Quinn Volunteers Help Relieve Hunger in Metro Detroit

December 22, 2016 NORTHVILLE, MI – Quinn’s commitment to support Metro Detroit charities continues as 15 team members volunteered their time on Wednesday, November 30th to help repackage food at the Forgotten Harvest food bank. They successfully packaged 31,150 pounds of food, which according to the Forgotten Harvest team is by far and away a record for a half day volunteer group. Forgotten Harvest works to fight hunger in Metro Detroit by collecting surplus prepared and perishable food from places such as grocery stores and restaurants and distribute it free of charge to emergency food providers across the Metro Detroit…

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The Potential Snare of Secrecy Review in U.S. Patent Prosecution

The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, codified at 35 U.S.C. §§181-188, mandates formal agency review of United States patent applications in which the disclosure or publication of the application, “in the opinion of the head of the interested Government agency, (would) be detrimental to the national security”. In response to such a determination, “the Commissioner upon being so notified shall order that the invention be kept secret and shall withhold the grant of a patent therefor under the conditions set forth hereinafter.” If the Commissioner makes such a determination, the Commissioner “shall make the application for patent in which such…

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