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- BUSINESS, Page 69Business NotesMARKETINGSeat of Higher (L)earning
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- Harvard University, whose business school has long been a
- training ground for some of the nation's top corporate minds,
- has decided that it will no longer give away its profitable
- name gratis. By January 1991, companies that produce everything
- from sweat shirts to chairs to coffee mugs emblazoned with the
- name Harvard, the university coat of arms or the motto VERITAS
- (truth) will have to pay for the privilege. Despite an endowment
- of some $4.5 billion, the oldest U.S. university can always find
- uses for an extra $500,000 a year, the amount that the trademark
- license could eventually produce.
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- Harvard tested its product appeal during its 350th
- anniversary in 1986, and has looked closely at trademark
- possibilities in Japan. The take from anniversary merchandise
- was about $50,000, and for the past three years items led by a
- Harvard University line of menswear have generated $130,000
- annually in royalties in Japan. Harvard would like to license
- a maximum of 100 U.S. companies to produce merchandise.
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