Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
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...
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...
Most capital allocation fights aren’t really about the numbers. They’re about the absence of an organizing principle. When a business has no clear answer to “what are we actually about,” every...
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...
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...
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