Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
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...
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 —...
How quickly a patent can lose its strategic value when the underlying disclosure isn’t built to withstand real‑world scrutiny. In the Federal Court’s decision in Orikan v VMS (No 2), Orikan’s...
The latest Federal Budget reshapes the operating environment for IP‑intensive businesses in ways that go well beyond tax. Refundable R&D offsets for younger firms, the removal of supporting R&D categories, and...
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...
Here are some thoughts on intellectual property if you’re about to go through a business transformation:
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...
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...
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...
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