As I imagine you know, volunteer work is a great way to strengthen community bonds as well as bringing help to those in need. You’ll find it’s easier to get involved when someone else has organized the event.
Continue Reading January 7th, 2010
Reports of Yaz side effects continue to grow as the producers of Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella prepare themselves for further litigation and more likely cases. Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, makers of Yasmin and Yaz, and Barr Pharmaceuticals, makers of the generic version Ocella have been bombarded with allegations leading from downplaying the severeness of side effects in their commercials to knowingly letting loose a dangerous and potentially lethal product on American women.
Mass Tort is simply civil action that encompasses a number of plaintiffs. This legal action is taken against one or more corporate litigants in court. Unlike a class action where a group of people take it upon themselves to bring forth litigation as a whole, in mass tort the original plaintiffs and attorneys use mass media outlets to reach other possible plaintiffs. Those television and websites wondering if you are a loved one have been effected by a particular product are the result of mass tort status.
It is important that women become their own advocates and take charge of the decisions being made about their health and their bodies. As a whole, the American public relies too heavily on doctors and pharmaceuticals to give them answers in a bottle. In the internet age, it is up to you to do your own research and become knowledgeable. Drug recalls and corporate lawsuits have become all too commonplace in America. At some point, the masses have to stop relying on the government and big business to have their wellbeing in mind. It is time for the public to finally take the first step and not be so quick to accept anything handed to them in pill form.
November 26th, 2009
Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a unusual and fast acting tumor where no helpful treatment has been discovered notwithstanding the finding of quite a few probable molecular targets. The final stages of Malignant pleural mesothelioma diagnosis and the period of time that exists connects some exposures and diagnosis have made it tricky to fully learn the importance of risk factors and the resulting molecular effects.
A lot of medical centers are now seeing more patients that are suffering from peritoneal cancer. This gives pathologists diagnosing the patient many problems, which can be broken up into those discovered in finding the differences between cancer of the mesothelium and benign changes and those seen in setting apart mesotheliomas from other sorts of e-cadherin and tissue tumors that connect. Immunohistochemistry performs a major role in helping to make the diagnosis, nevertheless it should be interpreted with due regard to the scientific setting and radiological characteristics, and with an understanding of the broad morphological differentiations existing in cancer of the mesothelium.
Cancer of the mesothelium is a primary cancer of the serosal cavities, an anatomic location that is also frequently affected by metastasis, predominantly from primary carcinomas of the ovary, lung and breast. Advances in IHC have resulted in enhanced diagnostic sensitivity and specificity in the differential diagnosis in both cytological and histological material. Lately, the authors group used increased levels of throughput technology to the classification of new markers that may aid in differentiating mesothelioma from cancer in the peritoneum and ovaries, closely related histogenesis found in tumors and antigenic profile. Together with the better tools available for serosal cancer diagnosis, knowledge regarding the biology of cancer of the mesothelium has been accumulating recently.
May 22nd, 2009
Do you ever wonder how everything gets to the super markets? It came by truck. Some items come from half way around the world. First by ship or plane in a container, then loaded on rail or truck and dropped at a depot, then resorted and taken to the store. Everything goes to the store in boxes and leaves in your SUV in small containers via a shopping cart or plastic bag thru the check out and parking lot.
Recently products have been available online and are delivered to your doorstep thru the use of a B2C website; still they get to the distribution center by truck. The final delivery is by delivery van of course but still it takes a truck. Most grocery stores have home shopping websites now or at least are trying them out in certain areas. Online Grocery Stores Sites are available thru; Safeway-Vons Stores, Albertson’s, HEB, Piggly Wiggly and Publix. These operate similar to online book stores like; Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders .Com. Even though you order it without going to the store, it still needs a truck to get it there. If you order something by mail from eBay and it comes via USPS; the post office has trucks too. Just like FedEx and UPS. Office Depot, Office Max and Staples all have online sales, which use a combination of 18-wheelers and delivery vans to get the products to you.
No matter what you buy or how you perceive it gets to you, it came by truck. If the trucks stop then you cannot get the goods, the food, the fuel; you cannot make anything, build anything or create anything. You would have no job, no furniture, no TV or refrigerator. Everything would stop and life as you know it would too. It is for this reason you should smile and be kind to truck drivers, give them the right away when you can and wave using all five fingers. There is no way around it, if the trucks stop so does America. Think about it.
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June 28th, 2008
Legislation
The Indian law of geographical indications is enshrined in the the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999. This Act seeks to provide for the registration and protection of Geographical Indications relating to goods in India. The Act is administered by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, who is the Registrar of Geographical Indications Registry. The rights granted under the Act, are operative in the whole of india.
What is a Geographical Indications
A geographical indication is a sign used on goods that have a specific geographical origin and possess essential qualities that are due to that place of origin. It is an Indication used to identify agricultural, natural or manufactured goods from a definite territory which have a special quality or characteristics or reputation based upon the climatic or production characteristics unique to the location. A geographical indication conveys consumer that a product is produced in a certain place and has certain characteristics that are due to that place of production. For example, no produces of whisky can call it Scotch, unless it has been produced in Scotland.
Examples of geographical indications from India include DARJEELING tea, BASMATI rice, KANCHIPURAM Silk Saree, ALPHONSO Mango and KOHHLAPARI slippers. Other examples of geographical indications include TUSCANY olive oil in Italy, ROQUEFORT cheese in France, and IDAHO potatoes in the United States.
A geographical indication is different from trademark. A geographical indication is used to identify goods having special characteristics originating from a definite territory whereas trademark identifies the source of the goods or services of one enterprise from those of others. Unlike Trade Marks which is proprietory in nature, with exclusive right on the owner to use the mark, a geographical indication is usually collectively owned by a Community, a group of producers or even by a Nation State.
Why does Geographical Indication need protection?
Geographical Indications denotes the origin and the quality of products which have acquired reputation and goodwill over time. False use of geographical indications by dishonest traders, for example “KANCHIPURAM” for sarees, which was not made in the Kanchipuram area of Tamil Nadu in India, is detrimental to purchasers and legitimate producers. Hence geographical indication needs protection.
Classification of Goods
Almost all jurisdictions including India follow International Classification system in which goods have been grouped into classes 1 to 34 for registration.
Rights conferred by registration
The registration of a geographical indication confers on the authorized users the exclusive right to use the geographical indication in relation to the goods in respect of which it is registered. The Registration offers better legal protection for an action for infringement.
Who Can Apply For A Geographical Indications
Any association of persons, producers, organization or authority established by or under the law can apply. The applicant must represent the interests of the producers of the concerned goods.
Who is an authorized user in relation to a Geographical Indication
A producer of goods can apply for registration as an authorized user, with respect to a registered Geographical Indication. He should apply in writing in the prescribed form along with prescribed fee.
Filing and Prosecuting Geographical Indications Applications
An application for registration of geographical indication shall be in presribed Form (Form GI-1 for the registration of a Geographical Indication in Part A of the Register by an Indian applicant; Form GI-2 for a convention application; an application for goods falling in different classes by an Indian applicant in Form GI-3 and an application for registration of goods falling in different classes from a convention country in Form GI-4).
The application should include the various requirements and criteria for processing a geographical application as follows:
How the indication serves to designate the goods as a GI?
The Class of goods;
The territory;
The particulars of appearance;
Particulars of producers;
An affidavit of how the applicant claim to represent the interest;
The standard bench mark or other characteristics of the GI;
The particulars of special characteristics;
Textual description of the proposed boundary;
The growth attributes in relation to the G.I. pertinent to the application;
Certified copies of the map of the territory
Special human skill involved, if any;
Number of producers; and
Particulars of inspection structures, if any, to regulate the use of GI.
Upon filing of the application accompanied by prescribed fees, a number will be alloted. The application would be examined on turn to check whether it meets the requirements of the GI Act and Rules. After issuance of the Examination Report submission would be considered. If no objections is raised it would be accepted and would be advertised in the Geographical Indications Journal. An opposition can be lodged within a maximum of four month period. If the opposition is dismissed, the application will proceed to registration in Part A of the Register.
After a geographical indication is registered any person claiming to be the producer of the registered geographical indication can file an application for registration as an authorised user in Part B of the Register.
Duration of a geographical indications
The term of a geographical indications registration is for a period of ten years. The renewal is possible for further period of 10 years each. If a registered geographical indication is not renewed, it is liable to be removed from the register.
Remedies For Infringement
The Act also provides criminal remedies. First, the intentional falsification of a geogrphical indications will bear a prison sentence of at least six months. This may be extended to three years and be accompanied by a fine. Second, the police may conduct search and seizure operations without any warrant. In essence, unauthorized parties may not use geographical indications if such use is likely to mislead the public as to the true origin of the product.
P.M.George Kutty, Attorney at Law of http://www.pmgip.com
May 21st, 2008
I was recently listening to Public Radio when I heard a discussion about nuclear power and nuclear holocaust. It seems that back in the early sixties, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world was closer to the holocaust than any time since. Whew! Now we can finally relax.
The guest on the radio program went on to say he has mostly been in favor of nuclear power for electrical generation because if the poisons created are greater, they are also containable and recyclable. He pointed out that fifty per cent of U.S nuclear fuel is coming from dismantled Soviet - Russian warheads. This idea intrigued me and made me less opposed to nuclear power that might do more good than harm after all.
This immediately raised a question in my mind that was not addressed on the radio program. Who is benefiting from dismantled U.S. warheads? Probably no one. Iran came to mind. Let us give them the warheads they desire as they work to enrich their own uranium. Let us and Russia supply them with all they need right now. Nuclear friendship is a beautiful thing.
How many times do we hear the argument that an oil rich country has no need of nuclear power? Consider what has been happening to the price of oil. I don’t remember the world objecting to U.S. nuclear power because we had more trees and coal than we can use in a century. Can it possibly be a national right to conserve a natural resource? Of course not - we must use everything up before we die. If we must do this, you must too or you are evil.
The White House assures us at every opportunity we are winning the War on Terrorism. Back in the early nineties when Osama wanted to talk about the U.S. removing its military from Saudi Arabia, among other things, an always arrogant U.S. government refused to talk. Osama responded the best he knew how. The lesson learned by government from his response was: when ignoring an enemy does not work, do it again and again until it does. Now the U.S. military is no longer in Saudi Arabia and it only looks like Al Qaeda is winning. We’ll talk to and ignore whoever we please and if they don’t like it, we’ll have a war named after them. This is the value of a good U.S. education. If at first you don’t succeed, try the same thing over and over until you do.
Since George Bush declared Iran an enemy, there will be no talking with them. Diplomatic efforts are intended to fail as they did in Iraq. Then the world will be able to punish these evil people with a clear conscience. Don’t fret that Iran will become another Iraq because government has learned the next invasion just has to go better than the last one. Let’s recruit another half million soldiers and kick some evil Persian ass! When we are given our next President, we can invade Iran and start diplomatic talks with North Korea. Then we can make a new list of evildoers to destroy. But I think the destruction will come home to roost before then. Ignoring the evil Americans will prove our costliest mistake.
Ed Howes sought and found, knocked and entered. Now he sees things differently. To see more of what he sees, please visit http://www.justanotherview.com or do an author search here at Ezine Articles.
May 1st, 2008
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