The Patent and Trademark Office's Manual of Patent Examining Procedure provides that res judicata is a proper ground for rejecting a patent "only when the earlier decision was a decision of the Board of Appeals" or certain federal reviewing courts, giving no indication that state court decisions would have preclusive effect.
But the Government insists that the issue of 'coverage', i.e., whether the Act extends to plants of petitioner's establishment which manufactured materials used in making complete shoes but not named in the contracts, is not a proper ground for attack in this case.
Kant, of course is no fideist, for he does not take a leap of faith based on revealed religion to be the proper ground for belief in God.
Gadamer thus develops a philosophical hermeneutics that provides an account of the proper ground for understanding, while nevertheless rejecting the attempt, whether in relation to the Geisteswissenschaften or elsewhere, to found understanding on any method or set of rules.
What is the aim of the researchers is driving at the idea of change which should be furnished, paved and founded infrastructurally, in such a way that it prepares the proper ground for the cultivation of autonomous behaviors.
Still, proper ground rules for post-screening discussions could have limited the chances of disruption and allowed at least a taste of the real divisions in such regions as residents (and elected officials) consider a diverse set of risks and opportunities.
There are proper grounds to debate Hagel's nomination -- including his ties to the energy lobby and the security implications of those for our policies in that arena.
Those [in camera] documents, and not the affidavit, are the proper basis for determining the ground upon which the Attorney General acted.
The move comes as David Cameron said he was ruling out sending ground troops to the region despite a call by the former prime minister Tony Blair for a "proper ground war".
But what I feel most guilty about is not having provided him with the proper grounding in something that should have been easy for me.
