Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
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...
Intellectual property rarely fails loudly. It fails in the gap between filing and follow-through — the priority date no one re-checked, the order no one renewed, the AI agent no one...
The shift toward high‑impact individual contributors (ICs) is more than an organizational design trend. It signals a deeper structural change in how companies create, protect, and compound value. Elena Verna’s piece...
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...
A confidential drawing sent to you for a single, narrow purpose does not become yours to repurpose — and treating it as though it does can unravel an entire IP position....
Strip the case names away and one pattern runs through this month’s posts: the decisive moment in an IP matter almost never happens in the courtroom. It happens years earlier —...
The recent McKinsey article “Using AI to boost productivity is unlikely to create a sustainable advantage” (read it here) offers a timely reminder for business owners with valuable IP portfolios: AI-driven...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting many facets of intellectual property law and practice. We have to keep in mind both the challenges AI presents and the opportunities it creates for innovators...
“‘The technology is moving so fast and we’re so small, we don’t need a patent, we just need to move fast.” Wrong. Every small tech company is going to want to...
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