Asking victims what they might have done to encourage their rapist, or using their personal history to invalidate their claims, is truly baffling -- and unique to sexual crimes.
The authors note use of regional anesthesia in orthopaedic surgery is associated with a 30% reduction in mortality compared with general anesthesia, although they also argue the differences in the use of regional anesthesia are not sufficient to invalidate their claim for an excess mortality associated with "potent" anticoagulants.
Some believe that the Argentine invasion of the islands in 1982, and their subsequent forced retreat, in some way invalidates their original claim.
Officials said talks between regional leaders and Li on Wednesday went smoothly, but there was no reference to a July court ruling in The Hague that declared some of China's artificial islands illegal and invalidated its claims to almost the entire waterway.
Observers criticize the Lithuanian Army, which had been consuming some 20% of the state budget, for not staging even a symbolic resistance that would have invalidated Soviet claims that the takeover was a "socialist revolution" and a legitimate change of government.
"It seems by their own admission that they don't feel any of the prior art that was submitted invalidated all the claims of the patent," said Patty Smith, Amazon's director of corporate communications.
However, China has dismissed a recent ruling by an international tribunal in The Hague that rebuked its aggressive reclamation of land on disputed shoals in the South China Sea and invalidated its historical claims to a large swath of those waters.
It violates the U.N. Law of the Sea and in 2016 an international tribunal at The Hague invalidated China's claims to the sea as well as China's attempts to turn rocks in the South China Sea into islands for military use.
Nokia's chief financial officer, Rick Simonson, said he was "pleased" that Britain's High Court had invalidated Qualcomm's claims on two patents, both related to the global GSM mobile standard.
This amounted to a "fraudulent device", which the court said invalidated the claim.
NTP won a $612.5 million judgment against Research in Motion last year, even though the patent office had largely invalidated its claim that its founder, Thomas J. Campana Jr., who died in 2004, was the inventor of wireless e-mail.
