Duncan Bucknell
Strategic Intellectual Property
Global banking has just posted the most profitable year of any industry – US$1.3 trillion in net income – and still trades at the lowest price-to-book of any industry. McKinsey’s preview...
Long-lived patents, an AI-shifted landscape: why a fixed filing roadmap fails, and the three decision rules an IP strategy needs instead.
Most IP portfolios are not shaped by strategy. They are shaped by whatever was urgent that week. Renewals get paid because the deadline arrived. Examination responses get filed because the clock...
If a capability you spent years building can be downloaded on a Sunday afternoon, the question is not how to stop that. It is what you own that survives it. Ben...
If AI can do the work, what exactly does your company still own? That is the question sitting underneath McKinsey’s new report, The symbiotic enterprise, which argues that AI agents and...
Many intellectual property strategies don’t fail because they were poorly designed. They fail because nothing changes after the sign-off. New McKinsey research in Harvard Business Review — How to Ensure Your...
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...
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