The only benefit of a hard material in protective clothing is to prevent piercing injuries.
I'd say that the risk of piercing injuries in skiing is remote.
For sports where a non-piercing, high-force / high speed impact must be projected against you use clothing containing materials which crumple, absorbing the impact and reducing the force imparted to the wearers body.
A company providing this material to a skier and promoting it in this way is generating FUD.
I'd say Government employees have axes (requiring grinding) equal in size to the employees of private firms.
Just because they don't directly see the results of their enforcement in their paycheck doesn't mean they aren't looking to the long term and trying to build a career path.
For instance, in the UK, Traffic Wardens (parking enforcement officers) do not officially have a quota of parking tickets to write in a given month, but when interviewing for promotion their interviewers take their ticketing into account.
Wardens who don't produce a certain level of revenue simply don't get promoted.
The only way to boycott a patent administration body is to conduct all your business outside of their jurisdiction.
Could you argue that USPTO policy is driving business away from the US?
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The only benefit of a hard material in protective clothing is to prevent piercing injuries. I'd say that the risk of piercing injuries in skiing is remote. For sports where a non-piercing, high-force / high speed impact must be projected against you use clothing containing materials which crumple, absorbing the impact and reducing the force imparted to the wearers body. A company providing this material to a skier and promoting it in this way is generating FUD.
I'd say Government employees have axes (requiring grinding) equal in size to the employees of private firms.
Just because they don't directly see the results of their enforcement in their paycheck doesn't mean they aren't looking to the long term and trying to build a career path.
For instance, in the UK, Traffic Wardens (parking enforcement officers) do not officially have a quota of parking tickets to write in a given month, but when interviewing for promotion their interviewers take their ticketing into account.
Wardens who don't produce a certain level of revenue simply don't get promoted.
Surely the Citroen Ad is Motion Capture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture, not Live Action?
( Poster.Has("Girlfriend") && Poster.Is("Slashdotter") ) I think not!
The only way to boycott a patent administration body is to conduct all your business outside of their jurisdiction. Could you argue that USPTO policy is driving business away from the US?
...once you're neuro-chemically invested... :)