Food tech industry is built on intellectual property. Whether a startup builds alternative proteins, cooking technology, automation/ AI or another food tech product, a large part of its future success relies on its intellectual property. 

A big part of a startup's success relies on managing a patent portfolio. But navigating the world of patents is confusing, so why not bring in an expert to answer some of our questions?

That's exactly what we do on this episode of The Spoon podcast with Anas Alfarra. Anas managed IP for one of the world's biggest industrial equipment makers, has secured his own patent for a food cooking system, and advises startups on how to manage their IP.

Topics discussed on this podcast include:
-What are the different types of patents?
-What is a provisional patent?
-How to understand patent strategies of large companies like Amazon and Microsoft 
-The process of applying for a patent
-And much more!

If you are at all interested in intellectual property and have questions about how to manage it for your food tech startup, this is a must-listen!

The Spoon Podcast

#137: Navigating The World of Patents As a Food Tech Startup

This week, we catch up with Nicole Papantoniou, the Director of the Good Housekeeping Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab. 

We hear from Nicole about what it's like running one of the preeminent testing labs for kitchen appliances in the world, her personal journey to her current position and what she's excited about in terms of kitchen innovation. 

Enjoy the podcast!


Behind The Scenes at the Good Housekeeping Appliance Lab

"Rattle the Cage" 
from the unreleased forthcoming album NOENEMIES

LYRICS
I can’t get my computer to boot cancel everything
there’s an active shooter on a new campus everyday
what’s that hafta do with me my movement would never take
anybody’s life
what I hafta do to prove it to you whatever say
we are not alike
we are not alike
look at me look at you
I can see what you do from the evil I separate
look at you look at me I maneuver and flee from you people I segregate
get it straight
we are not alike I don’t peddle hate
I just go to the booth and I meditate
and I breathe and I eat and I puke and I defecate

don't rattle the cage if you wanna come out 

fire in the sky
masses at the border
shadows in the night
faces of disorder
rivers made of blood
skeletons in closets
bodies in the mud
torturers on crosses
wretched of the earth
undeserved sentence
reckoning of curses
long awaited vengence
executed messengers piled up upon the entrance
clamor of the stenches threaten overwhelm the senses

don't rattle the cage if you wanna come out

there’s an active shooter on the news and I speculate
that it has to do with something you bastards said today
see your attitudes and backwards views they miseducate
it is not all right
all the chatter you decide to spew when you agitate
til they slaughter life
it is not all right
you’re not speaking the truth I can see what you do to the people make them afraid
look at you look at me
see your movement is evil we need to eradicate
get away
it is not all right that you peddle hate
you’re the reason I rally and rattle cage
cuz you’re leavin the people not breathing and dead afraid

In the war against fear we are on the same side

we rattle the cage cause we wanna come out 

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Rattle The Cage

Live, From 2017 CES, Michael Wolf NOB Technology Power Hour Interview Series We’re joined today by Michael Wolf.&nbsp; Mike is kind enough to catch up with us via his vantage point, live at 2017 CES.&nbsp; Michael Wolf is writer, host of The Smart Home Show, The Smart Kitchen Show, proprietor of the Technology.FM web portal of like-minded technologists&nbsp;thespoon.tech, with daily analysis and reporting about the smart kitchen and the food tech revolution, including personalized nutrition.&nbsp; Mike is also the founder of the annual event, The Smart Kitchen Summit (at smartkitchensummit.com) which, from the web site, “is the leading event dedicated to exploring the intersection of tech, food, design, and commerce in the connected kitchen." Mike is covering 2017 CES, live from Las Vegas, featuring the latest in consumer electronics, connected cars, sports tech and more from the gathering of companies tiny and gigantic, all showing their products, especially those in the Smart Home, Smart Kitchen space, and of particular interest to The Not Old Better&nbsp;audience.&nbsp;&nbsp; Via SKYPE, as he navigates the massive crowds at CES 2017, live, &nbsp;I want to welcome Michael Wolf to The Not Old Better Show.

Live, From 2017 CES, Michael Wolf

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Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the bee is being threatened by a number of factors such as global warming, pesticides and yes, murder hornets.

While that presents a challenge to the $7 billion honey industry, the focus on honey production is problematic for the bee ecosystem itself as farmed bees compete with wild bees for food and ultimately can hurt biodiversity.

Because of this, Darko Mandich wants to create honey without the honeybee using cutting edge bioengineering techniques through the process of fermentation. His company, MeliBio, has already received commitments from over a dozen companies around the world to use his honey.

The Food Tech Show

Making Honey Without Bees: A Conversation With Darko Mandich

While alt-meat and plant-based milks have seen an explosion in great products the past few years, plant-based cheese space hasn't seen the same level of new and exciting products.

That might change soon as Ground Foods brings its cauliflower and hemp based cheese products to the masses.

We talk with Veronica Fil, the CEO of Grounded Foods, on the story behind their product that has many in the plant-based food world excited about cheese.

Making Plant-Based Cheese With Grounded Foods Veronica Fil

This week the Spoon editorial crew got together to talk about the latest food tech news.

On this week's podcast, the crew talked about:

-Dragontail Systems and Pizza Hut Deploy Pizza Delivery Drones in Israel
-Controlled Ag Company AppHarvest's First-Ever Crop Arrives at Grocery Stores This Week
-Smart Shopping Carts at Kroger (and elsewhere) 
-Big $ Continue for Cultured Meat Startups

As always, you can subscribe to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.

The Food Tech Show With Michael Wolf

Are We Ready for Smart Grocery Carts?

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