Publications

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic plans and ambitions and their role in competition between the US and China. Domestically, China’s economy is said to be at a standstill, plagued by a collapse in the property sector and, perhaps, a lack of confidence among... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

for alleged patent violations, and it seems they do so regardless of whether patents were infringed on or not. NPEs are well aware that with intellectual property, the idea space is nebulous—which can lead to ambiguity that needs to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

2006
Other Unpublished Work

The RAD-Patent-LRD Mapping Project

By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu

Keywords: Patents

24 Apr 2014
News

Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)

Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) founded his company, Zetta Research, to restructure patent portfolios and other intellectual property assets from closed startups, develop them, and resell them to companies that wish... View Details

26 Feb 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

The great thing about standards, tech industry pundit Andrew Tanenbaum once said, is that there are so many to choose from. In fact, standard setting organizations (SSOs) are the unsung heroes of the technology age. Without standards, Web browsers could not display Web... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

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1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials | MBA

intellectual property rights of others. For more information, students should contact the Division of Research and Faculty Development ( drfd@hbs.edu ). Guidelines for Properly Using HBS Course Materials To... View Details

Fall 2023
Article

Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer

Digitization has transformed how users find and use copyrighted goods, but many existing legal options remain difficult to access, possibly leading to infringement. In a field experiment, we contact firms that are caught infringing on expensive digital images. Emails... View Details

Keywords: Copyright Infringement; Field Experiment; Copyright; Lawfulness

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Article

Public Policy Towards Patent Pools

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

Keywords: Policy; Patents

February 2007
Supplement

Patents & Patients, CIPLA - Video

By: Rohit Deshpande

Keywords: Patents; Health; Media

Article

Patenting in the Shadow of Competitors

By: J. Lerner

Keywords: Competition; Patents

Article

Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law

By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green

The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Law

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2019
Working Paper

Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer

Digitization has transformed how users find and use copyrighted goods, but many existing legal options remain difficult to access, possibly leading to infringement. In a field experiment, we contact firms that are caught infringing on expensive digital images. Emails... View Details

Keywords: Copyright Infringement; Field Experiment; Intellectual Property; Lawfulness

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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

disclosed as a result of the project. For example, if a project results in the development of an HBS case study, the standard HBS case release process should be followed. Protection of Intellectual View Details

summer 1994
Article

The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis

By: J. Lerner

Keywords: Patents

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Security & Privacy | Information Technology

safe and secure. Recent headlines have shown that cyber criminals are becoming more brazen and creative in their attempts to gain access to our data and accounts. Sophisticated criminal enterprises are targeting both institutions and private individuals, from... View Details

April 1993 (Revised February 1996)
Supplement

ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (B2): The Rights Offering

By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano

Supplements the (A) case. Describes the implementation of the CEO's decision. View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property

December 2012
Teaching Note

Gene Patents (A) (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew Preble

This is the teaching note for case Gene Patents (A). In March 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet overturned 30 years of legal precedent and ruled that unaltered human genes could not be patented. This case reviews patent law and how it relates to our... View Details

Keywords: Biotech; Human Genome; Patents; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; United States