recognition. The opposition refuses to negotiate with a dictator who has too much blood on his hands, while the regime declines to … actors from the moderate opposition acknowledge the need to take the minorities' fears seriously and to provide them with …

the past. It then analyses the current debate between the regime and the opposition regarding the distribution of …

'opposition careers' of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO … more likely to be awarded EPO patent protection than are equivalents of unlitigated patents, and the opposition rate for … attacked under European opposition are shown to be either revoked completely or narrowed in about 70 percent of all cases. For …

infringe upon it. I study the defence of trade marks through opposition at a trade mark office. A structural model of … opposition and adjudication of trade mark disputes is presented. This is applied to trade mark opposition in Europe. Results show … that brand owners can benefit from a reputation for tough opposition to trade mark applications. Such a reputation induces …

benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are caught up in patent thickets. Using data on opposition against patents … at the European Patent Office we show that opposition decreases in fields in which many others profit from patent … revocations. Moreover, in fields with a large number of mutually blocking patents the incidence of opposition is sharply reduced …

may cater to opposing special interests. The value of an opposition veto depends on whether electoral accountability can …, providing a new rationale for the frequent occurrence of "divided government". Without policy rivalry, an opposition veto fares …

unitary manner in plenary votes. In a multiparty system it is, however, hard to predict how the opposition groups vote. Few … studies analysing government-opposition voting in the Finnish parliament Eduskunta were published during the 1960s and 1970s … insight into the government-opposition relations since World War II. The results show that before the 1990s the government-opposition …

that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office. We find that patent invalidation …