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...insufficient to meet the standards of Chinese law. The company claims it's being penalized for not fulfilling requirements that didn't even exist when its patent was approved in 2001, and U.S. Trade Representative spokesman Richard Mills says he will raise the issue with the Chinese government. Pat Powers, Beijing-based director of China operations for the U.S.-China Business Council, says SIPO's decision "sends a negative signal to foreign companies looking to defend their property rights." Still, it's not clear whether China's patent office did anything wrong. Other countries have thrown out Viagra patents...
...politics out there today is not getting things done," says Obama. "So what I do is tell a story about what's been lost in the American Dream and how we can recapture that dream." Democrats will be happy if they can just recapture the Senate. --With reporting by Pat Dawson/Talkeetna, Rita Healy/Denver, Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago and Constance E. Richards/Greenville...
Viewers may find the spectacle something of a rerun of the overtly inclusionary 2000 convention; campaign officials are again asking state delegations to stress diversity. Projecting such an image is crucial after weeks of strident exchanges between the parties, culminating in Vice President Cheney's outburst at Democratic Senator Pat Leahy last week. Cheney will get a prime-time spot too, of course, but insiders say he's unlikely to join in the gentler approach. "Cheney soften?" says a Bush official. "Don't bet on it." --By John F. Dickerson
Though Mullainathan has accepted Harvard’s offer, he will not officially begin his tenure here until next spring, economics department administrator Pat Shanahan said...
...also necessary, pat as it sounds, to be a good neighbor. "As much as there's an important and large medical component to prevention, this is about caring for your friends and family," says Dr. Martin Gorbien, director of geriatric medicine at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. "There's as big a role, if not bigger, for concern and compassion when there's any extreme weather...