Litigation Neurosis: Pathological responses or rational subversion?

Nutcracker, neurosis, or sampling bias?

On Common Neurosis, or the Neurotic Element in Disease and Its Rational Treatment

Emotional Responses in Litigation

Litigation is, by its very nature, an adversarial process. It can result in parties involved feeling aggrieved in response to both the actions chosen by others and the actions that a priori had been expected of others. Parties often want to have their day in court in order to see justice done or to vent a retributive intent. This paper shows that certain emotions can result in a higher frequenc...

"Experimental neurosis" in cats: fact or artifact?

In an attempt to assess the validity of the phenomenon of "animal neurosis," the behavior of cats exposed to the type of conflict Masserman specified as being critical to the development of "experimental neurosis" was contrasted with that of cats simply confined in the conditioning apparatus for the same length of time. Comparison of the groups on the basis of the "symptoms" Masserman considere...

Software Patents: Innovation or Litigation?

The Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions recently approved by the European Parliament may have significant implications for the software industry, public policy and patent protection. In this paper, we summarize the scope of patent protection in the European Union, the United States, and Japan. We examine the patentability of computer software under E.U. and U.S. pa...