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GS Battery Inc. just reported it has began to present its ECO R model SLC 70-4 and SLX246-12 batteries for use in Suniva’s Balance of System Solutions. Co-Branded with the Suniva and GS Battery logo, these exceptional capacity batteries supply longevity and outstanding cycling functionality based on a great deal of experience in Japan.

This collaboration allows Suniva and GS Battery to optimize their alternative energy products to improve the performance and reliability of the entire PV system, thus improving the Levelized Cost of Electricity. Custom engineering support to help meet individual project needs is also available. The ECO R batteries are a significant component to Suniva’s Balance of System Solutions.

“Market interest continues to be very positive for the ECO R batteries and has been aided by Suniva’s introduction of the Balance of System Solutions (BOSS) at Solar Power International,” said Jay Northey, Executive Vice-president and General Manager, GS Battery (USA) Inc. “We are excited to continue our collaboration with Suniva as our co-branded offerings expand globally.”

GS Battery Inc. is an American subsidiary of GS Yuasa Group of Japan, a world leader in automotive, motorcycle and standby storage batteries, which serves the power sports, telecommunications, UPS, and the emergency lighting markets. GS Battery Inc. recently announced that they will enter the renewable energy photovoltaic and storage market in North America.

Suniva® is an American manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon PV cells and high-power solar modules used in solar panels. The company uses patented, low-cost manufacturing techniques and industry-leading technology to produce its high-quality products and maintain competitive costs. Headquartered in metro-Atlanta, GA, Suniva sells its advanced PV cells and modules globally.

The law office of Lee Tran & Liang has obtained yet a new Ninth Circuit appeal; this will be its 4th specific success with regard to the Ninth Circuit since 2009. On January twenty-six, this year, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a grant involving summary judgment that LTL achieved for its client, the defendant in a copyright and trade dress case. Firm partner Enoch H. Liang – along with attorney at law Daniel Taylor – defended Bedrosian’s (in Orange County) and Hirsch Glass Company (in New Jersey) both before the District Court and the Ninth Circuit. The plaintiff was represented by notable intellectual property specialist Christie Parker & Hale.

As reported in LTL’s June 2010 press release, the District Court granted LTL’s motion for summary judgment on Plaintiff’s trade dress claims in mid-2009. Then, in September 2009, less than 4 days before a jury trial was scheduled to begin, the District Court also dismissed Plaintiff’s 17 copyright claims. In July 2010, Plaintiff appealed to the Ninth Circuit, arguing that the District Court erred in both holding that the scope of Plaintiff’s copyrights were “thin,” and finding that “there is no substantial similarity (much less virtual identity) insofar as the protectable items are concerned as between Plaintiff’s copyrighted products and Defendants’ glass tiles.”

After extensive briefing, on January 13, 2012, LTL Partner Enoch Liang argued the case, defending the District Court’s ruling. Fewer than 2 weeks following the oral assertion, the Ninth Circuit Judges W. Fletcher, Fisher, and Zouhary—issued their unpublished opinion. The Ninth Circuit held that “protection over designs is thin.” The Court further held that the defendants’ designs “are not ‘virtually identical’ to because the streaking effect, color blends, and appearance of randomness in designs are different…”

This conclusion reaffirms the significance of a two-pronged approach in copyright infringement actions. Often, the issue of infringement is determined by the “scope” of the copyright that the court determines as a matter of law. Hence, in litigating copyright matters, plaintiffs should pay particular attention to avoid falling into various limiting doctrines that may limit the scope of their copyrights. Defendants should do the opposite.

Lee Tran & Liang, APLC is a California based law firm focusing exclusively on business litigation. The firm’s partners have practiced at prominent law firms, and are graduates of top law schools including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and Michigan. Primary practice areas, as outlined by the firm itself and every attorney directory, include business disputes (breach of contract, aggrieved investors and professionals, and commercial disputes) intellectual property litigation (patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets), and employment litigation (defense). The thing that sets the firm apart is its ambition of aligning itself with its clients’ necessities, by delivering a number of creative payment arrangements in appropriate issues.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is telling small enterprises that February. twenty four will be the submission deadline pertaining to federal economic injuries catastrophe loans available in Lee and Scott counties in Virginia. The SBA declared a catastrophe as a consequence of intense storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and water damage that began on April 23, last year.

In addition, the Small Business Administration declared recently that federal economic damage disaster loans are offered to smaller businesses, small farm cooperatives, small firms operating in aquaculture and the majority of private non-profit organizations of any size based in the counties of Dillon along with Horry in South Carolina as a consequence of Hurricane Irene which came about in August.

“When the Secretary of Agriculture issues a disaster declaration to help farmers recover from damages and losses to crops, the Small Business Administration issues a declaration to assist eligible entities affected by the same disaster,” noted Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta.

Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is readily available to eligible farm-related along with nonfarm-related businesses that sustained financial losses as a direct consequence of this disaster. With the exception of aquacultural organizations, agricultural producers, farmers and ranchers are definitely not eligible to apply to SBA.

Financing for small business can be up to $2 million, with interest rates of 3 percent for non-profit organizations and 4 percent for small businesses. Terms can be up to 30 years. The SBA determines eligibility depending on the size of the applicant, type of activity as well as its financial assets. The agency sets loan levels and terms based upon each candidate’s financial condition. These may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable, and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred. These particular small business loans are not developed to substitute lost sales or income.

In the aftermath of the greatest court budget cuts in California’s history, plaintiffs’ trial lawyer Michael Alder of AlderLaw, P.C. in Beverly Hills assumed the office of president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), the nation’s largest local association of plaintiffs’ attorneys, which is comprised of just about 3,000 legal professionals.

“Consumer lawyers are vital, now more than ever, to protecting the civil rights of people who’ve been left without access to judicial relief, which is just about everyone except the super-rich,” said Alder. “Legal bills add up to astronomical sums very quickly, because litigation is such an intensive process. Without lawyers who work on a contingency fee basis, which means they risk their own money instead of the clients’ and agree not to be paid unless they win the case, even people with big incomes quickly find their resources drained when faced with the large legal bills that result from a contested matter. Consumer lawyers must be prepared to provide leadership, vision and most of all integrity.”

Alder is known as a steadfast advocate of plaintiffs’ attorneys, also called consumer lawyers, working to raise public awareness of their importance at a time of corporate fraud and abuse. He’s been a member of CAALA for 14 years and spearheaded a city-wide billboard campaign to fund billboards that highlight the good that consumer lawyers do for society. He also is one of five founding members of the Trial Lawyers Charities, a non-profit enterprise which donates capital along with legal assistance to people in need throughout Los Angeles.

Alder is at the present time engaging in some of the very most cutting-edge litigation efforts in the country. He’s tried upwards of 70 litigation cases within his professional career and properly secured over $140 million in decisions and settlements for his clients in the year 2011 alone. Recently, in December 2011 he received a nearly $33 million verdict for Concept Chaser, Co., Inc. in the advertising fraud case Concept Chaser Co., Inc. v. Pentel of America Ltd.

CAALA officially installed Alder as its 2012 president on Jan. 21 at its 63rd Annual CAALA Installation & Awards Banquet at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The group also announced its new officers and Board of Governors. For more information, visit www.caala.org.

AlderLaw, P.C. is a Los Angeles criminal attorney and plaintiffs’ law firm that represents plaintiffs in personal injury, business tort and employment litigation nationwide. The firm was founded in 2000 by attorney Michael Alder, current president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) and past CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year. Alder has tried more than 70 cases in his career, and works with a team of seven associate attorneys. AlderLaw, P.C. obtained more than $140 million in verdicts and settlements for its valued clients in 2011. For information, visit www.alderlaw.com.

Juhl Wind Inc, leading the way in Community Wind Energy, has introduced the official industrial start-up and functioning of the two turbine project for Gundersen Health System in Winona County, MN. The 4.95 megawatt installation stands out as the first-of-its-kind in The United States to be created exclusively to handle the alternative energy concerns of a major regional health care organization, in this instance, Gundersen Health System.

“This unique wind project represents the continued activity by Juhl over the past two years and highlights our strength and diversity in the community wind energy market,” said Corey Juhl, Vice President of Development for Juhl Wind Inc. “We are seeing an increased demand for large commercial and industrial organization projects such as Gundersen’s as they fit extremely well within Juhl Wind’s area of expertise. This community-based project will provide significant economic benefits to the region. As one piece of their Envision program, the wind farm project will help Gundersen Health System achieve their goal of becoming 100% energy independent by 2014.”

“This is an exciting time for Gundersen and our Envision program. This community wind project we have done with Juhl Wind was about two years in the making, and we’re happy to report that the turbines are now creating energy,” pronounced Jeff Rich, executive director, GL Envision, LLC.

Juhl Wind is an established innovator in Community Based Wind Power advancement and management, focused on wind energy projects throughout the United States and Canada. Juhl Wind pioneered Community-Based wind farms, developing the currently accepted financial, operational and legal structure providing local ownership of medium-to-large scale wind farms. To date, the Company has completed 21 wind farm projects and provides operations management and oversight across the portfolio of renewable resources. Juhl Wind services every aspect of wind farm development from full development and ownership, general consultation, construction management and system operations and maintenance. With its consolidation of the Valley View, Winona County and Woodstock Hills wind farms, the Company has now invested in and operates 21.7 MWs of wind power through its independent power producer subsidiary, Juhl Renewable Asset, Inc. Through its Next Generation Power Systems subsidiary, Juhl Wind also provides total sales along with service to smaller, on-site wind power and solar panel ventures besides the company’s more substantial Community Wind turbine Farms.

Those that have gynecologic cancer have fresh new expectation with a creative technology now introduced at the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. A team of cancer specialists, led by Robert DeBernardo, MD, is among the first in the nation to launch a dedicated program using Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat ovarian, endometrial and select other cancers.

Completed promptly following surgery, HIPEC delivers heated chemotherapy through a ‘hot bath’ into the abdominal cavity, where it can penetrate diseased tissue directly. After the surgeon takes away as much visible cancer as achievable, a heated, a sterilized chemotherapy solution is distributed within the abdominal area through a technologically sophisticated perfusion system to ruin the leftover cancer cells.

“This is a new and potentially revolutionary way of treating women with gynecologic cancers, which tend to be quite responsive to chemotherapy,” says Dr. DeBernardo, gynecologic oncologist at UH Case Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “Our preliminary data and experience has been overwhelmingly positive and the therapy has been well-tolerated and effective. HIPEC promises to extend lives in a meaningful way.”

HIPEC has been used for years for public health care in patients with colon, pseudomyxomas, malignant mesothelioma and appendiceal cancer, varieties of cancer that generally speaking aren’t receptive to chemotherapy, however it is now looked at as an encouraging fresh therapy for gynecologic malignancy.

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced this week that federal government economic damage catastrophe loans are offered to smaller businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small firms active in aquaculture and most private non-profit firms of all sizes situated in the counties of Dillon along with Horry in South Carolina as a consequence of Hurricane Irene that took place in August.

“These counties are eligible because they are contiguous to one or more primary counties in North Carolina. The Small Business Administration recognizes that disasters do not usually stop at county or state lines. For that reason, counties adjacent to primary counties named in the declaration are included,” said Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta.

“When the Secretary of Agriculture issues a disaster declaration to help farmers recover from damages and losses to crops, the Small Business Administration issues a declaration to assist eligible entities affected by the same disaster,” announced Skaggs.

Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is available to eligible farm-related in addition to nonfarm-related companies that suffered monetary losses being a direct result of this calamity. Excluding aquacultural enterprises, agricultural companies, farmers and ranchers are not eligible to apply to SBA.

Loan options for small business can be up to $2 million, with interest rates of 3 percent for non-profit organizations and 4 percent for small businesses. Terms can be up to 30 years. The SBA determines eligibility in line with the size of the candidate, form of undertaking and its financial assets. The agency identifies financial loan levels along with terms based upon each and every applicant’s fiscal condition. These SBA small business loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable, and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred. The small business financing loan is not intended to replace lost sales or profits.

Hazelden, among the list of the planet’s premier and most honored private, nonprofit alcohol consumption and drug addiction treatment centers, announced recently that it’ll boost it’s outpatient substance addiction treatment and mental heath care treatment services to Chaska, Minnesota, in a drug rehab center that will aid grown people as well as adolescents as young as twelve.

“Addiction affects people of all ages, and Hazelden understands the growing need for outpatient treatment for busy families,” pronounced Mark G. Mishek, president and CEO of Hazelden. “In addition to expanding services for adults, Hazelden is reaching out like never before to young people. We don’t want them missing out on the good stuff of growing up: being with friends they can count on, figuring out what they’re good at and achieving their academic goals.”

Hazelden in Chaska should be able to open its business to older people on March one, and to teenagers about April one. The center is located within the third floor in the Hazeltine Gates building, 1107 Hazeltine Blvd., with easy access from Highways 212 and 41. The 5,400-square-foot alcohol treatment center features individual spaces for youths and grown ups, including a meeting spot for younger people that helps bring about peer interconnection and also kinetic learning. The north-facing glass windows open to a view of the Municipal Golf Course in Chaska.

{Yung Joc might be contemplating a legal fight following Master Mind Music Incorporated., an Atlanta-based music company, filed legal action towards the rapper and his old label Block Enterprises. Inside of the lawsuit which was filed in the United States District Court in Georgia, Master Mind Music claims that they signed the artist to a production agreement and exclusive recording contract during 2005. The Atlanta-music business has supplied an index of allegations in opposition to Block and Yung Joc including copyright infringement, break of agreement, torturous interference with contractual associations, deceitful misrepresentation, and fraud.

Donald Scarinci of Scarinci Hollenbeck announced today the official release of Scarinci Hollenbeck’s “Sports and Entertainment Law Blog,” edited by Anthony R. Caruso, the Chair of its Sports and Entertainment Law Practice Group. Caruso is nationally recognized as an attorney appearing together with clientele and as a commentator on CNBC, NBC, Fox, and other media outlets.

A law firm announced that it’s beginning a class action lawsuit which would involve stakeholders of Chemed Corporation. The objection is a result of information which appeared Nov. 16 connected with a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Chemed cheated Medicare. Chemed’s stock fell $6.87 per share, or 11 percent, to close at $50.65 per share that day. San Diego law firm, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, said it manually filed the litigation on account of an institutional speculator in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.

A non-profit organization, Hispanics Union of Buffalo, Inc. ended up being directed to rehire 5 various individuals that it terminated for protesting in regards to a co-worker on Facebook, as well as pay them back salary. The actual expenses of this social network mistake can be quite significant, particularly if individuals factor in ’ expenses. In the case of HUB, HUB had not retained replacement workers, however for quite a few companies the firing of employees, who had engaged in protected concerted activity would also mean salary or overtime to get the work of the fired employees done.

The U.S. Copyright Office soon is going to take into consideration a request which may actually make content security on DVD immaterial. Just about every 36 months the Copyright Office listens to inquiries with regard to exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and also this time around the consumer digital advocacy group Public Knowledge is asking the federal government to legalize the capability for buyers to make backups of DVDs protected with content scrambling system copy security software.

Wikipedia is going to go down for 24-hours so that it will demonstrate the U.S. anti-piracy laws – Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Worst-case eventualities of the projected new rules are now being discussed. The Electronic Frontier Foundation speculates, “Instead of complying with the DMCA, a copyright owner may now be able to use these new provisions to effectively shut down a site by cutting off access to its domain name, its search engine hits, its ads, and its other financing even if the safe harbors would apply.”