Jack EllisHow 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…·6 min read·Jan 31, 2024----
Jack EllisinGeek 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’·8 min read·Jan 24, 2024----
Jack EllisPatents 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…·8 min read·Aug 4, 2021--1--1
Jack EllisinGeek 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 entrepreneurs·5 min read·Jul 9, 2021----
Jack EllisinThe 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 —…·4 min read·Jan 30, 2020----
Jack EllisTranspacific patents end up with resurgent AcaciaTwo of the biggest names from the early 2010s heyday of ‘patent trolling’ have done a deal.·4 min read·Dec 19, 2019----
Jack EllisinDialogue & 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…·4 min read·Jun 12, 2019----
Jack EllisHas 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…·8 min read·Apr 6, 2019--1--1
Jack EllisinDesign 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?·6 min read·Feb 18, 2019----
Jack EllisByteDance, 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…·6 min read·Jan 7, 2019----