Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
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...
Amending the basis of your validity challenge in patent litigation is never just a procedural move — it is a strategic play with real commercial consequences. What stands out in AstraZeneca...
Widening a patent claim is never free. Every limitation you drop to capture more of the market quietly commits you to two things: a disclosure that actually supports the wider claim,...
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...
The most valuable thing a competitor can do to your patent is comply with the law around it. That is the quiet lesson for IP-intensive businesses in the US Supreme Court’s...
A patent settlement can look perfectly clean on its face and still carry antitrust risk buried in its economics. That is the lesson from an $885 million jury verdict handed down...
The Unified Patent Court has signalled that its reach extends well beyond its own member states, and IP-intensive businesses should take note. In its 2 June 2026 decision in Fujifilm v...
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...
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 —...
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