This article discusses the expression of referentiality and definiteness in Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language of Easter Island. Rapa Nui has a variety of determiners, including the article te and ...

Definiteness is an operator that referring to discourse and pragmatic situations. In a nutshell definiteness is a referent whose existence is commonly understood to both the speaker and the addressee.

EDITORIAL NOTE: What follows is an excerpt from the latest edition of Rules for Patent Drafting: Guidance from Federal Circuit Cases, 2017 Edition, which will be released the week of May 10, 2017.

The definiteness requirement of Section 112(b) of the Patent Act mandates that claims "particularly point[] out and distinctly claim[] the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards ...

IN my lecture on Force (anté, Sept. 21), I take for granted that the scientific use of the word is that with which all are familiar in the expression “the parallelogram of forces.” Hence Newton's term ...