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GB to win. TB to lose.
Thanks for running the contest once again.
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I googled ‘plastic set screw apapter for tub spout’ and something from Lasco shows up on Amazon. It’s description is “LASCO 08-1061 Bathtub Spout Adapter, Four In One, Adapts Front Threaded, Regular Or Diverter Spouts From Front to Rear Threads, Slip Fit For Copper. One size fits all. Use with front thread spouts. Includes assembly tool. 4 in 1 tub spout adapter. Use in 1/2-Inch copper pipe, 1/2-Inch and 3/4-Inch pipe thread. 4 in 1 tub spout adapter.”.
https://www.amazon.com/LASCO-08-1061-Bathtub-Adapter-Copper/dp/B00HYWE95O
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Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) reported Q2 EPS of $0.27, $0.06 better than the analyst estimate of $0.21. Revenue for the quarter came in at $201.9 million versus the consensus estimate of $199.17 million.
“In the second quarter of 2018, we delivered solid revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth on a year-over-year and sequential basis,” said Kent Thexton, Interim CEO. “Our two fastest growing and highest margin businesses - namely Enterprise Solutions and IoT Services - represented 25% of total revenue in Q2 and we continued to strengthen our position as a leader in device-to-cloud IoT solutions.”
NON-GAAP RESULTS(1)
Gross margin was 34.4% in the second quarter of 2018 compared to 34.5% in the second quarter of 2017.
Operating expenses were $59.0 million and earnings from operations were $10.4 million in the second quarter of 2018 compared to operating expenses of $48.3 million and earnings from operations of $11.4 million in the second quarter of 2017.
Net earnings were $9.7 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2018 compared to net earnings of $9.8 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2017.
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA") were $15.6 million in the second quarter of 2018 compared to $14.9 million in the second quarter of 2017.
GUIDANCE:
Sierra Wireless sees Q3 2018 EPS of $0.22-$0.30, versus the consensus of $0.25. Sierra Wireless sees Q3 2018 revenue of $198-207 million, versus the consensus of $198.98 million.
https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=14468260
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns; Board Appoints Bob Swan as Interim CEO
“SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 21, 2018 – Intel Corporation today announced the resignation of Brian Krzanich as CEO and a member of the board of directors. The board has named Chief Financial Officer Robert Swan interim chief executive officer, effective immediately.
Intel was recently informed that Mr. Krzanich had a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee. An ongoing investigation by internal and external counsel has confirmed a violation of Intel’s non-fraternization policy, which applies to all managers. Given the expectation that all employees will respect Intel’s values and adhere to the company’s code of conduct, the board has accepted Mr. Krzanich’s resignation.”
https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-ceo-brian-krzanich-resigns-board-appoints-bob-swan-interim-ceo/
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Government Alleging PTAB Violates Takings Clause and Due Process
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/05/11/class-action-lawsuit-against-u-s-government-alleging-ptab-violates-takings-claus-due-process/id=97088/
On Wednesday, May 9th, Oklahoma-based patent owner Christy Inc. filed a class action complaint in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the United States seeking just compensation for the taking of the rights of inventors’ and patent owners’ patent property rights effectuated by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Members of the proposed class would include all owners of patents which were deemed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to include patentable subject matter which were later invalidated by the PTAB.
In the class action suit, Christy is asserting claims against the U.S. government founded upon the breach of express or implied contract claims to which the U.S. is a party, the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment as well as violation of due process. The contract claims at issue include the agreement by the government to issue patents with specific claims which are covered for a specific period of time in exchange for the patent owner’s payment of issuance and maintenance fees; Notice of Allowance and Fee Transmittal forms represent the express or implied contract made by the patent applicant or owner with the U.S. government.
The basis of this legal action on due process and Fifth Amendment grounds was recently presaged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Oil States v. Greene’s Energy Group, where the majority opinion held that patents are not precluded as property under either of those legal concepts. Christy’s class action suit claims that the amount owed by the U.S. government to class members is greater than $100 million.
The particular case involving Christy leading up to the class action suit is one that should reverberate with many patent owners who have seen the U.S. government strip their patent rights after they paid a great deal of money to obtain that patent, assert that patent in district court and then defend the validity of that patent at the PTAB. In August 2006, Christy was assigned U.S. Patent No. 7082640, titled Ambient Air Backflushed Filter Vacuum. It covered a vacuum cleaning machine with a canister, an inlet port and at least two outlet ports configured to backflush a vacuum filter with ambient air, clearing dust or other particles which have formed on the filter without creating turbulence in the vacuum’s collecting canister. Christy’s class action suit notes that it had entered into at least one licensing agreement granting a party the right to practice the technology covered by the ‘640 patent in exchange for royalty payments.
In September 2014, Christy and patent licensee CDC Larue Industries asserted the ‘640 patent against Black & Decker in the District of Oklahoma. CDC and Black & Decker entered into a business agreement in December 2008 which enabled Black & Decker to gain access to information regarding CDC’s Pulse-Bac vacuum filter cleaning technology covered by the ‘640 patent. Black & Decker entered into that agreement ostensibly to explore a possible business venture with CDC but the company instead decided to infringe the ‘640 patent by designing a dust extractor which it released in 2012 under the DeWalt 10-Gal Dust Extractor with Automatic Filter Clean trade name.
On December 19th, 2014, Black & Decker filed two petitions for inter partes review (IPR) proceedings at the PTAB to challenge the validity of the ‘640 patent; the petition was filed prior to discovery in the district court case. On June 24th, 2015, the PTAB instituted IPRs on all claims challenged by Black & Decker’s petitions. In final written decisions issued by the PTAB on June 17th, 2016, the PTAB invalidated all challenged claims of the ‘640 patent as either anticipated by prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) or obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As a result of the IPR proceedings conducted by the PTAB, Christy no longer has any recognized property rights to the invention claimed by the ‘640 patent. The USPTO has not provided “any compensation, never mind just compensation,” to Christy or any other patent owner who has lost their property rights as a result of the PTAB, nor has the agency compensated patent owners for fees spent defending the PTAB trial, monies invested in developing the underlying technology, or any refund of issuance and maintenance fees paid to the USPTO. As an example of those costs, Christy notes that it had paid maintenance fees on three different occasions in the total amount of $5,990 to maintain the ‘640 patent.
“Undeniably, the PTAB is a money printing machine for the USPTO,” Christy’s class action complaint reads. Christy notes the filing fees paid by petitioners to the PTAB; parties seeking IPR proceedings like the one pursued by Black & Decker pay $9,000 to request the IPR (plus $200 for each claim challenged in excess of 20 claims) and a $14,000 fee post-institution (plus $400 for each claim challenged in excess of 15 claims). Fees for post-grant review (PGR) and covered business method (CBM) reviews are higher. Given the 8,210 PTAB petitions filed through April 12th of this year, 4,256 of which have been instituted, “the PTAB appears to have been paid almost $140 million dollars associated with PGPs” to fix supposed errors in patent grants issued by the USPTO. “To make matters worse, while PGP petitioners can be reimbursed for certain fees paid by a petitioner if institution is denied or partially denied on their petition, a patent owner is not reimbursed for any of the issuance or maintenance fees if a patent and/or claim of theirs is invalidated,” Christy’s class action suit reads.
“Having a patent issued in your favor in the United States is a birthright for many inventors and business owners in the United States,” Christy notes. The process of getting and maintaining a patent had been substantially similar since the founding of the United States up to 2011, when the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) created the PTAB and the IPR, PGR and CBM trials it conducts. These PTAB proceedings have “completely decimated the value of issued patents” by becoming a patent death squad which has invalidated 77 percent of all claims it has been petitioned to review; further, only 4 percent of PTAB petitions result in all claims being upheld. “Indeed, it has been estimated that the damage to the economy resulting from the creation of the IPR process alone is equal to around $1 trillion dollars,” Christy’s suit reads.
Christy argues that the most disturbing aspect of the entire PTAB regime under the AIA is that property rights were granted and then taken away by the government without just compensation as required under law. This has happened despite long-standing policy of encouraging investment in patented technologies through the patent grant and the presumption of validity which patents had enjoyed prior to passage of the AIA. “Also at the center of this lawsuit is the public (and shocking) admission by the USPTO that [post-grant proceedings] are designed to invalidate patents that were erroneously granted in the first instance,” Christy alleges, noting that such an admission was acknowledged by multiple Supreme Court justices during oral arguments in Oil States.
“Naturally, if this is the case, then the USPTO should never have collected (or be allowed to keep) any issuance fees or maintenance fees for any of the patents and claims that have been invalidated in any PGP process, and the patent owners of these patents should never have had to defend these patents (which were rightfully and reasonably defended because each of them was presumed valid by statute) in the PGP proceeding, which often costs hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees and expenses to defend. But for the fact that the patents were issued (and a property right granted in the first place), the patent owners would not have invested the time, resources, and money into the subject inventions and the monetization of those inventions, whether through product development or otherwise.”
Randy Landreneau, President of inventor advocacy group US Inventor, issued the following statement on the news of Christy’s class action lawsuit against the U.S. government:
“After putting what it takes into inventing, getting a patent, and starting an enterprise, to then have it all taken back by the same agency that granted it is breathtaking. These plaintiffs understandably feel betrayed. The USPTO should not be in in the business of invalidating issued patents.”
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From the other, active VHC stock board...
“Both VOD and FT infringe / $502M in damages// eom”
omg....didn’t get to watch today.
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(Subject to change before tomorrow morning...lol. This is tough this year.)
I think picking guys for the Master’s is going to be tougher than usual this year.
Haha, you’re welcome. But as you point out it’s pretty much a worthless gift.
It would be funny if other peeps tired of the whole idea just loaded you with coins. If you’re really nice to janice maybe she’ll give you her two 10’s.
I just gave your post my 2.52 coins. I am done going to the faucet, and just hope iHub doesn’t have any more quirky ideas.
Cute pictures in the link...”One Corgi in the Inland Northwest is going viral after trying to cheer up a stranger.”
The average person might think this is just a random act of kindness from a therapy dog in training, but turns out, there is a lot more to the story.
Important to note: Cora is really, really cute.
Earlier in February, Cora and her owner were waiting for an airplane at SeaTac when Cora went up to a stranger, snuggled up next to his leg and let him pet her.
Palm said she thought this was strange because Cora never leaves her side.
Turns out, the man told Palm he lost his dog the night before this encounter.
“I just looked at Cora and said ‘how did you know that?’” Palm said. “I swear, she can sense sadness and she really, truly lives to comfort people. “
http://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho/coeur-dalene-corgi-comforts-grieving-stranger-in-airport/277-522294234
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JAX-u, MINN-o
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PHI-u, NE-u, PIT-u, MIn-o
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It’s addicting watching those videos...lol. What a cool dog!
Check her instagram page. She does yoga, paints, dances, mops, and more.
https://www.instagram.com/my_aussie_gal/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRwIFyAgho-/?taken-by=my_aussie_gal
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Car-U
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IND to win. OAK to lose.
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Per excel’s advice, I have adblock installed now, and those annoying messages have stopped.
Thanks.
Irritating, but would like to know if these sorts of pop ups are serious to computer/tablet security. I never click any links, never click ‘close’ an ‘ok’, a yes or no...I just close the page, and then clear hx and website data.
Shows up sporadically on ipad, ios 11.1.2. I do use Amazon but do not ever stay logged in.
Appears on USA today, Seattle Times, and a couple others.
Oh, and an edit to this post ...I use private mode on ipad Safari browser.
“Congratulations!
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You've been selected as a winner for the free $1000 Amazon Gift Card, Apple iPhone X 256G or Samsung Galaxy S8!
Please click OK to claim your prize before we give it away to somebody else.”
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BAL to win. ATL to lose
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JAX to win. CHI to lose.
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DAL to win MIA to lose.
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LAC to win. CAR to lose.
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3:1 share split effective
BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) announces that the Board of Trustees of iShares Trust has authorized a share split for iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB).
The Board has approved a 3-for-1 split for the fund for shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 28, 2017, payable after the close of trading on November 30, 2017. The 3-for-1 split will lower the share price and increase the number of outstanding shares. The total value of shares outstanding is not affected by the split.
PHI to win. GB to lose
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KC to win. Tenn to lose.
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Well, maybe now you can enjoy the rest of the Seahawk season.....
“Richard Sherman made his 99th consecutive start for the Seahawks in his team's 22-10 win in Arizona on Thursday night. Unfortunately for Seattle's ace cornerback, he found out before it was done he was going to fall short of 100.
Sherman, who played against the Cardinals despite an aching Achilles, told his teammates — and everyone else who could lip-read — that he "tore" the tendon after making a third-quarter tackle and, with it, likely saw his 2017 season come to an end.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/richard-shermans-injury-chills-seahawks-sends-them-down-uncertain-path/ar-BBENeBC
Market's hottest stock Nvidia hits new all-time high as Wall Street loves gaming, A.I. results.
Wall Street analysts believe Nvidia has an unstoppable leadership position in the key technology growth trends.
Data center results, which drive artificial intelligence use, and gaming-related sales were much better than expected.
The stock is the best performer in the S&P 500 over the last 12 months, tripling in value.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/10/nvidia-set-to-hit-all-time-high-as-wall-street-loves-results.html
DET to win. HOU to lose.
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IDACORP Q3 EPS Tops Estimates, Full Year EPS Guidance Increased
8:03 AM 11/2/2017 - MT Newswires
08:03 AM EDT, 11/02/2017 (MT Newswires) -- IDACORP (IDA), a utility company, reported Q3 earnings of $1.80 per diluted share, up from $1.65 in the same period a year ago. The result topped the estimate of $1.66 from analysts polled by CapitaI IQ.The company increased full year EPS guidance to a range of $4.05 to $4.15 from a prior range of $3.95 to $4.05.The new guidance tops the Street estimate of $4.00.
NO to win. IND to lose.
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