inoperability

Without unified standards, comprehensive security resolutions, widespread merchant participation and sensible and simple consumer education, the fragmentation, or "inoperability" of disparate technologies and platforms will make adoption and profitability more likely to occur in 2012, or even later.

Why VeriFone Systems Is Positioned to Win - Seeking Alpha 2010

But on the whole, unless you are one of these major industry interests who have used some of this legislation to your advantage, the regulatory frameworks subject themselves to inoperability in many ways.

Christina Gagnier: SOPA and Protect IP: What Legal Nightmares Are Made of Christina Gagnier 2011

But on the whole, unless you are one of these major industry interests who have used some of this legislation to your advantage, the regulatory frameworks subject themselves to inoperability in many ways.

Christina Gagnier: SOPA and Protect IP: What Legal Nightmares Are Made of Christina Gagnier 2011

He starts by noting that I had written that social con James Dobson decried the no-nuke compromise in the Senate as a loss for the Republicans and that I had concluded that the deal -- which severely weakens the filibuster (perhaps to the point of inoperability) -- was more of a gain than a defeat for the GOP.

David Corn: Will No-Nuke Deal Drive Social Cons from GOPers? Probably Not 2008

I would predict that our marketplace is going to see fewer vendors, better product integration, improved inoperability and fewer complicated license agreements for all of you to negotiate; in other words fewer hoops and hurdles for all of our customers around the world.

Emerging Trends in Information Technology 2005

Please also note that costs associated with clean up, removal, transport, and/or burial of such detrius shall specifically be deducted from future invoices and payments for subject contract, and that any work required to be done as a result of inoperability of sections overloaded with such detrius are also to be deducted from payments rendered on said project.

Blasted Contractors! 2005

In the last five years, it seems (to me) that the Federal Circuit has moved strongly against the notion that an absurd claim construction can be avoided; instead, the claim is simply construed with the absurdity, and whatever consequences may follow ensue (e.g., impossibility of infringement, as a practical matter; or inoperability; etc.)

Archive 2007-02-01 Peter Zura 2007

In the last five years, it seems (to me) that the Federal Circuit has moved strongly against the notion that an absurd claim construction can be avoided; instead, the claim is simply construed with the absurdity, and whatever consequences may follow ensue (e.g., impossibility of infringement, as a practical matter; or inoperability; etc.)

Should the "Absurdity Doctrine" Be Introduced to Patent Law? Peter Zura 2007

Despite the record penalty, the issue of Windows inoperability has hardly cleared up as far as Kroes is concerned, and last July she slapped a daily fine on Microsoft -- totalling 280.5 million euros $358.6 million over six months -- for still failing to comply with the EU's 2004 ruling.

Kroes Gives Microsoft A Thanksgiving Deadline 2006

He identifies four goals for technology skills training for lawyers: (i) the need to “learn about how to learn” about technology; (ii) the need to be savvy consumers of technology and acquire technology that meets their needs and the needs of clients, (iii) the need to “leverage” networking technology; and (iv) the need to be sensitive to the inoperability of systems.

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