from the make-patent-trolls-great-again? dept Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren’t granted by mistake. Patent tolls and other abusers of the patent system have been […]

Authored by Sam Dorman and Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, The month of December is set to be a big one for the Supreme Court, which has scheduled oral arguments in hot-button issues such as President Donald Trump’s ability to fire people, campaign spending, and the death penalty. Its eventual decisions are expected to […]

The U.S. Transportation Department is now moving aggressively to correct the non-domiciled commercial driver’s license (CDL) crisis created under the Biden-Harris regime years, a period when these CDLs were effectively handed out like candy to unqualified migrant drivers, fueling a wave of carnage on America’s highways. The latest enforcement action comes from Transportation Secretary Sean […]

By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should tell the PJM Interconnection that it can only add large data centers to its system when they can be reliably served, according to a complaint filed Tuesday at the agency by the grid operator’s market monitor. PJM is considering proposing to allow data center […]

A powerful nor’easter traversed the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday, mostly bringing rain to the I-95 corridor from Washington, D.C., to New York City. Farther inland, however, from Scranton to Albany and up into Maine, colder air collided with moisture, blanketing these areas with accumulating snow. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy issued a state of […]