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Does your AI strategy move you, or just add a feature? The IP test for platform partnerships
Adding AI to a product is not a strategy. Moving to where the value is going is. And every real move changes what your company controls, which makes it an IP strategy decision before it is a technology one. An article in I by IMD puts this well. It maps AI strategy on two axes:…
Owning the Mechanism Is Not a Position: What a Failed Trial Says About Patent Strategy
A patent protects a mechanism. It does not protect a share of the benefit. Those are different things, and the gap between them is where a great deal of intellectual property value quietly disappears. Cardiology supplied the evidence this month. AstraZeneca and Ionis ran a 1,432-patient Phase 3 trial of a transthyretin silencer in ATTR-CM,…
Can you prove your technical lead? What IBM’s verifiable quantum advantage means for your patent strategy
A technical lead is worth what you can prove. Being first, or fastest, or best matters only if the evidence behind the claim survives a hostile reading, whether from a court, an examiner, an acquirer’s due diligence team or a competitor’s expert. That is where a lot of patent strategy quietly fails, and it is…
Same Tools, Different Incentives: What Agentic AI Means for Your IP Strategy
Capability is not what separates an attacker from a defender. Incentives are. Ben Thompson’s Stratechery piece of 24 August 2026 works this through in agentic cybersecurity, and the logic travels a long way past security. An attacker’s automated agent carries positive expected value. If the exploit fails, nothing has changed. If it lands once, the…
What the X and Tweet ruling means for brand owners. Does a rebrand abandon your old TM?
A rebrand does not just launch a new name. It starts a clock on the old one. Stop using a trade mark, show no intention of going back to it, and the law can treat it as abandoned. At that point a competitor can pick it up, together with the brand equity you spent years…
