At its best, an intellectual property strategy will inform and direct a company’s creative and research and development activities as well as deal with the output (patents, technology, brands etc). We help clients to review and optimize processes for identifying, reviewing and setting guidelines to understand the value behind intellectual creations from both internal and external sources in a cost effective way. We work with clients to:
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What happens when intellectual property built into your products turns out to belong to someone else? This week supplied three expensive answers. Each involved one of the world’s most powerful companies paying – or being ordered to pay – for rights held by a much…
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 — and the result wasn’t faster learning. It was faster failure. As Blank put…
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 rides on, the foundational patents everything else is built over. Several developments this past…
If your product’s value lives in where it comes from — a region, a method, a 450-year tradition — the hardest question in your IP strategy is whether the law will let you fence off the name. A recent Federal Court decision answers it for…
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…
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