Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
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...
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....
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 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...
Here are some thoughts on intellectual property if you’re about to go through a business transformation:
How do you protect your IP Processes? More importantly, have you ever done a freedom to operate clearance on them? To kick off this short series of posts, here are a...
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