U.S. Infringement Liability for Foreign Sellers of Infringing Products

With the ever-increasing international flavor of business comes an important question for United States patent holders and foreign manufacturers alike: Can a company be held liable for patent infringement in the United States for selling an infringing product abroad that is later imported into the United States

Officer-Involved Shootings in Anchorage 1993–2013

This report describes situational, officer, and citizen characteristics of the 45 officer-involved shootings in Anchorage for the period 1 Jan 1993 through 11 May 2013 as recorded in Anchorage Police Department (APD) criminal investigation files. An “officer-involved shooting” is defined as an incident in which a sworn APD employee purposefully discharged a firearm with the intent of stopping a human being while acting under color of law, including firing at vehicles when the intent is to stop the vehicle. A total of 45 officer-involved shootings occurred during the 20-year study period. APD policy with regard to use of force and investigation of officer-involved shootings is also described.Anchorage Police Department.Executive Summary / Introduction / Investigation of officer-involved shootings and current policy / Policy / Data source and limitations / Temporal and spatial characteristics / Situational characteristics / Types of weapons used by police / Number of shots fired by police / Officer characteristics / Citizen characteristics / Summary / Appendix A: Variables Collecte

One Toke Over the Line: The Proliferation of State Medical Marijuana Laws

[Excerpt] “Marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes for at least five thousand years. In fact, it was used medicinally in the United States up until the twentieth century when antidrug zealots managed to prohibit it. Prohibition was the status quo until 1996 when California became the first state to adopt a law allowing medicinal marijuana use. Since then, thirteen additional states, along with the District of Columbia, have enacted similar laws. More states are now lining up with their own laws, which are in various stages of adoption. In addition, the Supreme Court has impacted the issue, both with decisions made as well as those not made. The state of the law is rapidly evolving, and this article addresses its history, recent changes, and future. Part II examines the past, from the third millennium B.C. to the 1990s. Part III examines the present, including California’s trailblazing law and its imitators. Part IV examines case law and court challenges to medical marijuana laws, as well as currently pending medical marijuana laws. Part V looks to the future to determine the likely legality and impact of medical marijuana laws.

Questions and conjectures about multinomial coefficients

The purpose of this thesis is to try to answer some of the questions in Dr. Bachman\u27s paper On Divisibility Properties of Certain Multinomial Coefficients . First we let {ai} be any sequence (finite or infinite) of positive integers such that i1ai ≤1 . It is clear that n!&sqbl0;na1 &sqbr0;!&sqbl0;na2&sqbr0; !&sqbl0;na3&sqbr0;!&ldots; is an integer because it is a multiple of a certain multinomial coefficient. We let fan=n! Ln&sqbl0;n a1&sqbr0;!&sqbl0;na 2&sqbr0;!&sqbl0;na3 &sqbr0;!&ldots; where L(n) = lcm(1, 2, 3, .., n). It is easy to show that fa(n) is integer-valued. In particular, we would like to study the sequence a1 = b1 = 2 and ak+1 = bk+1 = Pki=1 bi + 1. The first goal of my thesis was to prove the following conjecture by computer for all m up to 100; Conjecture 1. For every positive integer m there exists a number n0 such that m divides f( n) for all n \u3e n0 where fn=n!L n&sqbl0;n2&sqbr0; !&sqbl0;n3&sqbr0;!&sqbl0;n 7&sqbr0;!&ldots I did this by using Theorem 1 of Dr. Bachman\u27s paper; Theorem 1. pv|| f(n) if and only if there are exactly v pairs of integers (k,l),k,l ≥ 1, such that Rk&parl0;&sqbl0;npl &sqbr0;&parr0;Bk\u3c Rk+1&parl0;&sqbl0;npl &sqbr0;&parr0;Bk+1 with Rk(m) defined as m ≡ Rk(m) mod Bk and 0 \u3c Rk( m) ≤ Bk where Bk = bk+1 - 1; The second part of my thesis is concerned with attacking Conjecture 1 as it was written in Dr. Bachman\u27s paper. Before we can restate Conjecture 1 we need to define the base p expansion of a positive integer. We write nj = a0pj + a1pj -1 +..+ aj where 0 ≤ ai ≤ p - 1. Now we restate Conjecture 1 as Conjecture 2; Conjecture 2. Let {nj} be defined above. Then there exist infinitely many integers j for which the inequality Rk&parl0;nj&parr0;B

Research Perspectives on the Use and Control of Police Force

Anchorage Community Police Relations Task Forc

Application of Internal Revenue Code Section 103(C) to Variable Rate Demand Bonds: Purging the Profiteering Potential

This Note analyzes transactions involving VRDBs, to determine whether they comply with the strictures of IRC section 103(c) and, hence, qualify for the tax exemption. Initially, this Note provides an overview of the tax-exempt bond market by examining the factors that led to the development of VRDBs. It then demonstrates how a reasonable interpretation of the language of IRC section 103(c), gleaned from its legislative history and Treasury promulgations, requires that almost all VRDBs lose their tax-exempt status. More specifically, this Note concludes that the inability to calculate the yield for VRDBs creates an impermissible potential to earn arbitrage profits. Based on this conclusion, this Note suggests that it is incumbent upon the Treasury Department to issue regulations that will limit the tax exemption for transactions involving VRDBs. Finally, this Note proposes measures that delineate the proper scope of the tax exemption for VRDBs and incorporates them in a model Treasury Regulation