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  • patent law, a petition to make special (PTMS) is a formal request submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) asking that a patent application...
    5 KB (519 words) - 02:57, 2 April 2023
  • The right to petition government for redress of grievances is the right to make a complaint to, or seek the assistance of, one's government, without fear...
    5 KB (497 words) - 21:34, 15 April 2024
  • online petition (or Internet petition, or e-petition) is a form of petition which is signed online, usually through a form on a website. Visitors to the...
    20 KB (2,229 words) - 08:11, 5 August 2024
  • and 1979, several petitions were signed by a number of prominent French intellectuals, doctors, and psychologists calling for reforms to or the abolition...
    13 KB (1,327 words) - 08:10, 16 April 2024
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    form of direct legislation. A popular referendum empowers citizens to make a petition that calls existing legislation to a vote by the citizens. Institutions...
    51 KB (5,414 words) - 19:31, 4 August 2024
  • or two questions presented in a certiorari petition. The Supreme Court sometimes grants a writ of certiorari to resolve a "circuit split", when the federal...
    25 KB (3,387 words) - 03:35, 22 June 2024
  • citizen petition is a process provided by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for individuals and community organizations to make requests...
    5 KB (591 words) - 14:17, 18 March 2024
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    against support of Polanski". CNN. Retrieved December 29, 2020. "Pétition des nominés à Cannes en faveur de Roman Polanski". La Règle du jeu (in French)...
    80 KB (8,749 words) - 22:28, 8 July 2024
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    The UK Parliament petitions website (e-petitions) allows members of the public to create and support petitions for consideration by the Parliament of the...
    19 KB (1,471 words) - 06:45, 2 June 2024
  • parliamentary procedure, a discharge petition is a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee...
    20 KB (2,304 words) - 00:50, 26 May 2024
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    a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison adjoining Westminster Abbey due to...
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  • Change.org (category Online petitions)
    Change.org is a website which allows users to create and sign petitions to advance various social causes by raising awareness and influencing decision-makers...
    59 KB (5,837 words) - 17:17, 24 May 2024
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    society to make a petition to the king. More than 1,300 gyeokjaeng-related accounts are recorded in the Ilseongnok. The basis of Joseon society was a system...
    33 KB (4,016 words) - 14:48, 7 June 2024
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    The Szilárd petition, drafted and circulated in July 1945 by scientist Leo Szilard, was signed by 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project in Oak...
    14 KB (1,845 words) - 06:07, 13 February 2024
  • declared their aim to discuss a formal petition for the release of the prisoners. Loncón also mentioned her aim to provide amnesty to indigenous "political...
    13 KB (1,325 words) - 19:54, 15 July 2024
  • The Global Warming Petition Project, also known as the Oregon Petition, is a group which urges the United States government to reject the Kyoto Protocol...
    24 KB (2,693 words) - 02:56, 9 July 2024
  • The Petition of Concern is a mechanism whereby 30 MLAs can petition the Assembly requiring a matter to be passed on a cross-community rather than a simple...
    13 KB (1,227 words) - 12:03, 14 June 2023
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    investigation. "It's unclear whether Trump's advisors will make a tradition of publicly responding to petitions from the American people", Dell Cameron wrote for...
    34 KB (2,821 words) - 06:38, 16 April 2024
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    officer. The petitions officer is then required to make the practical arrangements for the petition so as to open the proceedings within ten working days...
    24 KB (2,295 words) - 14:14, 19 July 2024
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    included in the Sophisms is a facetious petition to the king asking for a law forbidding the usage of everyone's right hand, based on a presumption by some of...
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