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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

By: Feng Zhu
Strategy scholars have documented in various empirical settings that firms seek and leverage stronger institutions to mitigate hazards and gain competitive advantage. In this paper, we argue that such “institution-seeking” behavior may not be confined to the pursuit of... View Details
Keywords: Patent Wars; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement; Institutions; Smartphone; Patent Thicket; Digital Platforms; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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  • November–December 2016
  • Article

The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry

By: Yongwook Paik and Feng Zhu
Strategy scholars have documented in various empirical settings that firms seek and leverage stronger institutions to mitigate hazards and gain competitive advantage. In this paper, we argue that such “institution-seeking” behavior may not be confined to the pursuit of... View Details
Keywords: Patent Wars; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement; Institutions; Patent Thicket; Smartphone; Patents; Corporate Strategy; Mobile Technology
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  • 28 Jun 2010
  • News

Bilski Ruling: The Patent Wars Untouched

  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II

By: Daniel P. Gross
This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign... View Details
Keywords: Invention Secrecy; Invention Disclosure; Trade Secrecy; Secrecy Orders; Cummulative Innovation; Wold War 2; Patents; National Security; History; Innovation and Invention; Outcome or Result; Intellectual Property; Policy; Commercialization; United States
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    The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry

    We investigate the effect of patent wars on firm strategy using data from the global smartphone market. In particular, we analyze how smartphone vendors not involved in patent litigation strategically respond to increased litigation risks in this industry. We find... View Details

    • 27 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

    Keywords: by Yongwook Paik & Feng Zhu; Legal Services
    • 05 Jan 2013
    • News

    On Google, F.T.C. Set Rules of War Over Patents

    • 13 Mar 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II

    Keywords: by Daniel P. Gross
    • 06 Feb 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Sorting Out the Patent Craze

    explain a little bit about your research in this area? Josh Lerner: By the end of World War II, the corporate research laboratory model was widely adopted in the United States. A corporation would have a centralized facility where it... View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
    • 06 Feb 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

    time breaking through the corporate shields that Bezos has erected. (A former analyst recalled to us that on a trip to the company, she saw the World War II slogan “Loose Lips Sink Ships” on a bathroom wall.) So we wondered if there... View Details
    Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation

    By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat
    During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to... View Details
    Keywords: World War II; Vannevar Bush; OSRD; Mission-oriented R＆D; Direction Of Innovation; Geography Of Innovation; Technology Clusters; U.S. Innovation System; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges; War; History; Government Administration; United States
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    • Web

    Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    companies. 26 As head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, Bush enlisted Polaroid in the cause, and the company entered into a contract with the National Defense Research Committee to create a range of... View Details
    • 20 Feb 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Feng Zhu, Harvard Business School

    • 11 Sep 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Petra Moser, Stanford University

    • December 2010 (Revised March 2015)
    • Case

    The Wright Brothers and Their Flying Machines

    By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
    Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright were fascinated by the mystery of flight and they built on the ideas of prominent earlier figures such as Octave Chanute (1832-1910) the French-born American who was influential in fostering the free exchange of ideas... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Knowledge Sharing; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; Europe; United States
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    • May 2012 (Revised September 2012)
    • Case

    HTC Corp. in 2012

    By: David B. Yoffie, Juan Alcacer and Renee Kim
    After 15 years of remarkable achievements, Taiwan-based HTC Corp. faced difficult times by 2012. CEO Peter Chou, who drove HTC's transformation from an unknown manufacturer of PDAs for other companies to a well-known global player in smartphones, faced an uncertain and... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Telecommunications; Brand Management; Economies Of Scale And Scope; Market Positioning; Intellectual Property Management; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Product Positioning; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan
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    • 27 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 27

    firm's business rather than the scale of the firm's prior lobbying efforts. These results support the existence of significant barriers to entry in the lobbying process. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/DynamicsOfFirmLobbying.pdf The Impact of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age

    By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas
    We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework to motivate the... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Development; Patents; Economic Growth; Innovation and Invention; Demographics
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    • January 1993 (Revised April 1995)
    • Case

    Fog of Business, The

    In the mid-1980s, the Holland Sweetener Co. (HSC) was facing the decision whether to enter the European and Canadian aspartame markets, following the ending of NutraSweet's patents there. A major question facing HSC was whether NutraSweet would respond to entry in an... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Patents; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada; United States; Europe
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    • 06 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

    grocery and dry goods, such as canned foods and boxed breakfast cereals. It was not until after World War II that the majority of American grocers adopted self-service to meat and produce sections. Business historians have explored the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne