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There's No Party Like Ex Parte
[From Ian Weinstein] Several weeks ago I blogged about this very moving account of the huge and badly conceived immigration raid at the Iowa meatpacking plant, written by Dr...

X-parte factor
While members of the Bench are in the mood for a bit of modernisation of their image (what with getting ...

Ex Parte Framatome
On Dec. 12th, 1999, Reexamination No. 90/005,589 of U.S. Patent No. 5,940,464 was requested by Westinghouse Electric Company...

Ex parte Halligan
In setting up the obviousness analysis, the BPAI in Halligan wrote:The question of obviousness is resolved on the basis of underlying factual determinations including (1) the scope and content of the prior art, (2) any differences between the claimed subject matter and the prior art, (3) the level of skill in the art, and (4) where in evidence, so-called secondary considerations...

Ex Parte Bilski: On the Briefs:
In Ex Parte Bilski, an en banc Federal Circuit plans to reconsider the scope of patentable subject matter as it relates to business methods and so called mental methods...

On ex parte contact with ex-employees
I read the opinion by Judge Kiser in Bryant v. Yorktowne Cabinetry, granting summary judgment in a Title VII case.The opinion referenced an earlier decision by Magistrate Judge Urbanski that I missed...