Since Avengers: Infinity War broke the file for opening weekend gross sales, Kathleen Kennedy of Lucasfilm — manufacturer
of earlier file holder The Force Awakens — presented her personal reward and kudos on the accomplishment.
For an application filed on or after March 16, 2013, the effective filing date of a claimed invention is the earlier of: (1) the actual filing date of the patent or the application for patent containing the claimed invention; or (2) the filing date of the earliest application for which the patent or application is entitled, as to such invention, to a right of priority or the benefit
of an earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. 119, 120, 121, or 365.
Not exact matches
Zulilly is also profitable, reporting in its October S1 Securities and Exchange Commission
filing net income
of $ 2.4 million for the first six months
of 2013, compared to a net loss
of $ 4 million for the same six months a year
earlier.
A passenger who survived the deadly Southwest 1380 flight
filed a lawsuit against the airline carrier after an engine exploded
earlier this month, killing one person on board and leading dozens
of others to prepare for an untimely death.
Shares
of pioneering CRISPR gene - editing firm Editas fell 7 % in
early Tuesday trading after the company announced that it would delay an initial FDA
filing for clinical trials
of one
of its lead drugs, LCA10, to the middle
of next year (Editas had originally planned to
file by the end
of 2017).
Earlier this month, Remington Outdoor, a major manufacturer
of firearms,
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after an extended sales slide.
Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton will
file for personal bankruptcy protection as
early as Monday after losing a fight in a Florida court for a shield against a judgment in a breach
of privacy case involving professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Yelp
filed an S1 document with the Securities and Exchange Commission
earlier this month to raise up to $ 100 million in an IPO, following in the footsteps
of LinkedIn, Pandora and Groupon.
That leaves Merck largely free
of competitors in the near - term in its quest to become a go - to, first - line option for lung cancer patients in combination with chemotherapy (Merck recently surprised investors with an
early FDA
filing for that combination).
(An inventor would need to claim the
earlier date only if prior art surfaced after the PPA's
filing date but before the
filing date
of the regular application, or if a patent application the same invention was
filed by another inventor and the PTO has to decide which applicant should get the patent.)
In the defence
filed in Anita Bell's lawsuit, O'Leary Funds said the market was slowing as
early as the end
of 2009.
One
of the best ways to get ahead
of fraudulent tax returns is to
file your return
early, but in order to
file early, you have to be prepared ahead
of time.
Those who
filed earliest and received their refund in February put 64 percent
of their spending response toward paying for deferred care.
Parents and students should first determine their
earliest deadlines for
filing for aid and whether their school or state uses a first - come, first - served system for any
of its aid, Chany said.
In a reversal
of Munoz's
earlier employment agreement, he has opted to leave «future determinations related to the Chairman position to the discretion
of the Board,» the
filing said.
«They're going to hope you didn't
file early and their return can get in front
of yours.»
After years
of speculation, Facebook — the online social network that Mark Zuckerberg founded in his Harvard dorm room in 2004 — finally
filed the papers for its initial public offering
earlier this month.
When Groupon
filed for an IPO in
early June, excitement was brewing about a chance to buy into the leader
of online deal - buying websites, a trend that was relatively unknown about two years ago.
In 2015, New York - based competitor Bounce Exchange
filed a suit against Yieldify in a New York federal court, accusing it
of copying its code and infringing its patents, in a case that first came to light
earlier this year in a report from The Financial Times.
As
of November 7, more Republican - affiliated Pennsylvania voters had cast
early ballots than Democratic voters, according to TargetSmart voter
file data obtained by the NBC News Data Analytics Lab.
However, after a race to
file for a bitcoin ETF in late December, many
of the companies withdrew their applications in
early January.
The problem with the
early - 2014 versions
of Google Chrome, write Facebook engineers Ben Maurer and Nathan Schloss, was that it was checking for those updates
files way too often, according to Facebook's data.
Here's how it works: The higher - earning (first) spouse
files for benefits at full retirement age, enabling the other to
file for spousal benefits as
early as age 62 — which, again, amounts to half
of what the first spouse is entitled to.
In a regulatory
filing on Wednesday, SolarCity said it had 12,243 employees at the end
of 2016, down 19.8 % from the 15,273 it reported a year
earlier.
But back in
early May, Tesla said exactly the opposite
of what its founder is saying now in an SEC
filing.
Here's why: When Blue Apron
filed to go public
earlier this year, it commissioned a study by research firm Euromonitor to track the migration
of grocery store sales to online channels.
Sprout resubmitted flibanserin to the FDA in
early 2013,
filing roughly 700,000 pages
of data.
Earlier this month, the National Fair Housing Alliance
filed a complaint with the federal Department
of Housing and Urban Development against Wells Fargo, alleging that the bank used discriminatory practices in the handling
of foreclosed properties.
May 2 (Reuters)- A Chicago fund manager that suffered catastrophic losses in a market plunge
earlier this year has blamed the actions
of its broker, a Wells Fargo & Co unit, according to court documents
filed on Wednesday.
In a long - awaited move Tuesday, Alibaba
filed for an initial public offering
of stock in the U.S. that could surpass the $ 16 billion that Facebook and its
early investors raised in the social networking company's IPO two years ago.
«We believe the global addressable market for car sharing is enormous and in the
early stages
of development,» the company noted in its
filing to the SEC.
But the layoffs at the Initiative detailed in the
filing had first been reported as far back as September and had in fact been announced by Bill Clinton
earlier in 2016, when he said CGI would wind down regardless
of the election outcome.
Microsoft
filed for EU approval
earlier this month, and hopes for the transaction to close prior to the end
of 2016.
George Turner, a campaigner with the Tax Justice Network, said that while the practice
of companies
filing their annual ownership statement
early was legal, it was unusual and that those companies should be investigated.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department
of Justice
filed a legal brief in an appeals court case, arguing against workplace discrimination protection for employees who are gay.
Earlier this month Uber ended the autonomous vehicle trade secrets lawsuit
filed by Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo for a payment
of Uber stock valued by Waymo at $ 245 million.
J.Crew's annual proxy
filing with the SEC,
early this year (April 19), has several clues that could have sounded the alarm bells to shareholders, presaging the recent lapses
of governance at J.Crew.
However, The Information reports that Snapchat is looking to
file either by the end
of this year or
early next year, so we could expect a public offering sometime in 2017.
The SEC's muzzling
of Citi followed an appeal the regulator
filed two weeks
earlier in response to a trial ordered by the lower court.
Dorsey disclosed in Square's IPO
filing earlier this month that he plans to donate 40 million shares, or 10 percent
of the company, to a charity foundation he started that invests in artists, musicians and local businesses.
Earlier this year, Eastman Kodak Co.
filed for bankruptcy after falling behind in the digital evolution
of photography, the medium it helped bring to the masses in the 20th century.
• Albertsons, the Cerberus Capital Management - owned supermarket giant that completed its acquisition
of Safeway
earlier this year,
filed amended IPO documents that show plans to list on the NYSE under ticker symbol ABS.
Kalanick
filed his response late on Thursday to the suit brought by Benchmark Capital, an
early investor in Uber suing him for alleged fraud, breach
of contract, and fiduciary duty.
It reports $ 110 million
of net income on $ 3 billion in revenue for the nine months ending Nov. 2, 2013, compared to $ 95 million in net income on $ 2.88 billion in revenue for the year -
earlier period. www.michaels.com National Mentor Holdings, a Boston - based provider
of home and community - based health services to children and adults with disabilities, is preparing to
file for an IPO that could value the company at more than $ 1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This comes on the heels
of a recent report that the company is expected by many to
file an S - 1 form to go public by the end
of the year and debut in
early 2014.
An offer for the studio from a group
of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal
earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.
The host
of The Kelly
File has been in Trump's crosshairs since the first Fox News GOP primary debate, which took place in
early August.
Rather than disclosing the full extent
of problems like fraudulent home appraisals and overextended borrowers, the bank adjusted the critical reviews, according to documents
filed early Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan.
Earlier this decade, Boire was CEO
of Brookstone, a retailer that
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after he left.
If IRS had access to W - 2 data
earlier — through accelerated W - 2 deadlines and increased electronic
filing of W - 2s — it could conduct pre-refund matching and identify discrepancies to prevent the issuance
of billions in fraudulent refunds.