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Almost one in five patent cases filed in the US last year went to a new judge in Waco, near Austin. Patent trolls love Judge Alan Albright s speedy procedures, and everyone admires his patent savvy.
A Waco jury recently awarded a Fortress entity $2.2 billion in a dispute with Intel.
It s hard to find a lawyer who doesn t like Judge Alan Albright, the new federal judge in Waco, Texas. Even those who have previously sparred with him in the courtroom.
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IMAGE: A schematic of what the authors think the landscape and human activity was like over the last 1,200 years in the Fish Lake Plateau region. A) 1,200 to 500 years. view more
Credit: S. Yoshi Maezumi
If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you d find conditions remarkably familiar to the present. The climate was warm, but drier than today. There were large populations of Indigenous people known as the Fremont, a who hunted and grew crops in the area. With similar climate and moderate human activity, you might expect to see the types of wildfires that are now common to the American West: infrequent, gigantic and devastating. But you d be wrong.
LONDON, ONT. The holiday season is in full swing, with Hanukkah set to begin Thursday and Christmas just over two weeks away. But many places of worship are shifting gears and planning for a different celebration this year, due to the risk of COVID-19. The programing director at Jewish London, Erick Robinson, says in most years the community would gather for a huge party inside the Jewish Community Center on Huron Street to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah. This would include lighting of the menorah, playing games and eating delicious traditional food. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve had to shift to a virtual celebration.