JEL Classification O34, K41, G24, M41, M42. A survey of patent litigation in the Taiwan electronics industry between 2010 and 2015 provides insight into the causes and economic consequences of patent litigation. This survey had three key what were the findings of this study? First, companies with patents for new inventions are more likely to file plaintiff-initiated lawsuits and less likely to ...

Since the emergence of profession, auditors’ liability is recognized as a controversial and loose debating matter (Flores, 2011). This everlasting issue not only differs among contexts but also differ lawsuits. Consequently, an essential step, this research endeavors to provide full understanding extent nature legal according Jordanian relevant regulations. To do so, authors gain capture regula...

Last August, the American Bar Association adopted the Model Rules of Proje ional Conduct. which significantly altered the ABA' position on lawyer advertising. It is still unclear how the states will respond to the ABA's new position, and the debate about the propriety of lawyer advertising continue. In the authors' view, both sides of the debate have overlooked an impur-tant point: For purposes...

A Pilot Study was performed at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT) in Copenhagen in order to explore the possibilities for adding a medico-legal documentation component to the rehabilitation of torture victims already taking place. It describes the process and results on implementing medico-legal documentation in a rehabilitative setting. A modified version of the G...

The accounting profession has raised concerns that excessive liability exposure renders audit firms unwilling to provide audit services to risky clients, limiting the prospective clients’ ability to raise external capital. In this paper we address this concern in a model where the auditor evaluates the riskiness of the client before accepting the client engagement. We consider a setting where a...

the purpose of this study is to study the role of environmental determinants in entrepreneurship in the public sector. this is an applied and descriptive-correlation study. the statistical population is tehran municipality's employees and clients. a sample of 220 municipal employees and a sample of 200 citizens were selected to evaluate the role of environmental factors in entrepreneurship...

We design and implement a correspondence experiment to test for differences in real estate agent response across client race, ethnicity, gender, side of market. Real agents are more likely respond White clients than Black or Hispanic clients—Whites have 32.18% higher rate Hispanics an 8.48% clients. also find that responsive sellers (23.81% premium over buyers) female (13.57% males).