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A public disclosure is any non-confidential communication which an inventor or invention owner makes to one or more members of the public, revealing the existence of the invention and enabling an appropriately experienced individual ("person having ordinary skill in the art") to reproduce the invention. A public disclosure may be any form of ...
Chapter 7: Labor-Management Relations; Chapter 8. Fair Labor Standards; Chapter 9. Portal-To-Portal Pay; Chapter 10. Disclosure of Welfare and Pension Plans (Repealed) Chapter 11. Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure; Chapter 12. Department of Labor; Chapter 13. Exemplary Rehabilitation Certificates (Repealed) Chapter 14.
Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act; Long title: An act to provide for the reporting and disclosure of certain financial transactions and administrative practices of labor organizations and employers, to prevent abuses in the administration of trusteeships by labor organizations, to provide standards with respect to the election of officers of labor organizations, and for other purposes.
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor that promotes standards for democracy and fiscal responsibility in labor organizations. It was formed in 1959.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to patents: Patent – set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem and is a product or a ...
Form LM-2, along with several other forms, was developed by the OLMS to fulfill the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 reporting requirements. [2] In 2002, the OLMS rewrote parts of LM-2 in an effort to increase transparency. [3] Since 2005, all organizations have been required to file the form electronically. [4]
Government patent use law is a statute codified at 28 USC § 1498(a) [1] that is a "form of government immunity from patent claims." [2] [1] Section 1498 gives the federal government of the United States the "right to use patented inventions without permission, while paying the patent holder 'reasonable and entire compensation' which is usually "set at ten percent of sales or less".
As an example, any business interests and tax records for a public employee is public domain because disclosure is required by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (Pub. L. 101–194) and this information should be made available to anyone who requests that information because of the Freedom of Information Act. This applies to all government employees ...