Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
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...
A two-letter ending is a thin defence against a deceptively similar mark. The Federal Court’s decision in On Clouds GmbH v Cyclonic, Inc [2026] FCA 647 overturned the Registrar’s delegate and...
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...
IP Organiser’s recently compiled record of every pharmaceutical patent term extension granted in Australia maps roughly 1,600 extended patents across 850 products, and the patterns are worth reading closely. Activity is...
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...
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...
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