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RALEIGH, N.C.?Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A. (Myers Bigel), the largest independent patent law firm in the Carolinas, recently celebrated 15 years of excellence in intellectual property protection with a reception for clients, peers, and staff outside its office on Parklake Avenue in Raleigh. The celebration marked continuing growth in terms of clients, practicing attorneys, industry leadership and third-party accolades attesting to the firm?s success in filing, defending, and enforcing intellectual property, with a strong focus on patents. ?We continue to invest in dedicated patent lawyers with technical degrees who are eager to produce and enforce top-quality patents,? Jim Cannon, managing partner and member of Myers Bigel?s mechanical group, said.

Since its founding 15 years ago, Myers Bigel has grown from 17 attorneys to 33, from a staff of 16 to 42, and now occupies a 21,260 square-foot office.

Cannon, who recently presented ?Patents 101? to the Raleigh Wake Paralegal Association, is one of many attorneys at the firm sharing their expertise at industry events in Research Triangle Park and beyond on scientific as well as legal topics. Rick Matthews, an attorney in Myers Bigel?s litigation group, spoke recently on ?Current Ethical Issues in IP Law? at the Fall 2012 Meeting of the Carolina Patent, Trademark? & Copyright Law Association.

Cannon, Matthews, and their peers at Myers Bigel serve in leadership roles within respected organizations such as the American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Association of University Technology Managers, Triangle Intellectual Property Law Association, Carolina Patent Trademark & Copyright Law Association, and North Carolina Bar Association.

Multiple members of the firm?s talented legal team have been continually named to elite lawyer lists published over the years by trusted third-party media outlets such as Super Lawyers Magazine and Business North Carolina.

?We?re a different kind of patent law firm in that every attorney at Myers Bigel is a substantive working patent lawyer, something unheard of at traditional leveraged law firms,? said Mitch Bigel, himself a working patent lawyer and member of Business North Carolina?s Legal Elite Hall of Fame.

As Bigel explained, his firm is organized as an inverted pyramid without dedicated ?rain makers? passing off new work to inexperienced attorneys. ?The same experienced, dedicated attorney who begins working with a client continues to apply that experience to the nuts and bolts of the patent development, filing and approval process,? he said.

Myers Bigel filed over 1,500 new U.S. patent applications in 2011, in addition to more than 400 patent applications in foreign countries and over 190 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)? applications. The firm?s efforts were recognized by IAM/Ocean Tomo, which ranked Myers Bigel in the top two in the country for quality in the consumer electronics discretionary category, and by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services which ranked the firm number 35 in the list of Top 50 firms.

Taking a high quality, low fees approach to doing business over the past 15 years, Myers Bigel has chosen to invest in corporate infrastructure in Raleigh rather than opening offices in larger U.S. cities. The attractive quality of life and low cost of living in the greater Research Triangle region has allowed the firm to attract and keep some of the best legal talent in the country, including a number of former in-house counsel, all while keeping overhead costs much lower than firms located in expensive major metropolitan areas. As a result, Myers Bigel clients have access to experienced lawyers producing and enforcing top-quality patents, with billing rates dramatically lower than big city competitors and well below the national average.

?We have a number of seasoned attorneys having over 20 years of quality experience who are billing at rates far below those of their professional peers at big city firms, while producing quality patent law work that stacks up against any law firm or attorney in the country,? Bigel said.

Myers Bigel provides expertise in all intellectual property areas, including trademark and copyrights, as well as patents. Operating out of the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, Myers Bigel represents corporate and university clients located in the Carolinas, throughout the Southeast, across the United States, and in Europe and Asia.

For more information, visit www.myersbigel.com.

About Myers Bigel
Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A. (Myers Bigel) is an intellectual property law firm combining patent law expertise with a stable continuity of counsel to produce quality patents that stand up to scrutiny. We are the largest independent patent law firm in the Carolinas, continually ranked among the top national firms by well-respected legal media and industry organizations. Our knowledgeable, vibrant team of attorneys with degreed technical experience successfully acquires, protects, enforces and defends patent assets and intellectual property in a variety of fields including biotechnology, chemistry, electronics and computing, mechanical and? trademark practice, as well as in litigation. Headquartered in Raleigh in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina, with clients spanning the globe, we remain active in symposia, seminars, and continuing education efforts to further best practices in intellectual property protection and enforcement. For more information on our high quality work visit www.myersbigel.com.

Source: http://nctechnews.com/2012/10/23/intellectual-property/myers-bigel-celebrates-15-years-of-excellence-in-intellectual-property-protection/7905/

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Fiction: writing characters of another race | 80,000 words

I feel a lot of pressure to do the polite thing and say fiction writers should write whatever they want. This pressure stems from the fact that I am inherently insulting writers by limiting their imaginations and telling them their imaginations *are* limited when it comes to imagining race. I?ve been told as much by writers when I broach the topic of writing characters of another race.

One specific response to my wariness about writers writing characters of another race has been, ?That is such bullshit! That?s the PURPOSE of fiction?we?re supposed to make anything up, and nothing is off grounds. Why can?t I, a white woman, write from a black person?s point of view?? (This writer is married to a Famous Writer whose long awaited book includes characters of different races; said Famous Writer is white and writes from a black person?s point of view in his most recent novel).

Here?s the thing: writers often do each other a disservice by being polite instead of speaking their truth. We don?t make each other better by offering up platitudes. We make each other better by offering up our specific truths and subsequent challenges.

And well?it?s been awhile since I pissed people off, so I guess I?ll take a risk here and say that I don?t think writing characters of another race should be any sort of dalliance. If it is in any way, don?t write them. Writers should tread very carefully and thoughtfully (as they always should) when writing another race, because there is the added weight of social responsibility in that very act.

If you think social responsibility doesn?t belong in fiction, then that?s another place we might differ. Ever read Arthur Golden?s Memoirs of a Geisha? It?s bad. It?s so bad that the geisha upon whom he based the book sued him for misrepresentation. And speaking of geishas, ever read Breakfast at Tiffany?s by the brilliant Truman Capote? Even Capote misstepped with the Japanese American Mr. Yunioshi (and don?t even get me started on the movie?s (and Mickey Rooney?s) very shrill and racist representation of the character with coke bottle eyeglasses and buck teeth). Or the recent controversial book The Help by Kathryn Stockett?criticized for its stereotypical portrayal of its characters of color. These are only one of many books in which writers wrote outside of their race and failed, because of writerly thoughtlessness.

To be frank, failing at writing characters of another race?and by failing I mean being thoughtless and insincere and not aiming to understand or empathize?comes off like doing Blackface. The only ?successful? Blackface I?ve ever witnessed is Robert Downey, Jr. in ?Tropic Thunder? and that was done completely as satire.

Literature should strive to tell the truth, and by turning a blind eye to social responsibility (and I?m not talking about making heroes out of our own race or other races?but about being genuine and authentic and multi dimensional and true), writers do harm with their writing. Thoughtlessness should be the last thing writers convey about any matter, and I don?t think thoughtlessness about racial identity should be excused.

I think that it?s nearly impossible to understand another race without BEING the other race, but if you are determined to write a character of another race, at least do the research. Travel. Live abroad. Live the life of. And still, realize you don?t assume the life of.

There was one woman in my MFA program years ago who insisted she could and should and would write whatever she wanted. This, after a heated class discussion in our craft of fiction class (incidentally taught by a writer of color) about writing outside our race. In that discussion, the class was divided between writers who felt that writing outside of our race was a singular matter of imagination versus writers who pretty much felt, ?Noooo waaaay.? During that discussion, another (white) writer even went as far as to say, ?Writers of color are so lucky. Your stories are so much more interesting. I wish I were a person of color as a writer. You have an advantage.?

I replied politely (I regret this), and murmured ?That?s not true.?

The writer who left the class saying she was determined to write a character of another race? She wrote a first person POV piece where a Chinese male protagonist spoke Ching-Chong-ese (ah-so!) and submitted it to workshop. The professor-of-color leading that workshop was not amused. Classmates were horrified. I am not sure she proved her point.

I can?t help but notice that it?s mostly white writers who get angry when I say I have deep misgivings about writers writing chars of another race. (The woman who wrote the Ching-chong-ese piece was also white). I am not sure why this is. Why this need to appropriate race?

There is also the corollary thought that since minority culture has to live within the majority culture, it might be more possible for minorities to write majority characters?i.e., white expats living abroad in for example, Asia, might have better understanding because their lives are immersed in another culture. Or people of color in the United States might have better understanding of white culture. Not necessarily so, but possibly so.

In my opinion, the majority culture has a harder time understanding the minority on a deep level required for synthesizing great fictional characters than it is for the minority to understand the majority population. I don?t think Korean people in Korea, for example, understand mainstream (white) American culture. But vice versa? Perhaps. And people of color in America? Perhaps.

Maybe for some of you, the above is a matter of fact. It is definitely a matter of fact for me. But every time I bring this point up to someone in the majority (white) culture, I am often met with indignant surprise. And that disturbs me; that someone thinks they understand but does not.

This is not to say that ex-pats living abroad don?t have a minority experience in which they can absorb a new culture. To that end, I think most women write men better than men write women. (Maybe that?s the downfall of Arthur Golden?he not only failed while writing Memoirs of a Geisha at representing and writing Asian characters?he failed at writing female characters).

So take a minute before you think you have ?the right? to write characters of another race. It isn?t ?a right.? But you could make it an act of privilege and do right. And good luck.

Source: http://czilka.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/fiction-writing-characters-of-another-race/

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SAN JOS?, Costa Rica (Oct. 22, 2012) ?Humane Society International- Latin America and the Servicio Nacional de Salud Animal (SENASA), the Costa Rican animal health service, celebrated the signing of an agreement to join together to work for improved animal welfare standards.

?In recent years, SENASA has become increasingly involved in the fight against dogfighting, an activity which oftentimes involves the sale of drugs and the arms possession. Its latest raid resulted in the seizure of 23 dogs, with two American Pit Bull Terriers that come from bloodlines associated with international dogfighting operations. The agreement aims to formalize and strengthen the collaboration between SENASA and Humane Society International, which will be implemented through awareness campaigns and training with international experts on topics such as responsible pet ownership, animal cruelty report management and welfare of production animals,? said German Rojas, director of SENASA.

?Our collaboration with SENASA will allow us to more effectively work with Costa Rican authorities to crack down on animal fighting and promote animal welfare in general,? said Cynthia Dent, regional director for HSI-Latin America. ?Humane Society International is very excited about this groundbreaking partnership.?

Following the official signing, HSI and SENASA held their first joint training session with personnel from SENASA and law enforcement receiving training to adequately deal with cockfighting and dogfighting, including investigating and breaking up animal fighting operations.

Animal welfare is a global issue, and one of increasing relevance in developing countries, where governmental institutions and NGO?s are key players. It is because of this that SENASA is entering this partnership with HSI, an international organization with over 50 years of experience in the field of animal welfare. This collaboration can become the cornerstone of a new era of improved animal health, welfare and public veterinary health.

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