| Lear wins appeal in patent suit
Lear Corp., once the largest supplier of car interiors, won an appeals-court ruling that allows it to continue to provide Car2U garage-door openers to automakers until a Johnson Controls Inc. patent-infringement lawsuit is decided. A trial judge had barred Lear from selling the Car2U device, saying there was a good chance Johnson Controls and patent owner Chamberlain Group Inc. would win the suit. Closely held Chamberlain owns the patent and Johnson Controls is the exclusive licensee. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington today said the judge erred in defining one of the key terms of the patent. The court threw out the order barring sales and sent the case back for further review. .
Poisoned lives in God's Paradise
Blacksmith experts were back in Haina last week with the same goal they began with 10 years ago: cleaning up a place so contaminated some scientists say it would be better to move the 80,000 neighbors someplace else. "The contamination is unbelievably high," said Jack Caravanos, a Hunter College environmental science professor who collected soil samples for Blacksmith. "You could practically mine for lead there." Haina's story began in the mid 1990s when Null, director of New York-based Friends of Lead-Free Children, was in Santo Domingo giving a lecture, trying to get the government there to stop using leaded gasoline. Null was approached by someone in the audience and told about a company called Metaloxa that was recycling batteries and contaminating kids. Null visited and found a lot with 30-foot high piles of batteries.
Notes: Timetable laid out for Colon
Less than a week in camp, the Red Sox, beginning with pitching coach John Farrell, like what they see in terms of arm strength from the 34-year-old right-hander, and Friday laid out a plan for him. "March 15 is kind of a template that we work by," Farrell said in pointing toward Boston's game against Cincinnati in Fort Myers. "There's a progression leading up to that. Tuesday will be his first bullpen day. Those will always provide us opportunities to evaluate his arm strength, how he recovers, and he'll go through a similar every other day bullpen routine as every other pitcher went through at the start of camp here." Farrell likely wouldn't have felt comfortable outlining the plan unless Colon had the strong outing he had in playing catch in the outfield at City of Palms Park, stretching out to 120 feet.
'Sgt. Barbie' turns an Uptown shotgun into her very own dollhouse
I love recycling. I love the whole idea of re-using found objects. It hurts me to spend a lot of money on anything when I can make something beautiful out of trash." .......................................... The house on Joseph Street is the twelfth one that Gatt has made beautiful in New Orleans. For years, she made a business of it. "I'm a flipper," she says pertly, meaning that she buys dilapidated houses, renovates them and sells them for a profit. But she didn't flip in the traditional way -- using inoffensive colors and conventional plans to make the houses appeal to a wider audience. Instead, she did her thing. "You can drive around the city and pick out my houses from the colors," she says. And if potential buyers didn't appreciate her sense of style -- particularly if they said they were planning to re-paint -- she figured they were unfit to be owners and declined their offers.
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