Supreme Court Seeks Replies From Cola Firms
...tre for Public Interest, a civil society group had filed a public interest litigation which stated that tha...ked the NGO to file its reply. An affidavit was filed in the Supreme Court earlier this month. The Ganguly committee had filed an affidavit in the Supreme...'Smart' Sunglasses With Chameleon Powers
...ionable frames. Xu's group has a number of patents filed on the technology and is exploring options for commercialization. It will be a few years until these sunglasses show up on store shelves. Source-Eurekalert PRI...Constipation Drug Linked to Heart Attack Pulled Out
...ncer drug by Indian authorities. The suit has been filed in Madras High Court in southern India and the verdict is eagerly awaited as this is the first test case for India’s patent laws under the WTO regime.) Earlier the FDA had approved Zelnorm, also called tegaserod maleate, for short-term treatment of...Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional
... has now been notified that all patent litigations filed in various courts in the country after notificatio... Chennai. Several pharmaceutical companies have filed cases in High Courts and lower courts in different states challenging the decisions of the Patent Co...Doctors Encouraged to Say, “I’m Sorry,” to Patients inUS
... and notices of intent to sue have fallen from 262 filed in 2001 to about 130 per year, said Rick Boothman, a former trial attorney who launched the practice there. The "say-you're-sorry" movement has been prompted in part by emerging evidence about the scope of medical errors. An Institute of Medicine r...Court Issues Notice to Venugopal Over Fund Irregularities
...or P. Venugopal and three others. The petition was filed by a former patient alleging// that the state-run ...plies by May 17 to the allegations in the petition filed by Abdul Mabood. The court also summoned the record of the magistrate's court after counsel V.K. O...New Technique Helps Ultrasound Produce Cute Baby Image
...nline edition of New Scientist. The inventor has filed a US patent application for the technology. Source-Eurekalert/V...Consumer Court in Himachal Fined Pepsi
...ink giant Pepsi of Rs. 100,000 against a complaint filed by a consumer five years ago//. The complaint was lodged after the consumer found worms in a Pepsi Mirinda bottle. The Himachal Pradesh Consumer Redressal Commission here Tuesday asked Pepsi to pay the amount that followed a complaint lodged in 200...Former Official Confesses He Had Sold Steroids to Leading Baseball Players
...m 1995 through 2005, according to a plea agreement filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California. He also pleaded guilty to laundering the money from the drug transactions. The two felony charges carry sentences of up to 25 years in prison and a maximum of 500,000 dolla...NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India
...al Council's (WBMC) investigation into a complaint filed by him. A single-member judge of Dipankar Datta ...se they are foreign nationals?" asked Saha who has filed the highest medical compensation case in the country against Kolkata's AMRI Hospital and three docto...Suit Filed Against Horrors of Psychiatric Ward in New York Hospital
...the New York Civil Liberties Union, the agency has filed a suit in the federal court demanding an end to th...rogram, it has been proclaimed. But the lawsuit, filed Wednesday by Sidney Hirschfeld, head of Mental Hygiene Legal Service, paints an appalling picture o...45 Day Jail Sentence for Paris Hilton
...wledging she was not to drive, according to papers filed in Superior Court. All this now puts a break on her high social life. BINB...Child Seeks Compensation for Medical Negligence
... replies to the petition by Aug 3. In a petition filed later, the father of Jai, whose right leg had to be amputated due to alleged medical negligence, demanded Rs.1.5 million. The doctors at the hospital had violated Jai's right to health as guaranteed under Articles 21, 41 and 47 of the constitution,...Own Up and Pay Up, Nigerian Party Tells Pfizer
...carried out in 1996. The Nigerian government has filed a lawsuit for almost seven billion dollars (5.2 bi... are due to restart on June 26. A similar suit was filed last month by Kano, Nigeria's largest state, which is seeking 2.75 billion dollars from the pharmace...Genetic Secrets Behind the Dragline Silk
...The UCR Office of Technology Commercialization has filed a patent application on the gene sequences. There are currently no products on the market based on the dragline silk of spiders. 'Theres nothing quite as good yet as natural dragline silk, but we should get a lot closer now that we have the full ge...Therapist Arrested For Breaking Lives
...nts and served as a mentor to new hires.Affidavits filed in support of search warrants indicate that investigators found images on Bleyle's computer and cell phone that he had created himself using children at the hospital. His arrest prompted the hospital to ban camera phones in the convalescent unit and ...American Patriots Treated To Toxic Water
...se, at least 850 former residents of the base have filed administrative claims, which call for almost four billion dollars, as compensation for exposure to the toxins. The toxins include the industrial solvents T-C-E (tetrachloroethylene) also known as P-C-E, which are dry leaning fluids, and linked with c...US Court Asked to Decide Whether Childhood Vaccines can Cause Autism
...ions. Since 1999, more than 4,800 families have filed claims with the government alleging their children developed autism as a result of routine vaccinations containing thimerosal. The court is being asked to decide whether there is a link between autism and childhood vaccines. If it finds one exists,...10 Year Sentence for Teen Sex Repealed
...l Thurbert Baker said Monday afternoon that he had filed notice of appeal, arguing that Georgia law does not give a judge authority to reduce or modify the sentence imposed by the trial court. He said he would seek an expedited ruling from the Georgia Supreme Court. Opponents of Wilson's release said it......ten not satisfactory. According to the lawsuit filed recently, a surgery for implantation of a Winter shunt was performed to move blood from one area to another. Later, he had problems and had to be hospitalised briefly for penile artery embolisation, a procedure to close off blood vessels to lessen th...