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Who Gets to Scale It? What China’s Energy Plans Say About Your Patent Filing Strategy
There are two ways to hold a position in a technology. You can own the technology. Or you can own what it takes to build and install the technology at volume. They are not the same asset, and only one of them is scarce. China spent August publishing the second kind. A five-year plan for…
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…
