Sentences with phrase «impeachment action»

That has typically been the subject of a patent impeachment action.

This order was upheld on appeal and again at the S.C.C. Apotex then commenced an impeachment action in the Federal Court seeking a declaration that the «777 Patent was invalid on several grounds including lack of utility.

Update 4:35 p.m.: In a ruling today, Federal Court Justice Russel Zinn held in Apotex Inc. v. Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals that the Federal Court had jurisdiction to consider Apotex's impeachment action and motion for summary judgment and declared Pfizer's patent on Viagra, Canadian Patent No. 2,163,466 invalid.

With regards to Apotex's motion, the court held that the Supreme Court made a binding legal determination dispositive of the impeachment action (para 30) as construction of a patent is a matter of law, according to Alan Macek's IPPractice.ca blog.

(2) Hospira has brought an impeachment action and a declaration of non-infringement against an infliximab patent (which is listed in respect of Janssen's REMICADE).

He and his cohorts kept quiet when the impeachment actions were carried out in other state.

Designed to remove / narrow questionably valid patents at the USPTO level, co-pending US impeachment actions are stayed, and challengers are estopped from subsequently re-arguing the same invalidity grounds raised or that could have been raised before USPTO.

Not exact matches

According to them, the Assemblyman has not consulted them to deliberate on the action he wants to take to come out with his impeachment decision.

The Los Angeles, CA City Council has passed a resolution calling on Congress to investigate if any of Trump's actions warrant impeachment.

Impeachment does not put an official at jeopardy of life or limb therefore there is no restriction on how many times he can be impeached for the same action.

In all, the House of Representatives has impeached only 19 federal officials, and the Senate has conducted formal impeachment trials with seven acquittals, eight convictions, three dismissals and one resignation (Nixon's) with no further action.

The action of the President is a gross violation of his constitutional oath and therefore constitutes a veritable ground for impeachment.

From the abandonment of the party's clear procedure on impeachment to the improper referral of bogus complaints to the Disciplinary Committee to the faulty convening of the National Executive Committee by a man who stood to benefit from the action, there are enough errors to reverse Mr. Afoko's removal ten times over in court.

However, taking this approach may lead to adverse political consequences for the President - such as loss of popularity; failure to re-elect down the road at the milder end of the spectrum; to higher end of the spectrum where such (in) action may be used as an excuse to remove the President before the election via either impeachment proceedings in Congress or the use of the powers granted in the 25th Amendment by the Executive branch.

3.0 Having perused the said letter to which was attached the allegations on the basis of which the petition invoked the provisions of article 146 of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana for our client's impeachment, we have noted several defamatory statements in respect of which we have our client's irrevocable instructions to take immediate action against your clients who have not been disclosed on the face of your letter.

The only possible action is impeachment in the house followed by conviction in the senate and removal from office.

Impeachment is a political action not a criminal one.

Our experienced litigators have in - depth knowledge of the patent law, regulatory regime and the science, gained from regularly representing clients under the PM (NOC) Regulations and in complex patent impeachment or infringement actions.

The shift is significant: the original finding would have triggered a referral to state bar associations for potential disciplinary action — which, in Bybee's case, could have led to an impeachment inquiry.

The constitution does not actually forbid «abusing a position for financial gain», and thus it is left to the political process to address any such actions (voting for a different candidate), or the legislative process (defining certain acts as forbidden)-- or, the impeachment process.