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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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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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exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and …
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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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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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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. This paper offers the first formal economic model of domestic patent exhaustion that incorporates...
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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. patentee...
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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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The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against …. Furthermore, it requires a high degree of economic sophistication on behalf of trade negotiators in order for this beneficial …
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