2016 Annual Patent Dispute Report. Overview. While the volume of patent litigation in district courts dipped in 2016, the number of PTAB challenges stayed flat, approximately matching the number of petitions seen in 2014 and 2015. District court litigation was down 24.8% from 2015 and 11.7% from 2014.
Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and one of England's greatest military leaders, served as Prime Minister from 22 January 1828 to 16 November 1830 and again from 17 November to 9 December 1834.
Prime Minister Andrew Fisher. Fisher became Prime Minister on 13 November 1908 when Deakin's Protectionist government resigned and Fisher was commissioned to form a government. (Deakin resigned because Labor's 'preference for unionists' amendment to its arbitration legislation was unacceptable.).