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Road paving. This includes bitumen, cutbacks and fluxed bitumen as well as emulsions. Each of these products is subject to very special application techniques. This list is completed by the use of poured asphalt, even though this product is better suited to smaller surfaces sidewalks, courts, etc., than to pavements. Since the middle of the 1980 s, air-blown bitumen is no longer used for road construction. 

National Particleboard Association, 18928 Premiere Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, Tel. (301) 670—0604. 

Forensic scientists work with physical evidence, ie, "data presented to a court or jury in proof of the facts in issue and which may include the testimony of witnesses, records, documents or objects." Physical evidence is teal or tangible and can HteraHy include almost anything, eg, the transient scent of perfume on the clothing of an assault victim the metaboHte of a dmg detected in the urine of an individual in a driving-under-the-influence-of-dmgs case the scene of an explosion or bullets removed from a murder victim s body. 

Historically, physical evidence has taken on increasing importance in criminal matters. Court decisions have consistentiy looked askance at a defendant s admissions of guilt and even question eyewitness testimony. Physical evidence has traditionally been viewed as impartial and unbiased, and not subject to the problems associated with confessions made by an accused or the testimony of witnesses. 

The iaterpretation of forensic toxicology (18) results is often challenging. Courts frequently ask if an amount of dmg detected ia a specimen could cause a specific type of behavior, ie, would someone be under the influence of a dmg at a specific concentration, would a particular dmg concentration cause diminished capacity, or was the dmg the cause of death In a random employee dmg testing case, a worker screened positive for opiates by EMIT and gc/ms analysis of the urine specimen showed low levels of morphine. Although one possibiUty was that the iadividual was a heroia user, a review of foods eaten ia the prior 24 hours suggested a more innocent cause a poppy-seed bagel. 

J. E. Eastoe and A. Courts, Practical Mnalytical Methods for Connective Tissue Proteins, Spon, London, 1963, Chapt. 6. 

OG/PLUS USPTO Research PubHcations CD-ROM versioa of the USPTO Official Gazette covers 1990—preseat iacludes searchable subfiles PATENTS ISSUED, images of O.G. pages searchable by bibHographic fields and first page abstract PATENT STATUS Ede, track-iag post-issuance actions, eg, reexaminations, corrections and LITALERT, containing records of patent suits filed by U.S. District Courts with the USPTO updated monthly six disks/year... 

D. Arndt, Manganese Compounds as OxidifingMgents in Organic Chemisty, Open Court Publishing Co., LaSalle, IU., 1981, pp. 169—177. 

D. G. Lee, The Oxidation ofiOrganic Compounds by Permanganate Ion andHexavalent Chromium, Open Court Publishing Co., La SaUe, IU., 1980. 

International Union for Pure and AppHed Chemistry (lUPAC) Bank Court Way, Cowley Centre Oxford 0X4 3YP United Kingdom Among its pubheations in the standards field are Manual of Symbols and Terminologyfor Physico-chemical Quantities and Units, D. H. Whiffen, ed., Pergamon, New York, 1979, and Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemisty, Pergamon, New York, 1977. 

If the patent appHcation is allowed based on an appHcant s response to the second office action, examination is ended. However, if the patent examiner advises the patent appHcant that the rejections will be maintained and the appHcant views these rejections as insurmountable, the patent appHcant may choose to abandon the patent appHcation. If the patent examiner maintains the earHer posed rejections, and the patent appHcant disagrees with the examiner, the patent appHcant may appeal the examiner s decision to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, which is comprised of adininistrative judges. The appeal process involves the noticing and briefing of the appeal, and oral argument before and a subsequent decision from the Board of Appeals and Interferences (step 10). Usually the oral argument is presented to, and subsequent decision is received from, a panel of three administrative judges selected from the full complement of the Board. If the Board panel decides in the appHcant s favor (step 11), the patent appHcation will be passed to issuance (step 12). If the Board decides in the examiner s favor, the patent appHcant will have to consider whether to refile the appHcation and request another round of examination or seek court review. 

Combining Tort and Contract Advantages. Two methods were available to allow plaintiffs an easier road to recovery. Courts either stripped the tort action of the necessity for estabUshing fault, or interpreted the UCC in such a way that privity was not necessary and the other Code defenses were not appHcable to cases involving personal injury or property damage. Either way a manufacturer would be open to dkect suit without the... 

The Henningsen decision sought to impose strict HabiUty against manufacturers within the framework of the Uniform Commercial Code. Only a short time elapsed before the courts recognized that the language used by the UCC to address HabiUty provided a clumsy tool for prosecuting personal injury cases, and that strict HabiUty was a purely tort doctrine. 

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