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...question was debated before the Supreme Court last week in a high-profile patent case, one of several the Justices are hearing this term. The caseload reflects the court's mounting interest in patent wars, which seem to be producing lots of headlines lately. That would include the near shutdown of the popular BlackBerry device, owned by Research in Motion (RIM), of Waterloo, Ont., which had "CrackBerry" fans panicking. RIM coughed up $612.5 million to settle litigation brought by NTP Inc., despite the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected all eight NTP patents that were the focus...
...find a new haunt for live music, good food, and cheap drinks. Many frequented Phatt Boys throughout first semester, and the cavernous eatery earned a rep for fun (read: lax carding). Yet today, nearly all remnants of Phatt Boys’s existence have disappeared. The reasons for its shutdown are unclear. An employee at Dado Tea, which abuts the now-vacant lot, claims the place closed due to “bad location of the restaurant, since it is so far back,” nestled awkwardly up a ramp between an artsy tea shop and a staid office...
...value of the credit, but most agree that if oil were to remain at recent peak levels, or climb even higher, few synfuel operators could claim the full credit. Citing that uncertainty, the Marriott Corp., which has invested in four synfuel plants, temporarily suspended production in January. Before the shutdown, Marriott had racked up $370 million in synfuel profits...
Harvard’s social scene stereotypically gets pegged as sub-par. Facing a host of regulations that include a 2:00 a.m. shutdown, parties on campus rely heavily on small gatherings in student suites...
...surface water enough to prevent it from sinking as it cools and returning south to the tropics where it can replenish ocean currents like the Gulf Stream. And because the Gulf Stream is the only reason much of Western Europe has so mild and temperate a climate, such a shutdown of that conveyor belt of heat could be nothing short of catastrophic. Oceanographers reported late last year the ominous news that one element of that family of currents has slowed 30% since 1992. It's not clear yet that this is the beginning of the feared shutdown...