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...request and provided to TIME, RIM chairman and co-CEO Jim Balsillie was scheduled to meet with patent-office officials on Jan. 4, 2005, along with representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce (such meetings are highly unusual). In February a Canadian government official contacted a patent-office lawyer to find out if the Canadian Patent Office should "exert an interest or pressure" on its American counterpart. That November Canada's Minister of Industry, David Emerson, wrote to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, urging that the patent office expedite the review of NTP's patents or at least...
...wonder a MercExchange lawyer fumed in early March when the Buy It Now patent was reassigned to a new examiner after staff in the technology center had spent 21/2 years dealing with it. The new examiner rejected MercExchange's application after only a few days, although the shift may reflect the new way the patent office handles re-examinations in cases more than two years old, with an emphasis on speed...
...cultural icons are waging a courtroom battle over a fruit. Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, wants Apple Computer to remove its bitten-apple logo from its iTunes music store. A lawyer for Apple Corps, which is co-owned by Paul McCartney, RINGO STARR, George Harrison's estate and Yoko Ono, downloaded a Coldplay song from iTunes to show a London judge how Apple Computer uses its logo to sell music, in violation, the lawyer said, of a 1991 agreement that it would stay out of the music business. Apple Computer's lawyer responded that "even a moron...
Some House Republicans are starting to feel pressure at home over their hard-line stance. In Reading, Pa., a Hispanic lawyer named Angel Figueroa arranged a meeting last month for his Congressman Jim Gerlach--who faces a tight race this fall--and voters in his district who oppose the House bill, which Gerlach supported. The meeting included not only immigrant-advocacy groups but also the president of the local community college, the head of a federally funded labor-training-and-placement company, the personnel director of a mushroom-growing company and a local Catholic priest. After listening to their arguments...
...from malaria." He's self-assured enough that he has been known to tell underlings he didn't need to accompany them to meetings with the President. "He would stay out of meetings in the Oval if he thought the President would benefit more from a smaller discussion," says lawyer Jay Lefkowitz, who worked with Bolten under both Presidents Bush...