Two IPs In A Pod

Our hosts Lee Davies and Gwilym Roberts introducing the ChatGPT Podcast: Where AI Meets Conversation, Join Dr Nils Rauer, MJI for insightful discussions and deep dives into the world of artificial intelligence. This caption was written by Chat GPT. 

That's a wrap on Season 7! Lee and Gwilym take a look back at the highlights from across the series, including  Dragon Boat racing, incredible Earthshot innovators and explorations into the metaverse. A big thank you to all of our guests. We'll be back for Season 8 where Two IPs in a Pod will be celebrating its 100th episode!

Sunken shipwrecks, love at sea and a ton of wet kelp - our first podcast to double as a movie synopsis with former trawlerman and Royal Navy Officer, Wave Crookes! Seaweed is among the fastest growing sources of biomass on Earth. It benefits the marine environment by capturing carbon, releasing oxygen, and providing a habitat for marine life. Wave has invented a modular system for growing seaweed which CIPA has nominated for an Earthshot Prize. Wave and his patent attorney Craig Morris, of HGF, talk to Lee and Gwilym about Wave's company, SeaGrown, and why growing seaweed is so good for the planet.

Kamal Kalsi is a wizard with waste. He can take mixed unrecyclable waste residues and turn them into a valuable energy source. His company, KEW Technology is using this amazing patented cleantech to reinvent waste to energy and take us to a world beyond Net Zero. Host Gwilym Roberts and Neil Lampert chat with Kamal, KEW's Strategy Lead Amna Bezanty and their patent attorney Stuart Rowlands of Maucher Jenkins, about their hopes for the future of this incredible technology and what it means to be nominated for an Earthshot Prize.

Imagine the scene. Your avatar is moving through a virtual world, interacting with other individuals, but as you leave one digital ecosystem and enter another, your avatar is suddenly naked. The moral of the story? Always check whether your avatar's costume is licensed in different metaverses! Our hosts Lee Davies and Gwilym Roberts grapple with this and other virtual IP conundrums with help from our guides in the metaverse,  Dr Michaela MacDonald and Dr Gaetano Dimita of Queen Mary University, London.

Anil Gupta is an Indian scholar who wanted to use intellectual property to create social justice and empower the poor. So in 1988 he created the Honey Bee Network, a knowledge-sharing database, to ensure that grassroots inventors could benefit from the economy. Our hosts Lee Davies and Gwilyn Roberts talk to Prof Gupta about his philosophy of "sharing and caring" and how his model of ethical knowledge extraction and of IP rights being respected but not generally enforced, works in practice.

The Earthshot Prize is the world's most high-profile environmental awards programme and CIPA has been involved from the very beginning. Every year it awards one million pounds each to 5 nominated winners and CIPA is delighted to be an official nominator.  On this special series of Two IPs in a Pod, we're joined by our amazing nominees and their patent attorneys to talk about how their inventions will transform the world.On this weeks episode Lee and Gwilym are joined by Jenni Arksey, Mike Arksey and Terry Woods to talk about how waste-free and resource-efficient kitchen construction could be the future of sustainable houses and how their solution hopes to win the Build a Waste-Free World Category.

The Earthshot Prize is the world's most high-profile environmental awards programme and CIPA has been involved from the very beginning. Every year it awards one million pounds each to 5 nominated winners and CIPA is delighted to be an official nominator.  On this special series of Two IPs in a Pod, we're joined by our amazing nominees and their patent attorneys to talk about how their inventions will transform the world.This week Lee and Gwilym are joined by Noel McWilliam and Michael O’Brien from Mitravitae to talk about how their Integrated Renewable Energy Systems (IRES) provides an answer to problems of renewable energy storage and intermittent supply.

The Earthshot Prize is the world's most high-profile environmental awards programme and CIPA has been involved from the very beginning. Every year it awards one million pounds each to 5 nominated winners and CIPA is delighted to be an official nominator.  On this special series of Two IPs in a Pod, we're joined by our amazing nominees and their patent attorneys to talk about how their inventions will transform the world.This week Lee and Gwilym are joined by Scott Winston, CEO of PULPEX and Rick Gordon-Brown of EIP, to talk about the future of sustainable packaging. 

Lee and Gwilym chat with Chartered Patent Attorney and CIPA Council member Suzanne Oliver about her fascinating career in industry and in private practice. Suzanne is a former President of the IP Federation and she and Lee get stuck into the intellectual property story, involving both CIPA and the Federation, behind the UK's recent accession to the £9trn pan-Pacific trade deal, the CPTPP.  For more on this story, read Lee's thoughts on our website or see the IP Federation's news article.

The Earthshot Prize is the world's most high-profile environmental awards programme and CIPA has been involved from the very beginning. Every year it awards one million pounds each to 5 nominated winners and CIPA is delighted to be an official nominator.  On this special series of Two IPs in a Pod, we're joined by our amazing nominees and their patent attorneys to talk about how their inventions will transform the world.This week Lee and Gwilym are joined by Alex Reip, co-founder and CTO of Oxford nanoSystems and Imogen Parry from JA Kemp to talk about how the Nano-improved Electrolysers solution will help to make green hydrogen production a viable energy source for the world.

The Earthshot Prize is the world's most high-profile environmental awards programme and CIPA has been involved from the very beginning. Every year it awards one million pounds each to 5 nominated winners and CIPA is delighted to be an official nominator.  On this special series of Two IPs in a Pod, we're joined by our amazing nominees and their patent attorneys to talk about how their inventions will transform the world.On this episode we're joined by Aryan Aviraj (CTO and founder), Iain Shepardson (CEO and co-founder) and Prajwal Nirwan (IP & strategy advisor). Lee and Gwilym talk to the team about Sustainable Filtration Innovation and their aims to reduce energy consumption and create circularity of water.

It was the United Nations World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development yesterday. To mark this event, Lee and Gwilym spoke with Nina Ferara, Sally Bannan and John Gray from the European Patent Institute's Diversity and Inclusion Committee to discuss the cultural differences within Europe and how they are helping their colleagues to find a common understanding on EDI issues.

The Earthshot Prize is the world's most high-profile environmental awards programme and CIPA has been involved from the very beginning. Every year it awards one million pounds each to 5 nominated winners and CIPA is delighted to be an official nominator.  On this special series of Two IPs in a Pod, we're joined by our amazing nominees and their patent attorneys to talk about how their inventions will transform the world.On this episode we're joined by The Janger Director Guy Taylor and patent attorney Chris Aldridge from Mohun Aldridge Sykes. Gwilym and special co-host Lucy Wharton, CIPA's External Affairs Officer, talk to Guy and Chris about how IP has helped protect The Janger, how being green can benefit retailers and their hopes to win the Build a Waste-Free World category.

The Earthshot Prize is the world's most high-profile environmental awards programme and CIPA has been involved from the very beginning. Every year it awards one million pounds each to 5 nominated winners and CIPA is delighted to be an official nominator.  On this special series of Two IPs in a Pod, we're joined by our amazing nominees and their patent attorneys to talk about how their inventions will transform the world.First up is Hyrdohertz, an innovation in advanced thermal management that increases the energy efficiency of electric vehicles.  Founder and Chief Engineer Martyn Talbot, and Cory Stobart and Rachel Biggin from Adamson Jones, join Gwilym and special co-host, CIPA Deputy Chief Executive Neil Lampert. They talk about their hopes of winning the Earthshot Clean Air category and the importance of IP protection in developing the business. 

Wednesday 26th April is World IP Day. This year's theme is Women and IP: Accelerating innovation and creativity.  To celebrate, we're sitting down with Vandita Chandrani,  Associate General Counsel IP at radiotherapy pioneers Elekta.  Vandita tells us about female-centered innovation, dragon boat racing, what private practice attorneys can learn from in-house counsel (and vice-versa) and how comedy improvisation is the secret to success. 

Wednesday 26th April is World IP Day. This years theme is Women and IP: Accelerating innovation and creativity. To kick start this years celebrations Lee and Gwilym are sitting down with founder and CEO of the The Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network, Dr Bola Olabisi. Bola talks about why she started the network, how she and the network support female innovators, and the importance of championing female inventors. This year the GlobalWIIN Annual Conference & Awards will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on the 6th and 7th of September, visit their website for more information.

We're still in The Lamb London! Joining us in the pub this week we have new council members Debbie Slater and Will Burrell, to talk about how they came to join CIPA council and what they love about working with the institute. Also joining in is CIPA Head of Publications Iain Ross and podcast fan (and colleague of Gwilym's) Ollie Lam.

We're back in The Lamb London! Joining Lee and Gwilym in the pub for this episode is Donal O'Connell, Managing Director of Chawton Innovation Services.  Donal talks about his journey into IP and trade secrets, including what they are and why they are an important part of your IP portfolio.

The Pubcast is back! Coming to you from The Lamb London, on this first installment Lee and Gwilym are joined by Professor of Law at the University of Utah, Jorge Contreras and surprise guest, Duncan Matthews from Queen Mary University London. Over a beer or two, Jorge and Duncan talk about Jorge's new book, The Genome Defense, and discuss the epic court battle on the right to control our genes. Also in the episode they discuss the TRIPs waiver, the power of genes and who would play Jorge in the movie of his book!The Genome Defense is available now!You can sign up to attend the book launch here.