Poor Product Design Cost Digg $144m
From $160m to $16m for the social news aggregator. Valued at $160m in 2008 when Digg had 30m users a month, the value plummeted to $16m when its users dropped to 7m a month in 2012
French crown jewels vanish in a few minutes
A ladder, an angle grinder and a scooter and the French crown jewels vanished in a few minutes from the Louvre yesterday. It wasn’t Tom Cruise abseiling down a wire, but it w
“How Can You Be A Technology Company If You Only Have One Patent?”
The question that caused the share price to fall! What can we learn about how Ocado applied IP strategy to protect its competitive edge and develop licensing revenues? From one pat
CRM Data as a Trade Secret: Are You Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset?
Email addresses and phone numbers are generally readily available so they cannot be trade secrets. But non-public insights such as customer preferences, buying behaviour, pricing h
Wilfully Blind! What are the trade secrets skeletons in the M&A cupboard?
What risks? Are you buying into trade secrets liability? Arcturus Therapeutics vs. AbbVie September 2025, claims AbbVie bought stolen trade secrets in their acquisition of Capstan
When An Acquisition Goes All Hairy Due To Trade Secrets Theft
Another case of big vs small: ‘ we want to acquire you, oh hang on now we know what you do we don’t any more’! In 2015, startup Olaplex invented and patented brea
Sorry, No Lesson Today Riley’s On One
If ‘Educating Yorkshire’ is Anything to Go By UK School Kids Eat Too Much Sugar Riley disrupted every lesson and crushed learning for the other kids Tested he had nothi
‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ a Trade Secret?
New film plot and the key actors – trade secret The team formation and tactics for Saturday’s game – trade secret That album restricted only released to a few people – trad
How Do You Talk About Trade Secrets Without Talking About Trade Secrets
And why this is the most important thing you could do today? If most of the value in your business is intangible and most of that is held secret (think new product details, busines
Patents and Trade Secrets Both Required by SpaceX!
The top two responsibilities for Senior Counsel IP at SpaceX advertised late September 2025, are: 🚀 Responsible for development and management of SpaceX’s intellectual propert
