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Chief Judge Michel (ret.) once commented that waiver is not an absolute rule and lots of times the court allows people to make new arguments on appeal: An interesting article might research when Federal Circuit judges have ignored waiver and when they have enforced it. The research might include which judges are most likely to […]

This past week, Google was able to save countless lives in Venezuela with its earthquake detection system that displayed warnings to Venezuelans using its Android Earthquake alert system. [Link]. That reminded me of this earlier post: [Judge Chen asks: Would a method of predicting earthquakes be patent eligible?], which I will repeat below. ————————&...