A fundamental element of IP rights is the ability to enforce them. Enforcement strategy can take many forms, from surveillance and converting potential or actual infringers to licensees, through to an aggressive global litigation program. We work with clients to:
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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…
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 points to the same conclusion for business leaders: outcomes are built long before anyone…
Most IP disputes don’t end in a clean win. They end in a split — you carry some grounds, lose others, and then discover the scoreboard the court actually cares about is the costs order. The Full Federal Court’s costs ruling in Comino v Watson…
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 former engineer leaves, starts a company, and files a patent. Months later the original employer discovers the application describes technology that looks remarkably like a project the engineer worked on internally. This is one of the more under-managed risks in any R&D-heavy business —…
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