Integrating an Institutional CRIS with an OA IR

Poster describing and illustrating work undertaken by ULCC and Symplectic to integrate an existing Symplectic Elements Current Research Information System with a new externally available EPrints Open Access repository, including support for harvesting full-text from UK PubMed Central

Lost and Foundry: Forging a New Approach to Patent Licensing Agreements

The Federal Circuit has been inconsistent in its treatment of patent licensing agreements held by foundries. Recently, the Federal Circuit held that a foundry contract is a sale of goods that severs the right of the patentee with respect to the buyer under the patent exhaustion doctrine. In addition, it held that the applicable license would be construed to allow foundry rights unless the patentee could prove otherwise. This Note analyzes a string of Federal Circuit cases involving foundries and patent licenses. It concludes that a foundry contract should be viewed as a sale of services rather than a sale of goods and that, even if it is a sale of goods, a foundry transaction should not be a first sale under the patent exhaustion doctrine. In addition, a patent license should be construed with the presumption that foundry rights were not granted unless the licensee establishes a contrary intent

The growth of sapphire single crystals using an induction coupled plasma

The study was conducted to develop an induction coupled plasma technique for growing sapphire single crystals and to evaluate the resulting boules

Protecting the Home: Castle Doctrine in North Carolina

The idea that a person’s home is her castle dates back to at least the seventeenth century in England. This idea can be seen today in a plethora of places throughout American Law, including Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Part of North Carolina’s self-defense law has been deemed a “castle doctrine,” yet courts have applied its protections inconsistently at best. As it now stands, the North Carolina castle doctrine does not truly afford a homeowner the ability to defend her home from an unlawful intruder. A potential criminal prosecution is the last thing that a homeowner should have to worry about when defending her home from an invasion. This Comment explores the history of the castle doctrine in general, in North Carolina, and in Florida, and offers solutions in the form of amendments to North Carolina General Statutes sections 14-51.2 and 14-51.3

Before COVID-19 : the effect of the 1918 pandemic on Scotland's children

The erroneously named 'Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918-1920 was responsible for the deaths of at least 50 million people worldwide. Its point of arrival in the UK was Glasgow, Scotland, probably brought by troops returning from the battlefields of the Great War. The first infections were in factories and a boys' industrial school and the first recorded deaths were of eight children at the former Smyllum Orphanage in Lanark. The British Newspaper Archive is a valuable online source of reports about the pandemic from local Scottish newspapers of the time, but there is more research to be done in the National Records of Scotland and in local archives. The authors welcome advice on potential sources of the effects of the 1918 pandemic on Scottish orphanages, children's homes and industrial schools