He added that many times, once such letters have been sent, the perpetrator will “just disappear.”
For the duped school, however, there is nothing to be done, he said.
“We will inform the school, we will apologize to the school—but there is not much that we can do,” Calixto said.
Calixto added that the unauthorized use of the Harvard name in Asia is a common occurrence.
“On any given week, I have one or two cases,” he said.
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In India, misuse of the Harvard name has been documented by the Harvard Trademark Office 150 times in the past two years.
Staff writer Risheng Xu can be reached at xu4@fas.harvard.edu.