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When IP Comes to Collect: Why IP Strategy Decides Whether You Pay or Get Paid
What happens when intellectual property built into your products turns out to belong to someone else? This week supplied three expensive answers. Each involved one of the world’s most powerful companies paying – or being ordered to pay – for rights held by a much smaller opponent. Together they carry a clear message for anyone…
Your patents didn’t lose value. The board where you play them changed.
Over the past two decades, US firm value flipped from mostly tangible to over 90% intangible — and the rulebook for defending those intangibles quietly rewrote itself underneath everyone. A recent Cornerstone Research study, Intellectual Property Litigation: U.S. Trends in Global Perspective (June 2026), maps where enforcement has actually gone, and the headline for anyone…
When Anyone Can Build It in an Afternoon, What’s Left to Own?
Something quietly broke this year in one of Silicon Valley’s most-watched classrooms. In Steve Blank’s 2026 Lean LaunchPad at Stanford, every team used AI to spin up working products in hours — and the result wasn’t faster learning. It was faster failure. As Blank put it, the not-so-obvious change was that building products rapidly let…
The $60,000 Business Name: Why a Business Name Search Is Not Enough
Choosing a plainly descriptive business name feels like the safe option. It rarely is. In 2013, a small Melbourne pool servicing company settled on “Pro Pool Services”, checked the ASIC and ABN registers, had its accountant confirm the name was available, and got on with business. This week, in The Pops Group Pty Ltd v…
Who Gets Paid for the Platform? Lessons From a Big Week in AI and Intellectual Property
The most valuable intellectual property in your business is often not the product your customers see — it’s the platform underneath it: the data it learned from, the delivery technology it rides on, the foundational patents everything else is built over. Several developments this past week show what happens when someone owns those foundations, and…
