A recent poll by London-based law firm Allen & Overy LLP indicated that although majority of the companies who holds patents in the UK, they are skeptical about how the new unitary patent system and the Unified Patent Court would work for them and what costs would it entail to seek claims using the new system, Bloomberg reported.
Bloomberg said that the proposed US Environmental Protection Agency rules on greenhouse-gas emissions would reduce the country's power-plant gas levels by 30% on average from 2005 levels, earning sharp response from Democrats, whom some called the standards another way to bankrupt the American people through its adoption.
Chinese Lieutenant General Wang Guanzhong of the People's Liberation Army has hit back the speeches made earlier by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe regarding the mainland's moves in the disputed maritime waters in the South China Sea at an annual security dialogue in Singapore last weekend.
Vitalii Sediuk, a serial Hollywood prankster who attacked Brad Pitt at a "Maleficent" premiere, has been charged with four counts of assault-related charges and is now on top of protection agencies' lists.
