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Broader Claims, Weaker Patent? What Australia’s Latest Best-Method Ruling Means for Your Divisional Strategy
Widening a patent claim is never free. Every limitation you drop to capture more of the market quietly commits you to two things: a disclosure that actually supports the wider claim, and a priority date that can still carry it. Lose sight of either, and the broader claim becomes the weakest point in the portfolio.…
Your IP Strategy Is Only as Good as Your Board’s Questions
A McKinsey study found that 44% of directors said their boards simply reviewed and approved management’s proposed strategies—and only 10% felt they fully understood the industry dynamics they were governing. For IP-intensive businesses, that gap is expensive. Inventions, brands, data and know-how are often the real engines of return, yet they rarely attract the boardroom…
When Your Strongest Asset Is What You Leave Off the Label
The most valuable thing a competitor can do to your patent is comply with the law around it. That is the quiet lesson for IP-intensive businesses in the US Supreme Court’s unanimous June 2026 ruling in Hikma v. Amarin (read it here). Amarin held a method-of-use patent on the cardiovascular indication for its drug Vascepa.…
The Reverse Payment You Didn’t Know You Made
A patent settlement can look perfectly clean on its face and still carry antitrust risk buried in its economics. That is the lesson from an $885 million jury verdict handed down in Boston this month, where Takeda was found liable for effectively paying a generic rival to keep its version of the IBS drug Amitiza…
One Court, Many Borders: Why the UPC Just Redrew Your Litigation Map
The Unified Patent Court has signalled that its reach extends well beyond its own member states, and IP-intensive businesses should take note. In its 2 June 2026 decision in Fujifilm v Kodak, the UPC Court of Appeal confirmed that Article 34 of the UPC Agreement is not a territorial cap—where a defendant is domiciled in…
