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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
his entrance into the filled classroom, then remove his trademark topcoat, fedora, and gloves — “slowly, finger by finger, as everyone watched,” a student recalled. “It was all very dramatic.” Next, Schumpeter would write something on the...
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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Clark needed to decide whether to pursue patents, copyrights, and/or trademarks for various aspects of the new product. The case focuses on the interplay between marketing strategies and intellectual property issues in international...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
"Wei Ge" (Great Brother), arguing that the term was not a well-known trademark in China. With two lawsuits related to intellectual property rights now pending in China, Pfizer wondered whether trade politics or the rule of law...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
negative productivity effects of WFA, due to a lack of learning from co-located peers and increased coordination costs. We study the effects of WFA on productivity at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and exploit two...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
from 2001 to 2005 and chaired Executive Education’s OPM Program and the Publications Review Board for Harvard Business Review Press. Outside academia, he has served on numerous for-profit and nonprofit boards. Stevenson will “retire” this summer, although he will...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
company returned to signage as well, but this time used licensed partners NeoLux (Korea), Midori Mark (Japan), and Motion Display (Sweden) to sell its trademark Ink-In-Motion displays for point of sale promotion. Wilcox recalls another...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
announcement. He claimed that the Dreyer’s name and logo encroached on Breyers’ trademark and demanded that the company change its name. Although his own attorney advised that Kraft had a strong legal case, Rogers opted to play hardball...
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- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
anemia and cystic fibrosis, among many others. The dispute had escalated to the point where the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) declared a patent interference and began a process to determine the intellectual property’s (IP)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent...
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Deborah Blagg
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
its signature product, familiarly known as Bubble Wrap but trademarked as AirCap, consisted of a flexible, clear plastic sheet containing regularly spaced air bubbles of uniform size. AirCap cushioning differed from all other bubble...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
2000, Sealed Air’s sales had reached $3 billion worldwide. When Dunphy arrived at the firm, its signature product, familiarly known as Bubble Wrap but trademarked as AirCap, consisted of a flexible, clear plastic sheet containing...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
capital. We examine productivity differentials between machine learning and older vintage technology based on interactions with two important human capital attributes: domain-specific expertise and vintage-specific human capital. Our experimental setting simulates the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
backlogs and delays in numerous Patent and Trademarks Offices, and litigation over IP rights is expensive with an uncertain outcome. Moreover, local governments can succeed in transferring value to local firms and influencing global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20 firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408036 The Battle of Union Square Harvard Business School Case 208-036 Union Square Ventures, a private equity firm founded in 2003, filled a trademark infringement suit...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
trademarks and famous names, in hopes that users will accidentally request these sites-whereupon they will receive, typically, advertisements. This piece presents the basic typosquatting business model, based on my analysis of more than...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
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and/or other proprietary intellectual property rights under United States and foreign law. Harvard Business School Online logos, trademarks and service marks that may appear in the Services ("Marks") are the property of Harvard Business...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
some cases, because prior art citations are added by patent examiners as well as by patent applicants. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) adopted new reporting procedures in 2001, making it possible to measure examiner and...
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Martha Lagace