Of the 1,243 UK applications pending for judicial assessment at the end of last year, over 1,000 relate to voting rights for prisoners – the unresolved issue that has provoked a bitter stand-off between the UK parliament and the ECHR.
The latest statistics from Strasbourg also show that the court's massive backlog of applications has fallen sharply again, down 30% over the year to 69,000.
A proposed experiment to test a way to deliver particles into the upper atmosphere using a balloon and a one kilometre-long pipe was cancelled in 2012 after it was reported that two of the scientists involved had submitted patent applications that were similar to the techniques being proposed.
In fact, the report was about applications to obtain communications data, ie who, when, where and how communications were sent and received, not to intercept communications, which would reveal what was said or written.
Ecuador rejected 9,584 applications for asylum in 2011 - that's 78% of all the decisions it made that year and 68% of all applications.
"These applications were rewritten from the ground up," it explained, "to be fully 64-bit and to support a unified file format between OS X and iOS 7 versions".
This was a basic secretarial job – not that that should make any difference – and just the latest in a line of about 90 failed applications over the past eight months.
But more sophisticated applications may require wearable computers that are as powerful as desktop and notebook PCs, or even more powerful.
Except for myself, none of them had previously worked in 3D, and for us at Neue Road Movies it was important to "spread the virus" and continue to prove that 3D is a highly artistic new medium that has much more potential that the current applications in blockbuster action movies show.
The DJ and poet says he has two or three passwords that he uses across many applications – changing a few characters each time.
"We understand the public's concern and are withdrawing the trademark applications," spokeswoman Carrie Munk said.
