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2 unusual facts about Lear, Inc. v. Adkins


Assignor estoppel

It therefore held that the doctrine of Lear, Inc. v. Adkins, which applies to licenses and holds that public policy requires that licensees not be muzzled from challenging the validity of possibly spurious patents, does not apply to assignments.

Licensee estoppel

The Supreme Court, in Lear, Inc. v. Adkins (1969), held the doctrine inconsistent with a federal policy that the invalidity of specious patents should be unmasked in order to permit full and free competition in technology ideas that belong in the public domain.


A L

A L was issued by minor Italian label Five Records when Lear was at the lowest point of her musical career and primarily working as a TV entertainer for Canale 5 in Italy.

Akhund Abdul Ghaffur

Ken Nordine's rendition of the Lear piece in his 'Word Jazz' radio show

Alan W. Lear

Lear wrote four plays for the Audio Visuals series of amateur-produced Doctor Who stories in the 1980s entitled Enclave Irrelative (which featured Michael Wisher as "Maul"), Minuet in Hell (again featuring Wisher, this time as Lord Sandwich), Cloud Of Fear and Planet Of Lies (developed from an original scenario by Jim Mortimore).

When asked in 2001 to contribute a new version of Minuet in Hell for Big Finish Productions' range of audio dramas featuring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Lear extensively rewrote the play but due to the demands of the recording schedule producer Gary Russell completed the final episodes of the script and took a co-writer's credit.

Arrow keys

The editor was written by Bill Joy for use on an Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal, which places arrow symbols on these letters since, like the original Mac shown above, it did not have dedicated arrow keys on the keyboard.

Ben Lear

On the death of Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair in Normandy in July 1944, Lear became Commanding General of Army Ground Forces.

Blood and Honey

Amanda Lear promoted the song by numerous TV performances, among others Discoring in Italy.

The lyrics were written by Amanda Lear herself and were inspired by Salvador Dalí's 1927 painting Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (La miel es más dulce que la sangre).

Bong tree

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter, written as a prequel to Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and features the land where the Bong tree grows as a locale

"The Owl and the Pussycat", a poem by Lear, where the famous phrase where the Bong-tree grows originates

Conchita Espinosa

During her extensive career, Espinosa received many honors including the Richard and Dorothy Lear Memorial “Distinguished Educator Award” (March 1994) and the “Legacy of Excellence Award” presented by General Motors during the 1999 Miami Hispanic Heritage Festival.

Duchess of Cornwall

Shakespeare's King Lear includes the character "Regan, Duchess of Cornwall", Lear's second daughter.

Eliot Lear

Eliot Lear is a longtime member of the Internet Engineering Task Force and author of several Request for Comments.

Elizabeth Barry

Barry worked for the Duke's Company from 1675 to 1682, taking the role of Cordelia opposite Thomas Betterton's Lear in Nahum Tate's 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear.

Forever Glam!

Besides most of her best known songs from the 1970s combined with selected tracks from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (decade) Forever Glam! includes two new recordings; "Martini Disease", a duet with Italian indieband Jetlag on which Lear recites Charles Baudelaire, and her English-French language take on Barry Manilow's 1978 hit "Copacabana".

Freddy Head

Prix du Jockey-Club - (4) - Goodly (1969), Roi Lear (1973), Val de l'Orne (1975), Youth (1976)

Greenfield, Iowa

Greenfield was the primary location for the filming of the 1971 satirical comedy film Cold Turkey, produced by Norman Lear, starring Dick Van Dyke.

Jaguar R4

In the 2003 Season, Jaguar were sponsored by the following companies; AT&T, Beck's, Castrol, DuPont, EDS, HP, HSBC, Japhiro, Lear, Michelin, MSC Software, Mumm, Pioneer, Puma, Rolex, Volvo and 3D Systems.

James Adkins

James C. Adkins (1915–1994), justice for the Florida Supreme Court

Jane Wattenberg

It is the first stand-alone version of this endearing poem, which Lear wrote in the same time period as The Owl and the Pussycat.

Jani Lauzon

In 2012, she performed a dual role as Cordelia and the Fool in an all-aboriginal production of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, alongside a cast that also included August Schellenberg as Lear, Tantoo Cardinal as Regan, Billy Merasty as Gloucester and Craig Lauzon as Kent.

Johnny Brown

In the introduction, Brown tells of how Norman Lear had considered Brown to play the role of Lamont in Sanford And Son, but was unavailable to do so because of his prior commitment to Laugh-In, leading Lear to give the role to Demond Wilson instead.

Johnson County, Kentucky

The title song on her 2004 album, Van Lear Rose, references her upbringing in the city of Van Lear located in Johnson County.

Kulgera, Northern Territory

Kulgera features in the Redgum song "Lear Jets Over Kulgera" from their 1981 album Brown Rice and Kerosine.

Lear Corporation

In early 2007, Lear Corporation completed the transfer of substantially all of its former North American Interior Systems Division to International Automotive Components Group (IAC), a joint venture of Lear, WL Ross & Co., and Franklin Mutual Advisers.

Lear's Macaw

All present Lear's Macaw conservation projects are managed under the authority of IBAMA.

Lerben

Her obit in the Annals of the Four Masters give her year of death as 789 as Lear Bhanbhan, airchindeach Cluana Boireann, while the Annals of Clonmacnoise under 791 reads Lerveanvan, abbesse of Cluonbardann (Clonburren).

Les Lear

Leslie Lear (born on August 22, 1918 in Grafton, North Dakota; died January 5, 1979 in Los Angeles, California) was a National Football League and Canadian Football League player and coach as well as an owner and trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.

Following his retirement from football, Les Lear became involved in Thoroughbred horse racing both as a horse trainer and an owner.

Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios

The LEAR members propagated revolutionary mindset in their writings and art works, and were engaged against the national political development, especially against government art censorship, as well against political violation of universal peace by war, by Hitler's and Mussolini's policy, by the Spanish Civil War and other similar reasons.

Live in Concert 1979

The 30-minute material was released in 1980 with different covers as Amanda Lear Live and Live in Concert and featured mostly tracks from albums I Am a Photograph, Sweet Revenge and Never Trust a Pretty Face.

Metromedia Square

Lear started videotaping his television series here in the fall of 1975, including but not limited to: All in the Family; Diff'rent Strokes; The Jeffersons; Maude; Good Times; Hello, Larry; One Day at a Time; and The Facts of Life.

Michael Aronov

He played opposite Annabella Sciorra in MCC's production of Spain at the Lucille Lortel Theatre; Dionysus in The Bacchae 2.1; and Edgar in an award-winning production of King Lear.

Mr. Dugan

Lear, however, still believed in the concept, and filmed a new pilot tilted Onward and Upward, with essentially the same script and cast—except with John Amos (as a black former pro football star running for the United States Congress) replacing Arthur.

Poet Amanda Lear

Poet Amanda Lear (ПOET Аманда Лир, translated: Amanda Lear Sings) is a compilation album of recordings by French singer Amanda Lear, released in the former U.S.S.R. by state-owned label Melodiya in 1990.

Sarah Benson

the New York premiere of John Jesurun’s Philoktetes written for Ron Vawter, Young Jean Lee’s Lear and other premieres by artists including Dan LeFranc, Annie Baker, and Daniel Alexander Jones.

Scanno, Abruzzo

Situated in the Sagittario Valley and encircled by the Majella mountains Scanno has been immortalised by photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson (1951) and Mario Giacomelli (1957-1959) and, according to Edward Lear, was host to Italy’s most beautiful women (Illustrated excursions in Italy by Lear, Edward, 1846).

Sound recording and reproduction

The multitrack audio cartridge had been in wide use in the radio industry, from the late 1950s to the 1980s, but in the 1960s the pre-recorded 8-track cartridge was launched as a consumer audio format by Bill Lear of the Lear Jet aircraft company (and although its correct name was the 'Lear Jet Cartridge', it was seldom referred to as such).

Subplot

In William Shakespeare's play King Lear, the main plot describes how Lear disowns his faithful daughter Cordelia and divides his Kingdom between his treacherous older daughters Goneril and Regan.

Syagrus

coronata nuts are the favored food of Lear's Macaw, whose bill size and shape are particularly adapted to crack them.

The Dark Lady Players

According to the study by Peter Milward, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Richard III, Henry VIII all include detailed Apocalypse allegories.

The History of King Lear

The production was directed by the company's Artistic Director, W. Stuart McDowell, and featured Eric Hoffmann in the role of Lear, and supported by an Equity company of fifteen, including Frank Muller in the role of the Bastard Edmund.

The Tomfoolery Show

Though the works of other writers were also used, notably Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash, Lear's works were the main source, and characters like The Yongy Bonghy Bo and The Umbrageous Umbrella Maker were all Lear creations.

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

Van Lear, Kentucky

The Van Lear mines are referred to by country music singer Loretta Lynn in her song "Coal Miner's Daughter" and in the title song of her Van Lear Rose album, and by Dwight Yoakam in "Miner's Prayer" from his Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. album.

Weak ordering

In an example from the Maryland Hunt Cup steeplechase in 2007, The Bruce was the clear winner, but two horses Bug River and Lear Charm tied for second place, with the remaining horses farther back; three horses did not finish.


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