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The most valuable intellectual property in your business is often not the product your customers see — it’s the platform underneath it: the data it learned from, the delivery technology it...

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Most AI transformations will fail for a familiar reason. Not because the strategy is wrong, but because organisations misread how change actually happens. The recent BCG analysis makes this explicit: leaders...

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What actually decides an IP dispute — the strength of your rights, or the machinery around them? This past week delivered three very different answers to that question, and each one...

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Most IP disputes don’t end in a clean win. They end in a split — you carry some grounds, lose others, and then discover the scoreboard the court actually cares about...

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If your product’s value lives in where it comes from — a region, a method, a 450-year tradition — the hardest question in your IP strategy is whether the law will...

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The most valuable lesson in intellectual property this week wasn’t a single ruling — it was a pattern. Across a landmark licensing deal, a patent that collapsed over one character, and...

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If you hold copyright in music, film, software or any content that pirates love, a court order blocking the offending site is one of the most effective tools you have —...

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A former engineer leaves, starts a company, and files a patent. Months later the original employer discovers the application describes technology that looks remarkably like a project the engineer worked on...

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IP Organiser’s recently compiled record of every pharmaceutical patent term extension granted in Australia maps roughly 1,600 extended patents across 850 products, and the patterns are worth reading closely. Activity is...