Priority Year

Period FDA priority Years from Years from... 

If the second (later) application claims subject matter that was not disclosed in the first application, any prior art published before the filing date of the later application is considered. Thus, such newly introduced subject matter has to be both novel and inventive with respect to the prior art published before the later filing date. Normally, this does not cause problems. However, if a researcher had filed a first patent application before the respective scientific manuscript on his invention was published and thereafter files (within the priority year) a second application claiming an improved embodiment of the invention, then the improvement not only has to be novel, but also inventive with respect to the subject matter of the manuscript published between the two filing dates. Very often, the improved embodiment is not inventive over the published manuscript. Thus, the improvement is not patentable over the disclosure of the invention in the published manuscript, although the content of the publication was filed as the first patent application. Therefore, publishing the invention within the priority year should be avoided. 

When seeking patent protection, an inventor typically files a national patent application in his country of residence. Once this first patent application has been filed, the priority year provided for by the Paris Convention starts to run. During the priority year, an inventor will normally continue his work on the invention, for instance, by conducting further experiments. All this material can be used in preparing patent applications to be filed abroad. 

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Preventive medicine through vaccination continues to be the most cost-effective pubHc health practice, even with the drastic advance in modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs have eradicated smallpox from the earth. The World Health Organization (WHO) has a major campaign underway to eradicate poHo by the year 2000. The development of vaccines has saved millions of Hves and prevented many more from suffering. However, there are stiU many diseases without effective vaccines, such as malaria. With the recent emergence of antibiotic-resistance strains and exotic vimses, an effective vaccine development program becomes a top priority of pubHc health poHcy. 

Two hundred years ago, John Adams expressed my sentiments on priorities better than I can. 

Remember as you set priorities that you and your team must consider the expected benefit to the company, division, or unit as a whole, rather than simply addressing a single gap. Obviously, any specific immediate risk you identify in the course of your assessment must be dealt with quickly and responsibly however, be careful not to let anomalous findings skew your perspective on broader priorities. For example, the absence of a capital project review process is a significant gap. However, if there is only one project per year this gap may have lower priority than an existing but seriously deficient operator training program. 

Mayer had married in 1842, and for the first few years his marriage was a vei y happy one, but then his life began to fall apart. Between May 1845 and August 1848 three of his children died. A nasty priority controversy with Joule became public when their claims were read and discussed by the Academy of Science in Paris. Mayer was upset that his writings on energy conservation were not more widely read, and that they often were not appreciated by the few scientists who did read them. And, as the final blow, he was accused by local scientists of being more a mad philosopher than a competent scientist. 

Unfortunately, the most recent estimates of energy subsidies in the United States date from the early 1990s and earlier, and such subsidies change constantly as the tax laws are modified and governmental priorities change. Tt is clear that total subsidies to the energy industries are in the billions to a few tens of billions of dollars each year, but the total is not known with precision. 

Develop a nursing care plan for Ms. Morris, a 28-year-old, woman who is admitted to the obstetric unit with premature labor during her third trimester. This is her second child, and die has had two miscarriages. She is prescribed ritodrine for preterm labor. Analyze what nursing diagnoses would have the highest priority. Discuss how you would explore and plan to meet her emotional needs. 

The response of tundra, bogs, and moist or wet boreal forest to new climate regimes is expected to be large. Sufficient research to characterize the response of these ecosystems over the next 50 to 100 years is a high priority. 

How do we take a future-oriented approach to research on energy and metals What criteria do we use to set research priorities Short-term projections of prices and availability of resources are poor guides to a national policy for research. It is virtually impossible to predict the course that energy prices will take over the next few years or to prognosticate political events that might affect the snpply of key minerals to the United States. The most anyone can say is that oil prices will rise and that a real threat exists to the stability of onr snpply of several key minerals. 

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