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The US Patent Act [1] gives patent holders the right to prevent others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in the United States or importing the invention into the United States. [2] The premise behind granting these rights in new inventions is to encourage inventors to disclose new technology to the public by offering the inventors a limited monopoly on the use of such technology.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens while U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Department of Justice during an announcement about leaking of classified information on Aug. 4, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens while U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Department of Justice during an announcement about leaking of classified information on Aug. 4, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Sunday that the expanding investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is continuing apace, even as President Donald Trump dismissed the probe as "a total fabrication."
After a three-day trial, a federal jury found Colin Lovette Bosby, 50, of Bakersfield, guilty today of one count of receiving child pornography and two counts of possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. The trial was held before Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill.
President Donald Trump, flanked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R- Ark., left, and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, during the unveiling of legislation that would place new limits on legal immigration. less President Donald Trump, flanked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R- Ark., left, and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, during the unveiling of ... more WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's endorsement of legislation to restrict and reshape legal immigration is based on some shaky assumptions, such as the idea that low-wage green-card holders are flooding in to take jobs from Americans.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of "Finding Your Roots" on PBS, says the show "couldn't have scripted" the discovery that actor, comedian Larry David and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders are related. An episode in which the two learn they're distant relatives will air on the show's upcoming fourth season, premiering Oct. 3. David has impersonated Sanders on "Saturday Night Live."
A possible high-tech solution to some aspects of the supposed "gun problem" is smart guns, or in other words firearms that have electronic or other advanced control features that only allow operation for select users. The smart gun concept has even been in the movies a few of times.
Europeans are eating so much butter that the bloc's stockpiles are nearly empty, adding to a rush of demand that has sent global prices skyrocketing. The star of the U.S. dairy market in recent years, butter costs have now soared to all-time highs in Western Europe and Oceania.
"If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay," Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told CNN on Thursday morning. Graham described as "chilling" a tweet posted by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley late Wednesday in which the Iowa Republican said there was "no way" his panel would consider the nomination of a replacement for Sessions.
I admit I've never been a big Romney fan, but I thought it would be great if he were in the United States Senate. I was legitimately excited about the prospect of him running in Utah in 2018.
A private conversation between two senators that was caught on a live microphone reveals a tense climate among lawmakers and with the White House. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, mocked Representative Blake Farenthold, who'd suggested he might challenge her to a duel if she weren't a woman because of her opposition to holding a vote to get rid of Obamacare.
Many of the documentaries featured in the 26th annual Woods Hole Film Festival befit an event located on the far southern fringe of Massachusetts. They deal with people on the edge - outsiders and nonconformists who deviate from the norm or are marginalized but who nonetheless prevail.
This screen grab provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a hidden website that has been seized as part of a law enforcement operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration and European law enforcement agencies acting through Europol. On Thursday, July 20, 2017, authorities announced that two of the world's most notorious "darknet" marketplaces, AlphaBay and Hansa, have been knocked out in a one-two punch that officials say yielded a trove of new intelligence about drugs and weapons merchants that operate from hidden corners of the internet.
Arlington, VA -- The Department of Defense announced today that it will award approximately $3.5 million to six U.S. university teams for research into robotics for disaster relief. These awards are part of a joint research project with the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy , agreed to in June 2015.
On July 13, 2017, The Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on The Impact of Bad Patents on American Businesses. Such a loaded topic should strike fear in the hearts of the many of us who work diligently to protect our clients' legitimate inventions.
Activists and internet companies are protesting Wednesday a proposed quash of net neutrality protections by the FCC. Here's what the likes of Amazon, Netflix and internet users say would happen to your internet access with the rollback.
The Defense Information Systems Agency , the body in charge of the Pentagon's email, said it plans to enable stronger encryption on all emails by July 2018. The agency explained its plans to move to a stronger email encryption technology in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, this week.
Two men from Latvia ran a malware service that has been in operation for more than a decade and used in major attacks against U.S. businesses, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria The men, along with an alleged co-conspirator in Virginia, designed a buffet of hacking software that they marketed on cybercrime websites, according to prosecutors. The indictment does not detail which businesses allegedly were affected by the malware or what damage was done by the attacks.
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Russian hackers discussed during the 2016 presidential campaign whether they could obtain emails pilfered from Hillary Clinton and ultimately get them to an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, according to a report published Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. The Journal said investigators probing Russian meddling in the election have examined intelligence agency reports about how hackers wanted to get emails from Clinton's server to an intermediary and then to Mike Flynn, a retired lieutenant general and senior adviser to Trump who went on to serve briefly as his national security adviser.
Hackers believed to be Russian discussed how to steal Hillary Clinton's emails from her private email server and transfer them to Michael Flynn via an intermediary, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing reports compiled by US intelligence agencies investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election. One of those intermediaries, according to the Journal, may have been a GOP operative named Peter W. Smith - an 80-year-old opposition researcher who assembled a team of t to track down hacking groups with access to the 33,000 emails Clinton deleted from her private email server that she said were personal in nature.