The standard rationale for patent claims is that they describe the invention and provide notice of patent infringement to competitors. This notice theory, however, is simply untrue—because patent litigation is highly unpredictable, claims do not provide notice of infringement. Accordingly, a large literature argues that claims are valueless, and that courts should instead determine patent scope...

The circuit shown in Figure 1 is often called a half-wave rectifier because the diode supposed to stay on for 50% of one cycle. However, that view untrue since on-duty ratio depends parameters.

Comment on the " θ-term renormalization in the (2+1)-dimensional CP N−1 model with θ term " Abstract It is found that the recently published first coefficient of nonzero β-function for the Chern-Simons term in the 1/N expansion of the CP N −1 model is untrue numerically. The correct result is given. The main conclusions of the paper [1] are not changed.

There are many commonly discussed myths about ski safety that are propagated by industry, physicians, and skiers. Through a review of the literature concerning 12 such topics, this article demonstrates that the following are untrue: (1) Broken legs have been traded for blown-out knees. (2) If you know your DIN (a slang term for release indicator value), you can adjust your own bindings. (3) Toe...

Symmetry analysis is a powerful tool that enables the user to construct exact solutions of a given differential equation in a fairly systematic way. For this reason, the Lie point symmetry groups of most well-known differential equations have been catalogued. It is widely believed that the set of symmetries of an initial-value problem (or boundary-value problem) is a subset of the set of symmet...

Noncompliance with study medications is an important issue in the design of endpoint clinical trials. Including noncompliant patient data in an intention-to-treat analysis could seriously decrease study power. Standard methods for calculating sample size account for noncompliance, but all assume that noncompliance is noninformative, i.e., that the risk of discontinuation is independent of the r...

Current interest in spintronics is largely motivated by a belief that spin based devices (e.g. spin field effect transistors) will be faster and consume less power than their electronic counterparts. Here we show that this is generally untrue. Unless materials with extremely strong spin orbit interaction can be developed, the spintronic devices will not measure up to their electronic cousins. W...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this article is to present the most commonly occlusal changes secondary to TMD. METHODS The clinical presentation of these conditions is discussed. Details regarding diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients presenting TMD prior or during treatment are also presented. CONCLUSIONS All plans for irreversible therapy should be preceded by a meticulous analysis of TM...

As the Web has emerged as a large distributed data repository, individuals and organizations have been able to utilize the lowcost information and knowledge on the Internet when making business decisions. Because data in different data sources may be conflictive or untrue, researchers and practitioners must intensify efforts to develop appropriate techniques for its efficient use and management...