The USPTO is widely perceived as issuing too many bad patents. This complaint is understandable if one focuses on patents that are challenged in legal tribunals such as federal district court, the ITC, or the PTAB. But, as Mark Lemley has pointed out, this is just a tiny, tiny fraction of all issued patents.
When we take on an eminent domain case, our primary goal is to put our client in the best position possible. In some cases, that means fighting the taking itself, as my dad (and boss).
Roy Baharad (Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Hebrew University) & Gideon Parchomovsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law; University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) have posted Rationing Access (Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 76, p. 215 , 2023) on.
As the U.S. searches for additional ways to aid Ukraine, we should include immigration policy as a tool to end the war. We should consider giving Russian soldiers who surrender a pathway to U.S. citizenship. In urging Russian soldiers to surrender Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not only guaranteed decent treatment, he’s also tried to protect the families of surrendering soldiers by promising that “no one in Russia will know that your surrender was voluntary.”