• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.57-91
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• 2012

This paper investigates determinants of litigation success in the two distinctive types of patent litigations, ex-parte and inter-parte cases, which are brought in the process where a filed application becomes a valid patent right. We regress winning rates of patent applicants on the characteristics of firms, trials, patent lawyer, and patent itself, using a probit model with sample selections. The paper finds that the relative suit rate of a firm, time to be sued, changes of patent agents by applicants, and multiple agents among explanatory variables affect ex-parte reexamination and in-parte post-grant patent trials differently in the point of average marginal effects. These variables lower the probability of applicant's victory in the ex-parte cases, while they raise the probability in the inter-parte trials. However, the experience that agents represent applicants is a winning rate-increasing factor both in inter-parte and ex-parte reexamination, unexpectedly. This result cannot be applied to the entire domain of the variable, since sample selection effects are reflected in the result. The number of claim increases the winning probability of the applicant in the both types of patent litigations. This study has some limitations because it ignores the information on the legal person to which a patent agent belongs, and confined agent's experience to patent filing. We leave it future studies to investigate the effects of lawsuit experience of patent agent, and those of characteristics of the law firm to which individual patent lawyer is affiliated.

• VENDING MACHINE INDUSTRY
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• no.summer
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• pp.19-29
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• 1999

이제야 희망이 보인다. 그동안 자판산업계의 고질적인 문제점이자 대표적인 특소세 적용의 부당 케이스로 논란이 일었던 스티커자판기 품목에 대한 특소세 적용이 연이은 행정심판 승소로 꺼져 가는 시장에 있어 새로운 희망의 빛을 던지고 있다. 지난 6월 2일 부산지방법원 행정1부 (재판장 진병춘 부장판사)는 한보전기가 스티커자판기를 고급사진기로 보고 특별소비세 30${\%}$를 부과하는 것은 부당하다며 부산 동래세관을 대상으로 낸 특소세 부과처분 취소 소송에서 원고승소 판결을 내렸다. 이번 승소판결은 특히 지난 4월 21일 삼원사진기기의 서울행정법원 승소판결에 이은 연이은 승소로 스티커자판기에 대한 특소세 제외는 이제 거부할 수 없는 대세적인 흐름을 맞았다는 점에서 큰 중요성을 갖는다. 그동안 산업계는 영업용기기이며 가뜩이나 고가형기계인 스티커자판기 품목에 대한 $30{\%}$의 특소세 적용으로 단기간안에 경쟁력을 잃고 시장이 사양길로 접어드는 어려움을 겪어 왔다. 물론 이번 판결은 피고측의 항소로 인한 고등법원 제판결과를 좀더 지켜봐야 하겠지만 보통 납세자 측이 1건도 아닌, 2건의 판결에서 승소한 상황을 고려할 때 특별한 이변이 없는 한 스티커자판기의 특소세 논란은 번복 없이 막을 내릴 확률이 높다. 애초 가능성이 희박 할 것이라는 주위의 부정적인 시각을 일소시킨 일대 쾌거라 할 수 있는 이번 승소. 그러나 앞으로 최종 승소와 완전한 특소세 철회의 길을 가기 위해서는 아직도 과제가 많다. 특히나 중요한 점은 관련업체들이 적극 연계해서 더욱 큰 결속력을 형성해야 하는 일이다. 금호에서는 이같이 중요한 시점에서 과연 산업계가 어떠한 대응을 준비해야 하고, 향후 시장상황이 어떠한 반전의 계기를 맞아 갈 수 있을 지에 대해 집중진단해 보는 시간을 마련했다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.3-26
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• 2007

This paper analyzes the effects of asymmetric reimbursement in a delegate model where the lawyers for a citizen and a polluting firm work on a contingent-fee basis. The major findings from the paper are as follows: (i) the asymmetric reimbursement triggers environmental conflicts by increasing the citizens' expected surplus; (ii) it enhances the possibility of settlement by decreasing the magnitude of expected loss less expected surplus; (iii) settlements reduce the total litigation effort levels, thus curtailing the rent dissipation; (iv) The total litigation effort levels increase if the conflicts result in trials rather than settlements.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.104-114
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• 2019

This study explored to analyze the winning determinants of the lawsuit cases on the urban and housing redevelopment project based on jurimetric methods. Based on affirm-rate and staircase matrix tables, 441 lawsuit judgments are analyzed. Research findings in affirm-rate analysis indicate that past legal relation, no own defect of accreditation, no ownership or association member status, lapse of period of litigation, and no legal interest are identified as higher rate in order for the reason for plea on the merit. And so are defect on calculation of consent rate, defect in relation with written consent, approval before zoning designation, defect in relation with general meeting, and defect on zoning designation for the issue on the merit. It is noteworthy from the staircase matrix table analysis that the criteria for affecting the lawsuit outcome is determined based on key forecasting variables such as past legal relation and no ownership or association member status. This study intends to provide the implication that the unnecessary disputes can be reduced in the urban and housing redevelopment project by the implementation of jurimetric quantitative analysis methodology from the perspective of empirical law.