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White Stag, the first book in a brutally stunning series by Kara Barbieri, involves a young girl who finds herself becoming more monster than human and must uncover dangerous truths about who she is and the place that has become her home.

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As the last child in a family of daughters, seventeen-year-old Janneke was raised to be the male heir. While her sisters were becoming wives and mothers, she was taught to hunt, track, and fight. On the day her village was burned to the ground, Janneke—as the only survivor—was taken captive by the malicious Lydian and eventually sent to work for his nephew Soren.

Janneke’s survival in the court of merciless monsters has come at the cost of her connection to the human world. And when the Goblin King’s death ignites an ancient hunt for the next king, Soren senses an opportunity for her to finally fully accept the ways of the brutal Permafrost. But every action he takes to bring her deeper into his world only shows him that a little humanity isn’t bad—especially when it comes to those you care about.

Through every battle they survive, Janneke’s loyalty to Soren deepens. After dangerous truths are revealed, Janneke must choose between holding on or letting go of her last connections to a world she no longer belongs to. She must make the right choice to save the only thing keeping both worlds from crumbling.

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Kara Barbieri is a writer living in the tiny town of Hayward, Wisconsin. An avid fantasy fan, she began writing White Stag at eighteen and posting it to Wattpad soon after under the name of ‘Pandean’. When she’s not writing, you can find her marathoning Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reviving gothic fashion, and jamming to synthpop.

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Landing pages are the first point of contact on your website for customers who have clicked on an advertisement, or typed in a URL and who expect to be able to complete a specific action with a minimum of searching. They are an essential part of your website design; however do not have to be accessible from your main site. Landing pages can be varied for different campaigns (for example, to test whether you get more traffic from a print ad in the newspaper, or a magazine), according to which search engine result was clicked on, or which banner ad a person clicked through from. In fact, it is advisable to create landing pages that cater to different audiences, match the creative for different ads, and have different content depending on where traffic is sourced from. Landing page design is completely separate to website design in general - we look at why online marketing agencies believe so strongly in the power of landing pages, as well as some basic design tips for creating them.

It is rare to find a perfect landing page. The fact that there are several versions of them often limits budget, and the small time frame often allotted to their development usually means there are more technical problems than standard web pages. The landing pages that work better than others for internet marketing purposes has usually been extensively examined by web analytics packages in multivariate testing environments. If you want your landing pages to work to their potential, building up a portfolio of them is essential. Undergoing extensive reconnaissance on your landing pages using web analysis tools will help you get a feel for what works best for your particular suite of products and services.

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The Plaintiff, Lifetime Industries, Inc. (doing business as Boyd Corp.) had filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Northern District of Indiana alleging that Defendant, Trim-Lok, Inc infringed patent no. 6,966,590, Two-Part Seal For A Slide-Out Room, which has been issued by the US Patent Office. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the District Court’s dismissal and remanded back to the district for further proceedings.

Plaintiff owns the patent to a two-part seal for slide-out rooms in RVs. The seal prevents moisture, debris, and air drafts from entering the 2017-10-27-BlogPhoto-300x159vehicle. Soon after two employees left Lifetime to work at Trim-Lok, a representative of Lifetime found an allegedly infringing Trim-Lok seal installed on a third party RV. Plaintiff alleged direct, indirect, and contributory infringement on the part of Trim-Lok, based on claims that Trim-Lok directly installed the seal, or supervised installation of the seal, or influenced the RV company to install the seal on their vehicles. The district court dismissed each claim, stating that Lifetime had not adequately argued the allegations.

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2017-10-20-BlogPhotoA 7-4 of the en banc decision of the Federal Circuit concludes that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board improperly requires a patent owner in an inter partes review (IPR) to show that proposed amended patent claims are patentable before a motion to amend those claims will be granted,

In an unusually opinion, the deeply divided the Court produced five opinions, none of which had enough backers to constitute the opinion of the Court. The most thoughtful opinion was 68 pages opinion, but only agreed upon by five of the judges.  It concluded 5-6 that the statute unambiguously prohibited imposing on the patentee a burden of showing patentability, requiring no deference to the PTAB rule under Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Nat. Res. Def. Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984). However, the opinion picked up two additional votes of Judges Dyk and Reyna, who concurred in the result based on an alternative rationale conceding the ambiguity of the statute but nonetheless denying deference to the PTAB rule.

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Figure-6_903-Patent-300x283Washington, D.C. — The Federal Circuit ruled on two patent infringement decisions, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute v. Eli Lilly & Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. v. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, that involve Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Company.

These companion cases pertain to a pharmaceutical patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,133,903 (“the ’903 patent”), owned by Los Angeles Biomedical.  Also at issue is one prior art reference, International Patent Application No. WO 01/80860, published Nov. 1, 2001, common to both lawsuits.

Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute v. Eli Lilly & Co. arose as an inter partes review of a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board holding all claims of the ‘903 patent to be obvious.  The Federal Circuit reviewed claims in a provisional application relating to a study involving rats in combination with a method in an uncited reference to convert those results to apply to humans.  It held that the rat study and uncited conversion method did not support the claimed dosage for humans.  It further concluded that claims directed to an underlying condition should not be construed broadly to treat symptoms of that condition, holding that the Board had not adopted the broadest reasonable interpretation of the claims but instead had adopted an overbroad interpretation. The panel remanding, stating:

The question remains whether a person of skill in the art would have had a reason to combine [the three cited references relating to the medical condition] and would have had a reasonable expectation of success from doing so.  Because the Board’s obviousness analysis was based on an erroneous construction of the claim language and an overly broad interpretation of [one of the references], and because the Board did not address the record evidence summarized above, we remand for the Board to make new findings as to whether there was an apparent reason to combine the prior art references and whether that combination would have rendered [the treatment] obvious.

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Indianapolis, Indiana – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the district court’s decision and ruled in favor of Eli Lilly regarding validity and infringement of the vitamin regimen patent U.S. Patent No. 7,772,209 for Alimta® (pemetrexed for injection).

In the case of Eli Lilly and Company v. Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc., et al., the court affirmed the earlier district court’s rulings that the vitamin regimen patent is valid and would be infringed by the generic challengers’ proposed products. If the patent is ultimately upheld through all remaining challenges, Alimta would maintain U.S. exclusivity until May 2022, preventing marketing of generic products for as long as the patent remains in force. The Alimta compound patent remLillyHeadquarters-300x127ains in force through January 24, 2017.

In March 2014, the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Indiana upheld the validity of the vitamin regimen patent. In August 2015, the same court ruled in Lilly’s favor regarding infringement of the vitamin regimen patent.

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, reaffirmed its rules of patent exhaustion in a 10-2 decision. It concluded that the Supreme Court decisions in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., and Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., did not require any change in the law of patent exhaustion. The 99-page decision was consistent with the position argued in the amicus brief filed by the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Specifically, the Federal Circuit held that a patentee, when selling a patented article subject to a single-use/no-resale restriction that is lawful and clearly communicated to the purchaser, does not give the buyer, or downstream buyers, the resale/reuse authority that has been expressly denied. Explaining that the ruling in Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. Medipart, Inc., 976 F.2d 700 (Fed. Cir. 1992) remains unchanged, Judge Taranto wrote the following:

Such resale or reuse, when contrary to the known, lawful limits on the authority conferred at the time of the original sale, remains unauthorized and therefore remains infringing conduct under the terms of § 271. Under Supreme Court precedent, a patentee may preserve its § 271 rights through such restrictions when licensing others to make and sell patented articles; Mallinckrodt held that there is no sound legal basis for denying the same ability to the patentee that makes and sells the articles itself. We find Mallinckrodt’s principle to remain sound after the Supreme Court’s decision in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., 553 U.S. 617 (2008), in which the Court did not have before it or address a patentee sale at all, let alone one made subject to a restriction, but a sale made by a separate manufacturer under a patentee-granted license conferring unrestricted authority to sell.

The Federal Circuit also held that a U.S. patentee, by merely selling or authorizing the sale of a U.S.-patented article abroad, does not authorize the buyer to import the article and sell and use it in the United States, which are infringing acts absent authority from the patentee. Explaining that the ruling in Jazz Photo Corp. v. International Trade Comm’n, 264 F.3d 1094 (Fed. Cir. 2001), remains unchanged, Judge Taranto wrote the following:

Jazz Photo’s no exhaustion ruling recognizes that foreign markets under foreign sovereign control are not equivalent to the U.S. markets under U.S. control in which a U.S. patentee’s sale presumptively exhausts its rights in the article sold. A buyer may still rely on a foreign sale as a defense to infringement, but only by establishing an express or implied license–a defense separate from exhaustion, as Quanta holds–based on patentee communications or other circumstances of the sale. We conclude that Jazz Photo’s no-exhaustion principle remains sound after the Supreme Court’s decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 133 S. Ct. 1351 (2013), in which the Court did not address patent law or whether a foreign sale should be viewed as conferring authority to engage in otherwise infringing domestic acts. Kirtsaeng is a copyright case holding that 17 U.S.C. §109(a) entitles owners of copyrighted articles to take certain acts “without the authority” of the copyright holder. There is no counterpart to that provision in the Patent Act, under which a foreign sale is properly treated as neither conclusively nor even presumptively exhausting the U.S. patentee’s rights in the United States.

Judge Dyk filed a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Judge Hughes, that generally agreed with the position argued in the government’s amicus brief.

With respect to Mallinckrodt, Judge Dyk maintained that the decision was wrong from the outset and cannot now be reconciled with the Supreme Court’s Quanta decision. “We exceed our role as a subordinate court by declining to follow the explicit domestic exhaustion rule announced by the Supreme Court,” he added. With respect to Jazz Photo, he wrote that he would retain the ruling if read to say that a foreign sale does not always exhaust U.S. patent rights, but it may if the authorized seller failed to explicitly reserve those rights.

Lexmark makes and sells patented ink cartridges for its printers. It sells cartridges under one plan that permits buyers to use them as they wish, and at a discounted price under a “Return Program” plan that limits buyers to a single use of the cartridge and requires the cartridges to be returned to Lexmark for recycling.

Lexmark brought infringement actions in the district court and the International Trade Commission against Impression Products and other makers of after-market ink cartridges for Lexmark printers. Most of the district court defendants settled the litigation with Lexmark.

As to Lexmark’s action against Impression Products, the district court entered a stipulated judgment on Impression Products motion to dismiss. It held that Lexmark’s patent rights in cartridges first sold in the United States were exhausted under Quanta, but that the rights were retained for cartridges first sold abroad under Jazz Photo.

On appeal, the Federal Circuit sua sponte granted en banc review of whether the appellate court’s ruling on conditional sales in the U.S. must be overruled in light of Supreme Court’s Quanta decision, and whether the appellate court’s Jazz Photo ruling on international exhaustion must be overruled in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on copyright exhaustion in Kirtsaeng.

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The Lanham Act’s ban on registering disparaging marks violates the First Amendment of the Constitution held the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, on December 22, 2015. In re Tam, en banc Fed. Cir., No. 2014-1203, oral argument 12/22/2015.

In a case involving the refusal to register the term “The Slants” for a group of Asian musicians, the court concluded that the disparagement provision of the Lanham Act is used to reject trademarks based on their content and viewpoint, and that denying the benefit of registration on this basis is an unlawful burden on free speech.

After the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to register the “The Slants” mark as disparaging under Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), the applicants appealed to the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit panel affirmed based on In re McGinley, 660 F.2d 481 (CCPA 1981), which found no First Amendment violation since the applicant was free to use the mark without the registration.

However, Judge Moore, in her “additional views,” said that McGinley should be reconsidered by the en banc in light of current First Amendment jurisprudence stating that the government may not deny a benefit based solely on a moral judgment about the viewpoint expressed by a mark. The Federal Circuit granted en banc review on whether Section 2(a) violates the First Amendment.

Disparagement Provision Is Neither Content Nor Viewpoint Neutral

It is beyond dispute that Section 2(a) discriminates on the basis of content and viewpoint to the extent that it denies registration on the basis of the idea or message expressed, the court held. It rejected the government’s argument that the provision calls for rejection of marks based on particular words rather than viewpoints. Judge Moore pointed out that an applicant can register a mark if he shows it is perceived by the referenced group in a positive way, even if the mark contains language that would be offensive in another context.

Nor can the government avoid strict scrutiny of the provision by contending that it simply regulates commercial speech, Judge Moore continued. While trademarks have a commercial function as source identifiers, she explained, it is always a mark’s expressive character that is the basis for the disparagement exclusion from registration, not its ability to serve as a source identifier.

The en banc court expressly overruled In re McGinley, rejecting the argument that denial of a trademark registration does not prohibit use of the trademark. Citing Perry v. Sindermann, 408 U.S. 593(1972), Judge Moore pointed out that, by denying the government benefit based on constitutionally protected speech, a government could penalize and inhibit that freedom. She wrote the following:

Federal trademark registration brings with it valuable substantive and procedural rights unavailable in the absence of registration. These benefits are denied to anyone whose trademark expresses a message that the government finds disparages any group, Mr. Tam included. The loss of these rights, standing alone, is enough for us to conclude that § 2(a) has a chilling effect on speech. Denial of federal trademark registration on the basis of the government’s disapproval of the message conveyed by certain trademarks violates the guarantees of the First Amendment.

Government Speech and Government Subsidy

The court also rejected the contention that trademark registration is government speech and therefore beyond the terms of the First Amendment. While registered trademarks are recorded on a government database, that doesn’t convert the underlying speech to government speech any more that copyright registration converts copyrighted works into government speech, Judge Moore noted. “If being listed in a government database or published in a list of registrations were enough to convert private speech to government speech, nearly every action the government takes–every parade permit granted, every property title recorded, every hunting or fishing license issued–would amount to government speech,” she wrote.

Nor was the Federal Circuit persuaded that the provisions of Section 2(a) set out a variety of legitimate conditions for providing the government subsidy of trademark registration, pointing out that the availability of government subsidies may not be limited by unconstitutional conditions. While Congress is entitled to define the conditions under which it extends government benefits, the court noted that the denial of registration has a major chilling effect on private speech because the benefits of registration are so substantial.

Judge Moore added the following:

Were we to accept the government’s argument that trademark registration is a government subsidy and that therefore the government is free to restrict speech within the confines of the trademark program, it would expand the “subsidy” exception to swallow nearly all government regulation. In many ways, trademark registration resembles copyright registration. Under the logic of the government’s approach, it follows that the government could refuse to register copyrights without the oversight of the First Amendment. Congress could pass a law prohibiting the copyrighting of works containing “racial slurs,” “religious insults,” “ethnic caricatures,” and “misogynistic images.”

Judge O’Malley filed a concurring opinion, writing separately to argue that Section 2(a) is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment.

Judge Dyk filed a concurring and dissenting opinion, arguing that the majority goes too far in concluding that the statute is facially unconstitutional as applied to purely commercial speech.

Judge Lourie filed a dissenting opinion, explaining that he would apply stare decisis to sustain Section 2(a).

Judge Reyna filed a dissenting opinion, arguing that Section 2(a) is an appropriate regulation of commercial speech.

Practice Tip: The availability of trademark protection for the Washington Redskins trademark, which was also denied federal trademark protection on the grounds that it was disparaging, is currently under review by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Washington, D.C. – The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard a patent infringement lawsuit styled Momenta Pharms., Inc. v. Teva Pharms. USA Inc. on the issue of whether Defendants’ quality control procedures infringed the patent-in-suit. This appeal included a companion case, Momenta Pharms., Inc. v. Amphastar et al. Both cases were heard at the trial court level in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts by Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton.

Momenta was the first to market enoxaparin, an anticoagulant drug, in generic form. Momenta also owns U.S. Patent No. 7,575,886 (“the ‘886 patent”), which includes claimed methods designed to ensure that every batch of enoxaparin was of sufficient quality. Momenta asserted the ‘886 patent against other manufacturers, including Teva and Amphastar, which also wanted to bring a generic version of enoxaparin to market. It contended that Defendants’ quality-control measures infringed the ‘886 patent.

In this litigation, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts determined that patent infringement had not taken place, listing two separate grounds. First, the asserted claims were directed towards analyzing enoxaparin for the purpose of quality control, not manufacture of the drug, which did not amount to patent infringement. Second, the district court found that use of the analytical methods of the ‘886 patent were protected under the safe harbor provisions of 35 U.S.C § 271(e)(1). Momenta appealed.

Circuit Judges Dyk, Moore and Wallach of the Federal Circuit ruled on this appeal in November. Writing for the court, Judge Wallach affirmed the trial court’s ruling that Defendants Teva and Amphastar had not infringed the ‘886 patent, holding that infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(g) occurs when “making” a product and that quality-control testing, thus, did not constitute patent infringement.

The Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s judgment that the activities were also protected under the “safe harbor” provisions within § 271(e)(1) and remanded this issue to the district court for further inquiry.

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Washington, D.C. – The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided the matter of SCA Hygiene v. First Quality Baby Products, a case about adult incontinence products.

At issue in the case was the legal doctrine of “laches.” The laches doctrine penalizes a plaintiff who “sleeps on” his or her rights by waiting a long time to file a lawsuit after learning of a violation of those rights. Laches, an equitable defense, protects those who would be harmed by the assertion of those rights after a plaintiff’s delay. For example, in the case of a lawsuit asserting patent infringement, laches could work against a patent owner who saw an infringing product emerge in 2000 but waited until 2015 to sue, after a significant investment of time and resources had been put into the product.

The Federal Circuit had long recognized laches as a limitation on patent owners’ rights. But a recent Supreme Court case, Petrella v. MGM, called the doctrine into question. In Petrella, the Supreme Court held that laches was not a defense in copyright cases. Given the ruling in Petrella, the Federal Circuit opted to hear this litigation en banc to determine whether laches should still be a defense in patent cases.

The court held that the defense should be preserved. Proponents of laches in the patent-infringement context (see, e.g., Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s friend-of-the-court brief), contend that patent defendants and copyright defendants are in very different positions when it comes to defending against stale claims. Patent defendants, unlike their copyright counterparts, often defend themselves by showing that the patent owner’s claimed invention was obvious at the time of filing (thus making the patent invalid). But, by delaying a lawsuit, a patent owner can make it difficult for the defendant to find evidence of what people in the field knew about or would have found obvious back when the application was filed. This is especially true in the Internet age, those proponents argue. Websites are constantly rewritten. Software code gets lost or is not documented. In sum, without the defense of laches, patent owners can sit and wait for time to destroy the evidence that an alleged infringer needs to defend herself.

The decision came out 6-5, meaning five judges of the Federal Circuit think Petrella changed the availability of the doctrine of laches in both copyright infringement and patent infringement lawsuits. Given the closeness of the decision, this case may go to the Supreme Court.

This edited article was provided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group which advocates for innovators and users of technology. The article has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Washington, D.C. – The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard an appeal in the matter of Ineos USA LLC v. Berry Plastics Corporation. It affirmed the decision reached by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Case No. 3:13-cv-00017, regarding the infringement of Patent No. 6,846,863 (the “‘863 patent), which was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Ineos holds the ‘863 patent, which was directed to polyethylene-based compositions which could be used to form shaped products, such as screw caps for bottles. In a patent lawsuit filed in Texas, Ineos accused Berry Plastics of infringing its ‘863 patent.

Berry Plastics moved for summary judgment that the asserted claims were anticipated independently by various prior art references, including U.S. Patent No. 5,948,846. Prior art incorporated a lubricant to allow the cap to glide better, which facilitated unscrewing the cap. However, in addition to increasing usability, the prior chemical formulations also imparted a bad odor and flavor to food products stored in contact with them. Ineos’ ‘863 patent claimed to have solved this problem by modifying the proportions of polyethylene, lubricants, and additives.

The district court ruled in Berry Plastic’s favor, holding that the ‘863 patent was invalid as anticipated by prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (2006).

Ineos appealed from the district court’s ruling. The Federal Circuit affirmed, holding that Ineos had failed to show that the range claimed by the ‘863 patent was “critical to the operability of [Ineos’] invention.”

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Washington, D.C. – The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a royalty award in Gaylord v. United States for copyright infringement committed by the United States Postal Service.

Frank Gaylord, a World War II veteran and renowned sculptor, created The Column, consisting of nineteen stainless steel statues depicting a squad of soldiers on patrol. This work, completed and dedicated in 1995, formed a central part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. For his efforts in creating the work, Gaylord was paid $775,000.

Shortly after the completion of the work, an amateur photographer named John Alli visited the Memorial during a heavy snowstorm and photographed The Column. In 2002, the United States Postal Service decided to issue a stamp to commemorate the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the Korean War armistice. It settled on Alli’s photo of The Column for the stamp face and paid Alli a one-time fee for the right to use his photo. The Postal Service made no payment to Gaylord.

Gaylord sued for copyright infringement. The United States Court of Federal Claims acted as the trial court in the litigation. Twice prior to the instant appeal, an appeal was made to the Federal Circuit, first in 2010 and again in 2012. In Gaylord I, the Federal Circuit held that the government was liable to Gaylord for copyright infringement. Upon remand, the Court of Federal Claims awarded Gaylord a total of $5,000 to compensate for the infringement of his copyright. This award was vacated by the Federal Circuit in Gaylord II and the lawsuit remanded with instructions to “determine the fair market value of a license for Mr. Gaylord’s work based on a hypothetical negotiation with the government.”

Upon remand, the trial court split the calculations of damages for the infringement into three categories: (1) stamps used to send mail; (2) commercial merchandise featuring an image of the stamp; and (3) unused stamps purchased by collectors. The parties agreed that no damages would be paid for stamps used to send mail and that a royalty of 10% of revenues would be appropriate for commercial merchandise featuring the copyrighted work.

The only disputed issue was the appropriate measure of copyright infringement damages for the stamps purchased by collectors. The lower court determined that the Postal Service received $5.4 million in revenue, which was deemed “almost pure profit,” from these sales. It then found that an appropriate copyright royalty would be 10%, or $540,000.

At issue in this latest appeal, Gaylord III, is whether this royalty was appropriate. The Federal Circuit applied the “hypothetical negotiation” analysis in reviewing the Court of Federal Claims’ award to Gaylord, stating that “actual damages for copyright infringement may be based on a reasonable royalty representing the fair market value of a license covering the defendant’s use.” Determining that “fair market value,” in turn could be done employing a valuation tool used in the context of patent infringement litigation: a hypothetical negotiation that would determine “the reasonable license fee on which a willing buyer and a willing seller would have agreed for the use taken by the infringer.”

The Federal Circuit held that the lower court neither committed clear error nor abused its discretion in arriving at a 10% royalty rate affirmed the award of $540,000.

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Indiana Patent Litigation: Eli Lilly Asks Indiana Federal Court to Adjudicate Dispute Regarding Patented Pharmaceutical

Indianapolis, Indiana – Indiana patent attorneys for Plaintiff Eli Lilly and Company of Indianapolis, Indiana (“Lilly”) filed an intellectual property lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana asserting infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7,772,209 (“the ‘209 patent”), which was filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

This patent infringement lawsuit asserts unlawful behavior by two Defendants. Specifically, the complaint states that Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey is acting on behalf of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Ltd. of Hyderabad, India in seeking approval to manufacture and sell a generic version of Lilly’s ALIMTA®, a chemotherapy agent used for the treatment of various types of cancer. Lilly further contends that the two Defendants are agents and/or alter-egos of one another.

Lilly states that unless Defendants are “enjoined from infringing the ‘209 patent, actively inducing infringement of the ‘209 patent, and contributing to the infringement by others of the ‘209 patent, Lilly will suffer irreparable injury.”

This lawsuit, filed by Indiana patent lawyers for Lilly, lists a single count: Infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7,772,209. Lilly seeks a declaratory judgment, equitable relief, damages, costs and attorneys’ fees.

The case was assigned to Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson and Magistrate Judge Debra McVicker Lynch, in the Southern District of Indiana and assigned Case No. 1:16-cv-00308-JMS-DML.

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You can stop right here if you have been looking for a window repair or window replacement in Spokane, Washington. We are firmly established as a leading resource for window installation services in this area, and we take our reputation very seriously. When you choose our company, you will immediately recognize our commitment to world class products and services on every level.

Spokane is a truly beautiful city with countless different benefits to offer its residents. It is a hotbed of art and culture, with the Garland Business District serving as the centerpiece of the creative community. The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture is located in town, along with the Jundt Art Museum, which is on the campus of Gonzaga University.

The Lilac City is a great place to live, and we know it well. If you are in Glenrose, Scribner, Dartford, Nine Mile Falls, Deep Creek, or any other part of Spokane, Washington, a window repair and window installation resource will always be standing by to assist you.

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We are definitely the go-to resource for window repair work and window replacement projects, but our capabilities extend beyond this area of specialization. If you need a roofer to repair your roof, we have you covered, and we will get to you in a hurry if it is an emergency situation. Plus, our roofers also install new roofing systems that are sourced from the GAF company. They back up their products with a solid warranty, and they are surprisingly affordable.

When you are considering the cost of a new roof as a Spokane, Washington homeowner, you should take a few things into consideration. First, the roofing systems that we install increase energy efficiency, so heating and cooling costs go down. A home improvement is going to increase the value of your property, and a new, totally reliable roof can lower your homeowners insurance premiums.

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If you need work done on your existing deck, or if you would like a new one, we would be more than glad to satisfy your needs and exceed your expectations. Fences are in our wheelhouse as well, so you can rely on us if you need a fence or a fence repair.

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Top 5 HCM software tips to benefit your business

You may have heard about HCM software, but do you know what it can do for your business?

If you’re like many small-to-medium businesses, your back-office data is stored on an assortment of computers and software – and probably even on paper. However, this can be limiting and lead to disorganization.

That’s why integrated HR technology has become a popular solution for helping businesses save time, money and frustration.

The most basic HR technology systems are usually referred to as HRIS (human resources information systems) or HRMS (human resources management systems). These were the predecessors to the more robust, feature-rich HCM platforms, storing primarily essential data such as employee, benefits and payroll information.

HCM puts all your HR information in one place

HCM, or human capital management, is the most comprehensive type of HR technology. An HCM platform integrates all your HR data in a single system. It provides a central point of access for not only storing employee records and processing payroll, but also managing benefits, time and attendance, performance reviews and much more.

When you and your employees are easily able to access the information you need, when you need it, it can completely transform your organization. You’ll go from drowning in the tactical details of your business to becoming more strategic in your approach to human resources and your business as a whole.

A reputable human capital management system will automate your core HR processes and give your business access to all this information (and more) from one convenient, integrated online location:

  • Hiring data like résumés and applicant info
  • Onboarding and benefits enrollment information for new employees
  • Company documents such as employee handbooks, emergency procedures and announcements
  • ACA (Affordable Care Act) compliance measurements for eligibility and stability periods
  • Benefits management and open enrollment information
  • Employee pay grades and positions held in the company
  • Employee records and payroll data
  • Schedules and shift assignments
  • Time and attendance tracking
  • Training information
  • Succession plans
  • Development plans and disciplinary actions
  • Certifications and renewals earned and needed
  • Status changes and company employment history

What does having all this valuable information right at your fingertips mean for your business? Here are five ways an HCM platform can make life easier for you and your employees

1. You’ll save time

If you don’t have an HCM system, this may sound familiar: Your employees’ data (such as contact information and hire date) are stored on an Excel spreadsheet. Your time-tracking software is separate from your automated payroll system. Performance reviews are stored with individual managers throughout the company.

When you choose the right HR technology for your business, all that information lives in one place.

An HCM system lets employees input their own time and attendance information, which is then connected to their salary information and ACA reporting requirements. Payroll is generated without retyping data. If someone leaves the company or changes jobs, an integrated system updates the information everywhere, so employee data is always current and accurate throughout the system.

Having timely, integrated data can facilitate the production of year-end forms such as 1094s, 1095s, 1099s and W-2s.

HCM technology also makes for much faster and more accurate onboarding, so it’s less time-consuming to grow your workforce.

2. Time saved equals money saved

Greater efficiency saves you time, which ultimately saves money. Imagine freeing your HR staff from data entry so they can begin helping you build a plan to grow your workforce or explore why a particular area has excessive turnover.

Because cloud-based software allows you to buy only what you need, your company’s price to entry is significantly lower. That’s because you don’t have to invest in proprietary, on-premise software and its requisite updates, servers and other IT infrastructure. With an online system, maintenance and upgrades are handled by your HCM provider, not your IT staff. It’s seamless and doesn’t disrupt business.

Further, HCM software easily scales up and down with your business since you’re typically charged on a per-employee, per-month basis. Be sure you know what you’re looking to improve by implementing new HR technology into your organization.

Human capital management technology eliminates paper hard copies and the physical storage space that paper requires. Eliminating paper storage may free up enough space to add an employee or two. In addition, when you don’t need to transfer information from one system to another, there are fewer chances that costly mistakes will be made.

Since employees manage their own personal information, you may also be able to add employees without adding HR staff for administration. This gives employees a vested interest in updating their own records when they move, get married or have a child and further ensures accurate and timely information

3. You’ll reduce frustration company-wide

With cloud-based systems, not only do you have work-from-anywhere convenience – your employees do, too. This becomes particularly important as you incorporate more remote workers or open offices in new locations.

Human capital management software can give all of your employees access to specific pieces of information in the system. They’re able to enroll themselves in benefits programs, make changes to contact information or withholding, and perform routine administrative tasks without depending on your often-time-starved HR staff.

It also becomes more convenient to hire new employees when your systems are streamlined. A robust recruiting system helps your hiring managers more consistently source, track and evaluate candidates, from job posting through the interview process.

And, by reducing your HR staff’s workload, you can help them avoid burnout and free up their time to handle more important issues, like planning and implementing strategic talent management.

4. Your data will be more secure

Security is perhaps the biggest problem with having your workforce information strung across several paper-based and disconnected on-premise systems. A human capital management system gives the right people role-based access to the employee data they need, but not information they shouldn’t see.

For instance, a manager can see her team’s performance evaluations from multiple years, their salary information, time-off requests and professional certifications. But she can’t see salary details from other departments or payroll. Meanwhile, the CEO can see everyone’s salaries and performance reviews. Personally identifiable information, such as Social Security numbers, is also properly protected.

The best HCM systems will offer an executive dashboard that gives upper management visibility into critical workforce management intelligence. This helps your management team stay on top of workforce trends and make better, more informed decisions.

5. HCM helps keep you compliant

If you’re busy running your business, it’s practically impossible to stay ahead of the many rules and regulations imposed by city, state and federal agencies. A human capital management system, because it’s cloud-based, can seamlessly update processes and procedures that help keep your business compliant and on the right side of employment law. This lets your company’s top management focus on profitability rather than compliance.

Service matters

As with any type of technology, it’s important to make sure the company providing your HCM platform can offer the service and support you’ll need to get the most from your system. You want an integrated HCM backed by knowledgeable, “live” HR professionals who are readily available to help you.

Learn more about how an HCM platform can help streamline your business’s human resources. Download the free e-book: HR technology: How to choose the best platform for your business.

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Finishing - INSPIRION

A ship needs a name

A ship does not set sail without having a name. With promotional gifts, it is the same as with a ship. A good product needs a good name. No other medium presents your advertising message as good as a promotional item. Through individual finishing, a ballpoint pen becomes a personal and valuable advertising gift.

Just as the figurehead is an impressive trademark at the bow of a sailing ship, we make sure you impress your customers. With our finishing service, advertising will have a lasting effect. We will gladly advise you on the different finishing and printing techniques and tell you which technique best suits your product. Finishing can be applied to almost all of the promotional items in our range.

Ride the wave of success

We create pressure so that a promotional message creates high waves. As a printing specialist, we are happy to finish a promotional product with customer logos, company names, and advertising slogans.

We tell you precisely which finishing technique works on which material. We print your advertising item with silk-screen, tampon, or transfer print. We implement pin sharp laser engraving for you. For expressive advertising messages on faux leather, we recommend embossing. We also embroider textiles and caps for you. Umbrella handles are individualized through doming. We offer additional printing specials, too. Flexographic printing makes umbrellas radiate and sees to more safety in traffic. And thanks to digital printing, we implement your advertising photo-realistically.

Precise and permanent personalization

A method using a laser beam to engrave a logo into nearly any material. A computer controlled process ensures a pinpoint reproduction. The final result is always dependant on the material surface. A colour replica is not possible.

Impress all others

A stamp is used to press a logo into the surface of an article. Coloured and metal-looking (in gold and silver) embossing are possible through special foils. This technique is mostly used on leather and synthetic leather products.

Technique with high colour intensity

For silkscreen print, a screen is made impermeable in areas not to be printed through a photochemical process. The promotional item is placed under the screen and printed on the areas where the screen is permeable. The colour is pushed through the holes and applied to the product. When using coloured logos it is recommended to add a white base coat to ensure brilliant colours. This method is ideal for flat surfaces, such as textiles or segments of umbrellas.

Impressive colour reproduction

A heat press, consisting of a heating plate and base plate, is used to apply the logo/ picture/ text, pre-printed on thermal paper, onto the item. Beforehand, the thermal paper was imprinted through silkscreen or digital print.

Impressive colour reproduction

A template of the logo is made and filled with the desired colour of ink. Then the colour is transferred directly onto the article with a silicone pad. As this pad is made of flexible silicone, almost all surfaces can be printed – including uneven surfaces.

Persistent branding

An electrolytic process – a piece of felt is soaked in corrosive liquid and is pressed through a stencil onto the product. Once the liquid comes into contact with the article the desired imprint is etched into the surface. The advantage is that the imprint is very robust.

Finishing with needle and thread

A digitally controlled process in which a computer steers a needle and thread to embroider a surface. As many as 10 colours can be used in one embroidery procedure. This robust form of refinement can be used on all textiles. The logo must be provided in order to determine the number of stitches and perform an accurate cost calculation.

Blaze of colour

Digital transfer works in two steps. First, a special thermo paper is imprinted digitally (see passage "direct print") and cut to size. In a second step, the logo / picture / text is then printed onto the product under pressure in a heat press.

Pin sharp individualization

With direct print, single drops of ink are fired through nozzles directly onto the item or paper (similar to an inkjet printer). Normally, colours that dry with UV light are used for high brilliance. Suitable for low quantity and flat items.

Advertising in 3D

The doming sticker is made of synthetic resin and a sticker with the company logo. The clear resin is fitted precisely to the logo print, protects the print and gives the logo a 3D effect. The convex sticker is perfect for advertising on rough or hard materials, such as umbrella handle.


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One of the most frequently asked questions among couples is how to calculate the most fertile days of the cycle and when ovulation will take place in order to make this coincide with sexual intercourse. Calculating it is simple in the case of regular, 28-day cycles.

For example, using a calendar, ovulation can be calculated by taking into account the previous and next periods. This is valid for a 28-day cycle with the first day of the period marked in red. Obviously, you will need to adapt the dates to those of your period.Instituto Bernabeu

In this case, the most fertile days are calculated by taking 14 days away from day 28, leaving us with 2 days on which to have sexual intercourse. In the case of irregular, longer or shorter cycles, we will continue to take away 14 days from the day on which the next period is expected to start.

You will find a simple ovulation and fertile day calculator on our webpage. By putting in the date of your last two periods, your most fertile days will be calculated.

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3D Printed Tablet Hider and Holder

This is a fixture that will hide your tablet underneath your cabinet. When you want to use your tablet the holder will fold out to provide easy access to the tablet. The holder bed will fit any tablet under 11" wide x 7.5" tall x.43" thick. This would be perfect for any kitchen that dosent have lots of space to spare or if you want to hide your tablet. Everything is designed to be printed without using supports and I was able to keep the width to only one inch so that it will disappear behind the bottom lip of your cabinet when folded up. The largest part to be printed will fit on a bed that is at least 6.3" (160mm) X 8.27" (210mm). Some of the parts do require gluing together and I have included the locatios in the instructions. I included a couple assembly pictures and tried to include everything that you would need to make it. The part names also say how many of those parts are to be printed. The only hardware that you will need will be four screws to attach it to the bottom of your cabinet.

Step 1: Assembly Instructions Part 1

Assemble all the parts as shown in the picture. The parts that need to be glued are the front pin that goes into the outer wall, The two caps that go into the swing bar, and the back pin that goes into the wall. Once you are done with the left side then do the same thing for the right side.

Step 2: Assembly Instructions Part 2

Assemble all the parts as shown this will get you a complete left side assembly. The parts that need to be glued are the top bracket to the side wall assembly, the brace pin to the pad, and the pad spine to the pad. after you have them connected then assemble the same thing for the right side. after that you can assemble the two parts together to get your completed tablet holder.

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Beef and Cabbage Casserole

Cabbage Casserole is a very simple dish to prepare. Just do a little prep work, stick it in the rice cooker and let it cook. When the rice cooker is done, so is the casserole, Simple as that!

  • 1 head of cabbage cut in wedges * 1 pound of ground beef
  • 1 pound of breakfast sausage
  • 1 cup of rice
  • 1 can of Rotel 10 ounce
  • 1 cup of water
  • 1.5 to 2 Tbsp Cajun Seasoning (Nunu's)
  • 1 Large onion chopped
  • 1/2 bell pepper chopped
  • 2 stalks of celery chopped

Step 1: Brown the Meat

1. In a heavy bottom pot, brown the sausage and ground beef over medium high heat. Drain the excess oil.

Step 2: Veggies Cut and Add to Meat

2. reduce heat to medium and add the onions, bell peppers, and celery. Cook until translucent (about 15 minutes) stirring occasionally. Set aside

Step 3: Mix the Ingredients

3. In a large mixing bowl, add uncooked rice, rotel, and the ground meat mixture. Mix thoroughly.

Step 4: Cabbage!

4. Add cabbage wedges and water.

Step 5: Rice Cooker

5. Move to a rice cooker (bigger the better for this)

6. Cook on the white rice setting (if programmable).

7. Once done, check the cabbage.

If not soft enough, you can put it on for a second time.

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    I'd like to try this as it seems budget friendly. How would I do it without the rice cooker?

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    You can cook it in a non stick pot covered. Bring to a boil, reduce to low and cook for about 25 minutes


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Pizza Toast

tastey and simple snack and great fun to make with the kids

Step 1: Toast

make some toast

Step 2: Ketchup

spread in ketchup

Step 3: Cheese

cover in grated cheese

Step 4: Toppings

I used tomato and peperoni, but u can use what you like

Step 5: Seasoning

mixed herbs and chillies, again you can choose what you like, and sprinkle a little more cheese

Step 6: Cook

grill untill cheese melts/bubbles.....

And enjoy

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    This is brilliant! I never thought of using the small individually wrapped meats, this is genius. I'm showing my son this today. I'll use pizza sauce that comes in the squeeze bottle until i get the chance to make some from scratch. Thank you

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    OMG ... pizza and ketchup in the same sentence don't match ... pizza doesn't have ketchup, use tomato sauce instead ... otherwise you're American ;-)


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Replace the LCD on a Nikon Coolpix L22

A few weeks ago my wife turned on her digital camera and discovered the LCD was broken. After ordering a replacement part I tried looking up how to repair this particular model and noticed a distinc lack of how to's. The repair was surprisingly quick and easy, so why not make my first instructable? Hope you enjoy it.

Step 1: Gather Tools and Parts

For this instructable you will need the following:

  • One Nikon Coolpix L22 with broken LCD

  • One replacement LCD

  • One size 10 Phillips-Head Screwdriver

  • One Small Flat-Head Screwdriver (exact size doesn't matter)

  • A place to put all the tiny screws so you don't lose them. I used a red SOLO cup.

Step 2: Remove the Case Screws

First remove the batteries and the memory card.
Start Disassembly with removal of the 7 case screws. Remember to put them in your container so they don't get lost.

Step 3: Pry the Case Apart

Use the Flat-Head screwdriver to very gently pry apart the case. It should go fairly easily. I found it easiest to start on the bottom where the tripod mount goes and slowly work my way around. The back plate should pop off easily.

Step 4: Remove the Broken Screen

After the back plate pops off you can lift the broken screen out. It is held in with little friction tabs. At this point the tray holding the screen must be removed. It is held in place with 4 Phillips Screws; some of them are under the little black pads which lift right off. The most difficult part is that the metal plate has to come out to get good access to the Ribbon Connector.

Step 5: Insert New LCD Ribbon

Insert the new screens ribbon. Simply lift the white clamp, slide the old one out and slide the new one in. The side with the exposed copper conductors goes down. Then when fully inserted close the clamp.

Step 6: Reinstall the Screen Holder

Next gently lay the screen out of the way so you can reinstall the plate. Be excedingly careful and gentle with the new screens ribbon; you don't want to ruin the new one. Once it is in gently reinstall the screen, it should drop right in with gentle but firm pressure along the edges. The ribbon will be in an S shape when you finish. Then don't forget to remove the protective film on the screen.

Step 7: Reassemble the Case

The back cover should simply snap back into place fairly easily. Just place back onto the camera and gently press into place. After that replace the screws, but do not over tighten.

Step 8: The Test

Put your batteries back in and turn the camera on. If it works then your good to go! If not you may need to open the unit back up and check the ribbon. If it doesn't turn on at all I wish you the best of luck.

I hope you enjoyed my first instructable.

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Join Street Child's programmes in Liberia and work closely alongside our local staff and partners on research and project implementation. You will be a part of an organisation that not only played a vital part in the Ebola relief effort, but is also making huge progress in helping to develop education, including the Partnerships Schools Liberia: a groundbreaking new programme in collaboration with the Liberian government. You will also get to immerse yourself in a unique and fascinating culture.

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The multi-year fight over the unilateral right to amend registry contracts is instance #1 of this series. It’s also interesting because it shows that ICANN has the power and the propensity to abuse not just weaker civil society groups, but well-off businesses as well.

One of the foundations of ICANN’s unique approach to Internet governance is the use of private contracts to implement policy. Instead of international legislation or treaties negotiated and enforced by governments, ICANN governs by means of private contracts with registries and registrars. That was supposed to be a feature, not a bug. Contractual governance was supposed to insulate DNS governance from political interference by the world’s nation-states. It was also supposed to put the power to make the policies behind these contracts directly in the hands of the Internet community.

Yet in the last few years, the re-negotiation of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) and Registry Agreement (RA) has repeatedly led to situations where ICANN the corporation has demanded a unilateral right to amend the contract. This threatens the very foundations of contractual governance.

The essence of a contract is that both parties agree to it. The ability of one party to modify the terms of a contract unilaterally sets up an inherently unaccountable, top-down regulatory relationship. ICANN would be able to impose new obligations on registries without their consent. Such a capability would also disempower the community. ICANN would be able to implement rules and requirements without going through any policy development process.

The story starts back in October 2008 when ICANN, as part of its new top level domain program, released version 1 of the Draft Applicant Guidebook. The Applicant Guidebook (AG) was an important document because it set the rules for organizations to apply and be eligible to become a registry. Most of the policies that govern new TLDs are embedded in the AG.

In version 1, ICANN proposed contractual language that would give it a unilateral right to amend the Registry Agreement. The unilateral right to amend, ICANN claimed, would only be justified “by a substantial and compelling need related to the security or stability of the Internet or Domain Name System.”

The Registry Stakeholder Group (RySG) immediately rejected the proposal.  Discussions at the 2009 Seoul meeting led to formation of a Working Group composed of Registries, ICANN staff and ICANN’s legal counsel. The group developed a compromise which allowed for “Special Amendments” to the registry contract after being vetted and approved by a working group consisting of Registry Operators and others appointed by ICANN. This compromise was published May 27, 2010, posted for public comment, and ultimately included in the final version of the Applicant Guidebook released January 2012. The new version of the Registry Agreement (RA) based on this compromise was posted June 4, 2012. This version, too, was reviewed by the community and approved by the Board and the registries. In writing it up, ICANN wrote that “pursuant to the new provision, ICANN will have no ability to unilaterally amend the registry agreement.”

After everyone had agreed on an acceptable compromise and memorialized it in the Final Applicant Guidebook, ICANN then accepted $185,000 fees from 1,900 applications for new gTLDs based on the content of that Guidebook. A few months after those fees were in hand, and only 4 months into the reign of new CEO Fadi Chehade, ICANN jettisoned that compromise.

On February 5, 2013 ICANN suddenly and without any consultation posted a new version of the Registry Agreement. In it, the unilateral right to amend returned. Indeed, it returned in a form even more sweeping than the original. The older version justified changes by a substantial and compelling need related to the security and stability of the Internet or domain name system. In section 7.6 of the suddenly revised contract, this is changed to “a substantial and compelling reason in the public interest.” ICANN does not allow its decision to be reviewed by courts but instead proposed a form of arbitration lasting one day.

Teleconferences between the RySG, Fadi Chehade and other ICANN staff made it clear that the Registries were inalterably opposed to the reassertion of a unilateral right to amend. A public comment period on the February proposal received forty one (41) substantive comments; none of them supported ICANN’s proposed language and thirty (30) opposed it. Even the Business Constituency – historically an advocate of greater regulation of registries, commented that allowing the ICANN board to unilaterally impose a change to registry agreements “is an anathema to ICANN’s bottom up policy making roots.”

In his comments, John Berryhill made an even scarier observation: under ICANN’s bylaws, the board could vote to amend the amendment power itself, lowering the threshold from 2/3 of the Board to a simple majority. The comments of Google show the consternation among applicants:

Our calculation for participating in the new gTLD program was based on the assumption that we would be afforded the checks and balances contained in the January 2012 agreement, which provides an agreed-upon process for changing the agreement. ICANN’s eleventh-hour changes to the registry agreement violate the spirit of ICANN’s multi-stakeholder process and threaten to erode ICANN’s credibility with applicants….

A meeting of the GNSO Council on March 14, 2013 unanimously passed a resolution against ICANN’s action. As Jeff Neumann of Neustar wrote in a blog post,

the ICANN community spoke with one voice.  Registries, registrars, non-commercial interests, new TLD applicants, IP owners and businesses unanimously and unambiguously agreed that giving ICANN a ‘unilateral right to amend’ the registry and registrar agreements is not compatible with ICANN’s bottom-up processes and poses a fundamental threat to the multi-stakeholder model.  There is true consensus that this change should be rejected.

ICANN’s high-handed actions extended to registrars as well as registries. It also demanded a unilateral right to amend their basic contract, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The February changes in Registry agreements were proposed while ICANN was in the midst of long and arduous negotiations with registrars over the RAA. Michele Neylon, an Irish registrar, noted that ICANN’s February initiatives forced new TLD applicants to commit themselves to using only registrars who had signed the new RAA – which didn’t actually exist yet. This would have the effect of pressuring registrars in their negotiations over the terms of the new RAA. Any registrar who refused to sign the new RAA would shut themselves off from all the new business generated by new TLDs. Is ICANN “driving a wedge between registrars and new gTLD applicants,” Neylon asked?

If one reads ICANN’s summary of the public comments, one would have no idea that there was such overwhelming opposition. Instead, the staff stated merely that “The posting of a revised draft of the Registry Agreement for public comment demonstrates ICANN’s commitment to a bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model.” In response to arguments that a unilateral right to amend is fundamentally inconsistent with a bottom up, MS model, ICANN says only that “the intent of several of the revisions to the draft Registry Agreement …was to further ICANN’s ability to respond to changes and developments in a rapidly evolving DNS marketplace.”

ICANN did eventually make some minor changes – rejected by many registries as “window dressing” – to the unilateral right to amend. But the bottom line is that ICANN’s staff sought and largely retained a sweeping kind of power over the domain name industry, powers that had no support from the broader community. As argued in our analysis of ICANN’saccountability, the community got lots of “participation” but no real accountability or impact. The timing and arbitrariness of the action was evident. With only minor amendments, the unilateral right to amend is now in the Registry Agreement.

Interestingly, the U.S. government (NTIA) was one of the only commentators to express unqualified endorsement of the proposed changes in the registry agreement. And it was pressure from law enforcement interests promoted by the U.S. government that also led to the troubles in negotiating the RAA. We see accountability and responsibility for policy making migrating further and further away from the individuals and organizations who participate in ICANN’s bottom up process, and towards state actors and ICANN staff.

A key contributor to this migration is the idea of a monarchical ability of the authorities to discern “the public interest” and impose rules, top down, on the public itself to pursue that “public interest.” As an article in Domain Incite (March 29 2013) put it, ICANN’s argues that:

the RAA and RA both last for 10 years and …the RA has a presumptive right of renewal. Without the right to change the RA over the protests of the registries, it’s possible that in future proposed changes could be vetoed by registries whose interests are not aligned with the “public interest.” ICANN says that it’s impossible to know how consolidation, future new gTLD rounds and power shifts in the ICANN community will affect the balance of power, meaning it needs a way to resist a registry choke-hold should the situation arise.

The claim that registries have a chokehold is pretty ironic, given that ICANN is itself nothing but a registry at the root level. Unlike the top level registries, there are no alternatives to it. There is only a single root registry and its board is not elected. ICANN is the entity with the ultimate chokehold on all the parties.

Who is accountable for this? We can understand Fadi Chehadi’s impatience with the stalled, increasingly contentious implementation of the new gTLD program when he arrived on the scene as ICANN’s new CEO in the Fall of 2012. But we cannot forget that it was the 11th hour interventions of the GAC, trademark holders and the US government – not the bottom up policy development process itself – that had gotten the process stuck in interminable rancor. Instead of putting an end to this nonsense and adhering to policies developed by the GNSO, Chehadi’s actions reinforced and rewarded governmental and other actors who were revising or reversing consensus. His efforts to put things in motion consistently came down on the side of those who had circumvented the process and departed from bottom-up.

Yet, given ICANN’s poorly designed structure, no one is accountable. The registries would have to wait for a very damaging decision by ICANN to test it in court and spend tons or money on a legal challenge. Applicants have sunk so much money into their applications that they will go bankrupt unless they can start operations soon, so they will sign any contract that allows them to start. Far from providing oversight or accountability, the U.S. government’s NTIA, with its elevation of an arbitrary ‘public interest’ standard over bottom up process and consensus, is most likely one of the reasons ICANN is behaving this way.

Interesting that this controversy has forced even Verisign to appeal to fundamental principles of democratic decision making and due process. In some of its comments the company notes that vague “public interest” standards are legislative in nature and should only be made by decision makers who are accountable to the public via elections, decision makers who can be thrown out of office and held to standards of judicial review.

4 thoughts on “Meltdown II: The Unilateral Right to Amend

  1. Hi Milton:

    Perhaps   … “We see accountability and responsibility for policy making migrating further and further away from the individuals and organizations who participate in ICANN’s bottom up process, and towards state actors and ICANN staff” … because, it’s those same … “individuals and organizations”  … that began ruining it for themselves, way back here:
    > < none of this would be happening.

    Meltdown II. Sadly, ICANN and their Constituency Groups drew this upon themselves, they reap what they sew, having not served “the public interest”.

  2. …..”……Yet, given ICANN’s poorly designed structure, no one is accountable. The registries would have to wait for a very damaging decision by ICANN to test it in court and spend tons or money on a legal challenge…..”

    What happened to the Multi-Stakeholder, bottom up process, i fear that ICANN if it forgets this important facet of its operations will implode into another ITU-like institution. Public interest is very much important in this spectrum of development, the reason the internet has grown immensely is because it involves everyone, every attempt to have one person being the one who runs the show makes this growth stunted, not with standing millions of USD spent by stakeholders especially in the new gTLD program.

  3. Yes, I agree. NTIA, with the best of intentions, believes their “public interest” understanding trumps the natural bottom up consensus. This has unfortunately been the trend with certain elements of our government lately. I believe the accountability ultimately lies with the “bottom”. The real question is, what can we do about it?

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