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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 supervised. This month’s posts make one point together: the threat to your most valuable…
The most valuable lesson in intellectual property this week wasn’t a single ruling — it was a pattern. Across a landmark licensing deal, a patent that collapsed over one character, and a Congressional hearing on the rules themselves, the same question kept surfacing: is your…
If you hold copyright in music, film, software or any content that pirates love, a court order blocking the offending site is one of the most effective tools you have — but only if you treat it as a living instrument, not a trophy. The…
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 IP-intensive businesses, that gap is expensive. Inventions, brands, data and know-how are often the…
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. That is the strategic core of the Full Federal Court’s decision in Comino v…
A registered design buys you a finite head start, not a permanent moat. When it lapses, competitors are free — and, the law says, encouraged — to copy. The Federal Court’s decision in Bodum AG v H.A.G Import Corpn (Australia) Pty Ltd [2026] FCA 238…
