"Depending on which side we're on, … the patent attorneys will analyze the documents together with the patent lawyers and we will try to define flaws, defects in the patent, to try and invalidate it.
Harrison describes the defining flaw of Backplane, saying "We treated it like a SAAS model," where it did the unscalable work of managing networks for the brands for a fee.
The model is shown to exhibit good agreement with experiments, and hence provides a simple framework to design laser experiments to generate precisely defined interface flaws while avoiding film failures.
That lack of a viable exit route may come to be seen as one of the defining flaws of the euro zone.
But inference the way it has so far been defined is flawed for a number of other reasons.
The contrast with his predecessor Yegor Gaidar, young, anglophone and smart, made the appointment all the more depressing.Few discerned that this was one of the shrewdest and, in his own way, most colourful politicians in modern Russian history, a man who eased the country's switch to capitalism while also defining its flaws.
At the hotel, everyone owns up to a defining flaw.
The blindness of love becomes not its defining flaw but in some strange way its grandeur, even its vindication.
"Superheroes are defined by their flaws," he says, using Wolverine of X-Men, powerful but a little crazy, as an example.
He knew in his heart that Batman was the right hero for Gotham, and that Dent might be a hero with feet of clay, a man who could too easily be defined by his flaws instead of his strengths.
In defining the flaw, the authors of a new study simply took the contractors' estimates of the durability of their parts and added up the likely number of failures per year.
