Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
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 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...
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 —...
The European Commission has launched a call for evidence on targeted measures to modernise the EU copyright framework, with generative AI at the centre. It is asking, in plain terms, how...
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...
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 Federal Court’s decision in Deakin University v Macreadie (Final Orders) [2026] FCA 583 is a sharp reminder that IP strategy is not just about protecting assets — it’s about shaping...
European Patents – do applicants have to amend the description to match the allowed claims? Finally there is a referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (G1/25) to sort out this...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting many facets of intellectual property law and practice. We have to keep in mind both the challenges AI presents and the opportunities it creates for innovators...
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