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The Importance of Wording in Patent Claims
Since words can be imprecise, patent claims often can be difficult to construe. This is true even in cases involving fairly simple technology, where ambiguous words (or, in the following case, numbers) breed controversy.
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Though engineers may prefer working alone, a significant quantity of a team’s work takes place in a group. The impact that each team member has in these group settings, and therefore on the members’ careers, has much to do with how one interacts within the team (interpersonal skills are a must). The author looks at technical negotiation, including practical examples specific to engineering and examples of balancing long-term relationships while achieving a desired goal.
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Communicating across cultures is challenging. Each culture has set rules that its members take for granted. Few of us are aware of our own cultural biases because cultural imprinting is begun at a very early age. And while some of a culture's knowledge, rules, beliefs, values, phobias, and anxieties are taught explicitly, most of the information is absorbed subconsciously.
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