Duncan Bucknell
Intellectual Property Strategy
Here are some thoughts on intellectual property if you’re about to go through a business transformation:
How do you protect your IP Processes? More importantly, have you ever done a freedom to operate clearance on them? To kick off this short series of posts, here are a...
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...
There’s a lot of lip service given these days to ‘aligning IP with business goals’. Most times there’s no indication at all about how to do that or any of the...
Like many maturing companies, Facebook has been unwinding complexity from its business(1). What does this mean for the IP Strategy team? If you’ve built intellectual property strategies around products or services...
Using an old tactic, Procter & Gamble will reduce the number of products per package to increase profitability. (‘downsizing’) According to the WSJ, this is in an attempt to recoup...
I received a great question at an IP strategy training course I taught. The question was about the difference between a strategy, a plan, and a process. It came about because...
Guest post by Robert Cantrell Can IP decisions always just be business – logical, factual? Should they be? One of the first pieces of real world advice I received out of...
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...
Guest post by Robert Cantrell An IP strategy should take account of the natural course of technology evolution so that it provides adequate protections into the future. For example, product solutions...
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