We work closely with clients to reduce their intellectual property-related risks. Typically this might involve:
Insights about IP Risk Management
The most expensive failures in R&D are not the projects that fail. They are the projects that should never have started — and the ones that limp along because nobody had the evidence to kill them early. Patsnap’s 2026 R&D Benchmark Report puts numbers on…
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…
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 assume alignment, but employees experience change as something imposed, not chosen. The gap matters.…
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…
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