Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
Most AI transformations will fail for a familiar reason. Not because the strategy is wrong, but because organisations misread how change actually happens. The recent BCG analysis makes this explicit: leaders...
What actually decides an IP dispute — the strength of your rights, or the machinery around them? This past week delivered three very different answers to that question, and each one...
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...
For two decades, IP protection quietly relied on one assumption: a human in the loop who knew what was confidential, what was privileged, and where a draft came from. Agentic AI...
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...
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 —...
Last week a US federal judge delaying final approval of Anthropic’s proposed US$1.5B copyright settlement with authors and publishers over alleged use of pirated books in training its Claude models. The...
The Davies v Lazer Safe decision is a timely reminder that in IP disputes, leverage often sits in the procedural details. The Court clarified that an old filing restriction—tied to documents...
Here are some thoughts on intellectual property if you’re about to go through a business transformation:
Mergers and Acquisitions are a key source of strategic value in business. You can make an enormous contribution to M&A. Its a simple thing to set up a scan for valuable...
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