Ever since its genesis in the Supreme Court’s famous decision in International News Service v. Associated Press,1 the “hot news” misappropriation doctrine has had to fight for its survival. First came Judge Learned Hand, who in a series of opinions, took the position that International News did not lay down a “general doctrine,” but was instead meant to be limited to the peculiarities of the ne...

One of the most important and delicate judicial tasks in patent law is to keep the obviousness doctrine in reasonable working order. There are several reasons why the obviousness doctrine has been the subject of frequent judicial tinkering. First, patentability doctrines interact with each other, so doctrinal alterations that seem to be entirely external to the obviousness doctrine frequently h...

The neuron [4] doctrine is a concept formed during the turn of the twentieth century that describes the properties of neurons, the specialized cells that compose the nervous system. The neuron [4] doctrine was one of two major theories on the composition of the nervous system at the time. Advocates of the neuron [4] doctrine claimed that the nervous system was composed of discrete cellular unit...

This note argues that the United Nations should center nature’s rights in upcoming Global Pact on Environment, solidifying patchwork of international environmental law and encouraging domestic protection environment. Part II explores current state law, outlining ways which doctrine remains incomplete. III establishes Earth jurisprudence is an effective method to fill gaps existing within tradit...

This article explains Moltmann’s doctrine of ecology as applied by ecotheologians to address the ecological crisis. Ecotheology is highlighted a critical role-player in harmonisation theology and ecology. The role ecotheology defined within crisis South Africa. emergence assists scholars balance maintain stable theologically sensible mode stewardship, taking command from perichoretical example ...

Grier, Michelle, 1960– Kant's doctrine of transcendental illusion / Michelle Grier. p. cm. – (Modern European philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arterial hypertension is a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases. Data from observational studies indicate that it may affect 90% of the general population during their lifetime. Despite much research that has been done, the exact cause of this disorder is still unknown. Avicenna (Ibn Sina) in his masterpiece The Canon of Medicine described most of the clinical featur...

Appellate courts, which have the most control over legal doctrine, tend to operate through collegial (multimember) decision making. How does this collegiality affect their choice of legal doctrine? Can decisions by appellate courts be expected to result in a meaningful collegial rule? How do such collegial rules differ from the rules of individual judges? We explore these questions and show tha...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 313 I. THE CONTEXT AND LAW OF INS ........................................... 317 A. AHN and the Declining Newspaper Industry .................... 319 B. Theflyonthewall and New Challenges to the Hot News Doctrine .............................................................................. 321 II....

We provide a construction which co-freely adds elementary structure to a primary doctrine in the sense of Lawvere. We show that the construction preserves all the first order logical structures that the starting doctrine may have. Moreover it forces the Principle of Propositional Extensionality when applied to tripos.