Dedicated to providing pragmatic commercial and technical advice. Cubicibuc Limited was established in 2015 as an independent technical consulting firm specializing in matters relating to Intellectual Property. Cubicibuc is built on experience from over 20 years’ providing technical and commercial IP services to clients in a range of sectors and geographies. We believe good IP...

Great Intellectual Property management that protects value. Great IP management enables business to protect its competitive advantage; to generate returns on R&D investment and to secure investment and finance. Modern businesses neglect their IP assets at their risk as poor IP management gives away value and reduces barriers to entry for competitors compromising the organisation's...

The positive role of patents in standardisation Standardisation is the act of a market agreeing to limit the range of available products by removing incompatible non-standard devices. This benefits the user by ensuring interoperability, and removing any user concerns that products will work. Examples of successful standards include Compact Discs (CDs), DVD, and USB interfaces...

Cubicibuc's generalised FRAND Model enables users to independently assess economic value of asserted portfolios. Cubicibuc's FRAND Model enables all stakeholders to engage in the process to explore and understand the implications of particular assumptions or strategies of FRAND negotiations. As connectivity brings value to many sectors such as automotive, IoT and industrial automation these sectors...

Intellectual Property (IP) is the most important assets that businesses have. IP codifies the expertise, skills and capability of a business; IP identifies the specific applications, technologies and products that the business creates. The ability to identify, manage and exploit IP is therefore a critical skill to acquire especially for technology-rich, product developers. Key take...

Cubicibuc believes that for organisations to maximise the value of their intellectual property, a holistic IP strategy must be developed that aligns with the overall goals of the business. We identify four tools for IP management that are commonly deployed in organisations looking to pro-actively manage, extend or exploit their IP as part of a...