Between 1976 and 2004, when Willingham filed his petition, the State of Texas had approved only one application for clemency from a prisoner on death row.
The Internet provides abundant resources, including the ability to file online, and a one-year provisional application for patent filings, which was introduced in 1995, provides a simple way to lock in a filing date for as little as $80 while the inventor works on a full application.
Applicants are asked to sign a statement stipulating that they agree to file only one early application.
Only parents in the US legally can file an application for their kin, who must be 21 or younger, unmarried and living in one of the qualifying countries – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Vermont, Hawaii and Minnesota are expected to file an application for a 1332 waiver.
But the company filed a patent application for its network method before Plaxo filed its two patent applications.
ImClone, based in New York, filed its marketing application for Erbitux in late October.
Columbia University filed a patent application for the use of α-syn peptides as biomarkers (US patent application number 15/300,713).
"It really wasn't Elian who filed an asylum application; it was Lazaro Gonzalez who filed the application for him," said Bernard Perlmutter, director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic.
Dick Aitken, Tann's patent attorney, filed the first patent application for Kearns' intermittent wiper in December of 1964.
Black's lawyer, Miguel Estrada, tells me he'll be filing an application for bail early next week.
