Investors Treat IP Protection as a Core Competency, Invest In Firms Showing They Are Able To Secure Their Secrets
We are seeing this more and more: IP gets stolen and the share price falls. 12 % fall in the case of ASML The ASML internal spy was able to steal secrets about the EUs most strateg
‘The Error Exists between the Keyboard and Screen’!
Blame it on the new boy Sensitive UK government data emailed on excel spreadsheet, breached and leaked on Facebook. The UK government says: ‘this was a clear breach of data prote
Dope Wimbledon champions, how about cycling?
Cycling 108 miles at 30mph average speed! Both men and women’s Wimbledon singles champions in 2025 have served doping bans! This doping fact is barely whispered, why? Yet if
Intangibles an increasingly important investment as a % of GDP
Intangible investment (as a share of GDP) surpassed tangible investment (as a share of GDP) for the first time in 2009, and the gap has been widening ever since. World Intangible I
Iron Man exhausted but happy!
“John Pryor you are iRon-man” golden words from the compere at IRONMAN Switzerland, July 2014. It wasn’t fast and it certainly wasn’t pretty, but we did it, two yea
How do you know when a patent has expired? Sales fall $12bn in two years.
When pharma patents expire sales drop off a cliff. From $21bn to $14bn to $9bn in two years for AbbVie’s Humira. The reason: generics jump in and replace branded product. The pha
Ferrari Testarossa trademark annulled for lack of use now reinstated
In 2017 Kurt Hesse argued that Ferrari had not made genuine use of the Testarossa trademark between 2010 and 2015. The court agreed and revoked the trademark, citing a lack of comm
Comet sounds like a great name for a start up until….
Another similar business is green lighted to use the name as well You might even have a registered trademark but if Facebook decide to use your trademark Meta what are you really g
AI knows Djokovic is tired or injured before he does
The Wimbledon Tennis Championship is in full swing. Djokovic looks increasingly like a champion again. We now know that massive data analysis is table stakes for professional athle
Patents just an expensive wall hanging or something else?
Are patents just an expensive wall hanging or do they have more value? Nowadays you must have very clear objectives for every patent, otherwise they can just become expensive pictu
