“[T]he level of ‘invention’ as originally conceived by the Supreme Court in 1850 to obtain a patent is, by all appearances, an evidence-based nonobviousness inquiry under Section 103.” The Federal ...

Snipers often discover a weapon’s true potential only after it leaves the range and enters combat. Dust, cold, heat, and chaos expose weaknesses, but sometimes they reveal strengths no one planned for ...

Combat stress revealed sniper system strengths that range testing and laboratory trials failed to expose. Semi-automatic platforms like the SVD Dragunov legitimized semi-auto rifles for sniper roles ...