The Sum of the Parts Is Greater than the Whole: Why Courts Determining Subject Matter Eligibility Should Analyze the Patent-Eligible and Unpatentable Portions of the Claim Separately Instead of Treating the Claim as a Whole

For years, uncertainty has plagued the patent world regarding how to determine if claims are patent eligible. Recent Supreme Court decisions addressing patent eligibility, while resolving the eligibility of the claims before the Court, have not provided a general methodology for lower courts and the Patent and Trademark Office to follow. This note proposes a general method of analysis to determine patent eligibility. First, rather than treat the claim as a whole, the court or examiner should divide a claim into unpatentable and patent-eligible portions. Then the court or examiner should conduct a three-factor analysis to determine if the claim is patent eligible. The proposed three-factor analysis balances (1) the dependency of the invention on the patent-eligible portion of the claim for utility; (2) the amount of preemption of the unpatentable portion of the claim; and (3) the novelty/nonobviousness of the patent-eligible portion of the claim. Analyzing the patent-eligible and unpatentable portions of a claim separately, and disregarding the Court\u27s admonitions to treat the claim as a whole, allow for greater insight into patent eligibility

A study of senior class student leaders in a suburban industrial community.

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Entrepreneurial Orientation, International Operations, and Logistics Alliance Usage: Perspective From Australian SMEs

At a time when small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are challenged with the international logistics disruptions, forming a large set of logistics alliance relationships has become a critical strategic matter for SMEs. The objective of this study is to examine the links between SME entrepreneurial orientation, international operations, and logistics alliance usage. Utilizing resource dependency theory and upper echelons theory, a model is tested using survey data from 222 Australian SME executives. The findings present a direct positive relationship between SME entrepreneurial orientation and logistics alliance usage. Moreover, the study finds that the link between entrepreneurial orientation and logistics alliance usage becomes stronger for the firms that participate in international operations

Hard-wall and non-uniform lattice Monte Carlo approaches to one-dimensional Fermi gases in a harmonic trap

We present in detail two variants of the lattice Monte Carlo method aimed at tackling systems in external trapping potentials: a uniform-lattice approach with hard-wall boundary conditions, and a non-uniform Gauss-Hermite lattice approach. Using those two methods, we compute the ground-state energy and spatial density profile for systems of N=4 - 8 harmonically trapped fermions in one dimension. From the favorable comparison of both energies and density profiles (particularly in regions of low density), we conclude that the trapping potential is properly resolved by the hard-wall basis. Our work paves the way to higher dimensions and finite temperature analyses, as calculations with the hard-wall basis can be accelerated via fast Fourier transforms, the cost of unaccelerated methods is otherwise prohibitive due to the unfavorable scaling with system size

Are We Driving Strategic Results or Metric Mania? Evaluating Performance in the Public Sector

A strategy is irrelevant if you cannot implement it. That is the collective realization of public and private leaders after decades of obsession with strategy and strategic thinking. That realization has led to a voracious market for ideas on execution, alignment around strategy and predictable achievement of strategic results. Many performance management systems or tools, all meant to help organizational leaders implement their strategic goals and objectives, fail to provide results. We suggest a framework in which strategic and operational goals can be translated into a handful of meaningful metrics that we define as whole goals. Whole goals can then used to drive decision-making and to hold leadership accountable for achieving measurable results. We believe the ability of a public organization to measure and evaluate its performance is of critical importance if today’s leaders and managers are expected to promote successful execution of organizational strategic goals and objectives

Stabilizer Quantum Error Correction with Qubus Computation

In this paper we investigate stabilizer quantum error correction codes using controlled phase rotations of strong coherent probe states. We explicitly describe two methods to measure the Pauli operators which generate the stabilizer group of a quantum code. First, we show how to measure a Pauli operator acting on physical qubits using a single coherent state with large average photon number, displacement operations, and photon detection. Second, we show how to measure the stabilizer operators fault-tolerantly by the deterministic preparation of coherent cat states along with one-bit teleportations between a qubit-like encoding of coherent states and physical qubits.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

Steel Pipe Pile Design, Installation, and Dynamic Testing for a New Pier in Georgetown, SC

A new pier extension was constructed for the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) at Pier 31C in Georgetown, South Carolina. This pier was founded on 28 steel open ended pipe (OEP) piles driven into the underlying limestone and silts of the Pee Dee Formation. To account for the expected high lateral loads the new pier may experience during ship impacts and movements, both vertical and batter piles were installed. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first application of steel open ended pipe piles as a maritime foundation system in the Georgetown, South Carolina area. The soil stratigraphy at the site consisted of soft river deposits overlaying interbedded limestone and silt layers of the Pee Dee Formation. Significant pile penetration into the cohesive deposits of the Pee Dee Formation was necessary to generate the required tension pile capacity. The results of the geotechnical investigation suggested that the intermittent limestone layers would cause difficult driving conditions for pre-stressed concrete piles, which are traditionally used in the area. This paper provides an overview of the project, discusses the selection and design processes and installation of the steel OEP piles, and presents the results of the dynamic load testing program conducted to verify the pile design. In addition, measurements of time dependent pile capacity gain and pile plugging made during pile installation are also presented and discussed