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By Evan A. Raynes in Trademarks
Following its recent success in the Livestrong v. Kidstrong trademark opposition (Symbus Blog, February 19, 2013), Symbus has taken on another trademark bullying case, this one involving a trademark opposition filed by athletic clothing giant Under Armour against Symbus client Life Armour. The Under Armour v. Life Armour case is the most recent in a string of trademark bullying cases handled by Symbus—an area of law in which Symbus is developing substantial experience.
Under Armour opposed Life Armour's application for the trademark LIFE ARMOUR, alleging that the mark violates its rights in the UNDER ARMOUR mark. The opposition is a classic example of trademark bullying given that the LIFE ARMOUR mark covers "rubber or silicon wristbands in the nature of a bracelet with a religious theme to represent events in the life of Jesus Christ"—products that clearly have nothing to do with Under Armour's sports related products. Stripped of the legal verbiage contained in the complaint, which included nearly 600 pages of exhibits, Under Armour appears to be claiming that all marks containing the word ARMOUR, including marks identifying religious themed products, are confusingly similar to or dilute its UNDER ARMOUR mark, despite the fact that the LIFE ARMOUR mark is a clear reference to a Biblical passage.
Life Armour recently filed its answer, alleging that Under Armour's claims should be dismissed because it has engaged in an "ongoing and systematic pattern of trademark misuse" by attempting to improperly extend the scope of its trademark rights against numerous third parties. The answer further alleges that the opposition should be dismissed on grounds of "unclean hands' because Under Armour is seeking to assert exclusive rights in the word "ARMOUR" against Applicant and numerous third parties, "which it knows, or has reason to know, is an improper assertion under trademark law."
According to Life Armour's counsel, Janice Housey, "The opposition is another example of how large companies like Under Armour skew the litigation process in their favor by trying to make it too expensive for small companies like Life Armour to defend themselves."
We will continue to report on developments in this opposition and other efforts by the Symbus team to address the trademark bullying problem.
Bullying, Life Armour, misuse, Symbus, Trademark, unclean hands, Under Armour
By Janice Housey in Uncategorized
When you have been practicing trademark law for more than 20 years, you pick up a few tricks along the way. Below is a list of tools that are available to all—but frequently seem to be underutilized, misunderstood, or both!
Letter of Protest. These are a great tool to call particular facts to the attention of an Examining Attorney which might not be obvious from the record. We successfully used this tool one time to call the Examining Attorney's attention to the fact that "agave syrup" is indeed very similar to tequila since tequila is made from the agave (cactus) plant. Unless the Examining Attorney is a tequila aficionado this fact would likely have escaped her consideration and she would not issue a refusal to register an identical mark filed for agave syrup despite our client's earlier registrations for the mark for tequila. Letters of Protest have specific requirements and require a fee. See TMEP sect. 1715 et seq. Generally, the goal is to provide evidence to support your position and a brief statement explaining why the evidence should be considered. If the Commissioner of the Trademark Office agrees, the Letter of Protest will be granted and the material provided to the Examiner. Note: A Letter of Protest is not a substitute for an opposition, nor does the fact that a Letter of Protest is "granted" equate to a refusal to register being issued.
Going up the Chain. It has happened to all of us: we just do not believe that the assigned Examining Attorney understands the nuances of our brilliant legal arguments. In such instances, it is sometimes useful to get the Senior Attorney or Managing Attorney for the Examining Attorney's Law Office involved. The Senior and Managing Attorneys for each Law Office are listed at: http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/Other_TM_Contact_Info.jsp
Consistency Initiative. In the olden days, co-pending applications (i.e., trademarks filed by the same applicant for similar marks and/or goods/services) were assigned to the same Examining Attorney. No more! Your applications all filed on the same day for complex goods and services can be assigned to different Examining Attorneys and the results can be very different Office Actions regarding identifications of goods/services, disclaimer issues, or even citations to earlier applications/registrations. The PTO now allows an Applicant (or its counsel) to raise concerns about inconsistent practices between recent registrations through pending applications. See http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/notices/consistency_permanent.jsp
Getting identifications added to the Acceptable Goods and Services Manual. The Trademark Office is constantly reviewing and updating the Acceptable Goods and Services Manual (searchable at http://tess2.uspto.gov/netahtml/tidm.html ). How can you get the Trademark Office to consider your proposed identification? The process is relatively straight-forward. You simply send your suggestion by email to tmidsuggest@uspto.gov. There is one important catch: you cannot have a pending Office Action regarding the suggested language. Also, if your proposed suggestion violates the PTO's general requirements for clarity and specificity, it will likely be rejected. Also, if the proposed suggestion could include goods or services in multiple classes, it will also be rejected. Despite the limitations, this really is a potentially great tool for those applicants who have very specific identifications that they wish to use over and over and do not want to deal with repeated office actions regarding the same identification.
I am sure every practitioner has their own favorite tools and suggestions. What's yours?
By in Uncategorized
Corporations and individual patent owners alike are more interested than ever in seeking to generate revenue from their patent holdings. That revenue can come in the form of a one-time lump sum payment, a running royalty stream, some combination of both or even some other creative financial structure. Companies both large and small may be willing to license or sell patents in their portfolio that are non-core to their business. Alternatively, a strategic decision may be made to license or sell a patent even if it does cover a core aspect of the ongoing business. In this latter case, the sale or license may be conditioned on a grant-back of license rights and/or other rights such as rights to improvements so as to minimize the impact to the company's IP position in the context of such a sale or license. In the case of individual patent holders, the sale or license of patent assets may be more of a financial decision with less concern for the operational impact of such a transaction.
There exist a great many professionals that offer patent marketing services with the goal of generating revenue based on patent assets whether the ultimate transaction is a license or sale or some form of hybrid arrangement. These professionals come from a many diverse backgrounds such as patent attorneys, licensing professionals, marketers, business development professionals and technologists. Often, these service providers will comprise a team of individuals with the collective skill sets which are desirable in achieving the best result.
It is very difficult to determine a strict value for a particular patent or a portfolio given the many variables that go into the determination. In the end and in the context of a non-litigious business transaction, the patent or portfolio is only worth what a willing buyer will pay for the relevant patent assets. That being said, there are some key indicators that are important in assessing potential value of a patent portfolio. For example, one key factor is the scope of potential infringement (current, present and expected future) in the market. Another important factor is the inherent strength of the patent or set of patents. This includes, for example, the breadth and clarity of the claims as well as the extent and clarity of the disclosure in the patent. Patent strength is also dependent upon the prior art (of record and not of record) as that prior art applies to the issued claim set. An often overlooked factor in assessing potential value of a patent portfolio is the condition of the patent sale and purchase market at the time of the marketing. If there are many buyers at the specific time, then the portfolio is likely to fetch a higher price than if buyers are not relatively active, particularly if they are not currently active in the technology area represented by the portfolio.
There are many other factors that impact the ultimate expected sale price or license revenue which can be generated from a patent portfolio. If you or your company are interested in potentially unlocking the value of patent assets, then the best course of action is to locate a reputable patent monetization expert and ask for an assessment of your portfolio. In almost all cases, this can be done without charge and the expert should be able to provide a general idea of expected value and potential for a sale or successful licensing program. Some of these experts will market portfolios at no cost to the owner in return for a success based portion of the proceeds generated through the marketing of the assets.
patent monetization, patent portfolios, patent valuation, patents
By Evan A. Raynes in Litigation, Trademarks
We are pleased to report that the Livestrong Foundation has withdrawn its trademark opposition against our client Kidstrong Enterprises.
As we previously reported in this space, the Foundation filed an opposition against Kidstrong, alleging that Kidstrong's application to register the trademark PROSTRONG, which covers dietary beverages, violated its rights in the mark LIVESTRONG. Kidstrong responded by filing an answer alleging, among other things, that the Foundation's claims were unwarranted and that the Foundation was guilty of trademark bullying.
Kidstrong served several discovery requests on the Foundation, including several requests relating to its trademark bullying defense. The Foundation requested additional time to respond to the discovery requests and Kidstrong agreed. The parties engaged in settlement discussions, but Kidstrong refused to enter into any agreement limiting its rights in any way. Kidstrong also declined to consent to the withdrawal of the opposition, which would have given the Foundation the right to refile the opposition. The Foundation ultimately withdrew the opposition without Kidstrong's consent and the opposition was dismissed "with prejudice." As a result, the Foundation is precluded from challenging the registrabililty of the PROSTRONG mark in the future. According to Kidstrong's counsel, Jan Bader, "Kidstrong is very pleased with the outcome of the opposition. Now that the proceeding has been withdrawn, Kidstrong can go about its business without further interference from Livestrong."
While the Livestrong v. Kidstrong opposition is a single case in a sea of trademark bullying cases, the result of the opposition is important. The withdrawal of the opposition is a victory not only for Kidstrong, but for trademark bullying victims everywhere. The case shows that, in this case at least, standing up to trademark bullies works.
Bullies, Bully, Bullying, Kidstrong, Lance Armstrong, Livestrong, PROSTRONG, Symbus, Trademark, trademarks
By in Trademarks
While not common, sound trademarks have been registered in the United States on the Principal Register for over fifty years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website provides examples of sound trademark registrations at : http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/soundmarks/index.jsp . However, as the TTAB points out in the recent case In Re Powermat, (a copy which can be found at http://e-foia.uspto.gov/Foia/ReterivePdf?system=TTABIS&flNm=77715052-01-17-2013 ) not all sounds can be registered and the successful prosecution of sound trademark applications presents its own challenges.
The Powermat case involves two applications for sound trademarks as applied to battery chargers. The applicant in Powermat described the trademark in application Serial No. 77715011 as " The mark consists of five short electronic chirps, lasting less than half a second, with each chirp increasing slightly in pitch from the previous chirp," and the trademark in Serial No. 77715052 as "the mark consists of five short electronic chirps, lasting less than a half second, with each chirp decreasing slightly in pitch from the previous chirp."
The Applicant argued that its sound trademarks should be entitled to registration on the Principal Register because the sounds are inherently distinctive and function as trademarks. Applicant asserted that it "created the sound to be a unique and fanciful source identifier and not the mere byproduct of the operation or function of the goods. The six (sic) note ascending note pattern in the key of C was developed under contract by a professional composer for Applicant to create a sound pattern that would act as a distinctive source identifier. The composer created over twenty (20) unique sound patterns that were submitted by Applicant for consumer testing and approval prior to adoption by Applicant and was selected as a result of consumer testing." The TTAB held that regardless of the fact that Applicant specifically developed the sound to be distinctive, the case falls within previous precedent set by In re Vertex LLC, 89 USPQ2d 1694 (TTAB 2009) holding that "sounds emitted in the course of a product's ordinary function can never be inherently distinctive and can only be registered on a showing of secondary meaning."
In the past the TTAB has found that sound trademarks can be categorized as inherently distinctive or noninherently distinctive. It has found that "unique, different or distinctive sounds" sounds do not need proof of secondary meaning but that sounds that resemble or imitate commonplace sounds need evidence of secondary meaning to prove they have become distinctive and identified with a single source. Furthermore, the TTAB has found that for goods that make a sound in the normal course of operation, such as alarm clocks, appliances with audible alerts (e.g., microwaves and clothes washer "beeps"), mobile telephones, cell phones rings and emergency alarms (e.g., smoke alarms, structure security alarms and personal alarms), that these sounds are not inherently distinctive and that registration can only be achieved with proof of secondary meaning under Lanham Act § 2(f). In the case of Powermat, the TTAB found that Applicant's goods, i.e., battery chargers, emit sounds in the ordinary course of operation and so the sounds are not inherently distinctive and cannot be registered without a showing of acquired distinctiveness.
In addition to the refusal on substantive grounds, the Applicant also faced procedural problems. In requests for reconsideration Applicant provided hyperlinks to its commercials on YouTube for the purpose of demonstrating the "distinctive nature of the sounds and the related consumer awareness and focus of the sounds as source identifiers." The TTAB reiterated its previous decision that providing hyperlinks to Internet materials is insufficient to make such materials of record. The reasoning behind this policy is the transitory nature of Internet postings as websites referenced only by links may later be modified or deleted. The TTAB pointed to TMEP § 710.01(b) requiring that printouts of Internet materials need to include the URL and date on their face, or some other manner of verification. Of course, Applicant's intent in submitting the materials had been for the Examiner to click on the hyperlink and to view the YouTube commercials themselves. The TTAB found that to support its arguments with commercials Applicant should have provided a CD, DVD, or videotape or that the Applicant could have submitted the material to TEAS@uspto.gov as email attachments as provided under TMEP §§ 807.09 and 904.03(f).
The teachings of Powermat are that sound trademarks for products that emit sounds in the ordinary course of operation are not inherently distinctive and cannot be registered without a showing of acquired distinctiveness. Also, when submitting Internet evidence to support arguments Applicants should not rely on hyperlinks but should adhere to the TMEP rules on submitting evidence.
Hyperlinks, In Re Powermat, Sound Trademarks, Trademark Prosecution
Attorney's fee awards are relatively rare in trademark cases, but when litigants make meritless arguments, attorney's fees aren't far behind. Proving, once again, that it doesn't pay to make meritless arguments, the Middle District of Florida recently awarded Defendant X/Open Company Limited over $400,000 in attorney's fees and costs as a result of the meritless arguments of Plaintiff Wayne R. Gray.
The parties' dispute started in 2001, when X/Open filed an opposition in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board challenging Gray's application to register the INUX trademark on the basis of its famous UNIX trademark, both covering operating systems. During the opposition, Gray persistently alleged that X/Open never owned the UNIX trademark. In motion after motion, Gray argued that The SCO Group, Inc. was the lawful owner of the UNIX mark, despite clear evidence to the contrary, including SCO's acknowledgement that X/Open owned the mark. The opposition eventually stalled over the confidentiality of certain documents and, in 2007, Gray filed a lawsuit against X/Open and codefendants SCO and Novell, Inc. in the Middle District of Florida. Amplifying on his theory that X/Open did not own the UNIX trademark, Gray alleged that the Defendants "conspired," over a period of at least 15 years, to hide the true owner of the mark and enforce the mark against Gray and others. Gray also alleged that the goal of this vast conspiracy was to deprive Gray of his rights and "control certain software markets." According to Gray, the Defendants' actions violated the federal RICO statute, the Florida RICO statute, and various other laws, and caused him more than $100 million in damages.
After several heated discovery disputes, X/Open and Novell moved for summary judgment, arguing that the documentary evidence clearly established X/Open's ownership of the UNIX mark and that Gray's conspiracy theory was pure speculation. The Court had no trouble finding, based on the record, that X/Open owned the UNIX mark and that Gray's claims were based on "mere suspicions and unsupported theories." As a result, the Court granted summary judgment to Defendants on all counts of Gray's complaint in 2009. Wayne R. Gray v. Novell, Inc., X/Open Company Limited, and The SCO Group, Inc., 2009 WL 425958 (M.D. Fla. Feb. 20, 2009).
Following summary judgment for the Defendants, Gray filed an appeal with the 11th Circuit, which affirmed the District Court's judgment. Echoing the District Court's summary judgment decision, the 11th Circuit found that Gray's claims "lacked a substantial factual basis." At about the same time, X/Open filed a motion seeking to establish its entitlement to attorney's fees with the District Court, which was granted. The issue of X/Open's right to attorney's fees having been decided, X/Open submitted arguments concerning the amount of its attorney's fees and costs in 2010, and was recently awarded approximately $410,000, plus interest. Wayne R. Gray v. Novell, Inc., X/Open Company Limited, and The SCO Group, Inc., Case No. 8:06-CV-1950-T-33TGW (M.D. Fla. Sept. 6, 2012).
Litigants should be expected to zealously advance their positions, but Gray v. X/Open shows they should refrain from making meritless arguments. When they do, the party forced to defend itself against such arguments can recover its attorney's fees and, as this case illustrates, those fees can be substantial.
For more information about attorney's fees in trademark cases, contact Evan Raynes, one of the principal attorneys for this case, at eraynes@symbus.com.
attorney's fees, Gray, meritless arguments, Novell, SCO, trademarks, X/Open
By Clifford D. Hyra in Copyright, Intellectual Property, IP Policies, Patent Strategy, Patents, Trade Secrets, Trademarks
For most companies, IP policy is initially handled on an ad-hoc basis. The company is not developing that many new products or brands, and the future development of the company is too uncertain to warrant the investment of time and money involved in establishing official policies related to intellectual property. So the founders handle IP issues individually as they arise.
But as a business grows, formal rules and procedures for handling the internal development of intellectual property become more and more important. At some point, management has to stop bringing in the IP attorneys only when there is a specific need, and start looking at high-level IP issues proactively.
IP policies should scale with the size of your business, starting out simple and increasing in breadth and detail as IP matters proliferate and responsibility becomes more diffuse. Here is a short list of six major components of internal corporate IP programs, with brief descriptions and recommendations for the timing of their implementation:
1) IP-related Provisions In Employment Agreements
It is critical that you ensure all employment agreements include language protecting your business's intellectual property rights and limiting the potential for litigation. This is an issue you should handle before hiring your first employee.
Common IP-related clauses in employment agreements include the automatic assignment of employee patent rights to your company, mandatory disclosure of all existing patent rights and other intellectual property, and non-disclosure and non-compete agreements, particularly as they interface with your company's trade secrets.
2) IP-related Provisions In Vendor Contracts and Other Agreements
IP always comes into play when relying on a third party to assist with any aspect of product development, marketing or branding, and the like. Every contract should be reviewed with an eye towards preserving IP rights and reducing the risk of litigation.
Copyrights must be explicitly addressed in any agreement with an independent contractor regarding creative works, and may warrant a separate work-for-hire agreement. The automatic assignment of any patent rights developed by a vendor during the course of your project is also critical. Non-disclosure provisions and other clauses to protect and handle trade secrets should also be included.
3) Employee Handbook/Policies
Any of your employees may encounter situations where they have to decide how to handle intellectual property. They need clear rules directing them to the proper actions to avoid exposing your company to litigation or a loss of intellectual property rights. Potential issues include the proper handling of third-party trademarks and copyrighted matter in marketing materials, use of open-source and third party code in company software, and guidelines regarding disclosure of potentially patentable subject matter.
4) Invention Disclosure Program & Inventor Incentives
Once your business is undertaking enough research and development activity, it becomes difficult for upper management to keep track of all the areas in which individual employees are conducting research, and even more difficult to keep track of the daily progress of such investigation. At that point, a formal invention disclosure program becomes a necessity.
You want decisions about whether to patent an idea or keep it a trade secret, and whether and when to allow publication, to be handled by upper-level personnel according to your company's patenting strategy. And to ensure that decision-making personnel always know about the latest ideas and developments, a formal disclosure program coupled with inventor incentives for disclosure and successful patenting activity should be maintained.
5) Patenting Strategy
As your business grows, you will need a principled basis for determining whether to patent new developments or keep them as trade secrets, whether and where to file internationally, whether to file provisional patent applications, and the like. These decisions should be made at a high level and should be guided by the company's business strategy, priorities, and competitors.
Developing a formal strategy to be implemented throughout your organization ensures that valuable intellectual property is not discarded and that resources are not wasted on filings that do not support the revenue-generating portions of the business.
6) Branding and Marketing Procedures
When your company has dedicated marketing personnel and develops new brands on a regular basis, trademark law principles should be integrated into the process for developing new brands. Your marketing department should be developing protecatable trademarks for your new logos and product names and should be clearing them of conflicts at an early stage to limit litigation risks and support branding campaigns. Marketing personnel should be educated on the proper and consistent usage of your trademarks to maintain strong trademark rights.
Effective internal IP policies encourage the development of new and valuable IP assets, ensure that your company is identifying potentially protectable IP it is creating already, assist with determining what IP to protect, and how, on a rational basis, and reduce litigation risks at all stages of development. Implementing these high-level intellectual property policies will pay substantial dividends over the life of your business.
By Jan Bader in Uncategorized
The International Trademark Association (INTA) has appointed Janice Housey, a partner at Symbus Law Group, to its Panel of Neutrals. INTA created the Panel as a part of its alternative dispute resolution program (ADR) to resolve trademark and unfair competition disputes without litigation.
INTA maintains high standards for its neutrals. To meet these standards, neutrals must have substantive legal knowledge coupled with training in mediation, be held in high regard in the legal community, and make a commitment to continue to gain relevant knowledge through experience and training during their tenure on the Panel.
Ms. Housey was chosen among a large number of qualified applicants, cited by INTA as an attorney whose experience and proven abilities will permit her to make a significant contribution to ADR in the field of trademarks.
The INTA Panel of Neutrals is the world's only panel of mediators who are skilled in both trademark and unfair competition law and trained in mediating disputes. According to INTA, the success rate for mediation as a tool for resolving trademark disputes is about 70%.
Symbus is committed to helping its clients seek cost-effective solutions to its intellectual property issues and believes that meditation and other ADR solutions should often be considered for many types of intellectual property disputes. Ms. Housey's appointment recognizes the Symbus commitment to being innovators in the practice of intellectual propert y.
ADR, Alternative Dispute Resolution, INTA, INTA Panel of Neutrals, Janice Housey, Mediation, Symbus, Trademark Disputes
Symbus has recently received significant press coverage for its defense of Kidstrong Enterprises in a trademark case filed by the Lance Armstrong Foundation. This is an important case because Kidstrong's defense is based, in part, on allegations of "trademark bullying"—a trademark owner's unreasonable interpretation of the scope of its rights for the purpose of intimidating an opponent into compliance with the owner's demands. Trademark bullying has become a huge problem and the Kidstrong case may help shed some light on how the Patent and Trademark Office views the issue. We will provide periodic updates about the progress of the case in this space.
The typical trademark bully (generally a larger company) files a claim against a competitor (generally a smaller company), claiming a likelihood of confusion between marks containing common words, and this case is no different. As explained in a July 31, 2012 Business Wire press release, as well as numerous articles based on the release, Symbus is defending dietary supplement maker Kidstrong against a trademark opposition filed by the Foundation in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the administrative law division of the Patent and Trademark Office). The Foundation opposed Kidstrong's application for the trademark PROSTRONG after the mark was approved by the Patent and Trademark Office. The Foundation claimed that the PROSTRONG mark, which covers dietary supplements, is likely to be confused with and dilute the Foundation's LIVESTRONG mark.
Kidstrong responded by claiming that the Foundation is engaging in trademark "misuse" and "unclean hands" by seeking to prevent Kidstrong from obtaining a trademark registration for PROSTRONG simply because the mark contains the word "strong." Kidstrong also claimed that the Foundation is guilty of trademark "misuse" and "unclean hands" because of its efforts to stop numerous other companies from obtaining trademark registrations for marks containing the term "strong." In a nutshell, the Foundation's opposition and other enforcement efforts amount to an attempt to claim exclusive rights in the word "strong." These efforts go far beyond any reasonable interpretation of the scope of the Foundations rights and qualify as classic case of trademark bullying. Surely, the Foundation has rights in its LIVESTRONG trademark, but do those rights encompass any use or registration of the word "strong"? The Foundation seems to think so, and that makes the Foundation a trademark bully. The Foundation should be commended for all of the good it does, but its trademark policies, like the trademark policies of other trademark bullies, are misguided.
As Janice Housey, one of Kidstrong's lead attorneys, stated in the July press release, "The Lance Armstrong Foundation is one of the most prolific filers of trademark proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and I think many of its supporters would be dismayed by the pattern of conduct. We will continue our efforts to obtain a trademark for our client's PROSTRONG beverage."
A quick review of the TTAB's records shows that the Foundation has filed dozens of oppositions against trademarks containing the word "strong." There's no way to know how much money the Foundation has spent on these oppositions, but since the Foundation tends to hire large law firms, it's reasonable to assume the figure is fairly large.
More importantly, most of the targets of the Foundation's enforcement efforts, including Kidstrong, are smaller companies. It goes without saying that this is the crux of the trademark bullying problem. Most trademark bullies go after smaller companies who generally don't have the resources to fight larger, well-funded companies. The result is that these companies are generally forced to quickly surrender. More often than not, they wind up signing agreements that make them waste significant amounts of time and money destroying inventory, reprinting brochures, redesigning websites, adopting new trademarks, and/or developing new business plans. All of this stifles competition and discourages innovation.
Trademark bullying is also "economically inefficient" in law-and-economics parlance. The significant amount of money that larger companies spend defeating their smaller opponents increases their costs, and this results in higher prices and harms consumers.
Finally, as many victims of trademark bullying will tell you, it's simply unfair to force a smaller opponent into submission by asserting an unreasonable interpretation of the law and then outspending the opponent. As Janice Housey noted in the above press release, "The attempt of a large organization with vast resources to assert a legal position with the primary goal of outspending a smaller company is objectionable on many levels. The Lance Armstrong Foundation engages in a pattern of conduct in which it attempts to intimidate many companies that legitimately seek to use the word 'strong' as part of a trademark."
While trademark bullying has received an increasing amount of attention in recent years, unfortunately, there is very little case law on the subject since most trademark bullying cases settle. Stay tuned to see how the Kidstrong case develops.
Bullies, Bully, Bullying, Kidstrong, Lance Armstrong, Livestrong, PROSTRONG, Trademark, trademarks
By in Litigation, Patents, Trademarks
Now that summer is drawing to a close in-house counsel must gear up to address those end of the year rush projects. I worked as in-house counsel for over eighteen years and without fail the fourth quarter always proved to be our busiest. After a summer break our in-house clients worked feverishly to accomplish those end of the year objectives and Management pushed to complete any deals that may have been in process so that the Company could improve the end of the year bottom line. Everyone in the legal department felt the onslaught including the Intellectual Property Department.
If you are experiencing pressure to complete a deal or resolve a matter that involves a complex patent issue, litigation, multi-country trademark license, a worldwide filing project, or similar task, perhaps you should consider retaining an in-house secondment Trademark or Patent Attorney. Such an attorney can provide on location assistance with these types long term projects and needs that would be costly and complicated to "farm out" to outside counsel. With an on location secondment attorney you can provide direction on the spot, the attorney can interact with in-house clients as needed and can access necessary files and data easily. Also, depending upon the firm you choose to work with you may find that you can negotiate for an hourly rate or flat fee arrangement that permits you to do this well within your budget.
Not familiar with secondment services? U.S. attorneys are often unaware of the concept of secondment attorneys although they are widely used in the U.K. and Europe. The term secondment derives from the days when the British army officers were given temporary assignments outside their regular regiment. The practice benefited the new regiment that received an additional set of hands and a fresh perspective from an experienced officer. In the legal world, this practice means that an experienced attorney from a law firm that offers "secondment" services can be placed in-house on a temporary basis. The attorney can then assist with complex projects and provide client support "in the trenches" and often do so with minimal supervision and training on the part of the hiring manager. When the project is completed the "secondment" attorney returns to her law firm work with a greater understanding of the company's business and legal needs and can now work more effectively and efficiently with the company on a traditional basis.
Companies requiring special coverage for any of the following situations often use secondment services:
Long term projects, such as negotiating intellectual property licenses, managing global trademark recordal assignments, filing name changes, or conducting foreign license recordals
Global search and filing of a new brand
A legal department that wants to bring their intellectual property portfolio in-house but does not need full-time Patent or Trademark Counsel
Assistance with setting up in-house intellectual property operations
Switching to a new trademark or patent management database
Resolving foreign conflicts for trademarks or patents that are no longer of top tier importance
In-house litigation support
An attorney on maternity or sick leave
How does hiring a secondment attorney differ from hiring a temporary attorney from an agency or borrowing an associate from a law firm? For projects requiring specialized skills and knowledge, such as for intellectual property matters, temporary attorneys from agencies rarely come with the necessary experience to "hit the ground running". The hiring manager must often train and closely supervise the attorney. Once the project ends, even if the attorney has been of great assistance, the nature of temporary work is that the temporary attorney is unlikely to be available the next time the hiring manager needs an attorney since such attorneys are often on other projects or have taken permanent positions. For these reasons, the time spent training and supervising the temporary attorney usually does not provide a long-term benefit. Likewise, borrowing an associate from a law firm can be an inadequate solution since traditional law firms often insist on billing the attorney at an hourly rate and often will only provide an associate with one or two years of experience. The hiring manager is left to provide training and supervision. To make matters worse, particularly for specialized intellectual property work, even the less experienced associates at traditional firms are often billed at hundreds of dollars an hour. For these reasons, hiring a secondment attorney is often the preferred solution for addressing temporary in-house legal assistance needs.
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That is why today's daily mass reading from Romans couldn't have come at a more opportune time. While the daily readings, like the saint of the day, are always appropriate (last week when the California wildfires continued to spread, we not only had the passage from Luke 12:49-53 telling us how Jesus came to set the earth on fire, but it was followed up by Luke 13:1-5 which warned us that while God has the power to use natural disasters to punish, that is not necessarily the case) for me the timing of the reading from Romans proved uncanny. St. Paul's promise of hope not only helped me to recall how the Lord had guided the O'Tooles' through many lean times in the past, but was proof that the grace we received by enduring those dark days not only strengthened our marriage, but could provide comfort for Jeanette's sister and her daughters through their present times of trial. And while the Aurora clinic did open, viewing the pictures from Saturday's rally (their biggest one yet) demonstated to me how Planned Parenthood's prediction that the protesters would grow weary of these displays and go back to their "regular lives" rings hollow. Instead it showed that our faith IS our life, and, because of this hope, we will never give up on the fight.
Speaking of fight, the biggest Fighting Irish news during the team's off-week concerned a huge hole developing near the luggage compartment of a plane carrying a ND fan, and his giant bag of Irish memorabilia being sucked out. Miraculously not only was the flight righted and no one injured, but the bag was found and returned to Howard Berman, its rightful owner and Florida state's attorney who was flying home after attending the ND-USC blowout.
Of course, Howard's cynical comment to his sister (who worried the stuffed duffel bag might hurt someone after hurtling down from the plane) made headlines. "It's Notre Dame!" he assured sis. "It can't hurt anybody because it can't hit anybody!"
All kidding aside, let me say this to would-be ND fan Berman. I'm glad you are safe and alsogot your bag back intact, but know that this occurance could be a wake-up call. Remember how USC had a scary flight on the way into South Bend, not only causing them to pray as a team for the first time in ages, but later inspired them to hand our Irish its worst Trojan loss ever. So perhaps you should forward some of those in-flight prayers you said when you too were worried toward the upcoming ND-Navy game, or you and your baggage might not be so lucky next time. In other words, Howard, if you don't take Romans 8:18-24 to heart, the Lord might treat you to a Luke 13:1-4 instead. Just in case, I wouldn't walk under any leaning towers anytime soon.


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Vietnamese artist's work on display at Chateau La Coste
VNA Saturday, June 15, 2019 - 17:48:00 Print
A part of Silver Room installation work
(Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Popular artist Tia Thuy Nguyen has just become the first Vietnamese artist to display artwork at Chateau La Coste, France.
Thuy, who has been a costume designer for various popular movies like Co Ba Sai Gon (The Tailor), Me chong (Mother in Law), Tam Cam: Chuyen chua ke (The Untold Story), Ngay nay ngay nay (The Lost Dragon), has displayed her first ever installation work at Chateau La Coste.
Titled Silver Room, Thuy's work is a reflection of the common houses of ethnic minority groups in the central highlands region of Vietnam. The work incorporates silver gilding techniques of Vietnamese traditional lacquer art, carving techniques on quartz and jackfruit tree wood.
Thuy has spent nearly three years researching and working on the installation. The room is designed with an open roof, gaps between bars of wood bring light and shadow to the room, which results in non-stop changes according to time and light source during the day.
That's why, according to Thuy, Silver Room is not an installation work with specific features on location but also has momentous features.
The room measures 16.2m in height, 6m in width, 14.9m in length. It took ten months for experienced workers in the central highlands to find suitable wood and treat it before making the room.
The room's 26 pillars and floor were made from 1,300 cubic metres of wood. The open roof was made from old bamboo measuring 4 to 12m high.
All joints were tightened with string, not nails, following skills of building communal houses by central highland elders.
The work stresses on the "duyen" (Destiny) notion in Buddhism, which expresses the lifestyle and belief of the artist in a world of equanimity when they confront the conflicts of the past, present and future; the desire and relinquishing; homeland's identity and integration into the world.
The philosophy has persuaded collector Paddy McKillen to choose the installation for the exhibition, Thuy said.
The permanent exhibition at the Chateau gathers other noted artists like Tadao Ando, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Alexander Calder, Sean Scully, AI Wei Wei, Tom Shannon, Sophie Calle, Tunga, Tracey Emin, Frank O. Gehry, Liam Gillick, Andy Goldsworthy, Jenny Holzer, Guggi, Per Kirkeby, Kengo Kuma, Paul Matisse, Tatsuo Miyajima, Jean Nouvel, Larry Neufeld, Renzo Piano, Richard Serra, Michael Stipe, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Lee Ufan, and Franz West.
In the opening ceremony gathering some 50 invitees including collectors, curators and artists from Brazil, France, the UK and the US, Thuy could not hide her emotions.
"I'm just a small artist with a big belief that if I really have passion and work with whole my heart, my voice will echo farther," she said. "Vietnamese contemporary art is developing. I hope there will be more voices of Vietnam to reach the world."
Thuy was born in 1981 in Hanoi. She now lives in HCM City. After her graduation from Vietnam Fine Arts University in 2006, she received a scholarship to study her MA and PhD at the Kiev Royal Art and Architecture Institute, Ukraine. In 2016, Tia Thuy Nguyen established The Factory contemporary centre in Ho Chi Minh City.
After her Silver Room at Château La Coste, Thuy has been invited by various galleries and art centres in France.
She will return to her familiar painting and try some interactive installations using natural light for her solo exhibition next year. She is compiling her own book on sketching practice. — VNS/VNA
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She is an experienced lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in the tertiary education sector. Skilled in Mobile Learning, Intercultural Communication, Sustainable Development Education, Analytical Skills, and Coaching. Trish is a strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Virtue Ethics and Corporate Governance from University of Waikato. She is an alumna of UNSW where she studied Law and Commerce.
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About SUNY Plattsburgh
Institute for Ethics in Public Life
Creating Ethically Responsible Citizens
The Institute for Ethics in Public Life emerged in response to the college's 1996 Strategic Plan, which included a central initiative on "Civic Responsibility."
The purpose of this initiative is to cultivate in students the qualities of engaged, committed and ethically responsive citizenship. The institute is a key vehicle by which the college addresses this purpose. It does so primarily by providing fellowships for Plattsburgh faculty to spend a semester in residence at the Institute. While in residence, fellows are supported in developing the capabilities to integrate issues of ethics and civic responsibility into their teaching. Since the institute was established in 1999, fifty faculty members from twenty-four departments have been appointed as fellows.
In addition to the Fellows Program, the institute sponsors a variety of projects, including a project entitled Reexamining the Foundations of Civic Responsibility. This project is being undertaken in collaboration with the Institute for Ethics at Dartmouth College and was initially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Fellows' Evaluations
Fellows in Residence in Former Years
Project on Civic Responsibility
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Can the Koran Solve Israel's Political Impasse?
Israel Hayom
https://www.meforum.org/62241/can-the-koran-solve-israel-political-impasse
Originally published under the title "Can the Quran solve Israel's political impasse?"
Bezalel Smotrich (left), leader of the Religious Zionist Party (RZP), and Mansour Abbas, leader of the Islamist Ra'am party.
Here's a novel idea to resolve Israel's increasingly painful political impasse.
The crux of the problem lies in the fact that one of Benjamin Netanyahu's potential coalition partners, the Religious Zionist Party (RZP) headed by Bezalel Smotrich, refuses to support him should Netanyahu rely in any way on the Islamist Ra'am party to reach a majority of 61 in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. Yet without both the RZP and Ra'am in his coalition, Netanyahu cannot reach 61 seats. Thus the impasse.
So far, Smotrich's rejection of Ra'am has been absolute and unconditional, based on the fact that Ra'am rejects the very existence of the Jewish state of Israel. To quote from its 2018 charter, the party calls Zionism a "racist, occupying project," rejects allegiance to the Jewish state, and demands a right of return for Palestine refugees. Reasonably enough, Smotrich fears that legitimizing Ra'am in any way will lead to a host of dire consequences for Israel. He stands resolutely on this point.
Fine. But it would be more productive if Smotrich and the RZP set out the conditions under which they accept Ra'am support. What would it need to amend in its charter? How would Ra'am's leader Mansour Abbas have to talk to his constituents in Arabic about Israel? Implicitly assuming such a change to be out of the question, RZP until now has not even raised the idea – reasonably enough, as presumably no Islamists anywhere in the world, much less among the Palestinians, recognize Israel.
The Koran is a proto-Zionist document, with verses that endorse the Jewish presence in the Holy Land.
But, in fact, the basis does exist for such a recognition. It exists not in the turmoil of current politics but in the founding scripture of the Islamic faith, the seventh-century Koran. Believe it or not, but the Koran is a proto-Zionist document, with verses that endorse the Jewish presence in what it calls the Holy Land (al-ard al-muqaddasa), the territory that roughly makes up the modern state of Israel.
For example, Koran 5:20-21 quotes Moses saying to the Jews, "O my people! Enter the Holy Land which God [Allah] has ordained for you to enter." Likewise, Koran 7:137 states that "We made those who were persecuted successors of the eastern and western lands [of the Jordan River], lands which We had blessed. In this way, your Lord's fair word was fulfilled for the Children of Israel." Other Koranic verses (2:40, 7:159-60, 17:100-04)) confirm this theme, as do Hadith reports and leading Koranic scholars of the premodern era.
A portion of Koran 5:20 from a manuscript written in about A.D. 1180 in new-style Kufic script, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(And note that the Koran refers to Jews as the "Children of Israel.")
Deep research into this issue has been carried out by such scholars as Nissim Dana of Ariel University, author of the 2013 book in Hebrew, To Whom Does This Land Belong? Reexamination of the Koran and Classical Islamic Sources on the People of Israel, Its Teachings, and Its Connection to Jerusalem. On the Islamic side, Muhammad Al-Hussainiformerly of Leo Baeck College, Khaleel Mohammed of San Diego State University, and Mohammad Tawhidi of the Islamic Association of South Australia have led the way in making the case. In Khaleel Mohammed's words, "It's in the Muslim consciousness that the land first belonged to the Jews." Another Muslim thinker, Abdul Hadi Palazzi, comes right out and states that "Allah Is a Zionist."
The RZP might consider proposing to Ra'am that it will accept Ra'am's support for a coalition government if Ra'am aligns itself with these fundamentals of the Islamic faith. To avoid ambiguity, RZP should list its conditions in great detail and with exacting precision.
The cover of Israel's Islamic Movement charter.
I am under no illusion that Ra'am would jump at this offer, but it is well worth a try, and for two reasons. First, Mansour Abbas has shown an unprecedented pragmatism and flexibility, raising the prospect that Ra'am just possibly could accept RZP's terms, leading to a government being formed and to an immeasurable and historic increase in Ra'am's stature. Second, even if Ra'am declines the opportunity, such a public challenge by Smotrich to Abbas would finally introduce the Koran's largely unknown proto-Zionist outlook into wide general discussion in Israel and beyond, a beneficial step for Jews and Muslims alike.
Although I have argued that Benjamin Netanyahu should be Israel's next president, not its next prime minister, the positive implications of Israeli Muslims recognizing the Jewish state overrides such a politics-as-usual issue.
In short, only good can come from this innovative step toward Israel Victory.
Daniel Pipes is president of the Middle East Forum.
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Nick Parisi: Ed, I have similar memories of WPIX. I started watching TZ on WPIX when I was nine or ten years old and I still remember the nightly schedule: The Odd Couple at 11, The Honeymooners at 11:30, Star Trek at midnight, and The Twilight Zone at 1 am. I would do my best to stay awake and I would usually make it! The show mesmerized me pretty much immediately and I became a fanatic for it pretty quickly. Then Marc Zicree's Twilight Zone Companion came out and it kicked my fanaticism into another gear. That was a truly revolutionary book.
EC: What are the three Twilight Zone episodes that you feel everyone else overlooks?
EC: I'm fascinated by Serling's western TV series The Loner. I know you write about it extensively in the book. Do you love that too and should we all rush out and watch it?
NP: One of my explicit goals in writing my book was to expose people to some of Serling's lesser known work, and The Loner is near the top of that list. After having been less involved in the TZ's fourth and fifth season than he had been previously, Serling jumped into The Loner with both feet. He seemed recharged, and his literary voice is so strong in it. Yes, people need to rush out and buy it (it was finally released on DVD a few years ago).
EC: You seem to be part of a very robust Twilight Zone culture – enthusiasts who podcast, attend conventions, etc. Can you tell me a little about Twilight Zone fandom?
NP: Twilight Zone fandom is a pretty incredible thing. The Twilight Zone FB group has over 30,000 members. There are several terrific TZ podcasts. This October there will be another "Serling Fest" in Binghamton, where fans can gather and meet writers who have written Serling-related books and celebrate their love for the show with people who speak the same language. The Twilight Zone is timeless.
EC: What can you tell me about Serling's time in Central New York and the Finger Lakes?
NP: Serling's love for Binghamton is well known. He had a cabin on Cayuga Lake that he and the family would visit every summer, and he was a very dedicated professor at Ithaca College for several years. He had great affection for the area and he gave so much of himself to it.
NP: Ithacon was (honestly) the best experience I have yet had at a convention. I talked to several kids, no older than 11, who love the Twilight Zone. I spoke with college students who told me that they enrolled at Ithaca specifically because of Rod Serling's connection to the school. It was so heartening to see the awareness and the respect that everyone involved exhibited for Serling and his work.
EC: After reading your book, Nick, I'm struck by the many struggles of Serling in the sixties. Do you think he was enjoyed that decade?
NP: The late 1960s was a very trying time for Rod Serling, as it was for so many Americans. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and of Robert Kennedy, piled atop his growing dismay over the war in Vietnam, made him question his faith in humanity. At what may have been his lowest point, he wrote, "I have a sneaking suspicion that these are the real dark ages – a time when men no longer care." Creatively it was a frustrating time as well. The Loner, as much as I love it, was a ratings failure and was canceled after one season. Another series that he was involved with – The New People – was short lived also. He wrote several screenplays that were not produced. All that said, he ended the decade earning co-credit for writing one of the biggest blockbusters of all time – Planet of the Apes, and the pilot film for Rod Serling's Night Gallery was one of the highest rated shows of the year.
EC: You write a lot about Serling's work on Planet of Apes and Night Gallery. How do you feel about those two franchises?
NP: Serling's contribution to Planet of the Apes has been subject to a lot of speculation over the years, and I hope my book clarifies the matter. He wrote several drafts of the screenplay and the film simply would not be what it is were it not for his contributions.
NP: Night Gallery was the most frustrating creative experience of Serling's career. He simply did not get along with the series' producer, Jack Laird, and Laird was not a fan of Serling's writing style. The two of them butted heads pretty much from day one of the series. Despite the conflicts, Serling wrote some great stuff for the series – episodes like "The Messiah on Mott Street" and "Cool Air" rank among his best work, and "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" was one of his personal favorites.
EC: What do you think Serling would make of the adulation his fans have for him?
NP: Rod Serling once said, "Each of us leaves behind ruins or monuments." One of the sad ironies of Rod Serling's life is that he died believing that he had not left behind any monuments. He thought that he would be forgotten. He would be shocked that we are still discussing him and The Twilight Zone sixty years after it debuted.
EC: I have to ask this one- how do you like the new Twilight Zone series?
NP: I have watched only the first episode of the new series. Give me a few days to watch the rest and I'll send you my review!
EC: Ha! Fair enough, Nick. Thanks so very much!


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Takeaways: Northwestern falls to Nebraska at the buzzer
Posted on December 31, 2020 by Kikue Higuchi
By Kikue Higuchi
Nebraska dealt No. 15 Northwestern its first loss of the season Thursday by virtue of a buzzer beater put-back from leading scorer Sam Haiby.
The final minutes were a whirlwind, with Northwestern frantically trying to chip away at a 7-point Nebraska lead. Jordan Hamilton came up with two clutch finishes to tie the game twice in the final minutes. Northwestern's last possession was stopped short by an early missed jumper from Lindsey Pulliam and Nebraska got the ball. Haiby drove from the right wing and her first shot came up short, but she was able to secure the offensive rebound and win the game for the Huskers.
For the most part, Northwestern did everything that its done all season successfully. The 'Cats had 23 points off of 24 Nebraska turnovers; they had 11 fast-break points to Nebraska's two and they racked up 15 steals for the fourth time this season. Converting off of turnovers and pushing the pace of the game has been Northwestern's calling card all season, and it was working. Until today. Haiby's game-winning play is all you really need to see to understand a big part of Northwestern's loss today: it got beat at the glass.
Even in the first half when Northwestern was shooting well Nebraska was only a few points behind. What kept the Huskers in the game, especially in the first half, was being able to come up with the rebound and maintain possession. Nebraska had 47 total rebounds to Northwestern's 35, beating the Wildcats soundly on defense, 32 to 18. While the 'Cats narrowly eclipsed the Huskers with 17 offensive rebounds to 15, they also went 24-of-68 from the field. Of 44 missed shots, they only had 17 second chance opportunities. Meanwhile the Huskers had 30 misses with a chance to recoup on 15 of them.
Northwestern's troubles at the glass were compounded by significant scoring droughts, especially in the third quarter. The 'Cats went 1-of-12, their one field goal coming from a Veronica Burton lay-up in the final 10 seconds. This was their worst shooting performance so far this season, which is just the latest installment in a slow decline of their accuracy since the beginning of conference play. Nebraska also beat Northwestern from beyond the arc, going 9-of-20 from three. The Wildcats only managed 5-of-16 from deep, but this is pretty much their average three-point performance so far in Big Ten basketball.
This was also a pretty average showing from the 'Cats in rebounding as it was just the first time their offensive strategy hasn't been able to account for lack of control on the glass. It also marked the first time that we've seen them really struggle with the loss of the Abi/Abbies in the way they were expected to. They couldn't compete for possession time and their production from deep just couldn't keep up. A bad shooting day from the charity stripe dragged them down even further. They went under 50% from the line which robbed them of some easy points, especially after reaching the bonus in the third quarter.
Courtney Shaw pulled down three offensive boards in the fourth quarter while Hamilton scored seven of her 12 points. Their production brought the 'Cats back within reach of a win after trailing for the entire third quarter but it seemed to be too little, too late. If they had played like that consistently through the entire game, Northwestern could have easily kept the Huskers at bay. The one bright spot of the game was that Pulliam took the reins on the offense and pulled out 19 points. She now holds the sixth place for all-time scoring in program history with 1,712 career points, although her percentage wasn't much better than the team's.
Now the question becomes how will this team stack up against more talented, and bigger, teams in the Big Ten. To secure another championship Northwestern still needs to see more consistent play from its new starters, Hamilton and Shaw. It also wouldn't hurt if Sydney Wood could have a few more big offensive games like she had against Minnesota. Burton and Pulliam can't afford to have really bad games, and so far it seems like they haven't. All of the starters have to get to the glass more, especially if their accuracy keeps falling. It would help if their shooting percentages started improving, rather than the steady fall that's emerged as the season has worn on. With Pulliam starting to show her touch again it seems like that might be within reach.
Northwestern will face No. 16 Michigan in three days. After giving the 'Cats trouble last year, Michigan returned all five starters and are off to a 6-0 start. The Wolverines are averaging 44 rebounds per game and 40% from three. However, Michigan is averaging 15.5 turnovers per game and Northwestern averaged 14.8 steals per game. If the 'Cats can improve off the glass and get their small ball offense rolling again they have a clear shot, but today's performance was not a reassuring look ahead at the rest of the season.
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Golden Mean/Flower of Life/Rule of Thirds and Sound
The Rule of Thirds for the image is controlled by the Golden mean which is a part of the Flower of Life. Hopefully you're still following somewhat..
The Flower of Life also contains the 5 Platonic Solids.
Philosopers and artists have studied and applied this Golden Mean, and Phi Ratio to living things and proportions--see Leonardo Divinci's drawing of the man with the outstretched arms.
Other than the idea that sound waves can fit into the category of shape...is there some way to apply these ideas to the concept of sound? Or what about the concept of sound and image?
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Johnny FrenchJohnny French
First thing that springs to mind here is Walter Murch's Mysterious Law of Two-and-a-Half. The below excerpt is copied directly from transom, I highly recommend reading pt 1, 2, & 3 and watching/listening to all the video examples:
Robots and Grapes
This had happened in 1969, on one of the first films I worked on: George Lucas's THX-1138. It was a low-budget film, but it was also science fiction, so my job was to produce an otherworldly soundtrack on a shoestring. The shoestring part was easy, because that was the only way I had worked up till then. The otherworldly part, though, meant that most of the sounds that automatically 'came with' the image (the sync sound) had to be replaced. A case in point: the footsteps of the policemen in the film, who were supposed to be robots made out of six hundred pounds of steel and chrome. During filming, of course, these robots were actors in costume who made the normal sound that anyone would make when they walked. But in the film we wanted them to sound massive, so I built some special metal shoes, fitted with springs and iron plates, and went to the Museum of Natural History in San Francisco at 2am, put them on and recorded lots of separate 'walk-bys' in different sonic environments, stalking around like some kind of Frankenstein's monster. They sounded great, but I now had to sync all these footstep up. We would do this differently today – the footsteps would be recorded on what is called a Foley stage, in sync with the picture right from the beginning. But I was young and idealistic – I wanted it to sound right! – and besides we didn't have the money to go to Los Angeles and rent a Foley stage.
So there I was with my overflowing basket of footsteps, laying them in the film one at a time, like doing embroidery or something. It was going well, but too slowly, and I was afraid I wouldn't finish in time for the mix. Luckily, one morning at 2am a good fairy came to my rescue in the form of a sudden and accidental realization: that if there was one robot, his footsteps had to be in sync; if there were two robots, also, their footsteps had to be in sync; but if there were three robots, nothing had to be in sync. Or rather, any sync point was as good as any other!
This discovery broke the logjam, and I was able to finish in time for the mix. But… But why does something like this happen? Somehow, it seems that our minds can keep track of one person's footsteps, or even the footsteps of two people, but with three or more people our minds just give up – there are too many steps happening too quickly. As a result, each footstep is no longer evaluated individually, but rather the group of footsteps is evaluated as a single entity, like a musical chord. If the pace of the steps is roughly correct, and it seems as if they are on the right surface, this is apparently enough. In effect, the mind says "Yes, I see a group of people walking down a corridor and what I hear sounds like a group of people walking down a corridor." Sometime during the mid-19th century, one of Edouard Manet's students was painting a bunch of grapes, diligently outlining every single one, and Manet suddenly knocked the brush out of her hand and shouted: "Not like that! I don't give a damn about Every Single Grape! I want you to get the feel of the grapes, how they taste, their color, how the dust shapes them and softens them at the same time. " Similarly, if you have gotten Every Single Footstep in sync but failed to capture the energy of the group, the space through which they are moving, the surface on which they are walking, and so on, you have made the same kind of mistake that Manet's student was making. You have paid too much attention to something that the mind is incapable of assimilating anyway, even if it wanted to.
Additionally, similar to Nate's link to omega432.com, Alan Howarth has a site dedicated to what he calls RA Music. To get the best gist of it you can watch his videos here. But basically, his notion is that A440 is a man-made construct that is out of harmony with nature. He hypothesizes more or less that, based on sacred geometry, nature resonates at A424 (423.5 and change really). What I found to be an interesting take away occurred in his pt 3 video, I believe. He says that A440 music is focused in/above your head, and as you retune the music lower and lower you're focusing the resonance in your body lower and lower. A424 hits you more in the heart/chest, A414 down in the pelvis. So for a love song, tune A424. A dancehall smash, A414.
I've been using MondoMod a fair amount lately. So what I've been trying, is tuning the mod freq according to this. Just as an example I'll take a whale call, throw it through MondoMod with only the AM active & use a sine LFO set to .25x 424Hz, or trying tiger roar with a Saw Down @ 10x 42.4Hz. It's probably just the power of suggestion, but it's really seems to fit well. But there's got to be a number of other ways you can try and use this.
Steve UrbanSteve Urban
Check this out. May not exactly be what you mean, but interesting none the less:
http://www.omega432.com/
NateNate
It doesn't help that I can't remember the specifics. Maybe some one can chime in on what I say, and flesh it out. I remember a prof telling a story about a "magic" ratio when filtering the top and bottom of the frequency spectrum.
For example, if you are going to apply a high pass filter at x Hz, then you should apply a low pass at x' Hz. And if you maintain this proportion, the remaining sound will be more pleasing to the ear than if you had filtered just one end of the spectrum and not the other.
Does this mean anything to anyone?
It might have been as simple as the high frequency point dividing by the low point without remainder. Sorry, I can't remember specifically.
MtLMtL
There is a golden ratio in the dimensions of studio design to minimise standing waves. Whilst looking for a link for this I also found this page which details some of the instruments that have been designed with the golden ration/phi in mind:
http://www.goldennumber.net/acoustics/
Also found these diffusers (I'm not on commission!)
http://www.goldenacoustics.com
@Joel Corriveau I'd be interested to find out more detail about the filtering you are talking about :)
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Q: (Server Side) How to retrieve data from MarkLogic and paginate a few at a time My aim is to retrieve the next 10 items from db each time I click the "next" button.
So instead of retrieving 100 records in a shot from db, which will likely lag the system, I only want to retrieve 10 at a time.
Below are a snippet of what I've done, not sure what else am I missing...
At resource.java
   @Autowired
   protected QueryManager queryManager;

   @RequestMapping(value = "/retrieveObjects/{page}", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
   public ResponseEntity<Object[]> retrieveObjects(@PathVariable("page") String page){
      int pageNum = Integer.valueOf(page);
      int start = PAGE_SIZE_TEN * (pageNum - 1) + 1;
      SearchHandle resultsHandle = new SearchHandle();
      queryDef.setDirectory(DIRECTORY);
      queryManager.setPageLength(PAGE_SIZE_TEN);
      queryManager.search(queryDef, resultsHandle, start);

      return new ResponseEntity<Object[]>(handleSearch(resultsHandle), HttpStatus.OK);
   }

At component.ts
this.restclient.getjson('/api/retrieveObjects/'+page)
   .subscribe(objects => {
      for(let i=0; i<objects .length; i++){
      this.objects.push(objects[i]);
      }
   });

At component.html
<div *ngFor="let object of objects | paginate: { itemsPerPage: 10, currentPage: p }">
 <div (click)="gotoObject(object.id)">
     {{object.id}}
 </div>
</div>
<pagination-controls class="pagination" (pageChange)="p = $event;getPage($event)"></pagination-controls>

I have 100 records.
However, the result only shows 1 page of my first 10 records, the "next" button is disabled.

The expected result should show 1 page of first 10 records, clicking on "next" button will call the api/retrieveObjects/ to retrieve the next 10 records.

A: I think you want to implement the server-side pagination :
For that you have to pass one extra parameter totalItems
{
  "count": 100, // no of total records
  "data": [    // chunk of data (in your case chunk of 10 records)
    { /* item 1 */ },
    { /* item 2 */ },
    { /* item 3 */ },
    { /*   ...  */ },
    { /* item 10 */ }
  ]
}

<div *ngFor="let object of objects.data | paginate: { itemsPerPage: 10, currentPage: p, totalItems: objects.count }">

For more, please read :
http://michaelbromley.github.io/ngx-pagination/#/

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Your organization's recruitment and selection process can impact public perception, the quality of applicants who respond to job postings and turnover and retention of your current workforce. Therefore, managing recruitment and selection is a strategic-based responsibility for which human resources leaders choose highly qualified talent acquisition specialists to run. Talent acquisition is an HR discipline that encompasses sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, hiring and retaining staff, as well as forming a network that supports the organization's branding concept.
The primary aspect of managing recruitment and selection is to ensure that the organization is in compliance with federal and state laws that govern most companies' employment decisions. Staying abreast of federal laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and the more recent Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005, is necessary for recruiter competency. In addition, compliance is crucial to the organization's ability to defend its employment decisions in the event of formal complaints and litigation.
Sourcing candidates is the fundamental basis in a recruitment and selection process. Recruiters determine where they are likely to find qualified applicants, e.g., college campuses, social networking websites, trade shows and professional conferences and associations. Managing sourcing requires improving outreach by recruiters and employment specialists. In addition, they need to have up-to-date knowledge of job search practices and a strategy for positioning the organization as an industry competitor. Industry competition consists of the employer's commitment to fair employment and hiring practices, compensation and benefits and working conditions to attract the necessary qualified applicants.
Managing the interview stage of recruitment and selection isn't confined to simply teaching recruiters how to greet applicants, what questions to ask and how to determine who gets another interview. Among other things, interviewing encompasses more of how and when to interact with hiring managers, and teaching panel members to interview and assess candidates based on their responses and how they look on paper. Importantly, interviewing is an analytical process that incorporates a sales element. That is, the interview is as much of an opportunity for the recruiter to pitch the company as an employer of choice as it is for the candidate to sway the hiring decision in her favor.
Choosing the best qualified candidate rests in the hands of the hiring manager for many positions; however, hiring managers for many organizations aren't as well-versed in candidate selection as recruiters. The candidate who meets or exceeds the job qualifications isn't always the best choice -- organizational culture, as well as the candidate's professional style and traits, are factors to consider even though they're very subjective ones. Therefore, managing the recruitment and selection process also involves advising hiring managers on how to balance the candidate's qualifications with the hiring manager's subjective assessment of the candidate's suitability for the job.
Vetting candidates involves conducting background checks, calling references, scheduling drug tests, obtaining criminal, credit and driving records and, in some cases, engaging an investigator to probe deeper into the candidate's social, financial and work history for jobs that require clearance. Management of these processes begins with determining which steps to vet candidates are suitable and whether to outsource every step of the vetting process or to handle the processes in-house.
A conditional job offer is usually contingent upon the candidate successfully passing the background check, references and other components of the official vetting process. However, when the terms and conditions of the job offer are negotiable, another of the final steps in the selection process is to achieve a win-win result in negotiating a job offer that suits the future employee and the employer. Managing this final step first requires a decision as to what extent job offers are negotiable and when negotiations take place, who has the authority to approve increases in salary, benefits, time off and perks.
ERE.net: A Performance Profile for a Recruiting Manager
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Ruth Mayhew has been writing since the mid-1980s, and she has been an HR subject matter expert since 1995. Her work appears in "The Multi-Generational Workforce in the Health Care Industry," and she has been cited in numerous publications, including journals and textbooks that focus on human resources management practices. She holds a Master of Arts in sociology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Ruth resides in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
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