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C/B/2637. Carrot or stick? Getting paid for innovation at Tessera Technologies. A Harvard Business School case study

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2010
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This paper analyses the Harvard Business School case study by Willy Shih, “Carrot or stick? Getting paid for innovation at Tessera Technologies,” assessing the company’s attempts to put a financial value on their intellectual property. The company licenses technologies to manufacturers, and patent licensing is the company’s main source of revenue. Some developments in the patent enforcement environment are causing the company concern about the viability of its business model. This paper discusses the problem in detail, evaluates alternative courses of action open to the company and provides a set of recommendations.

 

KEYWORDS: Licensing, intellectual property, patent, semiconductor, IC, integrated circuit, litigation, Harvard, case study, Tessera Technologies, resource analysis,

 
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