Foreign Residents Can Benefit from U

question 14

Multiple Choice

Foreign residents can benefit from U.S. research and development activity because

• A) they ignore U.S. patent laws and steal the technology.
• B) they can import the goods, obtaining inputs at lower cost than they would otherwise.
• C) countries usually share patented ideas.
• D) patents do a poor job of protecting the inventor.

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Cheap

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