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...
Over the past two decades, US firm value flipped from mostly tangible to over 90% intangible — and the rulebook for defending those intangibles quietly rewrote itself underneath everyone. A recent...
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...
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...
Most IP disputes don’t end in a clean win. They end in a split — you carry some grounds, lose others, and then discover the scoreboard the court actually cares about...
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...
If you hold copyright in music, film, software or any content that pirates love, a court order blocking the offending site is one of the most effective tools you have —...
A former engineer leaves, starts a company, and files a patent. Months later the original employer discovers the application describes technology that looks remarkably like a project the engineer worked on...
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