Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
What happens when intellectual property built into your products turns out to belong to someone else? This week supplied three expensive answers. Each involved one of the world’s most powerful companies...
Something quietly broke this year in one of Silicon Valley’s most-watched classrooms. In Steve Blank’s 2026 Lean LaunchPad at Stanford, every team used AI to spin up working products in hours...
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
A registered design buys you a finite head start, not a permanent moat. When it lapses, competitors are free — and, the law says, encouraged — to copy. The Federal Court’s...
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