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  • November 2000
  • Article

Patent Policy Innovations: A Clinical Examination

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Patents; Policy; Innovation and Invention
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Lerner, Josh. "Patent Policy Innovations: A Clinical Examination." Vanderbilt Law Review 53 (November 2000): 1841–1856.
  • May 2020
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Inventor Gender and the Direction of Invention

By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
We study whether increasing the share of female inventors leads to more biomedical inventions that focus on the needs of women. After accounting for detailed disease-technology, disease-year, and technology-year fixed effects, we find that a 10 percentage point... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Gender; Patents
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Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Inventor Gender and the Direction of Invention." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (May 2020): 250–254.
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon
In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Finance
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Lerner, Josh, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker, and Ann Leamon. "Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-068, December 2015.
  • June 2008
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Decomposability in Knowledge Structures and Its Impact on the Usefulness of Inventions and Knowledge-base Malleability

By: Sai Yayavaram and Gautam Ahuja
We use patent data from the worldwide semiconductor industry from 1984 to 1994 to study the effect of the structure of organizational knowledge bases, or the patterns of coupling between their elements of technical knowledge, on the usefulness of inventions and... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Semiconductor Industry
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Yayavaram, Sai, and Gautam Ahuja. "Decomposability in Knowledge Structures and Its Impact on the Usefulness of Inventions and Knowledge-base Malleability." Administrative Science Quarterly 53, no. 2 (June 2008): 333–362.
  • October 2002 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Dr. John's Products, Ltd.

By: William A. Sahlman
Describes an entrepreneur's attempts to invent, manufacture, and distribute an inexpensive electric toothbrush. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Product
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Sahlman, William A. "Dr. John's Products, Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 803-063, October 2002. (Revised July 2009.)
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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog

for life sciences innovation Understand macro trends driving innovation in the life sciences, including the impact of emerging bioconvergence topics at the intersection of the life sciences, data and computing Define roadmaps for life sciences R&D and products,... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single user individuals or firms, and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Policy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Welfare
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Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Eric von Hippel. "Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-038, November 2009.
  • 15 Nov 2013
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Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • January 1996
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Palm Computing, Inc. (A)

By: Myra M. Hart
Discusses patents, licenses, and deal making in a start-up venture. The entrepreneur, Jeff Hawkins, holds a patent on Palm Print, a pattern recognition algorithm. After licensing Palm Print to his employer, he led three years of development of commercial products for... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Patents; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Deal; Business Startups; Management Teams
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Hart, Myra M. "Palm Computing, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 396-245, January 1996.
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

Summing Up Judging from responses to the June column, big ideas rank high on a list including technology and intellectual property as sources of competitive advantage. But they are only a starting point,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Dec 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

Keywords: by Josh Lerner and Amit Seru
  • January 1995 (Revised November 1995)
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Candela Laser vs. Cynosure, Inc.

By: Josh Lerner and Benjamin Conway
Summarizes the lawsuit by Candela Laser against its former CEO and founder, who has begun a competing firm. The extent of patent and trade secret protection are crucial issues. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Entrepreneurship
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Lerner, Josh, and Benjamin Conway. "Candela Laser vs. Cynosure, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-097, January 1995. (Revised November 1995.)
  • 2017
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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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Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas. "The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-063, January 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
  • November 1978 (Revised October 1989)
  • Case

Amicon Corp. (A)

Amicon holds a patent on a new process for the separation of blood plasma from whole blood. It has to decide whether to pursue a direct entry, joint venture, or licensing strategy. If it chooses licensing, there are many sub-issues to consider. View Details
Keywords: Technology; Patents; Commercialization; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry
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Capon, Noel. "Amicon Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 579-093, November 1978. (Revised October 1989.)
  • September 2007 (Revised May 2009)
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Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Gokhan Hotamisligil is a star researcher at Harvard School of Public Health who has made groundbreaking discoveries linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
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Hamermesh, Richard G., and David Kiron. "Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University." Harvard Business School Case 808-073, September 2007. (Revised May 2009.)
  • 22 Jan 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Mark Baker & Andrew Speen; Financial Services
  • 30 Nov 2007
  • Conference Presentation

The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors: Evidence Building from Ethnic Names in US Patents

By: William R. Kerr
Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation and Invention; Patents; United States
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Kerr, William R. "The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors: Evidence Building from Ethnic Names in US Patents." Paper presented at the NBER Science & Engineering Workforce Project, November 30, 2007.
  • September 2024
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Standing on the Shoulders of Science

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Monika Schnitzer and Martin Watzinger
Today’s innovations rely on scientific discoveries of the past, yet only some corporate R&D builds directly on scientific output. In this paper, we analyze U.S. patents to investigate how firms generate value by building on prior art “closer” to science. We show... View Details
Keywords: Patent Novelty; Value Capture; Science; Patents; Valuation; Research and Development
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Krieger, Joshua Lev, Monika Schnitzer, and Martin Watzinger. "Standing on the Shoulders of Science." Strategic Management Journal 45, no. 9 (September 2024): 1670–1695.
  • 2012
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Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation

By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento
We present a dynamic model where the accumulation of patents generates an increasing number of claims on sequential innovation. We compare innovation activity under three regimes—patents, no-patents, and patent pools—and find that none of them can reach the first best.... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Taxation; Innovation and Invention
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Llanes, Gaston, and Stefano Trento. "Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation." Economic Theory 50, no. 3 (August 2012): 703–725.
  • 1997
  • Chapter

Patent Scope and Emerging Industries: Biotechnology, Software, and Beyond

By: Josh Lerner and Robert P. Merges
Keywords: Patents; Applications and Software; Genetics; Information Technology Industry; Biotechnology Industry
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Lerner, Josh, and Robert P. Merges. "Patent Scope and Emerging Industries: Biotechnology, Software, and Beyond." In Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence, edited by D. B. Yoffie, 301–324. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
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