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The Role and Obligations of Non-Executive Directors Under Maltese Law
Grech, Emma - 2013
The corporate governance debate has, in the last two decades, reached a stronghold in Europe. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of a company's governance is the constitution of its boardroom. Non-executive directors, in their independent and impartial, supposedly external nature, serve to keep...
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Patent Trial and Appeal Board's Consistency-Enhancing Function
Frakes, Michael - 2019
Essay, we begin to fill this gap by examining the extent to which reversal by the Patent Office's internal adjudicatory … board, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”), affects the behavior of patent examiners. Utilizing a novel database … comprising of over 9,000 unique patent examiners and their decisions in over 1.3 million patent applications over a ten …
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's Evolving Impact on Claim Construction
Holbrook, Timothy R. - 2017
This Article explores the potential impact the The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) could have on broader claim … holding more broadly, prohibiting parties in IPR proceedings from arguing for any disclaimer. Patent holders in this position … can be in a bit of a bind because the PTAB has also been very reluctant to allow patent claim amendments during IPR …
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Commentary : Authority of the Commissioner Over the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
Moy, Robert Carl - 2015
On August 3, 1992, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register requesting … patent area. Whatever administrative lawmaking authority exists in the patent area should therefore reside in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186896
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Understanding the Director's Fiduciary Obligation
Palmer, Jessica - 2018
It is trite law that a director is a fiduciary to his or her company and must act in the interests of the company. However, identifying the “interests of the company” is not so straightforward. Different theories of the nature of the company and different stakeholders interested in the...
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The Danger of Difference : Tensions in Directors’ Views of Corporate Board Diversity
Krawiec, Kimberly D. - 2014
This Article describes the results from fifty-seven interviews with corporate directors and a limited number of other persons (including institutional investors, search firm personnel, and the like) regarding their views on corporate board diversity. It highlights numerous tensions in these...
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A Difficult Conversation : Corporate Directors on Race and Gender
Krawiec, Kimberly D.; Conley, John M.; Broome, Lissa L. - 2014
This symposium essay summarizes our ongoing ethnographic research on corporate board diversity, discussing the central tension in our respondents’ views – their overwhelmingly enthusiastic support of board diversity coupled with an inability to articulate coherent accounts of board diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147842
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Government Governance and the Need to Reconcile Government Regulation with Board Fiduciary Duties
Fairfax, Lisa M. - 2012
Corporate governance scandals inevitably raise concerns about the extent to which corporate directors failed in their responsibility to monitor the corporation and its managers, especially in terms of the latter's' misdeeds. Corporate governance reforms strive to shore up directors' roles by...
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Does Investor Protection Regime Affect the Effectiveness of Outside Directorship on the Board?
Pathak PhD, CPA, CGA, CFF, CFE, CISA, Jag - 2013
Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in U.S., there has been a general tendency to globally harmonize regulations and practices of board governance. The purpose of this study is to compare among countries how well the board of directors constrains earnings management. Using a sample of firms...
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Director Compliance with Elusive Fiduciary Duties in a Climate of Corporate Governance Reform
Grossman, Nadelle - 2009
Corporate governance has become a hot topic following accounting scandals at Enron, WorldCom and others, which led to colossal corporate collapses. In many of those cases, the boards were 'asleep at the wheel,' failing to catch managements' questionable accounting practices. The Sarbanes-Oxley...
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