Duncan Bucknell
Intellectual Property Strategy
In some situations, filing IP very early in the invention cycle can actually do harm and perhaps kill the potential commercial prospects for an invention. Earlier blogs in this series have...
Focus on the effect you wish your IP to have, not on the IP itself. On many occasions during IP strategy training courses I have given, I have suggested that patent...
Ever made a prediction that was utterly, completely and hopelessly wrong? That’s Claim Chowder. Daring Fireball has the example of Steve Balmer’s April 2007 quote – “There’s no chance that the...
Two of the key IP questions for small companies are: How can I base my business strategy on IP when I know that there is always a risk that I will...
It’s harder than you think to get your domain name purchase right. Purchasing a domain from someone else is a simple idea and relatively simple process when the price is low. ...
It’s wrong to think that a patent can automatically stop your competitor from entering a market, or making a competitor product. Just wrong. Patents are hurdles, not walls. Each of them...
Oxford University Press doesn’t do things by halves. A beautiful looseleaf they sent over recently for me to review is no exception to this rule. It’s called ‘Drafting Agreements in the...
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