or that of third parties act (in urgent circumstances) to protect the personal safety of University of Southampton constituents or the public, or protect against legal liability.
Everyone working at the University has a legal duty to keep information about you confidential. There are strict codes of conduct in place to keep your information safe. Staff abide by the Data Protection Act 1998, and from 25 May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and the University Data Protection Policy. We ensure that suitable measures are in place to prevent the unlawful or unauthorised processing and against the accidental loss of, or damage to, your personal information. This includes: i) Storing data on a secure, specially designed, customer relationship management database. ii) Training all our staff in Data Protection and their responsibilities. iii) Collaborating only with reputable companies for data processing services, who comply with Data Protection Regulations and put in place appropriate non-disclosure agreements. iv) Ensuring that alternative protection is in place if we work with trusted organisations based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) in countries that do not have comparable data protection laws to the UK. v) We will work to internal best practice guidelines to ensure encryption, pseudonymisation and other data security measures are used at the appropriate time.
You can update your own data or contact preferences at any time by visiting www.soton.ac.uk/alumni or calling +44(0)23 8059 2747.
If you wish us to stop contact, you can do so by visiting www.soton.ac.uk/alumni or calling +44(0)23 8059 2747.
If you do not wish for us to continue to process your data, we will retain minimal details on our database to: i) Ensure your details are not re-added in the future for another purpose. ii) If an alumnus, to retain your educational details with the University, for future reference e.g. for degree validation/replacement transcripts. This will include name, date of birth and education record/s details.
You will need to be able to provide proof of identity (e.g. full name, address, date of birth). We will provide your information within 30 calendar days of receiving your request.
If you would like further information, please see the University's Data Protection Policy and Electronic Use Policy.
From time to time we may use your data for new purposes not described in this Privacy Notice. If there are changes we will always post the policy changes on this Privacy Notice.


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October 31, 2016 April 14, 2016 - by Anthony McCarthy
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March 19, 2016 April 14, 2016 - by Anthony McCarthy
Watching this resources will notify you when proposed changes or new versions are designed so you can keep track of improvements that have been created. The Autocar Corporation , founded in 1897, established a quantity of innovations nevertheless in use 21 and remains the oldest operating motor car manufacturer in the U.S. However, it was Ransom E. Olds and his Olds Motor Car Business (later recognized as Oldsmobile ) who would dominate this era of automobile production. Steadily decreased the price of the Model T. As an alternative of pocketing the income Ford lowered the cost of his vehicle.
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Central to Ford's capability to make an affordable car was the improvement of the assembly line that improved the efficiency of manufacture and decreased its cost. When the auto was in neutral, the middle pedal was utilised to engage reverse gear, and the suitable pedal operated the transmission brake – there were no separate brakes on the wheels.
The mass production of automobiles, exemplified by the Ford Model T, led to a boom in highway constructing, travel solutions, and housing outdoors of urban locations. Inside a handful of years, a dizzying assortment of technologies had been becoming made by hundreds of producers all more than the western globe. As the car or truck utilized a wet clutch , this condition could also occur in …
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April 14, 2015 April 14, 2016 - by Anthony McCarthy
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Owen Prepared graduated with a BA(hons) in Transportation Design and style and an MA in Journalism from Northumbria and Coventry Universities. In 2015 Gustavo returned to Sweden, to take on the position of international style strategy manager within Volvo. He leads a team of 40 personnel in the Design Studio in Birmingham, UK, creating global styles for both MG and the Chinese Roewe brands. Robin began his design and style career at Jaguar Vehicles and joined Rolls-Royce and Bentley in 1995. Soon after getting his BA in Industrial Design and style from UFRJ in Rio …

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Of all of the types of music, it's difficult not to consider music that is considered to be written within the "classical" style to be one of the oldest and well-known forms. Breaking down what is considered classical music and what perhaps falls into other genres is complicated and definitions vary widely between fans. Whilst there is no debate that certain pieces fall within the classical music genre, some newer music that is written in a classical style may or may not truely be considered to be classical music depending on who you ask.
If you were to ask a scholar of music what is precisely defined as classical music they would tell you that the classical period of history falls within the years 1750 until 1820, and so technically only music composed within that period could truely be considered classical. But the colloquial usage of classical music has come to mean any type of music that is written with classical instruments, such as a violin.
One of the earliest periods of what is recognisable as classical music is the baroque period which was the period between the years 1600 and 1750 approximately. One of the most well known composers from this era is the legendary Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, perhaps best known for his work of the Four Seasons. V ivaldi was born in 1978 in Italy and was a composer, a violinist as well as a priest, although unfortunatey and despite his work being so well known and played still today, he died in poverty in 1741, a fate that was not uncommon for composers during that era.
Another of the most well known composers from the same era is Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in Germany in 1685. His works are easily recognizable for anyone who loves classical music from the baroque era, with one of this better known works being his Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538, a fantastic piece for solo organ. Whilst J.S. Bach composed a vast number of varied pieces over his lifetime, not all of it has managed to remain as popular over the years, and his compositions have been cherry picked so that only what are considered the "better" pieces are those that are still regularly performed today.
Whilst classical style music has never disappeared, in the early 20th century it's popularity did start to have a slight decline as other forms of music started to become popular in more underground clubs, ultimately leading to the vast variety of music that we have today. While the mainsteam appeal of classical music may have declined, it still remains very popular with numerous classical concerts performed around the world almost every day.


It is with great pleasure that I write a letter of recommendation for Dr. Anantha Presad Holla. Dr. Holla is very knowledgeable and passionate about caring for individuals living with vitiligo in a holistic manner. Dr. Holla's qualities of focus, compassion, and education are embodied in his understanding of the many patients who are diagnosed with vitiligo and do not understand what is going on with their bodies internally and externally. Dr. Holla dedicates the time to educate patients about the vitiligo cycle. Dr. Holla's management protocol for vitiligo is to handle the patient individually and he does not rush to give you a pill or quick fix. He goes over the pros and cons of various holistic and new treatment options. Dr. Holla's care and service will be a valuable option for people with vitiligo. He has created online accesswhere patients can reach him for consultation. Vitiligo Bond Inc., a 501 (3) (c) non-profit organization is excited to collaborate with Dr. Holla as he brings his holistic management approach to vitiligo care for the many vitiligans who are hopeful for a cure. I recommend Dr. Holla with my highest level of enthusiasm. Dr. Holla feel free to write a recommendation for my organization as well. (You can talk about how we promote awareness of vitiligo and the need for it). I would appreciate it. Thanks.
"Firstly, Let me take this oportunity to thank Dr. Holla and his MelanoSite team for giving a new confidence to my life. My Problem with the vitilogo started since my childhood and from then i had tried many other treatments (Homeopathy, ayurvedic,etc ) but there were no good results or a permanent solution to my problems at all. What more to say? it remains same as how it was. Now i am 29 years old and planning to get married next year . I was really not prepared or having enough confidence to get married just because of the vitilego white patches on my leg bothered me a lot. It was in a "google" search i came to know about DR.Holla and his MelanoSite Team as there are no many in india who are succesful with this treatment. I still remember, I have first approched Dr.Holla through a mail for a " permanent tatooing " inorder to hide this patches. But Dr.Holla corrected me with a convincing mail about the possible consequences of "tattooing colour mismatch" and gave a clear and confident explanation about the most advanced succesfull treatment "cellular transplantation" in vitiligo patch which will give the natural colour to the patch within few months. To be very frank, his reply on that day gave a new hope and confidence to my life. It was in a hospital at cochin , I consulted Dr. Holla and he evaulated and explained about the procedure of his treatment. The whole procedure and the treament was done on the same day and thereafter a week rest at home. Moreover , The dedication of his team never ends. As i am in cochin and working abroad , Dr. Holla's team regularly contacted me over mobile , whatzap, and mails to know about the progress of the colour change and keep advising what all things to do and how to take care until i got the full natural colour on the patches. Now its almost 3 months after the treatment procedure , i regained the true natural color to my problems (Vitiligo patches). Once again i thank Dr.Holla and his melanosite team for the support and help so far and i wish all the very best for a more succesfull stories with Melonosite. Lastly, I would like to recommend / Refer to "Dr Holla and Melonosite team" for all who are facing problem with Vitiligo in your life."
Yes! ur at the right place where vitiligo can be treated in a right way with great results. am UBAID living in Dubai came from Karnataka , I had vitiligo past 22 years ,I have tried many types of medicines like homeo, allopathic ,ayurvedic and online medicines also consulted many Dr's in my past 22 years the result was waste of time and money .. Thanks to almighty, finally I consulted DR. HOLLA in DELHI he is the first Dr who gave me a positive hope also they provide great hospitality to their patients , I underwent surgery , now am totally cured I got normal skin color in just 3 months! Its my pleasure to recommend my Dr. Anantha Prasad Holla to YOU . he is a professionally expert vitiligo surgeon in the world . I wish all the success to his upcoming researches and plans.. Thank you so much for the wonderful treatment.
I was suffering from vitiligo since 2006. I had literally been through hell & i was getting a bit fed up of trying out all the different treatments on offer.Then came to know about Dr. Ananth Prasad Holla,melonoasite & consulted him.I had white spots on the area around both the eyes,lips,chest,back,hand.After consulting Dr.Holla,within few days later i could see that my skin was changing.Today i am happy to say that i have got around 95% regimentation. I truly believe that Dr.Holla has an effective cure for vitiligo & his services for the benefit of anyone suffering from this condition.We are extremely fortunate to have Dr Holla at a critical time when we were running out of time for marriage.Now my marriage is fixed & am thankfull to Dr.Holla. I think Dr.Holla's treatment is a good news for the patients suffering from vitiligo & can be of great relief as it removes all the stress & disappointments in their healthy life.I would like to thank Dr.Holla for giving a new hope of life & for his great services to the society.
For the last seven years I had problem of vitiligo. In the beginning I got cured in few months. I consulted many doctors in the last three years (before I met Dr. Holla) I was like an experimental animal. Nobody will tell you, if they don't know the exact treatment for the vitiligo, instead of trying some vitamin tablets. After few months only we will realize, treatment is not working. I was very depressed due to my patches, because all were in visible parts. With God's grace, fortunately I saw the advertisement in facebook about the MelanoSite. I visited Dr. Holla's website and I emailed in detail about my previous treatment and the present stage. In the first consultation, Dr. Holla explained all about the vitiligo, causes and stages of treatment. I satisfied with his treatment in the first visit, because of his stage by stage treatment. He confirmed my vitiligo is generalized. I am very happy to get a good result from Dr. Holla's treatment and not get any new patches for the last six month. Furthermore, 90% of patches got pigmented and I have 100% trust in Dr. Holla's treatment can cure my Vitiligo.
"My daughter was diagnosed with Vitiligo two years ago and we tried several natural and western medical treatments without any results. I came across Dr. Holla and his published works while researching on the Internet and contacted him six months ago. I spent an hour on a skype consultation with him to learn about his approach and treatment options. Dr. Holla is well informed and his methodical approach to treat the affected areas from inside and out is clearly evident in my daughter's progress in re-pigmentation. We are fortunate to be working with Dr. Holla, who particularly specializes in vitiligo treatment. He gave us hope and has been very supportive during the whole process, with periodical skype consultations during the treatments. Vitiligo treatment is a long journery, but with Dr. Holla's help I am convinced my daughter will heal completely in due course".
I started having small white patches around the neck area and forehead in the year 2000. I consulted a renowned dermatologist in Ranchi and had some improvement, but that started spreading again. The area of depigmentation increased around the neck, forehead and in new places like fore arms, left arm pit, backside of thighs, fingers and foot. On the suggestion from friends, I consulted renowned homeopaths in India, including the leading one that advertises in the print media, but all with no relief whatsoever. In May 2013, I was advised by one of my friends about the relief that his daughter had with the treatment of Dr. Holla from Melonosite, New Delhi. I first consulted him in July 2013, followed with the treatment he prescribed and continued to consult him as per his advice. To my satisfaction, within 3 months, the patches in forehead were gone. The patches around the neck, below the arm pit, fore arms and thighs started to disappear in 6 months of his treatment and by July 2014 (within one year), they have all gone. Only some patches on the fingers and feet are yet to go, but they are fading out with the signs of pigmentation in them. I found Dr. Holla addressing the ailment methodically, based on the medical science, and prescribing as per the individual patient's condition. This is the reason why I must have had such a positive response and relief from Vitiligo, which, by general perception is difficult to treat for.I pray and wish Dr. Holla to succeed in the field of his research, specialisation and bring relief to many more too, who suffer from this ailment.


Fun and frights are in the air at Ponyville as every pony dresses up for Nightmare Night! This Golden Oak Library playset is decorated for Nightmare Night! Includes Twilight Sparkle and Zecora pony figures and two spooky-fun removable costumes. Dress the Zecora figure in the included black Nightmare Night dress and the Twilight Sparkle figure in a bearded wizard outfit and pretend to go out for tricks and treats! The included Owlowiscious pet figure and accessories help set a fun scene to play out Nightmare Night adventures.
The My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Collection brings the places and ponies of Ponyville together in a cute and collectible miniature scale. Look for more pony figures and sets in the Friendship is Magic Collection and build out the world of Equestria! (Each sold separately. Subject to availability.) My Little Pony and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro.


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IAMSE Featured Member: Rob Carroll
Posted November 5, 2018 by Cassie Chinn
Our association is a robust and diverse set of educators, researchers, medical professionals, volunteers and academics that come from all walks of life and from around the globe. Each month we choose a member to highlight their academic and professional career, and see how they are making the best of their membership in IAMSE. This month's Featured Member is Rob Carroll, PhD.
Robert G. Carroll earned his Ph.D. in 1981 under the direction of Dr. David F. Opdyke at the Department of Physiology of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Newark. Following a 3 year post-doc at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS under the sponsorship of Drs. Thomas E. Lohmeier and Arthur C. Guyton, he moved to East Carolina University in 1984 as an Assistant Professor of Physiology. He is currently Professor of Physiology at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, and holds an administrative appointment as Associate Dean for Medical Student Education.
For the first 20 years of his career, Rob balanced an active research lab with his teaching and administrative duties. About 10 years ago, the research balance shifted to research in teaching and learning, and now administrative duties have limited the time available for research. Apart from his bench research publications, Rob has published 21 peer reviewed education manuscripts, edited one book, is a section editor for a Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook, and published "Elsevier's Integrated Physiology" in 2007 and "Problem-Based Physiology" in 2010.
IAMSE was a critical part of Rob's professional development. Rob was on the founding Board of Directors for IAMSE, served as the first secretary and as a member chair of the IAMSE membership committee. Prior to IAMSE founding, each professional society had groups interested in education, but IAMSE provided a valuable forum for interdisciplinary education conversations.
Rob was selected for the 2018 AAMC Robert Glaser Award for his contributions to medical education. He has also received the Arthur C. Guyton Physiology Educator of the Year from the American Physiological Society in 2004 and the Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2005.
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The Chabadza Covenant Team has prepared a list of possible projects for churches not ready to enter a church-to-church covenant but who want to do something for our brothers and sisters in the Zimbabwe East Annual Conference. Projects with an asterisk are listed on the General Board of Global Ministries Advance for Christ and His Church. Send contributions for any of the projects listed below made out to Kansas West Conference to Treasurer's Office, 9440 E Boston, Suite 110, Wichita KS 67207. Write the name of the project on the memo line of the check.
Old Mutare Hospital - There is an excellent account about Old Mutare Mission Hospital that is included in the 10-fold project of the General Board of Global Ministries. Click on this link, scroll down the page, and then click on the link that reads: Old Mutare Mission Hospital update from Dr. Tendai Paul Manyeza.pdf.
Mutambara Hospital - Click to read the latest report, a Microsoft Word document.
A Generation of Hope: A program of the General Board of Global Ministries focusing on the eradication of HIV/AIDS and assisting AIDS orphans in Africa.
UMCOR Birthing Kits. You are responsible for shipping to the UMCOR depot.
AIDS Orphan Trust - To provide school fees, uniforms, books and other educational materials as well as some nutritional and health care support to the orphans and vulnerable children.
Other United Methodist projects in Zimbabwe listed in The Advance. Learn more about these projects on The Advance site.


John studied architecture at Cambridge University and in his early career taught at the universities of East London, Brookes Oxford and De Montfort. He formed Avanti Architects with four colleagues in 1982. After twenty years at Avanti, John joined Anschen and Allen. In seven years John directed twelve major projects. These span the full range of health care from complex tertiary hospitals for oncology, paediatrics and maternity to innovative community facilities. He has completed designs for new types of hospitals which have 100% single rooms, migrating many of their ambulatory services into the community. He has worked in Ireland, Norway, and Australia and collaborated with his colleagues in the USA. John is the current Chair of AfH.
Patrick Hutt is a newly qualified GP who has written extensively on General Practice. He is author of Confronting an ill Society, a biography of David Widgery, a radical East End GP. At University College London he is currently researching the evidence for differing health centre configurations, motivated by the recent proposals for polyclinics. He is Junior Editor of InnovAIT – the journal for GP trainees. He lives in and is from Hackney.
Thomas Gardner is currently project architect and key Sustainability Group member at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, following work for Urban Salon, Meadowcroft Griffin and Wilkinson Eyre. He has wide project experience, including leading the completion of Sunshine House, an RIBA award-winning Child Healthcare centre in Southwark. He is a studio teacher at Cambridge University, and has previously won an RIBA East student award. He and his work have featured in journals including Building Design and the Guardian.
Born in Aberdeenshire; qualified (Bachelor of Architecture), Mackintosh School of Architecture Glasgow School of Art 2001. Worked 4 years as an architectural assistant in practice for Dunwoodie Architecture and Design, where the interest in Healthcare design emerged. Qualified (B.Arch) University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 2008, Children's Language and Speech Clinic won the Architects for Health Student Award 2008. Current projects include the redevelopment of South Tyneside District Hospital Accident and Emergency Services, whilst undertaking Part 3.
After graduating from London Metropolitan University in 2004, she joined Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture. Francesca maintains strong links with the university and is currently a co-tutor for a Post-Graduate Unit and qualified for the RIBA Part III in 2006.


Cycloc is side-stepping the distributor model and going to retailers direct.
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"Our aim is to supply today's discerning cyclists with relevant products so it's important that we can receive feedback directly, which in turn informs our design decisions."
Cycloc recently bagged a second Eurobike Award and Product of the Year at the International Interior Design Awards – both for vertical storage solution 'Endo'.
2015's new product 'Hero' – launched at last August's Eurobike 2014 – will be available from February. Allowing users to wall mount a bike resting on only one pedal, it can accommodate almost all bikes.
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I can't brain everything that is happening right now.
At age 30 i am learning new things like how to handle an avocado to make guacamole, how to sweep and mop the floor clean so that other people will step into the cafe with a standard i'd expect when i step inside a food place.
I'm also learning how to properly put trash bags and handle trash bag full of trash, so that it won't break when i'm trying to clear it.
And learning how not to freak out each time the cash drawer CHENGGG! open. It is really very loud okay 吓死我很多次 haha.
I'm very tired i haven't stand for so many hours in a day i think. But my brain is so so so excited cox there's so many good yummy pretty cute food we wanna bring out for people.
Thank you Rachell, thank you Carolyn becox without you guys i don't know how this is ever gonna happen.
When i was a teenager i was working at a restaurant as their hostess and each time i have free time i'd doodle my own restaurant layout. I got a few concepts in my head and i told Michelle and Yuzhen we should do it and call the main company Woohoo lol.
What was i thinking. I can't think properly back then, i probably still can't think properly now but i'm pretty sure i made the right choice, to keep fulfilling dreams.
Cox they are what keeps us going.
Will do a proper post for the shop.
But for now, i just wanna let you know how thankful i am for my friends (especially Mich, who help me look after Meredith a day before we soft launch T.T If not i don't know where to put her) and my helper who help with Amelia a lot a lot. All the little milestones i'm missing out for Amelia, for my other baby. But i know it'd all be worth it becox this will be where Amelia grow up having memories of as well =') And also, this maybe will pay for her school fees okay LOLOL.
I also wanna thank our full-timers (one of them is my nephew Ah Bong) for sticking with us even though we are also learning. For not running away when they see the shop as it was before launch - CHAOTIC.
And I wanna thank Josh.. Who is always the one pushing me from the back, giving me support and boost for everything i wanna do. Who takes care of my kids and in that few days when i'm away from home, in the shop, he manage to teach Meredith how to use the training chopsticks. Meredith was helping me squirt sanitizer on all the surfaces like tables and chairs, before i wipe them.
And she was using a cloth to help wipe the black stains off the floor. I didn't believe she could do it, but my 2year10month old kid really could T.T Don't be mistaken okay she's not child labour LOL although it really sounds like she is. Truth is i tried to ask her to sit downstairs and wait for me but she insist on helping and if i don't let her she will sob silently okay very very emotional lol.
Meredith cleaned the floor until she so baobei the floor okay, she'd tell everyone to remove their shoes =___=" Lolol. You don't have to okay. It's okay, she'd just come and complain to me at the end of the day "Sho mehghee peeper kep ong ge floor. Sho gerkih, no?" And she frowns upon it like you guys are some uncivilised pumpkins LOL. but hey, please don't mind her, shoes are 100% allowed and recommended hahaha! She is our youngest crew who needs to be counselled LOL. I'd ask Carolyn to give her a warning letter soon.
Byebye. My life is truly blessed cox i have so many good friends and family.. Thank you, God..
Or whoever is there watching over me. Thank you.
I'm zoning off again i can't feel my legs. Good night.


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4 Social Behaviors Invading Ecommerce
July 4th, 2011 | 5 MIN READ
The social media boom has radically changed how we use the Web. We've seen social networks like Facebook and Twitter attract young and old, become key marketing activities for major brands and small businesses alike, and even traditionally solo Web activities become socialized.
Email services like Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail all encourage you to build networks of friends and share more content and information than just send individual messages. And search engines collect social data and allow you to "+1" sites and search results that you like, and shows you Twitter updates from your friends related to your search.
So is it any surprise that more ecommerce businesses are adding social features to their sites, and are starting to look more and more like social networks themselves?
Come See the Social Side of Sears
A few years back, to appeal to the female consumer, Sears' TV ad jingle proclaimed "come see the softer side of Sears." Today, perhaps more than any other department store, Sears has embraced social from sign up to search.
While I've written about Facebook Connect in the past, Sears not only allows you to sign up using your Facebook credentials as authentication, but also supports Twitter, MySpace, Yahoo, AOL or Google cred.
If you're curious, here's what the various screens look like:
I have cautioned in the past that allowing a "short cut" to registration may leave you without important (and accurate) data about a member. Sears has developed a workaround in successive requests for information. For example, if you log in with an email service, Sears collects your email address but still requires your zip code to continue.
This is a quick step and likely isn't too "frictiony" to cause abandonment. If you log in with a social network, Sears may ask you to provide a preferred email address in a separate step.
The major benefit is not the up-front time saving, but the ease to sign in in future visits. No passwords to remember, no room for typos in sign-in. Just one click (provided you can remember which social network you signed up with)!
Once you've registered, you can access a dashboard of social features including your recent browsing history and product view activity feed.
See recommendations based on other users' browsing behavior:
What's missing here is the ability to connect with other shoppers (though you may make the argument why people would want to add random friends to their networks, but hey, it happens all the time on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook!) Interestingly, My Sears Community requires a separate sign up process, but allows you to use the same credential options as Sears.com.
We Metsy on Etsy
I'm an active Etsian and I've watched the site's transition to social shopping site over the last few months carefully. The site has always had social features (blog and forums), but now uses Circles (like following someone on Twitter, you can track when another user favorites an item or shop, adds another member to their Circle or when someone favorites or purchases your own items for sale). You can also connect to your email address books to see if any birds-of-a-feather are site members (like Facebook's Friend Finder tool).
Backcountry Boys (and Girls)
Backcountry.com has always had a strong community element to it. The typical Backcountry customer is keen to share tips and advice about the hobbies they are most passionate about, photos from their latest adventure, and some strive to become gear gurus by contributing reviews and answering customer questions.
With Facebook Connect, Backcountry can leverage its organic community content by allowing its gearheads to share with friends outside of the Backcountry community.
These three examples illustrate the way social networks have changed the way we all use the web. While some ecommerce sites may morph into their own social networks, most will simply adopt site features and functionality that replicate what folks are used to on the big social sites.
1. The "News Feed" concept. Incorporating one into your own site is a new way to personalize the user's experience. No longer are cross-sells and recommendations confined to merchandising zones on site pages, but can be baked into personal dashboards and accessed in future visits.
2. Friend/Follow behavior. People trust people like them - even if they've never met. Allowing site members to follow an activity feed from top contributing "experts" or "fashionistas" can help add a bit of excitement to product discovery. If you're a big site, offering a way to find friends from an email address book could be useful.
3. Share content with your network. Customers have been providing user-generated-content for a decade through reviews, forum posts, uploading photos, etc. Sharing tools now enables more eyeballs to see this fab content, and even better, the eyeballs know the fingers who created the content - adding more trust and interest and potentially introducing more people to your brand.
4. The one click login. We're not there yet, but I believe one day we will be able to use a master account to access web sites and services (the Visa of online authentication) and site registration forms will disappear. While Facebook and other social networks fill this role in the interim, it could in the future be a physical device that can be read by other electronic devices, through near field communication or other technology. This device will hold all our personal information that cannot be falsified, and will satisfy basic requirements for account creation and payments. These devices are already being developed to combat card-not-present fraud, and could solve the website authentication issue as well. Time will tell.
Looking for help with ecommerce? Contact the Elastic Path consulting team at consulting@elasticpath.com to learn how our ecommerce strategy and conversion optimization services can improve your business results.


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Federal Circuit Narrows Application of Hooke's Law, but Still Wields the Ineligibility Hammer
July 31, 2020 PatentDennis Crouch
American Axle & Mfg. v. Neapco Holdings (Fed. Cir. July 31, 2020).
When I talked with PTO Director Andrei Iancu a few months ago, he lamented that the Federal Circuit is now finding the manufacturing of Truck Axles and operation of Garage Door Openers ineligible for patenting. The Federal Circuit panel has rewritten its Axle decision — now holding that American Axle's asserted claim 1 might be eligible; Claim 22 remains ineligible.
The court was evenly divided six-to-six on the en banc petition. That meant the en banc petition is denied for lack of majority. The minimal changes made by Judge Dyk to his original opinion were just enough to avoid full rehearing. Still, half of the court thought that the opinion went too far in expanding the ineligibility hammer.
I'll post this here for now, but will follow up with more later today.
En Banc Denial with Five Separate Opinions. [AmericanAx En banc Denial].
New Panel Decision penned by Judge Dyk and Joined by Judge Taranto; Judge Moore in dissent. [AmericanAx New Opinion].
Original Panel Decision penned by Judge Dyk and Joined by Judge Taranto; Judge Moore in dissent. [AmericanAx Original Op].
Crouch, Hey Mechanical Engineers: Your Patents are Also Ineligible, Patently-O (October 3, 2019).
Crouch, Validity Goulash: Functional Claim Language, Patent Eligibility, and Pick-up Truck Drive Shafts, Patently-O (December 15, 2019).
U.S. Patent 7,774,911.
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85 thoughts on "Federal Circuit Narrows Application of Hooke's Law, but Still Wields the Ineligibility Hammer"
Night Writer says:
link to patentscope.wipo.int
You can see the EPO file wrapper here where the argument made in the extended search report is repeated by th e CAFC. You can tell because D1 GB 1 462 170 A (Ford Motor Co) is nowhere in the US record but used by the CAFC in the same way as it is from the EPO.
So the CAFC adopted the EPO's position on this application and (including also 112 arguments) and then put them into a 101.
Note that there is a pending response from the applicant at the EPO but that is very weak in my opinion. It is a repeat of the arguments and I'd give it a zero percent chance of success.
Paul repeats some of my arguments below and I elaborate on some of the arguments as well.
In my opinion, this is a case where 101 is used to invalidate claims the CAFC felt were obvious over the new art at the EPO and not enabled as argued by the EPO.
But rather than use the real arguments the CAFC used their secret weapon–Alice.
MaxDrei says:
Night, I am still uncertain whether your grasp of the matter is accurate. Your Link at # 10 goes to the WIPO whereas mine at 8.1.1.1 goes to the EPO file, the List of Documents, of which the three at the top of the list present Applicant's response to the EPO of November 2018. In that response there are interesting admissions such as:
"….tuning itself is well-established…"
which might indeed have encouraged the writer of the CAFC opinion to condemn the claims in suit.
But is this response of November 2018 the presentation of patentability that you dismiss as "very weak"? It does not strike me as "weak". I wonder how it can be, that we are so far apart in our assessment of those papers.
I agree, of course, with your main point, that using 35 USC 101 as an expedient short cut, to get rid of claims that fail 102 0r 3 or 12, is inexcusible.
OK. I had the wrong link. Thanks for providing the proper one.
I did read all those documents. I did a deep dive on this.
Please re-read my post. What I said was "weak" was the applicant's response to the office action. I think the patentability argument made by the EPO are very strong.
10.1.1.1.1
Interesting. I had another look at the EPO Action of May 2018 and the response of November 2018. I still don't see the response as notably "weak" but perhaps that's because I have not found the time or the motivation to study the application as filed and the prior art references in enough depth to reach my own solid opinion on the issues. I wonder if our differing assessment is because it so often happens, that what "works" at the EPO falls flat at the USPTO, and vice versa.
Let's see how we stand, shall we, when we can read the next Communication from the EPO Examining Division.
10.1.1.1.1.1
The patentee's argument has not really changed from what they presented before. You may wait or read more but I have made up my mind.
I suspect that you don't really understand the issues.
10.1.1.1.1.1.1
Do you think there is any difference between "the issues" at the EPO and those in the USA? I am sure that I don't "really" understand the issues in the USA. Are you sure that you really do understand "the issues" at the EPO?
And I wonder, relative to which "issues" are you judging Applicant's response at the EPO to be "very weak"?
"I am sure that I don't "really" understand the issues in the USA."
That should be tattooed on your forward – in mirror image, so that every morning when you get up you are reminded of that BEFORE you venture your opinions on US patent blogs.
Really really.
"a pending response from the applicant at the EPO but that is very weak in my opinion."
Please re-read Max.
As a final note one should be concerned that the patentee never had a chance to argue against the new reference D1 in the USA and that their arguments have not had a chance to be completely rejected at the EPO.
You can see what has happened with Alice. Rather than patentees having the law and procedure on their side, the CAFC may simply put you in the grave with Alice as they like.
Atari Man says:
1. I'm surprised to see Reyna dissent from denial of re-hearing en banc in this case.
2. As seen by the split here, women now make up the majority of the sane/intelligent judges on the CAFC.
What is striking is that Obama completely remade the court with anti-patent judicial activists who mainly don't even have a science degree so are completely incapable of even remotely understanding the issues.
Wallach, Taranto, Chen, and Hughes are all Obama appointments.
O'Malley, Stoll, and Reyna are too.
Reyna is typically incredibly anti-patent. O'Malley was the first Obama appointment before Obama started appointing judges selected by SV.
Stoll seems to be having a bit of change of heart about patents but the problem is that Stoll was known to have serious personality problems as a partner at Finnegan and she is a wild card that could do anything.
Paul Cole says:
Readers may note that the equivalent EP 1994291 is undergoing examination and that there has been an office action dated May 2018 and a response dated November 2018 in which the issue of vagueness was raised and addressed. It is unfortunate that owing to delay in the EPO there has been no further progress since it would be useful to know whether grant can be achieved and if so what the allowed claim scope would be.
Paul F Morgan says:
Thanks, and let us all know what the allowed EPO claim will contain.
Paul , the Link below will take you to the document collection on the EPO file. The top three lines are the response docs of November 2018, on the basis of which Applicant has been waiting ever since, for a Notice of Allowance. Applt could ask for expedited examination (no fee required, no reason needed) but my guess is that there is no confidence that the amended docs serve as a basis for allowance.
See also the "Register Alert" box. You can instruct the EPO Register to alert you to each further progress step. again, no fee.
But as to reading the Nov 2018 response docs, you know the drill, I guess. Check the box to the left of each of those three lines, then click on "Selected docs" and the pdf will download for you.
link to theguardian.com
Oh dear. Sorry about that. The Link I provided is no use. Here is the one I intended:
link to register.epo.org
Profound thanks for posting this so quickly – the opinions demand detailed study before any informed comment can be made. But many thanks for the invaluable time-saving links to the various significant documents.
Does it REMOTELY occur to the judges that an enquiry into prima facie compliance as a matter of substance rather than mere outward presentation with one of the four ELIGIBLE categories might be an important step prior to consideration of the judicial exceptions. That is an approach to statutory construction that is, or should be, taught as an elementary and fundamental matter in law school. You don't have to go to SCOTUS to become aware of this relevant principle.
I cannot refrain from observing that our profession is being shafted.
Interesting observation, Paul, on a US blog, that "our profession" is being "shafted". You and I are not attorneys at law. Rather, we are British and European Patent Attorneys
Three thoughts therefore immediately occur to me: i) Which profession do you mean? ii) Who is doing the shafting?….and…iii) Much more important than whether our profession is being shafted is whether the over-riding objective of promoting the progress of the useful arts is being shafted.
Presumably , Paul, it is not the public, not the Congress, not the executive branch. Instead, I presume, it is our fellow jurists who are doing the shafting.
Below is a Link which will reveal the qualifications and experience which have put Professor Paul Cole in a uniquely advantageous position to recognise when his own profession is being shafted.
link to cipa.org.uk
This case is all about a drive shaft – hence the reference to shafting!
And I do not feel that we in Europe and my counterparts in the US are members of separate professions. Perhaps that is the result of many trips to the US including attendance at the AIPLA Annual Meeting for more than 20 years (it is a matter of profound sorrow that attendance this year will not be possible and the meeting will be virtual).
Who is being screwed? Those who draft and prosecute patent applications that are or are intended to be filed at the USPTO. Who is doing the screwing? Judges with an inadequate grasp of science, engineering and technical fact and an inability to focus and derive from prior judicial decisions the relevant and limited rules of law. As Polonius said to Claudius in Hamlet, brevity is the soul of wit, but judges are apt to prefer tediousness which are its limbs and outward flourishes, leading on both sides of the pond to long and rambling discussions of earlier cases which somehow do not get to the key point. It does not bother these judges that their interpretation of the law arguably places the US in breach of its obligations under the TRIPS treaty – who cares if we judges lead to breach of the treaty the US campaigned for? Have a look at the briefs I wrote in Athena, Ariosa and Recognicorp.
And have a look at Prometheus v Mayo. That case involved two claimed features which were admittedly known on the face of the document, and two other features which were informative but did not involve the hand of man in any way. The correct holding was that eligibility could not be derived from features of that character, and nothing more because that was what was needed to decide the case on its material facts. All the rest is bombast.
Shaft: to cheat or trick someone, or to treat someone unfairly (dictionary definition).
Somehow the link between unfair treatment and a case involving a drive shaft seems very apt. Perhaps when there is another doubtful 101 ineligibility holding we can simply say "another shafting case!"
Those are not answers that MaxDrei was likely looking for (as they mirror the position of Night Writer, rather than the position of Paul F Morgan).
Josh Malone says:
Noted. I'll be sure to apply magic, rather than natural laws, for my inventions going forward.
Will listing the incantations and their proper order, along with the particular species of bird's nest in the potion meet the enablement requirement? What if other magicians of ordinary cannot replicate the result?
Birds and their nests are products of nature, son.
Ordinary Squirrel in the Art says:
Arguably, if your incantation worked, then magic would simply be another law of nature.
I think how you claim it would be important to consider.
A method comprising:
adding the a 5-17 grams of ground tarsus of a songbird to a brass bowl;
walking backwards 4-8 rotations around the brass bowl while making the upside down symbol of the cross;
adding 10-23 grams of pureed brain of a migratory goose to the brass bowl;
chanting "Redbull gives me wings" 7 times in a substantially monotone chant;
adding 200-437 mL of water from a birdbath after 7-10 pigeons have bathed to the brass bowl;
mixing for a duration of "Hips Don't Lie"; and
pouring resultant potion of flying from the brass bowl into a bottle made from black sand.
What is the utility under the Useful Arts?
I carried out the method faithfully and drank some flying potion from the black sand bottle. To my great distress I remain earthbound.
However, I cheered myself up by re-reading The Owl and the Pussycat went into space in a modified Jupiter C …
link to sffworld.com
You might be better off describing what you did rather than what you want to happen.
Re: "You might be better off describing what you did rather than what you want to happen."
Yes, that's a good way of explaining why purely functional claims just to a desired end result with no other meat on those bones as to how runs into 101 rejections. But apparently, like "means function" claims, they are so much easier to write that they have been too tempting. Look how many years it took to get many patent attorneys to finally realize after repeated Fed. Cir. reminders that "means function" claims were not nearly as broad as they thought or invited indefiniteness rejections.
"But apparently, like "means function" claims, they are so much easier to write that they have been too tempting."
I am happy to blame patent prosecutors for a lot of the ills of the patent system, but I don't think that's appropriate here.
The motivation to claim the result is not the ease of claim writing but the value of the resulting patent. A claim with "meat" will always be easier to get around. Patent prosecutors are just providing their clients with the most valuable claims available.
Instead we should blame the CCPA and CAFC for their interpretations of 112 which have made claiming a result tenable outside of the unpredictable arts.
Re: "Patent prosecutors are just providing their clients with the most valuable claims available." Except that they are not. Not when purely functional claims just to a desired end result will get shot down on 101 as soon as they are sued on, irrespective of PTO guidelines for their allowance that have been rejected by the courts, and with no statutory change in the works.
6.2.1.1.1.1
This brings up another issue. There are indeed some companies that are more interested in just obtaining patents than whether they can be enforced. But only the latter is the hallmark of an effective patent system.
6.2.1.1.1.1.1
Paul you surmise that there are "some companies" that are:
"…more interested in just obtaining patents than whether they can be enforced."
In my experience, I would suggest that it is not just "some" but, rather, more or less all companies. Everywhere outside the USA, it has ever been thus. Ever more so, with the rise of standards-essential technical fields. Within the USA, was it not IBM that showed the way?
Patent procurement and patent litigation are two different worlds. Europe has had a pan-European patent granting system since 1973 but still, even now, can't put together a pan-European patent litigation court. What sort of "hallmark" do you have in mind, for an "effective" patent system. Europe's patent system is doing very well, even without any pan-European patent court. Perhaps even because there is no such court. The competition between the courts of, for example, Holland and Germany, for the pan-European patent litigation business is intense.
Your argument relies on the probability of Alice somehow being altered being very low.
While you're correct to note that there is no imminent statutory change coming up, I think this actually reveals a great deal of optimism on the part of patent prosecutors as an aggregate. Prosecutors didn't support the 101-112f trade that was being considered in congress. I think that demonstrates that they expect for the problem to be resolved in a more favorable manner.
For a patent prosecutor who expects the law to resume its permissive stance in 5-10 years, it may be highly rational to draft claims in a result based format.
Ben, no question than many PTO application prosecutors seem to "expect for the [101] problem to be resolved in a more favorable manner." Especially, many blog commentators here, and also PAE attorneys. However there are at least two reality check issues with that expectation. First, it heavily correlates with the same people who spent years erroneously predicting that IPRs and other things they disliked would be struck down as unconstitutional. Secondly, PTO application prosecutors and PAE attorney views on this subject do not correlate well with the huge companies patent-sued the most these days, having the biggest budgets for top attorneys, and having the largest lobbying organizations.
"and also PAE attorneys"
With all due respect, Paul
"However there are at least two reality check issues with that expectation."
I don't disagree. But their expectation, right or wrong, is what we should use to interpret their propensity for result-based claiming. If you believe that Alice is over in 5 years*, it's not lazy to claim processors configured to achieve results. It's simply effective prosecution.
*This is especially true now under the easier Iancu test for eligibility. I expect many prosecutors are thinking "Get that patent and wait for Congress to smack some sense into the courts."
Pro Say says:
Josh — tried magic; didn't work.
Next up: Voodoo!
No One In Particular says:
You don't understand how Magick works.
Let me put it this way:
It's not the wand, it's the Magician.
The wand serves to focus the Magician's intentionality on the task.
The same is true when you are using incantations and the various accoutrements.
The Flash of Genius is a manifestation of Magick.
Night, I haven't yet read the case "very carefully". Nevertheless, I remain sceptical that the judges have adopted "the EPO's opinion". What specific"opinion" is that then?
What might be closer to the mark is that the judges have found influential the settled and clear boundary line that the EPO has arrived at, in its established case law, between what in general is patentable and what is not.
See another US-based patent blog today, in which Michael Borella sets out his assessment of what is the decisive difference between subject matter that is eligible and that which is not, namely, specificity, novelty and technical character. Readers will instantly grasp that "technical character" is a concept lifted straight out of the established case law of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO.
link to patentdocs.org
That is a genuinely cool post. Thanks for sharing.
You mean any post that seems to contradict me is "cool."
Does my post "seem" to "contradict" yours? That was not my intention. Rather, I was just trying to pin down what you were thinking.
The key to this is likely that the majority says that there was already a liner that did both kinds of damping. And the tuning was relying on what was already known, but allegedly with different goals.
Probably would come out differently if the majority could not find a reference and make assertion that the damping was already known.
What I think is that the majority read the extended search report and the way the prior art was interpreted and realized that this should not have been patented in the USA. As well as the tuning not being specified. But the key is the interpretation of the prior art in the extended search report including two types of damping.
Please take your Ms. Cleo routine elsewhere.
Fwiw, I was referring to the linked post rather than Max's comment itself. It's worth a look independent of you two's conversation.
Still think this is the reincarnation of MM.
It clearly is not, Night Writer.
But I will remind you of the DISQUS posting days of this blog when people could "upvote" or "downvote" comments and that there is as a particular person that nearly always upvoted everything that Malcolm posted (hint: the moniker used by that poster was "Ben," and reflects most all of the current views of the poster that you comment upon).
You assume anon that MM wasn't running multiple accounts. Ben's personality is very much like MM's. I am pretty sure they are the same person.
I assume no such thing, Night Writer.
Don't forget, you are talking to the person that OUTED Malcolm for his own rampant use of s0ck puppets (after vociferously whin ing about theme here.
Note though, his use was NOT on this blog, and he generally did not use multiple monikers HERE. At Patent Docs, that was quite a different story.
His 'playbook' was extremely limited, and his writing was easily distinctive.
Ben is NOT Malcolm. While his views are often similar (being anti-patent, and dismissive of anyone with a different view, often in an odd way, given his own lack of grasp of the matter under discussion) – but the DISQUS days of this blog provides a much more likely explanation of that.
I am genuinely curious Ben – why exactly do you think this is 'cool?'
Just read the extended search report. The analysis is identical to what is in the initial opinion of the CAFC.
There is new prior art in the extended search report that interpreted as having two damping methods. That wasn't anywhere in the US record and it is used by the CAFC so they obviously used the EPO.
Note too that the D did not cite to it and apparently did not do a great job as they didn't even pick up on this. Some clerk at the CAFC read the extended search report and saw that there was a clear 112 issue and that the new prior art D1 GB 1 462 170 A (Ford Motor Co) did have two damping methods.
So that is my take. I agree with the extended search report and think that the CAFC just used 101 as it was all they had.
Ultra vires — in more than one way (if your surmise is accurate).
This should bother EVERY US attorney.
It is clear that this is what happened. As the argument used by the CAFC appears nowhere else but at the EPO.
What should really bother people is that a 103/112 argument is being used where the patentee never got a chance to respond to the argument in the USA.
The "judges" just used the argument from the EPO as indisputable fact.
Night, the thought that comes to my mind is that on the EPO file wrapper is not only the argumentation from the EPO but also the exhaustive response argumentation uploaded to the public file by the Applicant back in 2018.
True Max but the patentee should get a chance to make these arguments under USA law.
The PatentDocs "approach" is by ALL measures a truly mistaken and even asinine approach that abrogates the ethical duty of US attorneys to place the Constitution above the courts.
It really does make a difference to take a stand against the improper re-writing of statutory law by the courts (and it should be noted that the attempts so far have created a Gordian Knot of conflicted Common Law rewritten law).
Newman:
"Our colleagues, writing to support denial of rehearing en banc, propose that there is a Section 101 distinction between claim 1 and claim 22, and
draw analogy to claim 8 of Samuel Morse's telegraph patent, Judge Dyk explaining that "claim 8 of O'Reilly specifically did not limit itself to the specification and for that reason was found ineligible." J. Dyk concurrence at 2 n.1. However, claim 8 was not rejected because it was not limited to the specification, it was rejected because it proposed to claim electromagnetism as a scientific principle. If the panel majority is holding that eligibility to claim an invention employing a scientific principle depends on whether the principle is mentioned in the specification, clear instructions must be given."
That reads to me as playing dense. Seems like tossing read meat to your fans when you know nothing will come out of a case.
Of course, Ben, that is how it might "read to you."
But that only exemplifies your lack of any real understanding of law.
(that's not a good thing for you, by the way)
NotPaidto_Comment says:
Should Prost's and Hughes' votes be listed?
Dennis Crouch says:
We can infer their votes — otherwise the case would be en banc.
split one for each side…?
But whose would be split in what direction?
The opinions identify six judges arguing for en banc rehearing.
They only expressly identify four judges against en banc rehearing. The remaining two judges must have also voted against — otherwise we'd be getting the rehearing.
Is the saintly patience demonstrated here a natural tendency, or was it developed over years of interacting with recent graduates?
meh,
I was responding to NPtC's comment and thinking that he was saying that there were two judges missing from the graphic on this page (which was split evenly).
IF that graphic had been missing two judges, then my comment makes perfect sense. As it is, my comment is in error, which of course is regrettable, but hardly the error that bespeaks ill of legal knowledge.
But your desire to elevate your own drivel and think less of others made you jump to a comment that is not really pertinent – much as a recent graduate herself may jump.
And as several of your other comments on this thread also show – which does bespeak ill of your own legal knowledge.
The part in question actually reads:
DYK, Circuit Judge, with whom WALLACH and TARANTO, Circuit Judges, join, concurs in the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc.
CHEN, Circuit Judge, with whom WALLACH, Circuit Judge, joins, concurs in the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc.
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, with whom MOORE, O'MALLEY, REYNA, and STOLL, Circuit Judges, join, dissents from the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc.
STOLL, Circuit Judge, with whom NEWMAN, MOORE, O'MALLEY, and REYNA, Circuit Judges, join, dissents from the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc.
O'MALLEY, Circuit Judge, with whom NEWMAN, MOORE, and STOLL, Circuit Judges, join, dissents from the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc.
LOURIE, Circuit Judge, dissents without opinion from the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc.
Given that here there are multiple (two) apparent reasonings for denial (and that Wallach agreed with both), the ABSENCE of the two — for either does need SOME explanation.
Note here that one of the judges joining in the dissent from the denial does so expressly without opinion.
If nothing else, the write-up should also reflect the two joining in the denial expressly without opinion.
On a patent law blog (as I am more than positive that Prof. Crouch would agree), a fair amount of 'sloppiness' may be suitable, en banc reasoning from the CAFC should be held to a higher standard.
Paul Johnson says:
Read Dyk's opinion to learn what the law is.
Read Newman's opinion to learn what the law should be.
That's not fair as Alice is so indefinite as to be unconstitutional.
Re: "That's not fair as Alice is so indefinite as to be unconstitutional."
And who gets to decide both such questions?
[Hint: nobody here or on the Fed. Cir.]
But we DO get to talk about it — oh, the one that is only to happy to snipe from the sidelines.
J. Doerre says:
I'm curious as to the reasoning here. Are you suggesting that Supreme Court precedent should be held unconstitutional because it is too vague?
I believe that the void for vagueness doctrine is sometimes applied with respect to civil penalties or even an injury in the form of the potential for an increased future penalty (see, e.g., FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., 132 S.Ct. 2307 (2012)), but has it ever been applied in this type of context?
With respect to a challenge to jurisprudence, the only time I've ever seen the doctrine applied to judicial action is in the context of judicial formulation of conditions for release (see, e.g., U.S. v. Loy, 237 F.3d 251, 261 (3d Cir. 2001) ("In the context of the supervised release, however, the condition applicable to a particular prisoner — that is, the 'law' being challenged — is created by the judiciary, within the jurisdictional boundaries set by Congress.").) Is there any precedent supporting application of the doctrine to challenge Supreme Court precedent as too vague?
It you really are curious, J, you should search the archives of IPWatchdog as there has been a very detailed multi-prong exposition on the Constitutional shortcomings of the runaway Supreme Court actions.
I am curious. Any sort of a link would be great. Or even a specific description of what to search for.
You might enjoy this link (not the one asked for, but an interesting way of RESOLVING the issue of the wayward Supreme Court):
link to ipwatchdog.com
Of course, "Congress is presumed to be aware of a[] … judicial interpretation of a statute and to adopt that interpretation when it reenacts a statute without change." Lorillard v. Pons, 434 U.S. 575, 580 (1978).
The government appears in favor of moving away from the use of an implicit exception, however, urging in Hikma that "[t]he present difficulties in applying Section 101 ultimately derive in substantial part from the Bilski Court's reconceptualization of the limits on Section 101's coverage as freestanding 'exceptions,' 561 U.S. at 601, rather than as context-sensitive interpretations of
the provision's terms." Brief of US in Hikma at 17.
The law of Newman's opinion gets you some sort of mess eventually.
The law should prevent claiming results without reference to "judicial exceptions."
I am not certain wha repoint you are attempting to make here, Ben.
I looked at this case very carefully. What I believe the "judges" did was adopt the EPOs opinion.
… which of course would make it ultra vires (and NOT an actual application of US law), right?
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Is Zimbabwe truly open for business – Investing in the mining sector in Zimbabwe
Mining in Zimbabwe is primarily regulated by the Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05] ("the Act"), which amongst other things deals with acquisitions and rights to conduct exploration, prospecting and mining. The Act has not been substantively amended for more than a decade and there is need to bring the law in line with current trends in the regulation of extractive industries. Like in most African countries, investment in mining in Zimbabwe is largely foreign driven. However, according to a survey conducted in 2017 by the Fraser Institute, an international mining research centre, Zimbabwe is listed as the third least attractive jurisdiction for investment.
In the recent past, Zimbabwean law made it difficult for foreign companies to invest in the mining industry. Until March 2018, foreign companies were expected to comply with indigenisation laws as set out in the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act [Chapter 14:33] ("the Indigenisation Act").
The Indigenisation Act prescribed that at least 51% of the shares of every business with assets or turnover over a certain threshold, be owned by indigenous Zimbabweans. Since the Indigenisation Act was amended by Section 42 of the Finance Act of 2018, it now has limited application as confirmed by the insertion of Section 2A, which reads as follows:
"For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that this Act shall not apply to any business in the national economy other than those specified in section three (1) and those in the reserved sector of the economy, and that accordingly any person is free to invest in, form, operate, and acquire the ownership or control of any business not included in section three (1) or in the reserved sector of the economy."
Section 3 (1) then goes to state that:
"The State shall, by this Act, or through regulations under this Act or any other law, secure that at least 51% of the shares or other ownership interest of every designated extractive business, that is to say a company, entity or business involved in the extraction of—
(a) diamonds; or
(b) platinum;
shall be owned through an appropriate designated entity (with or without the participation of a community share ownership scheme or employee share ownership scheme or trust, or both)."
The amendment to the Indigenisation Act has therefore made it possible for mining claims to be owned by companies that have 100% foreign owned shareholding, save in relation to diamond and platinum claims, as the Act requires at least 51% of the shareholding in companies engaged in those extractive industries to be owned by an appropriate "designated entity". This may be with or without the participation of a community share ownership scheme or employee share ownership scheme or trust, or both. According to Veritas, an independent legal think tank, the designated entities include the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company and the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Fund.
The requirement for majority indigenous ownership in relation to extractive industries appears to be in line with the indigenisation trends in other African countries. South Africa's proposed Broad-Based Black Socio-Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining and Minerals Industry, 2017 (the "2017 Mining Charter") will require new prospecting and mining rights to be granted only to entities that are majority black-owned (50% + 1 vote black person shareholding).
Section 3(5) of the Indigenisation Act however appears to provide some flexibility in terms of the time period within which to comply with the requirements set out in section 3(1). Section 3 (5) reads as follows:
"In the case of a designated extractive business the Minister may permit the business in writing to do either of the following—
(a) to comply with this Act within such period as may be prescribed by the Minister so that indigenisation and empowerment quota can be achieved; or
(b) to achieve the indigenisation and empowerment quota through the use of the credits and within and for such period as the Minister shall prescribe. "
In terms of this section, affected companies may apply to the Minister for permission to comply with the Indigenisation Act within an agreed period of time. This section however does not clarify which Minister the applications are to be made to as the definitions section of the Indigenisation Act includes a line Minister and a Minister responsible for the Act. Clarity on the same will have to be provided.
Further to the amendments to the Indigenisation Act, advances have been made to amend the Mining Act. In 2015, the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development published the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill, 2015 ("the Bill"). The Bill has been under discussion in Parliament since 2015, but efforts have recently been made to fast track its finalization and enactment. On 18
September 2018, President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his State of Nation Address placed significance on reviving the country's mining sector and stated that the Bill would be re-tabled to address some inadequacies therein, pursuant to it taking effect. Section 393A of the Bill is one such "inadequacy", which will require revision in light of the amendments to the Indigenisation Act as it requires companies with mining rights or title to list on the local stock exchange.
The Bill will also introduce a computerized cadastre of mining rights and title. The cadastre system is defined in the Bill as:
"the system for manual or electronic management and recording of processes that create mining rights and titles".
This would be a welcome development as the manual system currently in use by the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has resulted in a number of issues, including paperwork for claims being misplaced as well as dual allocations of the same claim. According to a report presented by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy in Parliament on 8 March 2018, the benefits of the cadastre system will include:
"i Speedy recording and retrieval of mining information;
ii. Improves accuracy of locating mining properties;
iii.Eliminates miner to miner disputes associated with shifting of beacons and pegs;
iv.It creates a platform for comparison and enables competition between Zimbabwe and countries in the region, the continent and beyond."
In conclusion, whilst it can be said that Zimbabwe has taken steps towards developing the regulation of the mining industry in a move to "open Zimbabwe for business", it is clear that there is still some work to be done in respect of this process, more particularly, finalizing the amendments to the Act. It remains unclear, however, as to whether or not these progressive policy changes will remain consistent so as to create an environment conducive for foreign investment.
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Bhopal: In all, 49 tigers have died in India this year with the highest number of deaths at 13 recorded in Madhya Pradesh, the Lok Sabha was told on Friday. Minister of State for Environment Mahesh Sharma in a written reply said as per figures recorded till December 12, total tiger mortality stood at 49, with 13 and 10 deaths registered in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, respectively.
He also said around 13 elephant casualties in train accidents have been reported in 2018-19 (up to November 15 in 2018). He said around 35 elephant died by electrocution in 2018-19 (up to November 15 in 2018), while three elephants have died during the same period due to poaching.
Replying to another question, he said the total number of leopard poached during 2015, 2016 and 2017 are 194 and in the current year till October, the figure is 66.
Sharma said the Environment Ministry in partnership with the German Development Cooperation (through Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)) has approved the Indo-German technical cooperation project on 'Human Wildlife Conflict Mitigation in India'. "The project aims at providing technical support to the government of India at the national level and in selected sites as pilot states like Karnataka, Uttarakhand and West Bengal only," he added.
Poaching, infighting, train accidents main causes
In MP, the tigers died due to various reasons ranging from poaching and infighting to infection and collision with train, sources in forest department said. Electrocution, poisoning, human-tiger conflict are among other reasons of the big cat deaths in MP as well as other parts of the country.
According to state officials, the high tiger mortality in the state has become a cause of worry for wildlife enthusiasts and officials. Once known as the tiger state, Madhya Pradesh lost the tag to Karnataka in 2010 following a census conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India.
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At least 115 tigers died in India in 2017.
28 of these deaths – again highest in country – were recorded in Madhya Pradesh. On an average, 9 tigers have died every month during these two years.
21 tigers had died in Maharashtra.
16 tigers had died in Assam.
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