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and significantly performed in the United States. The contract also contained an arbitration clause, requiring that any … disputes be resolved using Sharia law as implemented through an arbitration panel. When a dispute over the ownership of funds … Texas court refused to take up the matter, and effectively upheld the arbitration clause. This paper explores the increasing …
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Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are...
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This paper looks at the decision to settle patent litigation in Germany from a new angle by focusing on detailed data on within-trial actions and motivations by plain-tiff, defendant and the courts. Using a new dataset covering about 80% of all patent litigation cases in Germany between 2000 and...
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Following World War II, the international community crafted a new worldview. Driven by a philosophy of transnationalism, States designed a modern framework for international relations. They collectively agreed to no longer tolerate unilateral tactics, such as coercion, sanctions, or sheer force,...
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The article focuses on the role of the NGOs in the dispute settlement process of the WTO. It argues that NGOs participation is underpinned by the emerging norm of participatory democracy. Given the growing expectations about WTO's accountability, transparency and democratic legitimacy, the NGOs...
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. Interestingly, we find supporting evidence for the hypothesis that the gender of the involved judge has an impact on settlement …
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This paper investigates how contract structure influences inter-firm dispute resolution processes and outcomes by examining a unique dataset consisting of over 150,000 pages of documents relating to 102 business disputes. We find that the level of contract detail affects the type of dispute...
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, administrative tribunals and state-sanctioned arbitration regimes); (2) looks at some of the benefits and drawbacks of privatization …
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arbitration law, perhaps without thoughtful consideration of the nature and purposes of the statute and the inherent differences … between binding arbitration - the intended focus of such legislation - and other intervention strategies now enshrined in …
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