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Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, trade secrets are viewed as the stepchild of intellectual property because they operate, by definition, in secrecy, and we know much less about their role in market competition than we know about patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Insiders know it as Merchandise 7X. 174,465, the most valuable patent in history.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. IT Does Matter.