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Walking Away From a Brand Doesn’t Always Mean You’ve Let It Go
Intellectual property rights don’t dissolve the moment you stop paying attention to them. That’s the thread running through several developments last week, and it’s worth more attention than most companies give it, because the moment you decide to stop using a mark, retire a product line, or settle a patent fight is precisely the moment…
When Everything Is Urgent, Your IP Portfolio Decides Itself: Three Questions to Pressure-Test Your IP Strategy
Most IP portfolios are not shaped by strategy. They are shaped by whatever was urgent that week. Renewals get paid because the deadline arrived. Examination responses get filed because the clock was running. Meanwhile, the decisions that actually determine the value of an intellectual property portfolio – what to stop protecting, which jurisdictions no longer…
When Everyone Can Run the Model: What Open-Weight AI Means for Your IP Strategy
If a capability you spent years building can be downloaded on a Sunday afternoon, the question is not how to stop that. It is what you own that survives it. Ben Thompson’s recent Stratechery piece works through the economics of the new Chinese open-weight models and lands somewhere useful for anyone thinking about IP. Open…
Capacity Is Not a Moat: What India’s Electrification Build-Out Means for Your IP Strategy
When a market is about to triple in a decade, the patent filing map you drew for yesterday’s demand is the one that will let you down. A McKinsey analysis, written with the Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers Association, puts numbers on the shift: India’s electrical-equipment production is projected to rise from roughly US$50 billion…
When AI is embedded in your Workforce, Trade Secrets Become the Strategy
If AI can do the work, what exactly does your company still own? That is the question sitting underneath McKinsey’s new report, The symbiotic enterprise, which argues that AI agents and intelligent robots are becoming a workforce — close to 60 per cent of work hours are now theoretically automatable — and that the traditional…
