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.
The Second World War was the dominant concern of the election campaign. Robert Menzies had become Prime Minister on 26 April 1939 following the sudden death of Joseph Lyons. Menzies had announced Australiaâs entry into the war on 3 September 1939.