However, the countries where the greatest number of foreign patents are legally based are Barbados, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Ireland, notes the OECD.
While it was legally based in Bermuda, its functional home was in the Los Angeles area, where most of its top executives lived.
Dell's physical headquarters would have remained in Round Rock, Tex., while the company would have been able to tap into the cash and tax benefits of being legally based in a lower-tax country.
Most, although they maintain operations in Ukraine, are legally based somewhere else.
Although Alibaba.com is legally based in Hong Kong, its roots and most of its operations are in China, and Ma is a Mainland citizen.
TIOTI Inc, which is legally based in Seattle, WA, USA, and London, UK, says it is in "advanced talks" with investors for funding.
Labour rights are legally based on 'The Consolidation of Labour Laws' (Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho) tackling principal subjects such as registration/labour card, period of recreation, occupational safety, organisation into worker unions or inspection.
Last month the largely Russian startup (it's legally based in Alexandria, Virginia, but has software development operations in Moscow) received a "significant amount" of venture capital from Mangrove Capital of Luxembourg (an early-stage investor in Skype), ABRT Venture Fund and the partners of OpenView Venture Partners of Boston.
To avoid these complications, most films are legally based upon carefully written contracts containing work for hire and licensing language.
Some bibliographic databases include such information, which is easy to retrieve, but it mostly reflects the country that the publisher of the journal is legally based in, rather than the origin of the scientific board of the journal.
