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- August 2024
- Case
Oculii
By: Andy Wu and Lucas Defilippo
It was a bright June day in 2016. Steven Hong, co-founder and COO of Oculii had just signed a letter of intent agreeing to a 51% stake acquisition by Nexteer Automotive, a global steering and driveline supplier company that developed advanced driver assistance systems... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
PublicationsAttracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights Authors:James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Periodical:International Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract An obstacle to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Brands The case explores the collateralization of intellectual property in a loan agreement between a highly leveraged apparel company and a large U.S. bank. Leveraging intangibles in the credit market is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
are you working on now? A: I am very interested in how markets for intellectual property work and don't work. This has been something I have looked at throughout my career, but I continue to be puzzled by... View Details
- January 1996
- Case
Outrage in Cyberspace: CompuServe and the GIF Patent
By: Josh Lerner and Benjamin Conway
CompuServe, an online services vendor, informs its software developers that they must enter into a licensing agreement to use the popular GIF compression. CompuServe claims that it is forced to do so because Unisys is enforcing its patent rights in this area. Others... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Web Services Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Benjamin Conway. "Outrage in Cyberspace: CompuServe and the GIF Patent." Harvard Business School Case 296-057, January 1996.
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
many managers overestimate the attractiveness of using IP to exert market power. Rather, the value of the various means to protect and benefit from IP depends on firm strategy, the competitive landscape, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2011
- Supplement
InnoCentive.com (B)
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein
InnoCentive.com enables clients to tap into internal and external solver networks to address various business issues. In 2008, InnoCentive introduced "InnoCentive@Work" (lC@W), which recognized clients' reluctance to share problems and solutions with an external... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Cost vs Benefits; Intellectual Property; Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product; Groups and Teams; Communication Technology
Lakhani, Karim R., and Eric Lonstein. "InnoCentive.com (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 612-026, August 2011.
- Article
Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images
By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
Digital technologies for sharing creative goods create new opportunities for copyright infringement and challenge established enforcement methods. We establish several important facts about the nature of copyright infringement and efforts to settle past infringing use... View Details
Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer. "Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 140–145.
- 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
Gross, Daniel P. "The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-090, May 2019. (Revised May 2019. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25545, May 2019)
- June 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Qualcomm Inc., 2019
By: David B. Yoffie and Andrew S. Choi
This case is set in mid-2019, when Qualcomm was struggling with unwanted take-over battles, fights with Apple and the Chinese government, and internal dissension on the board of directors. Ten years earlier Qualcomm was hailed as a monopoly on CDMA technologies and... View Details
Keywords: Technology Cycles; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Standards; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; Semiconductor Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Andrew S. Choi. "Qualcomm Inc., 2019." Harvard Business School Case 718-514, June 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
that these effects were amplified for inventors with particular characteristics. As Marx explains, the results suggest that "star" or "specialist" inventors wishing to explore career opportunities may need to look outside a state that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
IP is to acquire the other firm. Senz: Why do you think more states haven't restricted non-compete agreements, given the innovation that has emerged out of California? Wu: We should think about the existence and View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
designers must think about how to distribute property rights, people, and activities across numerous self-governing enterprises in ways that are advantageous for the group (ecosystem) as well as for the designer's own firm or community.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
faced by entrepreneurs in starting and running a business, including securities and intellectual property law issues. Bagley's teaching and research focus on legal aspects of entrepreneurship and corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
of the company from Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack. Their take: Microsoft wins through effective management of its intellectual property and an ability to spot and react... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to intellectual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
Constance Bagley: Yes, I'd be happy to. The law offers a variety of tools managers can use to manage the firm more effectively. They range from contracts, which can be used to strengthen business relationships, allocate risk and reward, and preserve options, to various... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
therefore unavailable to cannabis firms as long as the substance remains federally prohibited. The cannabis industry is also disadvantaged by a lack of intellectual property protection. View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
exploiting inefficiencies in the legal system regarding how we define and enforce intellectual property rights." Add to those inefficiencies the fact that patents are not... View Details