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.
There are many factors the prime minister takes into account when appointing cabinet ministers Firstly he takes into consideration if he/she is a close ally. For example in the cabinet today a close ally/friend of the PM(David Cameron) is George Osborne who is the Chancellor of the Exchequer.astly, when appointing cabinet ministers the PM might take into account if he/she has a range of different view points. Likewise he might take into account if appointing a particular person as a cabinet minister would result in a balanced cabinet. For example this can be done by appointing...