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      leases and state boundaries

      What is the name of your state? MD and WA In the next month I'm planning a move to WA from MD and am looking for a room or apartment to rent when I arrive but I have a few questions. Would it be at all legally problematic to have a lease mailed to me to be signed and then mailed back with a...
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      involuntary admission to psych facilities

      What is the name of your state? MD I was reading about my state's policies ( http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/yourrights/pdf/pbor.pdf ) about admission into psychiatric facilities and was confused by the following paragraph. Is there any procedure in place to validate or follow up on claims that an...
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      tooth-damaged from metal bolt in restaurant food

      What is the name of your state? Hawaii My freind bit into an appetizer at a Thai restaurant and there was a metal bolt in it that broke her crown necessitating costly reconstruction that she can't afford. She wants to know what the legal outlook is and if she should get an attorney. The Thai...
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      finding a patent attorney/agent

      Maryland. Given the cost of attorney fees, I've been hoping to come across a resource with which I can effectively find the right patent attorney/firm for me. I tried some legal service search sites, like findlaw, but those only produced a handful of attorneys that weren't quite what I was...
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      classic sexual harrassment, initial questions

      My question relates to Florida. Background: I have a friend I'll call Jane that is working on a cruise ship off of Hawaii. Her (my friend's) manager is having a sexual relationship with an employee (Linda), who's my friend's friend. To be more clear, two employees are friends working on this...
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      time limit on security deposit?

      What is the name of your state? MD One year and three months ago I moved out of a room I was renting and for which I had paid a $450 security deposit. I did not contact the landlord about getting my security deposity back at the time I moved out but now I am about to do so. I still have the...
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      cooperative currency investment safety

      What is the name of your state? Maryland I want to invest in a foriegn currency and have two potential options to do so. Unfortunetly the first option is that I go to that country and become a resident, which I want to avoid. Buying the currency from here is not an option either. The second...
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      how useful is a non-patent literature search?

      What is the name of your state? MD How much does a business method patent application benefit from a non-patent literature search? I read that sometimes prior art for business method ideas can be found in publications like academic journals, magazines, books, etc. Does a patent examiner also...
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      militarily useful patents

      My state is Maryland. Sorry if this sounds overly far fetched but it relates to a problem and I'm curious. Could the US military somehow seize the rights to an invention if that invention was extremely militarily useful and the holder of the patent didn't want the military to have it? For...
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      patentability in religious/paranormal context

      My state is Maryland. My question is, if a proposed business method produces a real scientifically valid result but to be useful, it relies on public belief in something like astrology, ghosts, or esp or something would it still be considered patentable? For example let's say there's a...

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