Investor Ready IP Best Practices for Tech Companies.
Easy IP Audit. The Better Way What Got You Here Will Not Get You There Your business evolves, the landscape evolves, the law evolves, your strategy evolves and the economic climate
Tesla Shares Innovation With Supplier, But Struggles To Keep Secrets
Tesla Sues A Major Supplier For Patenting Their Invention. Thank you to Prof. Dr. Alexander J. Wurzer Director IP Management Training for curating this excellent podcast on t
Chat Is Cheap But Not Any More. Expensive Domain Names.
Dharmesh Shah CTO of HubSpot spotted an opportunity, buying domain name Chat.com $15.5m! Less than a year later he sold it again for $20m! The buyer none less than Open AI CEO Sam
The Great Patent Myth. What Is A Patent Really Worth?
I once worked with a small business where they had spent $1m on patent filings for a particular invention. The business pivoted away from the invention but it was assumed that ther
The Insider Threat is Your Biggest Threat
If this can happen to Mattel it can happen to you and your business. Reputational damage in this case but it could equally be a leak of highly sensitive and confidential informatio
Defending Registered Trademarks – Article in The Times newspaper
Why Portakabin is Entitled to Fight its Trademark Battle I was very pleased to be quoted in Friday’s The Times. A brilliant article by Harry Wallop demonstrating the importan
How Do You Protect Your Innovation in Partnerships?
The human species survived because we could communicate and share ideas about what worked and what did not. How to light a fire using flints and tinder, how best to catch a woolly
$605M for Trade Secret Theft of ‘Innovative Approach to Selling Renewable Fuels’
The jury also found that the trade secret theft was willful and malicious, allowing the Court to potentially triple the total damages! Choose your partners carefully. You are flatt
Google Made The Calculated Decision To Bulldoze Their Trademark Rights
What can you do when Big Co decides they like your name? In 2021 there were 750 companies registered at UK Companies House with Meta in their name. Did Facebook care when they chan
Your Sensitive Information Is Valuable Be Very Careful Who you Share it With
Most of us are guilty of signing NDAs, sharing information with investors and partners and thinking nothing else of it. Mainly this route turns out ok, with the major risk being in
