Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
A self represented litigant had applied for a trade mark for “BYRON BAY BEACHFRONT APARTMENTS” which was rejected. He appealed to the Federal Court, did not fully understand the process and...
The two main areas to consider are protecting your IP before you lose the chance, and managing risk associated with something new out on to the market. Protecting your IP This...
Early in the movie Jaws, the town mayor berated Chief Brody for wanting to tell people about a possible shark attack off the beach. He said, “You yell barracuda, everybody says,...
Bloomberg published a nice piece just the other day on common phrases that are trademarked. Here are a few: “It’s gonna be awesome” (The Barbarian Group) “We should talk” (Bank of...
William Lozito has a great post over at Name Wire, on ‘how to “verb up” your brand’. It’s something some brand owners diligently try to prevent, others embrace. As William mentioned,...
Welcome to the IP Think Tank podcast for Thursday 2 September 2010. In this show Duncan is joined by Darren Olivier and Jeremy Phillips to discuss: the copyright sign as a...
Jeremy Phillips, Duncan Bucknell, Philip Parker and Dave Donoghue discuss the impact of the recession on IP Strategy in Japan, IP in Japanese service companies, Patent quality in Europe, the US...
A few months back Wired magazine reported that Twitter acquired its main graphic (the bird on the curly branch) from stock photography website istockphoto.com. The licence to use the graphic was...
Here are five reasons not to file a trade mark, in no particular order: 1 – your business is only ever going to be confined to a subset of a country...
Earlier this week we discussed the results of Taylor Wessing’s second Global Intellectual Property Index on our IP Think Tank podcast. One interesting result was the relatively high ranking given to...
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