That openness has in turn created an environment where patient safety and patient care, not avoidance of litigation, have become the priority.
In law enforcement organisations, ergonomic aspects and safety issues must be tackled with three priorities that are essential for that occupation: officer safety, public safety and avoidance of litigation.
But as the surprise license deals signed by Chinese product makers Xiaomi and Lenovo in recent weeks for Via's advanced audio patents show, there's another key advantage to patent pools besides the large cost savings and litigation avoidance.
To address this, Article One recently launched a "Litigation Avoidance" service that collects relevant information about prior art, focusing on pre-emptive action around specific patents to help identify and eliminate patents that don't deserve protection.
And the army of instructors, life guards and "helpers" at the pool where Fusselman's son learned to swim were surely hired with litigation avoidance in mind.
Factors affecting differences in outcome were the inclusion of younger women with dense breasts, litigation avoidance, and incentives to minimize the number of abnormal mammograms.
It is important to identify users' views of this service because the consequences of poor acceptability may be lack of adherence to advice or treatment, complaints and litigation or avoidance of future use.
We have been relentless in challenging avoidance and evasion - through legislation, litigation and, increasingly important in a global economy, working closely with other countries.
Since April 2010, litigation has been opened in 110 avoidance cases.
NHS managers trying to ensure that private contractors do not use tax avoidance strategies are having their efforts overturned due to nervousness about litigation by global corporations, The Independent can reveal.
