UK-based Ocado Group licenses grocery technology, such as automated warehousing, e-commerce platform software, and operational data. It also owns a 50% share in the online grocery retail business Ocado.com.
The company’s IP team manages a portfolio of over 1,900 active granted patents, as well as 1,800 pending applications, across nearly 500 families. They are chiefly filed in one or a mix of the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, and Korea – with some also filed in emerging jurisdictions such as Brazil, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Ocado is one of the very few overseas businesses that has now also enforced patents in Malaysia, which may be seen as a more “whacky” choice, Lucy Wojcik, who has served as the company’s Chief IP Counsel for over a decade, told
ip fray
during an interview at
IP Dealmakers Europe