Sentences with phrase «from egregious»

The Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD) Act, introduced by Reps. Peter DeFazio (D - OR) and Jason Chaffetz (R - UT) in the House, directly targets the trolls» incentive model.

First introduced in Congress last August, the Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes («SHIELD») Act returned to the docket in late February.

Three of the most high profile proposals are: (1) the Saving High - tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHILED) Act «forces patent trolls to financial responsibility for frivolous lawsuits»; (2) the Patent Quality Improvement Act expands the AIA by allowing more businesses to be covered under the transitional program for business method patents; and (3) the End Anonymous Patent Act, which requires the owner of patents to register with the UPSTO.

The SHIELD Act, or the Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act (H.R. 845), is designed to help the innocent victims of patent trolls by creating a «fee shifting» system.

Which makes us even more excited about the new bill, the Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes («SHEILD») Act.

In the days since Reps. Peter DeFazio and Jason Chaffetz introduced their patent - troll - smashing SHIELD Act (Saving High - tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes), there's been a steady increase in attention and momentum, both in the press and among the public at large, to the issue of vexatious patent lawsuits.

The letter expresses the coalition's support for the SHIELD (Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes) Act, a bipartisan bill from Rep. Peter DeFazio and Rep. Jason Chaffetz that would create real and appropriate consequences for patent lawsuit abuse.

Rep. Peter DeFazio, along with Rep. Jason Chaffetz, has re-introduced the SHIELD Act (the backronym stands for Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes) in the House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Coalition for Patent Fairness (CPF) is pleased to support HR 845, the bipartisan SHIELD Act («Saving High Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013»), sponsored by Congressmen Peter DeFazio and Jason Chaffetz.

Samuels has been fighting the battle against dangerously broad patents for some time now, recently traveling to DC to support passage of the SHIELD Act (Saving High - tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes), a congressional bill that would impose heavy fines against so - called patent trolls.

Partnership used to be like tenure — once you were in, you were secure (apart from egregious misconduct).

John Fleck points out that, apart from egregious examples that exist e.g. in the opinionsphere journalism,

Indeed, the art works presented in the show are arranged within unwieldy and contradictory criteria, which range from egregious misreading to mutual contradiction and from poetic fancy to traditionally acceptable interpretation.

They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else.

And for a solid hour, Zemeckis (mostly) commits to the drama, with few tricks employed aside from some egregious use of music (which we'll get to later).

These general principles include the principle of «abuse of rights» which currently operates to protect HMRC from egregious tax avoidance in the sphere of VAT.

«The Australian public is still reeling from the egregious suffering they witnessed occurring at sea under Emanuel Exports» control.

It was the means by which the church was separating itself from egregious error.

One is the Shield Act, which stands for Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes.

Morality clauses provide employers with a kind of contractual escape clause that protects them from egregious transgressions — criminal or not — on the part of their employees.

Not exact matches

It gets really egregious when you look at what kind of data political appointees at the EPA want to exempt from the rule: proprietary corporate data, according to internal discussions obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

«When faced with an egregious set of facts that causes over $ 50 million of harm to the universal service fund, the Commission is content to settle for a fraction of that harm and imposes no penalty whatsoever,» Clyburn wrote in a dissent from the settlement.

«There is enough grey in grey marketing law and the lack of federal government enforcement of labelling and packaging laws to prevent the characterization of the defendants» conduct as sufficiently egregious to attract further condemnation from the court,» Myers wrote.

«No financial institution is immune from bad judgment,» Johnson said, reminding Dimon and lawmakers of the statements Dimon later made: «We made a terrible egregious mistake.

Quite apart from conflicting views on the merits of the question at hand, there appears to be increasing opposition to the judicial usurpation of politics, of which the California court's decision is an egregious instance.

The GLBT community should immediately condemn their placing such a damaging, disrespectul and egregious sign in Dallas with the rainbow flag implying consent from the Gay community!

From their site: «This encyclopedic report on corruption in the 109th Congress documents the egregious, unethical and possibly illegal activities of the most tainted members of Congress.»

And in truth, egregious fibs like the spurious mammogram claim mostly stem from wishful thinking on the part of defenders of the abortion giant, rather than from its own publicity materials.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

From my perspective, shaped by thinking of morality and war in just war terms, egregious violations of the rights of people caught up in a conflict constitute an injustice that is immoral not to seek to remedy.

Both images, however, see the Constitution and society exercising «wardship» by protecting believers from at least the more egregious damage these feeble - minded might do to themselves (perhaps further justification for Obamacare's sterile sex coverage — three centuries of religious imbeciles is enough!).

By way of contrast, Rolt insisted that this way of conceiving of divine power is «immoral, irrational and anti-Christian,» from which have sprung some of the most egregious travesties in the Christian faith.50

Even more egregious, big chunks of his exposition of the biblical vision of male - female complementarity come from Fr.

And to repeat, the farthest I go is to call upon Republican members of the House to begin airing threats of impeachment, as way to restrain Obama from further egregious violations of the Constitution, and as a way to put it on record that those violations did provoke attempts to employ the sort of check spoken of in Federalist # 51.

And what sin is egregious enough to warrent dismissal from a «Christian» university?

These gay haters were cut from the same pattern as were those who conducted The Inquisition and the egregious, low down acts from the Fifties with their penchant for mistreating Blacks, as were those who used the Bible to make slaves out of them.

The first, and perhaps most egregious, of the non-tariff barriers erected on U.S. dairy exports is Canada's new ingredient pricing strategy that effectively blocks imports of ultrafiltered (UF) milk and many dairy ingredients from the Canadian market.

Our submission also cites egregious examples from Victoria's meat regulator PrimeSafe, the huge impact of knee - jerk changes to regulation of raw milk on small - scale dairy farms (many of whom have now gone out of business), and the complicated business of ensuring appropriate labeling of GMO and imported ingredients while not creating an extra burden for small - scale producers who sell directly to the public.

If a corporation / parent company has a substantial egregious record or history of working against our values — organics, sustainability, non-toxic food, social and environmental responsibility, etc., we remove their products from our shelves, or don't stock them in the first place.

«To the contrary, this incident is consistent with your pattern of egregious safety - related violations including your hit on a defenseless player during the 2015 Wild Card game and your hit against a Baltimore tight end away from the play on Jan. 3, 2016.

Natalie Novosel's 0 - for - 11 night from the field is the most egregious example of the Irish's failure to sink a basket.

Two years ago, in response to complaints from owners and veteran players about the huge contracts being signed by rookies — the 10 - year, $ 68.2 million deal that forward Glenn Robinson received from the Milwaukee Bucks as the first pick of the 1994 draft was the most egregious example — the league and the players» association agreed to hold down salaries with a rookie salary cap, but to allow all first - round draft choices to become free agents after their third season.

Never mind the umpteen studies that show that mothers have EQ scores that register off the charts, but according to one new mom's personal account, the transition from career to home is particularly egregious when it involves child's play.

The UN Global Compact is promoted as an alternative to regulation, but it is worse than useless as it posts misleading reports from companies on its website without any form of checking and does not investigate reports of egregious violations when reported by Baby Milk Action.

The UN Global Compact is promoted as an alternative to regulation, but posts reports from companies on its website without any checking and has not investigated allegations of egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles when reported by Baby Milk Action.

I urge you to act administratively and provide immediate relief from certain egregious aspects of the standards, particularly in regards to the rapidly approaching sodium limits and the dairy and whole grain requirements,..

It can review company responses and exclude a company from the initiative if it is responsible for egregious violations and bringing the initiative into disrepute.

The party had sharper political instincts in opposition, for all of its caution, eg was using popular language about «fat cats» (targetted on egregious cases) which it shied away from in power.

Our elected officials seem both unknowing and uncaring, that some behaviors are so egregious and wrong that they disqualify the person who engages in them, from continuing as a public servant.

While we are a major player in nanotechnology and UAS industry development and our airport has seen recent job growth, Oneida County was completely absent from the Governor's economic development plans in 2017, and that lack of acknowledgement is an egregious slight to this community.»