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Global Gains from Trade Liberalization
Fan, Haichao - 2012
What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country … simple user-friendly formula to calculate the global welfare impact of the simultaneous trade liberalization of a number of … countries? How sensitive is the answer to the assumption of the trade model? We find a striking answer to these questions. We …
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An Economic Model of Patent Exhaustion
Ivus, Olena - 2020
The doctrine of patent exhaustion implies that the authorized sale of patented goods “exhausts” the patent rights in the goods sold and precludes additional license fees from downstream buyers. Courts have considered absolute exhaustion, in which the patent owner forfeits all rights upon an...
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Patent Exhaustion Regime and International Production Sharing : Winners and Losers?
Ivus, Olena - 2017
On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court held that the initial authorized sale of a patented item within or outside the U.S. “exhausts” all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S....
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Would Global Patent Protection Be Too Weak Without International Coordination?
Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2011
trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities … introduces three new features to the analysis: trade barriers, firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and political economy … considerations in setting patent policies. The first two features (trade barriers interacting with firm heterogeneity) tend to reduce …
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