How FutureFeed uses IP licensing to tackle the livestock emissions problemThis article is from AgriFoodIP, a new newsletter exploring intellectual property value creation in food and agriculture. If you’d like to…Jan 31, 2024Jan 31, 2024
Published inGeek CultureCould insolvent Infarm rise again? A look at the vertical farmer’s IPAdministrators are ‘in discussions with an interested party with a view to effecting a sale imminently’Jan 24, 2024Jan 24, 2024
Patents aren’t holding back cell-cultured meat. A lack of public funding isThis week, The Guardian‘s sister newspaper The Observer published an article on the issue of limited access to cell lines — one of the…Aug 4, 20211Aug 4, 20211
Published inGeek CultureYahoo IP finally scores big money in $1.6bn SoftBank dealJapanese company acquires rights to former internet giant’s brand and ‘licensed technology’ in lesson for entrepreneursJul 9, 2021Jul 9, 2021
Published inThe StartupAcacia assigns patents to China’s fourth biggest smartphone brand as part of Nokia dealLast month, we learned that Acacia Research — one of the most renowned non-practicing entities (NPEs) from patent monetisation’s floruit —…Jan 30, 2020Jan 30, 2020
Transpacific patents end up with resurgent AcaciaTwo of the biggest names from the early 2010s heyday of ‘patent trolling’ have done a deal.Dec 19, 2019Dec 19, 2019
Published inDialogue & DiscourseThe connection between a patent case in Texas and a Korean professor’s abortive political careerA patent linked to South Korean ‘sovereign patent fund’ Intellectual Discovery (ID) and the country’s Korea Advanced Institute of Science…Jun 12, 2019Jun 12, 2019
Has Toyota turned Tesla with its latest ‘open’ patent pledge? Not quite.Toyota’s announcement this week that it will grant royalty-free licences to almost 24,000 “vehicle-electrification” patents has…Apr 6, 20191Apr 6, 20191
Published inDesign and Tech.CoCanon transfers show it wants more value from patents — but not at the cost of its anti-NPE ethosHas the Japanese camera-maker finally come to terms with the secondary market in patents?Feb 18, 2019Feb 18, 2019
ByteDance, the $75b social media unicorn from China, is now in the market for patentsIf you’re outside of China, you’ve probably never heard of ByteDance. But the Beijing-based startup’s mobile apps are used by more than…Jan 7, 2019Jan 7, 2019
