Duncan Bucknell
Intellectual Property Strategy
We’re putting together the final touches on our latest book: ’50 Intellectual Property Mistakes and how to fix them’. We’ve taken the now-famous ’33 make that 43 IP Mistakes’ post, added...
There is no doubt that CEOs are gaining a greater perspective on IP. There is also no doubt that the key question a CEO will want to know about IP is...
When do you know to stop an endeavor? History is replete with stories of individuals and nations in politics and war who fought on long after any hope for victory, as...
Do you have an invention ready in hand but are not able to file a patent? How will you protect it from being disclosed if you intend to eventually file a...
This is an interesting mistake because you can find yourself doing the right thing while emphasizing the wrong thing. It is certainly not a mistake to pursue licensing and monetary value...
A list of strategic mistakes cannot ignore the value of ethics. It is a mistake not to employ good ethics in the conduct of IP strategy. The reason for this statement...
In 1993 I joined Derwent Information and by 1994 had put together a patents and competitive intelligence presentation that I would eventually give as far away from my home base as...
A month ago we launched ipstrategy.com – the free online IP Strategy journal. The idea is simple – to provide quality thinking on IP Strategy across the globe from a wide...
Another IP strategy mistake is to overestimate competitors. This mistake is not as rich in case examples as underestimating competitors because it tends to drive inaction. We can see cases where...
We wrote in a previous blog post that the greatest risk in strategy is to over or underestimate the risk. This is why in the art of military strategy opponents work...
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