IP Stories

We continue on our sustainability special, gathering different angles and experiences from those who are working towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This time we had the pleasure to speak with Anja von der Ropp, Senior Program Coordinator for Climate Change and Food Security at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). We talked with her about bioethics, the role of patents to balance access and innovation and the challenge of implementation, about WIPO Green and giving exposure to the solutions already available in the market. Don’t miss it!

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We are doing a brief pause on our current season, to add this special episode with Sonja London, President of Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), General Counsel and Licensing Executive at TactoTek and advisor for other companies. During this great conversation with her, we talked about negotiations and trust, diversity and role models, and ways to support SMEs through legislation. 

LESI is a global business association made up of 33 national and regional societies, representing more than 6,500 individual members in more than 90 countries, all involved in the licensing, transfer and management of intellectual property rights. 

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We had a chat with Dr. Amira Erokh, chemist, researcher, entrepreneur and co-founder/CTO of Everdye – a startup that develops low heat, low-energy, biobased dyeing pigments and processes. Talking with Amira was so easy we almost forgot that we were in an interview! She told us about the origins of her interest in the environment, shared great advice for researchers and entrepreneurs, and explained the reasons why it is so important to detoxify the coloring step in fashion and other creative industries. 

This interview is part of our IP and Sustainability Special and our campaign for the World Intellectual Property Day (#WorldIPDay), that this year is about “IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity” 

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For this episode, on our series on IP and Sustainability 🌍, we invited Dr. Saeed Alhassan Alkhazraji, Professor at Khalifa University and Founder at Manhat - a deep technology startup based in the United Arab Emirates; focusing on "natural water distillation" patented technology for sustainable water and floating farm solutions.

We talked with Saeed about considering patents part of the business DNA, about utilizing the environment without going beyond our share of resources, and the need of incentives to encourage startups to patent their innovation.

Water security is one of the top global challenges, so it's good to know that there are great minds working on solutions that can improve people's lives.

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Prof. Giulia Priora, Director of NOVA IPSI and Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law; is our first guest of this new season on IP and the SDGs (Sustainable Develpment Goals), and we couldn't have found a better guest for the first episode.

We talked with her about human experiences, about the paradox behind the concept of "sustainable innovation", the intersection of IP and sustainability, and the importance to think and try, not presetting any conclusions.

This time we had the pleause of interviewing Dr. Carles Puente i Baliarda, who patented the first fractal antenna in the world. We talked about using patents as a business tool and not just as a defensive tool; about the need to be naive to become an inventor; and about the future of antennas in IoT (Internet of Things).

Links of interest:

Ignion Website

IoT & Standards

This time we interviewed Timothée Le Quesne, co-founder and CEO at energysquare - a new generation of wireless chargers that allow users to charge all their electronic devices simultaneously on a single surface. 

We talked with Timothée about his journey as an entrepreneur, the support they received and the challenges they had to face; as well as their licensing business model.  

It's very refreshing to hear how they found the way to bring a great solution to the market and it reminds us of the importance of supporting young talent.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Andreas Kofoed Sørensen, co-founder of Birdie, a playful Indoor Air Quality Monitor designed in Denmark. We talked with Andreas about crowdfunding a project, about the need of seeking profesional advice when you need to, about the challenges of being entrepreneur and about the difficulties they had to face with their brand trademark.

Ville-Veikko Mattila is Nokia’s Head of Multimedia Technologies. He has over 25 years of experience in developing breakthrough multimedia technologies. He has authored 50 scientific journals and conference papers, holds 70 patents and patent applications, and has been interviewed on his work by MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, The Economist, The New York Times and now us! We talked with him about the challenges of his sector, about the future of multimedia technologies and the importance of standards. 

We speak with Dr. Miguel Salas Natera (PhD in Communications Technologies and Systems as well as a Master's Degree in Space Technology). Miguel is from Venezuela, but he has lived in Madrid for many years, and this is where he currently works as Associate Professor and Researcher on SATCOM and Antenna Systems, at the UPM (Polytechnic University of Madrid).  

We had the pleasure to talk with him about his research work as engineer, the challenges and benefits from working in a university environment, the initiatives that help tech transfer, his experience working in international projects and participating in spin-offs, the future of Space Tecnology and many other things. This interview is so interesting!

This episode is part of a tech transfer special, a series of interviews to better understand the transfer of knowledge from research centres, universities and laboratories, to the industry and our lives.

Links of interest:

https://iptc.upm.es/polarisci-od-sow-00364-development-patch-phased-array-microstrip-antenna-microwave-polarization 

https://iptc.upm.es/terminal-satcom-xka-aeronautico 

https://iptc.upm.es/issl-definition-inter-small-satellite-link-architecture-and-technologies-leo-constellations