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- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Central to the food rescue is the organization’s trademarked program, Community Connect, which facilitates redistribution through volunteers and groups such as local Rotary International chapters and church organizations, which transport...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
became my goal.” Harris brought her trademark focus and drive to her coursework at HBS. In retrospect, she says she might have spent more time with her classmates. “I get it now — why the School balances the class diversity. You don’t...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Our findings illuminate the micro-foundations of innovation in firms by highlighting a trade-off between organizing patenting activity to maximize scope versus speed. Publisher's link:...
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- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
United States Patent and Trademark Office on the number of medical device patents in states during the same period. They found, on average, that once a state passed laws limiting awards in a medical tort case, the number of patents in...
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- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
manufacturer whose brands and trademarks lay at the heart of its competitive advantages in international markets, the loss of these intangible assets was especially damaging. However, worse was to come. During the 1930s as a so-called...
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- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409025 U.S. and EU Trademark Protection Harvard Business School Note 309-021 Rules governing trademark protection in the U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
Kerr says. Patent Effects To determine whether an increase in H-1B visas led to an increase in innovation, the researchers looked at data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, examining patent applications and grants through...
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- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
well-grooved process to deal with copyright and trademarked content that could be applied to user-generated content, where you would give notice, require a timely response, and pursue legal means if unsatisfied. Another idea would be to...
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by George Riedel
- 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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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
will tend to depress the share of the U.S. in innovation. Q: Your book talks about the "pauperization of the patent system." Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? A: Beginning in the early 1990s, Congress converted the United States Patent and View Details
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by Ann Cullen
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
analyzing his own investment home runs and errors with his trademark wit and insight. The author of nine books on personal investing and business, a columnist and regular contributor over the years to magazines such as Time, Parade,...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
contribute to citations listed in issued patents—and that this could complicate interpretation of findings in this literature. In 2001 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) began reporting examiner and applicant citations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
the EU regarding the protection of Geographical Indications (GIs), which identify a product's origins and are treated as trademarks in some respects by international trade rules. Though Alexandra prepared her Kalamata olives in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
like a win-win for both parties. [An HBS Bulletin article in 2007 gave a detailed accounting of GoLite’s founding and eventual trademark sale to Timberland.] Yet it was not to be. The following year, as the Great Recession began to take...
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