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The Transaction Cost Problem In International Intellectual Property Exchange And Innovation Markets, Sonia Baldia Apr 2014

The Transaction Cost Problem In International Intellectual Property Exchange And Innovation Markets, Sonia Baldia

Sonia Baldia

In recent years, there has been a dramatic surge in cross-border IP exchange transactions driven by globalization, open innovation, and the escalating strategic value of IP to competitive firms, the positive result of which are significantly developed global IP markets. While critical to these global IP markets, international IP exchange remains highly inefficient because parties face excessive transaction costs relative to transaction value, both in transaction design and negotiation and in transaction enforcement. These transaction costs arise from the territoriality of IP laws and low visibility into individual state IP law regimes that IP exchange transactions may implicate, thus imposing …


Deferential Review Of The U.S. Tax Court, After Mayo Foundation V. United States (2011), Andre L. Smith Feb 2014

Deferential Review Of The U.S. Tax Court, After Mayo Foundation V. United States (2011), Andre L. Smith

Andre L. Smith

Deferential Review of the U.S. Tax Court, After Mayo examines whether the Chevron doctrine requires federal circuit courts of appeal to deferentially review the U.S. Tax Court decisions of law. Mayo Foundation v. US (2011) rejects tax exceptionalism and requires the U.S. Tax Court to defer to Treasury regulations carrying the force of law. But Mayo avoids dealing with whether Chevron applies to appellate review of the Tax Court. In “The Fight Over ‘Fighting Regs’ and Judicial Deference in Tax Litigation”, 92 B.U. L. Rev. 643 (2012), Professor Leandra Lederman (Indiana) contends that deference belongs to the agency and not …


Forensic Science(S) In The Courtroom: Symposium, Joseph R. Slights, Jules Epstein, Lisa M. Schwind, Gerard Spadaccini, Anjali A. Ranadive Jan 2014

Forensic Science(S) In The Courtroom: Symposium, Joseph R. Slights, Jules Epstein, Lisa M. Schwind, Gerard Spadaccini, Anjali A. Ranadive

Jules Epstein

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