5 September 2025 · Articles
Most SMEs I speak to have trade secrets. They just don’t call them that. 💡 It’s the pricing algorithm you’ve fine-tuned over years.💡 The customer insights buried in your CRM.💡 The supplier relationships that give you an edge.💡 The undocumented know-how your team uses every day.💡 The data you’ve collected that no one else has.💡 […]
Read More2 September 2025 · Articles
“Why settle for one six-figure job when you can have three?” AI Engineers are the Gold Rush Cowboys of Tech, jumping from one job to the other in return for enormous sign on bonuses. Each one equipped with a laptop, a GitHub profile, and a deep disdain for legacy code. While Zuckerberg is going crazy, […]
Read More4 August 2025 · Articles
Facebook knows you are pregnant before you do! You share a multitude of public signals, previously noise but now these are highly valuable nuggets. The analysts know about your acquisition before you tell them! SEO experts know how to work out Google’s SEO ranking factors from thousands of test pages. AI tools are now piecing […]
Read More29 July 2025 · Articles
The Daily Telegraph has managed to mangle its piece on the use of ‘easy’ in trade marks today by calling it a ‘copyright’ battle! The general rule is do not include ‘easy’ in your brand name unless you want a call from Stelios and his army of lawyers – just ask pop group Hard Life […]
Read More25 July 2025 · Articles
Most of us are familiar with biologic medicines from taking flu vaccines and covid treatments. Biologics present a wave of breakthrough medicines for cancer, diabetes, arthritis etc. Biologic companies include Amgen, Roche / Genentech and AbbVie. Biologic manufacturers quickly realised that patenting everything connected to making biologics was not sensible, because certain knowledge developed over […]
Read More22 July 2025 · Articles
This approach is good for the patent attorneys but how good is it for your business? What this statement says is that ‘we do not have any proprietary information worth protecting’……. ‘no data, no strategy documents, no test results, no launch plans that we value enough to protect’. This statement is never true. Is business […]
Read More18 July 2025 · Articles
Business wants you to focus on the smokescreen 1 in 10 of the UK population had data stolen from the Coop! The hackers no doubt sold the credit card and DoB info on the dark web What the Coop is not saying is how their strategy documents, competitive intelligence, pricing and supplier details have been […]
Read More16 July 2025 · Articles
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 strategically valuable technology: extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines. Valuable IP assets and questionable security makes investors jittery. Industrial theft […]
Read More15 July 2025 · Articles
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 protection protocols by a junior defence official’! The database contained 33,000 records and the confidential information (names, email addresses and phone numbers and father’s names) […]
Read More14 July 2025 · Articles
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 I was to say ‘yesterday was the second fastest Tour de France stage ever’ you know what the immediate response would be! ‘They are all taking […]
Read More11 July 2025 · Articles
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 Investment Highlights 2025, WIPO Intangible investment grew well over three times faster than tangible investment between 2008–2024. Software and data make up the fastest […]
Read More9 July 2025 · Articles
“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 years after committing during the London Olympics exuberance. Naively I enjoyed the bike far too much, convinced this was THE day when it all came together. Then […]
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