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Attorney to lead panel discussion  at medical design expo; serves as co-author on legal publication


Keith Weiss, Ph.D., an intellectual property attorney in the Ann Arbor office of Brinks Gilson & Lione, will serve as the moderator of a panel discussion on 3-D printing and medical devices at the 2016 Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) Conference & Expo: Creating the Total Solution – Value Engineering to Deliver Clinical & Economic Outcomes. The event will take place in Minneapolis on Sept. 21-22 with an expected 5,000 industry professionals in attendance.

Medical Design & Manufacturing Minneapolis has been the epicenter of the region’s medtech innovation, communication and solutions for the past 22 years.  On Sept. 22, Dr. Weiss will facilitate a panel discussion on “Answering the Key Question: Can 3-D Printing Really Be Used to Make Medical Devices?” The panel discussion will cover crucial topics such as exploring ways to integrate new materials and processes in design progression; balancing design considerations with manufacturing necessities; and addressing issues of repeatability, reliability and consistency. Learn more about the 2016 MD&M Minneapolis Conference & Expo here.

Separately, Dr. Weiss served as a contributing author to the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education’s new publication, Intellectual Property Law – 2016 Edition. He co-authored the publication chapter on patenting inventions, along with Brinks colleague, Marc Richards. Richards is an intellectual property attorney in the Chicago office of Brinks.

 

Police say thousands of blood-alcohol tests reviewed again
 

DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan State Police spokesman says no one was wrongly prosecuted for drunken driving as a result of blood-alcohol tests that were incorrectly analyzed.

Lt. Mike Shaw says the problem involved a high-tech processing file on a machine at the state police lab. It affected 4,001 cases statewide over a four-month period. But Shaw said Tuesday that a new round of tests showed only “minute” differences.

Half the tests didn’t require any correction. Shaw says the revised results also didn’t have an impact in cases where the blood-alcohol level was initially found to be near 0.08, the threshold for drunken driving.

In 18 cases, Shaw says the new results put the blood-alcohol level at 0.17 or slightly higher, the threshold for “super drunk.”

New reports are being sent to prosecutors.

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