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...deeper reason behind the Supreme Court Justices' choosing to hear this case has to do with the nuances of the decision at a lower court. After the U.S. patent office denied their patent in 2006, the Bilski-Warsaw duo took their appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The panel of 12 judges heard the case, and came to the conclusion that the patent office was justified in its dismissal...
Huge legal expenses and 13 years later, the two men behind the case, Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw, had their day in the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 9. Most legal experts though, agreed that the duo had no chance of victory. "I don't think anyone other than Bilski thinks that Bilski deserves a patent," says Mark Lemley, a professor of law at Stanford University. (See the 50 best inventions...
...promote volunteerism and share his tale of starting a new life in a new land. "I am an Obama, and a large part of my life was a repudiation of that," Ndesandjo tells TIME. "To a certain extent, my brother ... opened my eyes to things that I had left behind for a long time." (Ndesandjo is still reticent about detailing his personal life beyond the fictionalized account, saying he may save that for a second book, a true autobiography...
...behind-the-scenes pictures of Barack Obama in Iraq...
...course, the ideas of John Maynard Keynes are also behind the auto-industry bailouts, new financial regulations and public investments pushed by the Obama Administration. The difference is both in the details and the big picture: not only do specific national economic policies in Europe tend to still trail those of the U.S. on the free-market curve, but there is also a lingering ingrained suspicion about capitalism itself...