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Thursday, August 23, 2012
A Summer Wedding in Aldergrove, British Columbia
A Summer Wedding in Aldergrove, British Columbia
Nuptials don?t get much more romantic than this summer wedding in Aldergrove, British Columbia. Jillian and Dan wed on a sunny Friday afternoon at the Aldergrove Church with 130 of their friends and family members in attendance. The venue?s cool slate grey decor added a modern twist to the fun-filled summer wedding. The reception hall was beautifully decorated with gold handmade tissue garlands that the bride constructed with the help of her cousins which contributed to the luxe feel of the romantic celebration. Dinner was served at tables adorned with soft beige linens and tall vases filled with white blooms that perfectly accented the sentimental feel of the summer wedding. Guests lovingly signed the couple?s personalized guest book as they entered the grand hall and indulged in a selection of delicious sweet treats instead of a traditional wedding cake. As the night came to an end, Jillian and Dan thoughtfully handed out pretty potted violets from a local greenhouse as favours for family and friends to commemorate the day.
See all of the photos from this beautiful summer wedding below.
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UK newspapers steer clear of naked Harry photos
FILE - This is a Saturday March 10, 2012 file photo of Britain's Prince Harry, smiles after playing rugby at Flamengo's beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photographs of a naked Prince Harry in a Las Vegas hotel room have popped up online. A celebrity gossip site published two pictures of the 27-year-old royal cavorting with what they called a mystery woman in a VIP suite. Prince Harry's office confirmed Wednesday Aug. 22. 2012 that the photos were of the prince but declined to make any further comment. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
FILE - This is a Saturday March 10, 2012 file photo of Britain's Prince Harry, smiles after playing rugby at Flamengo's beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photographs of a naked Prince Harry in a Las Vegas hotel room have popped up online. A celebrity gossip site published two pictures of the 27-year-old royal cavorting with what they called a mystery woman in a VIP suite. Prince Harry's office confirmed Wednesday Aug. 22. 2012 that the photos were of the prince but declined to make any further comment. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
LONDON (AP) ? The prince has no clothes ? but British newspapers aren't running the pictures.
The country's scandal-loving tabloids devoted many pages Thursday to the story of Prince Harry's naked romp in a Las Vegas hotel suite. But all heeded a warning from royal officials that printing the images ? already seen by millions on the Internet ? would infringe the prince's privacy.
So while Ireland's Evening Herald ran the stark-naked prince on its front page, British newspapers made do with pictures of holiday Harry in bathing trunks and fedora hat.
The Sun tabloid came up with the most creative solution, getting a staff member named Harry and a 21-year-old female intern to recreate the naked pose under the headline "Harry grabs the crown jewels."
Bob Satchwell, head of industry group the Society of Editors, said papers were merely complying with editors' voluntary Code of Practice, which declares "it is unacceptable to photograph individuals in private places without their consent."
But other media-watchers said a scandal that erupted a year ago over phone-hacking and other tabloid wrongdoing had tamed Britain's once-rambunctious press.
Newspapers were exposed to a trial of public opinion as Judge Brian Leveson's media ethics inquiry heard from celebrities, politicians and crime victims who said their lives had been turned upside down by press intrusion.
The scandal has killed one tabloid, the News of the World ? shut down by owner Rupert Murdoch after revelations about its illegal eavesdropping ? and tarnished the entire British media.
With the inquiry considering whether to impose stricter limits on press freedom, many feel the tabloids are staying away from kiss-and-tells and celebrity scoops that they once would have relished.
Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive editor, said fallout from the hacking scandal had left newspapers "terrified of their own shadow."
"In this post-Leveson era ... they daren't do things that most of the country, if they saw it in the newspaper, would think 'that's a bit of a laugh,'" Wallis told the BBC.
While newspapers including The Sun and the Daily Mirror proclaimed that the naked photos had been "banned," that is not strictly true.
Prince Harry's office confirmed it had contacted industry watchdog the Press Complaints Commission, which in turn advised newspapers not to publish the pictures. Any paper that ran them risks being chastised by the commission, which can demand a newspaper publish an apology, but has no power to issue fines.
They could also potentially be open to an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit from the prince.
Once, editors might have risked it, arguing that publishing the images was in the public interest because Harry is a public ? and publicly funded ? figure.
Satchwell acknowledged there was a risk Leveson's inquiry could chill press freedom. But he said newspapers were simply behaving responsibly over Harry.
"Of course freedom of the press is vitally, vitally important," he said. "But just because you can publish something doesn't mean that you should."
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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
IP Frontiers: Recent events may curb litigation of 'patent trolls' | NY ...
By Shanna K. Sanders
Posted: 2:14 am Tue, August 21, 2012
Shanna K. Sanders
The dust has barely begun to settle from the America Invents Act enacted last year and its momentous changes to the U.S. patent system, and patent law is again the focus of newly proposed federal legislation. A bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 attempts to deter frivolous patent litigation by forcing unsuccessful patent plaintiffs to cover defendants? legal fees and costs.
The bill, Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2012 or the SHIELD Act, was introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and co-sponsored by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).
According to its sponsors, this bill is geared toward ?patent trolls? or ?non-practicing entities? (NPE), which are entities that hold patents for the sole purpose of licensing or enforcing them, but do not actually market any products or services.
Trolls or NPEs typically operate by suing or threatening to sue companies for allegedly infringing patents owned by the NPEs. Patent litigation is costly, and the party being sued is forced to spend thousands or even millions of dollars to defend against infringement claims, even if the claims are ultimately found to lack merit. Thus, many companies, and particularly smaller business and start-ups, tend to settle these cases rather than fight the NPE?s claims.
According to the bill?s sponsor, DeFazio: ?[P]atent trolls don?t create new technology and they don?t create American jobs.? Instead, ?[t]hey pad their pockets by buying patents on products they didn?t create and then suing the innovators who did the hard work and created the product. These egregious lawsuits hurt American innovation and small technology startups, and they cost jobs. My legislation would force patent trolls to take financial responsibility for their frivolous lawsuits.?
The bill aims to combat the problem of patent trolls by moving to a ?loser pays? system.
The SHIELD Act would require any plaintiff who files a lawsuit related to a computer hardware or software patent to pay his or her opponent?s legal bills if a court finds the lawsuit ?did not have a reasonable likelihood of succeeding.? That?s right, proposed application of the SHIELD Act is limited to patents related to computer hardware and software.
While there are some exceptions, generally speaking, under U.S. law, all parties to litigation are required to cover their own attorneys? fees and costs, whether they win or lose. The current Patent Act provides one such exception in 35 U.S.C. ? 285.
Under section 285, attorneys? fees and costs may be awarded to a prevailing party where the other party has engaged in bad faith, litigation misconduct or inequitable conduct. Even in such cases, the court has discretion as to whether to award attorneys? fees. And until recently, cases awarding attorneys? fees to prevailing defendants have been few and far between.
The SHIELD Act is also significant in that it is the first piece of legislation to provide a definition for the ever-elusive term, ?software patent:?
?Any process that could be implemented in a computer regardless of whether a computer is specifically mentioned in the patent? as well as any computer system programmed to carry out such a process, while a computer is defined as an ?electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions.?
Although the SHIELD Act is being portrayed as ?anti-troll legislation,? opponents point out that its provisions are not limited to trolls and NPEs. Rather, any plaintiff asserting a claim of infringement related to a computer hardware or software patent who is found to lack ?a reasonable likelihood of succeeding? could be liable for his or her opponent?s legal bills. Others criticize the act because it is geared to certain technology areas, and does not apply to others.
The proposed SHIELD Act is in addition to recent ?anti-troll? legislation enacted under the American Invents Act (AIA), which was signed into law by President Obama on Sept. 16, 2011. Specifically, the AIA amended section 299 of the Patent Act, which addresses the practice of joining multiple defendants in the same suit.
Prior to the enactment of the AIA, a common litigation strategy of patent trolls was to initiate a single patent infringement suit against several unrelated defendants in a venue that was favorable or preferable to the plaintiff. This strategy reduced plaintiff?s litigation costs and made it more difficult for the defendants to transfer the case to another forum.
Under the AIA, defendants can only be joined if the parties are alleged to be jointly or severally liable or the defendants? alleged infringements arose out of the same transaction or occurrence, and there are common questions of fact.
In other words, defendants can no longer be joined to the same suit merely because the plaintiff alleges that they infringe the same patent. Although the patent trolls may file more cases, those cases are likely to be filed against fewer defendants, forcing NPEs to be more selective in the defendants they choose to sue and patents they assert.
In addition to recent legislative trends to curb patent troll litigation, recent jurisprudence may be shifting in the same direction. Courts historically have applied a more stringent standard when determining whether to award attorneys? fees to a prevailing defendant under the Patent Act?s fee shifting provision, 35 U.S.C. ?285. Thus, as mentioned, cases awarding fees to prevailing defendants are few and far between.
Just days after the SHIELD Act was introduced, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a rare decision awarding attorneys? fees to a prevailing defendant under section 285 of the Patent Act.
In Highmark, Inc. v. Allcare Health Management Systems, Inc., (Aug. 7), the Federal Circuit upheld the district court order (in part) finding the case exceptional after concluding that plaintiff had asserted frivolous arguments based on res judicata and collateral estoppel, shifted its claim construction positions, and made misrepresentations in connection with a motion to transfer venue. This means that all patent infringement plaintiffs, including trolls and NPEs, must carefully consider his or her infringement claims before filing, as assertion of even one non-infringed claim can result in some fee-shifting in favor of the defendant.
Whether or not the SHIELD Act gains momentum in Congress and whether the amended joinder provisions of the AIA operate to curb troll litigation remains to be seen. But there is no question that patent troll and NPE litigation is a topic of current debate and is on the forefront of recent patent legislation and jurisprudence.
Shanna K. Sanders is an associate with Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC, practicing trademark law, copyright law and intellectual property-related litigation. She can be reached at sks@hrfmlaw.com, or (518) 452-5600.
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Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo play at the Walton Arts Center Sunday. Up on The Hill, '80s superstar Pat Benatar plays at The Walton Arts Center with her husband and longtime guitarist Neil Giraldo , 7:30 p.m., -2. As part of its exhibition, "Tattoo Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott," the Arkansas Arts Center hosts a live demonstration from Dragon Works Tattoo Studio , 2 p.m., free ...
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Next week Saturday the Scout House Invitational Tattoo returns to University (formerly Seagram) Stadium in Waterloo for the third time. Tickets (; free admission for children 12 and under): Centre in the Square Box Office (519) 578-1570, and at Home Hardware King Street, Cambridge (Preston) and Park Street, Kitchener.
Sturgis Tattoo Fest Runs Out of Ink
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) - Tattoo artists gathered for an inking festival to coincide with the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota report dismal attendance that prompted many to go home early.
South Dakota: Tattoo artists time event with Sturgis rally, but call it a bust
STURGIS, S.D. -- Tattoo artists who'd hoped to profit from ink-loving bikers during the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota packed up their needles and went home early.
Tattoo artists pack up early after poor rally showing
STURGIS | The Thunderdome outside Sturgis had nearly emptied Thursday evening as the last half-dozen of 75 tattoo artists, disappointed by a meager turnout for the Immersed in Ink Tattoo and Arts Festival and thousands of dollars in the red, packed up their wares to go home.
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The Visionary Tattoo Arts Festival returns tonight and through the weekend
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AUDIO: The granny with the jaguar tattoo
Lady Steel, arts writer and the wife of former Liberal leader Lord David Steel of Aikwood, treated herself to a pink jaguar tattoo for her 70th birthday.
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