SUBMITTED TO: - RAJIB MUSTOFA GORE-TEX Gore-Tex is a multinational textile company. It was first founded by Bill and Vieve Gore as W.L. Gore & Associates in 1958. The company started with serving the electronic products market. In 1969‚ Bob Gore independently discovered expanded polytetrafluoroethylene and introduced in the market as Gore-Tex. In today’s date Gore-Tex is more focused on electronics‚ fabrics‚ industrial and medical products. It is a
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1.Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired When the patent expires the inventor has no longer exclusive rights to her or hers invention opening it up to everyone. At this point other companies can offer competitive products at reduced prices. It seems that Gore-Tex was smart enough to take advantage of their own patent and expand the product line to include other products using the same technology. 2.What activity can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed
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1) What impresses you about this company? To what extent does the management style match what business schools tell you about “how to manage”? What is impressive about the company is the level of innovation and the management style. Gore & Associates is technology oriented and is based on continuous innovation. An innovative company needs engaged workers and the knowledge employees need autonomy to be engaged. Gore & Associates took it to the extreme point since everyone in the company has freedom
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Gore-Tex Case Study 1) Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired. What activity can firms use to try to maintain any advantage developed during the patent protection phase? When a patent expires‚ generally around 20 years after the original filing; the inventor no longer has the exclusive rights to his or her invention thereby opening up the said patent to everyone to use. At this point other companies can offer comparative products at reduced prices. Gore-Tex was smart
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“All food is creative in some way; and grounded in the past in other ways (194).” Modern food is inspired by tradition‚ yet driven by the resources and ideas of the current period. To illustrate the meaning of Wilk’s statement‚ the development of Tex-Mex cuisine can be used as an example. Food writers Waverly Root and Richard de Rochemont describe the cuisine as “native foreign” in their book Eating in America
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Title? By Mitchell Harris “Social media is a tool; it cannot in and of itself ‘cause’ a medical illness” according to - Megan Moreno‚ but what happens when it provokes one / becomes a symptom of one? does? Brian Blackwell ‚ 19 year old male teen‚ killed his parents before using their credit card on a $58‚000 spending spree on what?. At this time Blackwell was suffering from “Narcissistic personality disorder” a disorder that has become increasingly common in today’s teens. Link this to ‘social
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Abstract Alvin “Tex” M. Johnston is one of aviation’s greats‚ from small town barn storming to aviation giants. In this paper I am going to talk about how a small town boy out of Kansas became one of the greatest pilots in aviation history. I have taken the time to gather many sources to help paint this aviation great in all his glory. Johnston had such an impact on the aviation world that the National Aviation Hall of Fame enshrined him in 1993. He had the opportunity unlike most aviation greats
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the letter‚ type the closing‚ followed by a comma‚ leave 3 blank lines‚ then type your name and title (if applicable)‚ all flush left. Sign the letter in the blank space above your typed name. Now doesn’t that look professional? Sincerely‚ John Doe
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Biography Adrian Mitchell was an English poet‚ novelist and playwright. Before he became a poet and author he was a journalist for a major newspaper in the UK. For 48 years he was the foremost poet for the protests on the anti-bomb movement. Mitchell’s famous quote of “Most people ignore poetry because most poetry ignores most people” explains how some people have no interest in poetry because it is not on a topic that they can relate to or they are involved in like‚ wars‚ racial discrimination
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GORE-TEX 1. INTRODUCTION There are plenty of clothing options out in the market to keep you warm‚ but how about to keep you dry in wet conditions? Being dry is one of the key components to keeping warm so this is essential. That is were GORE-TEX comes in. GORE-TEX is an inner membrane layer in outdoor clothing containing over nine billion microscopic pores per square inch (Figure 2). These pores are each twenty thousand times smaller then a water droplet but seven hundred times larger then a water
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