It stipulates, among other things, standardised forms that all patent offices must accept, basic standards for electronic submission of patents, and mechanisms to avoid loss of rights due to non-essential formalities or unintentional delays.
Basically it runs PCs through hundreds of standardised tests that measure things like boot time, compatibility, reliability and security, to show manufacturers where their systems aren't as good as they could be.
I am very attracted by bad taste - it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste, which is nothing more than a standardised way of looking at things".
Other things being equal, standardised outcome rates will discriminate well for specific conditions in which preventability rates are high (eg, pressure ulcers, maternal deaths, deaths following elective surgery).
One, a question posed previously by Mr Loveless in other contexts, is whether such standardised tests even measure the right things.
Gardner believes that "we need to nurture imagination, not crush it with standardised tests, which don't mean a thing in the real world".
When football first crawled into being with the codification of the first standardised rules in 1863, there was actually no such thing as a specialist goalkeeper, with anyone allowed to catch the ball, but not carry it.
