Indeed, it's the obviousness of each man's agenda, and Mr. Trump's obliviousness to that obviousness, that makes the scene so banal as stagecraft — and so startling as statecraft.
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I'm afraid to say it is sophomoric in its satirical obviousness.
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You can easily think of examples of varying degrees of obviousness.
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On the contrary: It makes a virtue of its absolute obviousness.
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Even the more intriguing characterizations suffer under this tendency toward obviousness.
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Appeals to obviousness seem to wilt as soon as they appear.
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Weakening the obviousness standard would apply well beyond the Apple v.
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"Here it is in all it's glorious obviousness: "Tell me about yourself.
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But the obviousness of Trump's sexism is also what makes it dangerous.
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The obviousness of the reveal also plays into the episode's dance roots.
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While he's at it, can he remove the obviousness of that image?
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Not that there is anything wrong (other than obviousness) with the tunestack.
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You're not even objecting to the behavior, only her obviousness about it.
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The crash may be coming, but there's a bull market in obviousness.
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In their obviousness, the vitrines lack the sinister bite of Kline's best work.
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The obviousness of addiction and fame as a story arc is not rudimentary here.
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" Thea Sharrock's adaptation, A. O. Scott wrote, "makes a virtue of its absolute obviousness.
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The historical allegory is neat, and obviousness isn't a flaw in a protest movie.
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You might think that this would be impossible, given the obviousness of the ploy.
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But no less frustrating to read because of the obviousness of what Amodei is doing.
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But what makes this scene transcendent is the proud reclamation of the uncool, of obviousness.
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Perhaps the obviousness of the 2000s and the minimalism of the early 2010s had, too.
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It was a waste of money so pure, so brutal, so punishing in its obviousness.
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" He went on, "There's an obviousness to the format, however amazing the art work is.
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"They pull in different directions: attraction, beauty, obviousness, not obviousness, how they sit in relation to the genre as a whole, and how they sit in relation to the genre within my work—within the genre of still-lifes, in this case," he said.
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The obviousness of technologies which have national security implications has eroded over the last 40 years.
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And the padded-out family back stories of some of the characters add nothing but obviousness.
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" New York magazine went further, using the blunt instrument of obviousness to impugn the Republican Party: "G.
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Some of his jokes find laughs simply from the blunt obviousness of the way he explains things.
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The obviousness of my breasts seemed to grant permission for people to make both good and bad comments.
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Seen through their characters' eyes, "Patrick Melrose" commits a basic sin: It errs on the side of obviousness.
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Unfortunately, it is also a moment of thudding obviousness in an episode otherwise marked by its philosophical nuance.
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In the other examples provided by the researchers, the quality and obviousness of the fake talking head varies widely.
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For these reasons, and for the blinding obviousness of her talent, Oh has been in the news all year.
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Despite their obviousness, these tropes are still trotted out in most time-travel movies—including, most recently, Avengers: Endgame.
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Patent holders have long relied on strong obviousness standards to demonstrate that their inventions are indeed innovative and distinct.
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Mr. Burns is willing to risk obviousness because his project is not to find surprising twists on American history.
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The federal circuit's decision weakens patent quality and creates great uncertainty by lowering the obviousness standard in patent disputes.
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To Dickinson — played in the long afternoon of her adult life by Cynthia Nixon — the enemy of poetry is obviousness.
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The poems' extreme brevity and apparent obviousness made them easy to read for texture and rhythm without fussing over comprehension.
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Hill highlighted exactly how shady and wrong this entire arrangement was, as well as the obviousness of Trump's crassly political motivations.
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Abstract subtlety seems threatened by crude pop obviousness now; subtle, abstract thinking and visual complexity are perhaps more important (albeit fragile) than ever.
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Mr. Bay still wants to drop jaws (hence the fiery Mercedes), and he continues to bring that certain Bay obviousness to each scene.
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But sentimentality, preachiness, and a wearying obviousness get in the way of what should just be a close emotional portrait of his experience.
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In addition, the Office will also study the clarity and motivation in obviousness rejections, written description issues in continuing applications, and, functional claiming.
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The animation is foolproof in its combination of ingenuity and obviousness, and the script obliterates the difference between a laugher and a groaner.
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He wore his villainy like a red flag draped over his shoulders — it was blazingly obvious, and that obviousness is what kept Fletcher safe.
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Simplicity, modesty and obviousness appear to be his bywords, all the better to disturb the assumptions of preciousness, skill and aloofness basic to art.
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Nothing, not even downright obviousness, scares Lee off from foreshadowing ("Overhead a body fell through the air"), and he scores with it every time.
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We're often befuddled by the traction that obvious, malignant bullshit gets online, but that obviousness—including literal satire disclaimers—doesn't often percolate upward to headlines.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an administrative court's determination that the two patents, which expired, were invalid on obviousness grounds.
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Though hobbled by an obviousness that dampens any suspense, this sensitive, environmentally concerned movie is most successful when steeped in the particularities of its location.
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Logically indefensible, this neutrality principle can be defended only as a self-evident premise, a truth armored by its obviousness against any and all objections.
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Of course, Trump's obviousness is going to make it that much harder for the Department of Justice to defend the emergency declaration from the inevitable lawsuits.
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The review, released in June 2017, is striking in the obviousness of its recommendations, including that all members of USA Gymnastics report abuse immediately to authorities.
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For Katyal and the liberal justices, the obviousness of Trump's initial "animus" against Muslims makes it irresponsible to pretend that the current ban exists in a vacuum.
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Politicians and the press still invoke obviousness in the hope of summoning some conviction we all still share, some bedrock of group belief we can agree on.
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In the retrial of De La Beckwith and others, were irregularities tolerated because of the obviousness of the defendant's guilt and embarrassment over previous law-enforcement failures?
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The USPTO is in a unique position to appeal decisions on patent applications to the federal courts, and that is a key way to correct obviousness law.
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They haven't even hinted at doing anything like that, despite the obviousness of such a move given that the op-ed prompted focus on Trump's fitness for office.
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Standard in-home cameras are technically also capable of the same privacy invasion, but their obviousness makes them a bit more palatable because, well, they look like cameras.
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Understandably, people reacted to the news with a plea to have the Bills on "Hard Knocks" this year, a choice that is no less brilliant for its obviousness.
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Progressives are generally more sensitive to those concerns, but when it comes to guns, they're compelled by the sheer obviousness of the "dangerous people shouldn't have guns" logic.
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The obviousness was so glaring that by afternoon, Senator Charles Schumer of New York, not necessarily known as a laugh riot on camera, had produced a parody video.
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Some white critics—such as me, when I first encountered his work—have reacted defensively, purporting to roll their eyes at the obviousness of the references and provocations.
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Affirming the PTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the Federal Circuit said in a 2-1 decision that two Sanofi patents on Lantus were invalid on obviousness grounds.
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"Journey" shares that genre's tendency toward superficiality and obviousness — only the most devout fan won't tire of being told repeatedly what a brilliant singer and dancer Michael Jackson was.
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The craft-come-to-life is absolutely a walking (or should we say scuffling?) merchandising opportunity, but that obviousness is easy to forgive because he's just so damn funny.
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Darren Aronofsky's complicated parable — equal parts Bible retelling, climate-change metaphor, and examination of fame — has been memorably divisive, with audiences either decrying its obviousness or completely missing the symbolism.
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Quite possibly unintentionally, the sheer obviousness of the choice reminds us how superficial the figure of the disobedient runaway is, and how little it suits Eleven's much more substantial character.
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"This 'story,' replete with assumptions, misstatements and fraudulent statements was wrongfully published by the gossip blog Splinter despite the obviousness of its falsity and lack of factual support," he continued.
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"We're talking about putting a manifestly irresponsible man on network television," Mr. Duvall's character says, to which Ms. Dunaway nods ever so gentle obviousness, but tinged with menace and power.
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This is not to trivialize or make secondary his suffering: It was gratuitous and racist with a crude obviousness that is rarely legible in the racist scandals of our own moment.
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It's one of the few really obvious external signs (aside from badging) that reveals the car's purpose, but it's a big improvement in terms of the obviousness of the tech vs.
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The earthquakes and oil spills can be chalked up to a parallel, the disaster of the world mirroring the disasters of our lives or some similar bit of book club obviousness.
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It might have to do with the sheer obviousness of our domestic pundits; Hannity, for instance, is so explicit about his biases that he recently participated in a Trump campaign event.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court decision in finding invalid on obviousness grounds a Bayer patent relating to Staxyn's formulation that expires in 2028.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by an administrative patent court that upheld the validity of a Caltech patent challenged by Apple on obviousness grounds.
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That the necessity of reparations has lost its obviousness and "the case for reparations" has to be written once and again, cannot be explained without asking about the complicity of academic institutions.
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There are a bunch of obvious cultural and racial affinities at work in this equation, all of which are so obvious and so depressing in their obviousness that I'll just leave them here.
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You could always count on a master class in splitting the difference between artistry and obviousness during the so-called Blaxploitation era (which "Proud Mary" practically pulls a muscle reaching back to evoke).
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The federal circuit's decision finding infringement failed to recognize prior art solutions across technologies, based on the belief that Samsung's artwork did not adequately demonstrate the obviousness of the "slide to lock" feature.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that the generic drug companies failed to prove the patent was invalid on obviousness grounds.
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" She continues, "And to especially target someone that is going through a process that's not only difficult regarding the rehab … it's sheer obviousness what her intentions are, and I think she projects those onto me.
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The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that key claims in a patent owned by Florida-based Atlas IP LLC were invalid on obviousness grounds.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a determination by the PTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a MTD patent challenged by rival the Toro Company was invalid on obviousness grounds.
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Only about half of suicidal patients that wind up in American emergency rooms are asked about their access to firearms, despite national guidelines urging them to do so, and, well, the general obviousness of the question.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that Gilead's Kite Pharma Inc failed to show the Sloan Kettering patent was invalid on obviousness grounds.
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I found the obviousness of his interest refreshing, but I couldn't say anything, so I stood up and moved next to him on the grass and we ate our lunch quietly, staring at a cabin wall.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an administrative patent court's finding that Apple failed to prove that a Uniloc patent on a method of presenting digital ads was invalid on obviousness grounds.
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Most (56 percent) identified the visibility or obviousness or of a person's disability as a factor in their perception of the legitimacy of a service dog, a bias suggesting that PTS veterans are particularly vulnerable to suspicion.
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Elsewhere, some obviousness creeps in, as with an anti-monument formed by a statue atop a cast-aluminum laundry basket standing in for a disintegrating globe, despite the appeal of the doll-like, carved-alabaster statue itself.
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But for all the clumsy obviousness of the implied parable—an individual virtuoso ditches communism's dead-end and literally hops into the fucking Cadillac that will take him to fame and wealth in America—the mythic element fit Ordóñez.
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Here the obviousness of the characters and the outcome of the plot give the songs almost nothing to do, and here I'm able to say that Mark Allen, who wrote the music and lyrics, is equal to the task.
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In a pair of rulings, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed decisions by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board that invalidated two WiLAN patents relating to semiconductor technology on obviousness grounds.
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The show commits the nearly unforgivable period-drama sin of having a character cough ominously in one episode, then die in the next, and does not bother to subvert the cliché by making it meta, or commenting on its obviousness.
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The obviousness of the contradiction — imposing rules on what women can wear on the grounds that it's wrong for women to have to obey rules about what women can wear — makes it clear that there must be something deeper going on.
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court judge's ruling that invalidated on obviousness grounds a key claim in a patent owned by Pfizer's Hospira unit covering Precedex Premix's formulation.
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A weakened obviousness standard — the key issue at stake in the case — opens the door for additional patent trolls, non-practicing and non-innovating entities, as well as other opportunistic patent litigators to assert previously ineligible patents against actual innovators.
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The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision by Circuit Judge Raymond Chen, said the Patent Trial and Appeal Board erred in concluding that five claims of Sipco LLC's patent were ineligible for protection and unpatentable for obviousness.
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It's necessary to point how the boundless power and complete obviousness of someone like Fitz, who is at heart a good person without a purposefully malicious bone in his body, is also a problem for real-life people like Liv, Marcus, and Mellie.
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No other social network has done more to normalize anti-social behavior, and no other social network represents better the current moment, an era in which the obviousness of our problems seems to have no effect on our ability to solve them.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a determination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that a patent describing a hybrid car control system co-owned by Paice LLC and Abell Foundation Inc was invalid on obviousness grounds.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) relied too heavily on "common sense" and too little on analysis and evidence in invalidating Arendi's patent, which combines text-recognition with database searches, on obviousness grounds.
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The next season of the show will not lampoon his administration ( "Let them do their comedy and we'll do ours") and it is hard to see how it could without falling for the same trap as the White House correspondents' dinner: obviousness and predictability.
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In a 2-1 ruling issued on Tuesday, the Federal Circuit vacated a determination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a patent owned by the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) was invalid on grounds of obviousness.
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Mr. Pattinson is clearly set on avoiding obviousness, and this may be why, instructively, he has gravitated toward roles that call for his characters to undergo punishing physical abuse — they've been beaten, throttled, shot and endured a proctologist's probing — as if he were trying to expunge the last trace of Edward.
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Throughout both books I was struck by the obviousness of the importance of work, either domestic or professional — the importance of contributing, of choosing a destiny, of being good at something, of participating in history, and the enraging pointlessness of small-minded repressions of a soaring and generous human urge.
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Earlier this year, Samsung asked the Supreme Court to overturn an unusual decision by the federal circuit that drastically weakened "obviousness," a standard in patent law by which inventions are compared to previous patents in order to determine whether or not a competitive development is sufficiently innovative and thus deserving of a patent.
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a patent ruling that cleared the way for drug company Alvogen Inc to launch a generic version of Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC's painkiller Zohydro ER. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court judge's determination that two Currax patents on the opioid were invalid on obviousness grounds.
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There are still references to "Full House" and in-jokes about the stars' outside projects, including multiple reminders that "Dancing With the Stars" veteran Cameron Bure is a terrific dancer, but the former castmembers aren't contriving reasons to drop in and the direct mimeographing of plotlines has either stopped or become soft enough that this sporadic viewer of "Full House" was no longer jarred by their obviousness.
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Just as the naïve Sunday paintings and hothouse landscapes of Henri Rousseau had, in the years before the First World War, provided models of gravely simplified form to the Cubists—especially potent because of their obviousness, the absence of theory that let your theory walk right in—so Calder's little circus suggested a new world of absolute animation, and the creation of a mobile, energized abstract space.
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If he had seen her loitering in the fields, he might have seen the way that she watched him, too, and read her intention, and despite all that she had drilled into herself about not appearing eager she fixed her hair now with her fingertips, and even before the strand of hair was settled behind her ear she cursed silently the obviousness of the gesture.
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