Duncan Bucknell
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Here are some thoughts on intellectual property if you’re about to go through a business transformation:

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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...

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How to make good IP decisions when there’s no time to spare, in a complex and rapidly evolving world? Can you balance multiple perspectives and factors in the heart of the...

At what point in the future will you be able to challenge a competitors patents for lack of inventorship because they were AI generated not human generated? Is it still protected...

It’s been widely said (and attributed to Peter Drucker), that culture eats strategy for breakfast. Whilst Mark Fields made that particular phrase popular, Drucker definitely made it clear that culture will...

Strategy without analysis is like turning up to play a sporting match when you don’t know what sport you’re playing, what equipment to bring, the rules, who your opponent is or...

“…fools are able to ruin a friendship but wise people know how to profit even from enmities.” (Plutarch 46-120AD) You can do business so as to avoid bumping into other companies,...

There was a great discussion at the symposium yesterday on ‘IP Strategy, what has changed, what is changing?’ Here are my slides – I look forward to your comments too. IP...

It still amazes me every time I see how unforgiving the natural world can be to a momentary lapse of attention on the part of those within it.  Of course the...

A trend of industry over the last several decades has been to decouple innovation from manufacturing and move manufacturing to regions of the world that have lower labor costs.  While this...