Investor Due Diligence and Legitimate Expectations

Modelling Legitimate Expectations

Legitimate expectation in the context of culpa in contrahendo is an important legal concept for the study of good faith and the duty to negotiate with good care. However when wanting to model it and reason about it, one finds that most existing legal formalisations do not directly account for the concept. In this paper we present a formal model that can explicitly model and reason about legitim...

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers

Due Diligence in Transactions Involving Intellectual Property

The process of gathering information and assessing the merits, issues, and risks associated with a business transaction is called “due diligence,” which is a critical analysis in the acquisition and strategic utilization of intellectual property (IP) assets. Due diligence is a necessary precursor to funding a new venture, and it is critically important in many other business transactions, inclu...

Six Questions About Translational Due Diligence

C R E D IT : L . C O U RT N E Y /R O C H E ST E R IN ST IT U TE O F TE C H N O LO G Y SECURING SUSTAINABLE RESPECT AND SUPPORT Ensuring that translational research is respected and supported over the long run requires more than the conversion of basic research into technologies that professionals can use to improve medical outcomes and the reverse translation of fi ndings from clinic to bench. ...

The Importance of CRISPR-9 Due Diligence

On February 15, 2017, the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board announced its long-awaited decision finding no interference-in-fact between patents and patent applications directed to CRISPR-Cas9 owned by Broad Institute, Inc. et al. and patent applications owned by Regents of the University of California et al. The decision found that the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-ed...