World Agri-Tech 2026 Startups Report

From Cold Plasma Barn Air Systems to Giant Kelp Biostimulants, we’ve curated the most impactful startup innovations from the London Summit for R&D professionals.

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Uncover the trends reshaping how companies produce, manage, and distribute food. The report equips food and beverage companies with: 

• In-depth analysis of the shift in consumer behavior to drive their R&D innovation toward products that address these evolving preferences.
• This report provides insights into the latest advancements in food technology, identifying untapped research areas, emerging opportunities, and market gaps. 
• Competitive understanding of other food and beverage companies’ strengths and weaknesses to develop groundbreaking solutions and stay ahead of the competition.
• Deeply explore the ten key innovation trends in food technology to discover insights, market potential, challenges, etc., and engage with consumers more effectively.

Companies can align their R&D efforts with consumer preferences, such as personalized or plant-based meals, and stay at the forefront of the industry by promoting their commitment to health and sustainability.

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Retailers want real-time visibility into product freshness.

Sustainability teams are questioning the use of multilayer laminates and foil-based barriers.

Yet ~45% of the food and beverage packaging is made of aseptic cartons, widely used for dairy, juices, and liquid foods. Good for shelf life and long-term storage without refrigeration, but hard to recycle.

Why change your packaging?

The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduces three direct constraints:

• PFAS restrictions in food-contact packaging (from 2026)
• Recyclability requirements for all packaging by 2030
• Increasing recycled-content targets through 2040

At the same time, food waste costs the global economy $1 trillion annually, and 56% of companies lack visibility into losses across the supply chain.

The packaging moving with that food is still passive. It does not detect quality loss. It does not respond to it.

But what if packaging exists that is biodegradable, barrier-grade, antimicrobial, and responsive, without new migration risks or manufacturing complexity?

What You’ll Discover Inside the Report

Material Systems Replacing Legacy Packaging

Most biodegradable packaging only works under real-world conditions after adding metal oxides (TiO₂, ZnO) or stabilizers. See how the next set of material approaches focuses on removing additive dependence altogether, rather than optimizing it.

Where Shelf-Life and Packaging Function Start to Merge

Packaging is moving beyond the split between passive protection and post-facto detection. New Packaging approaches can adapt to storage variability rather than relying on fixed-release systems or delayed indicators.

Barrier Alternatives to Aluminium and Complex Laminates

Aluminium and multilayer laminates deliver barrier performance but lock packaging into structures that are difficult to recycle and hard to redesign. Find out how barrier performance is being rebuilt without additional layers.

Smart Packaging Beyond Standalone Labels

Freshness tracking with standalone labels and tags improves visibility but adds cost and integration complexity. Companies are now building sensing into the packaging itself without added components. 

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Get a clearer view of which packaging approaches are being developed to solve barrier performance, shelf life, recyclability, and food-contact constraints, and where R&D teams may need to rethink material and format decisions first.

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This is not a temporary condition. It is the architecture of HEVC licensing, and it systematically advantages undeclared SEP holders over implementers who have satisfied their pool obligations in good faith.

The HEVC Patent Landscape Report Is Coming

GreyB has done the most rigorous independent analysis of the HEVC patent landscape to date, 4,904 patent families analyzed, 2,225 identified as potential SEPs, ranked across 25+ owners.

The full report will be published soon. Fill out the form below to get the Executive Summary now, before anyone else.

The Value of HEVC Patent Analysis

Reduce “Shadow IP” Risks and Avoid Surprising Royalties

Undeclared essential patents are a major threat in a mature standard like HEVC. Our report finds the real scope of this “shadow IP.” It identifies companies that hold these key assets. Knowing who owns these patents helps you prepare early for possible licensing demands and prevent expensive lawsuits later.

Improve Your Licensing Strategy and Negotiation Position

Get a clear overview of publicly declared HEVC patent families. This includes those in pools and ITU-T. Compare your patents to the overall landscape. Find important licensing leaders. Understand the real value of essential patents. This information helps you negotiate with confidence and get better terms.

Compare Your IP Position and Competitor Strategies

A full breakdown of company shares across declared, undeclared, and total essential HEVC patent families shows your position clearly. Find top innovators, new players, and those with a strong but undeclared hand. Understand their strategies. See if they make money aggressively through pools or quietly build power for enforcement.

Ensure Freedom to Operate (FTO) and Reduce Product Development Risk

Before making large investments in HEVC-compliant products, it is important to understand the complete patent picture. Our report helps find possible patent roadblocks and high-risk areas. You can make informed decisions and create strong FTO strategies. This protects your new ideas from future problems.

Find Strategic Collaboration and Acquisition Opportunities

Find companies and research institutions with strong, essential, and possibly undervalued HEVC patent portfolios. If you are looking for partners to strengthen your technology or targets to strengthen your patent position, our detailed analysis identifies the players with the most value in the HEVC ecosystem.

Report Highlights (Coming Soon – Sneak Peek)

10 sections covering the full HEVC royalty stack, from the licensing crisis to the strategic playbook. The JCT-VC contribution landscape, declared vs. potential SEPs, top SEP holder leaderboards, technical breakdowns by coding tool, geographic origin of innovation, and jurisdiction-level enforcement maps.

Stay Ahead. Be Prepared.

The HEVC patent landscape is dynamic and presents numerous challenges. Do not get caught off guard.

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These shifts are creating major opportunities for companies that can identify the right innovation signals early. Our upcoming trend report explores the technologies, consumer shifts, startup activity, and competitive developments transforming laundry care, helping innovation teams and R&D leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

What’s Inside the Report?

Regulatory shifts

Understand how the laundry care regulatory landscape is evolving, including updated EU detergent and surfactant rules, expanded labelling requirements, digital product passports, and stricter sustainability and safety expectations.

Sustainability trends

Explore how the industry is moving toward lower-temperature washing, biodegradable ingredients, concentrated formats, reduced packaging, and resource-efficient formulations that align with consumer and policy pressure.

Consumer behavior

See how laundry care is becoming more convenience-driven, sensory-led, and wellness-oriented, with rising demand for express cycles, personalized fragrance, sensitive-skin solutions, and plant-based formulations.

Innovation pipeline

Track the technologies shaping the next generation of laundry care, including cold-water enzymes, concentrated detergents, short-cycle formulations, multi-enzyme systems, and biodegradable fragrance microcapsules.

Competitive intelligence

Analyze where leading companies are focusing their innovation efforts, how the patent landscape is evolving, and which technology areas are gaining the most momentum across product development and IP activity.

Startup and collaboration signals

Discover emerging startups and partnership activity pushing the category forward, especially in sustainable detergents, reusable alternatives, plant-based cleaning systems, and sanitizing laundry solutions.

These innovations are changing how laundry products are formulated, positioned, and experienced. Sign up now to get exclusive access to our in-depth report on the trends, technologies, and market shifts shaping the future of laundry care.

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These challenges are creating major opportunities for companies that can identify the right innovation pathways early. Our upcoming trend report explores the technologies, market shifts, and strategic moves transforming backside power delivery networks (BSPDN), helping R&D teams and innovation leaders stay ahead of the next wave of semiconductor design.

What’s Inside the Report?

Breakthrough innovation

Discover how companies such as Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and IBM are solving the limitations of traditional power delivery through buried power rails, nano-through-silicon vias, direct backside contacts, and advanced packaging strategies.

Emerging technologies

Track the technologies enabling BSPDN adoption, including PowerVia, Super Power Rail, advanced thermal management, nanotwinned copper, self-aligned contacts, embedded cooling, and backside signal routing.

Real-world industry shifts

See how backside power delivery has evolved from early research in 2019 to commercial implementation in advanced nodes by 2026, and why the industry is moving from invention toward execution and scale-up.

Market and IP intelligence

Understand where the market is headed, how patent activity is evolving, which countries are leading innovation filings, and why BSPDN has become such a concentrated competitive space.

Strategic guidance

Explore where new entrants can still win, especially in cooling technologies, thermal materials, process precision, inspection methods, and enabling solutions that support BSPDN commercialization.

Regulatory and manufacturing relevance

Navigate the technical and production realities shaping adoption, from wafer thinning and alignment challenges to yield risks, heat dissipation constraints, and high-volume manufacturing readiness.

These innovations are changing how next-generation chips are powered, cooled, and scaled. Sign up now to get exclusive access to our in-depth report on the technologies and strategies shaping the future of backside power delivery networks.

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But GreyB’s AV2 Patent Landscape analysis reveals a critical disconnect between that promise and the technical reality. AV2 wasn’t built from scratch; it’s built on a foundation of concepts pioneered in licensed standards like HEVC and VVC.

This hidden overlap creates a patent minefield for adopters and a potential goldmine for patent holders.

The AV2 intelligence report provides the definitive technical breakdown you need to navigate this landscape, de-risk your roadmap, and find the patents that will define the next decade of video.

What’s Changing in AV2 (Insights from the Report)

AV2 is not a superficial upgrade over AV1. It introduces meaningful changes across the entire coding pipeline:

• More adaptive partitioning
  Larger superblocks (up to 256×256) and fully recursive partitioning allow better alignment with object shapes, improving compression efficiency for high-resolution content.
• Data-driven and multi-reference prediction
  Techniques like Multiple Reference Line Selection (MRLS) and Data-Driven Intra Prediction (DIP) improve accuracy in complex textures and noisy regions.
• Advanced motion modeling
  Features such as Temporal Interpolated Prediction (TIP) and motion trajectory tracking enable better handling of non-linear and high-speed motion.
• Smarter quantization and transforms
  Trellis-coded quantization and matrix-based transforms reduce bitrate while preserving perceptual quality.
• Enhanced in-loop filtering and coefficient coding
  New filtering techniques and region-based coding improve visual quality and coding efficiency at scale.

Together, these changes represent a step-change in compression capability rather than incremental refinement.

Why This Matters Now

AV2 follows a royalty-free model, but its architecture still borrows heavily from prior standards like HEVC and VVC. That creates a narrow window:

• Existing portfolios can still map to AV2-relevant techniques
• Foundational innovations are already embedded in the standard
• Early movers can define licensing narratives before the ecosystem matures

Where the Opportunity Lies

The report identifies three areas where strategic advantage will emerge:

• Technical leverage: Features like MRLS and SDP deliver immediate efficiency gains
• IP positioning: Legacy patents linked to partitioning, prediction, and motion tracking remain critical
• Ecosystem alignment: Hardware constraints will shape which technologies scale

Get the full report to identify where AV2 creates real leverage, not just technical change.

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In Q4 2025, nearly half of all petitions were rejected early, often before the technical arguments were even considered.

At the same time, those who adjusted their approach, better timing, stronger references, and tighter arguments started seeing better outcomes.

This report breaks down what changed and how to adapt.

Key Insights from Q4 2025 PTAB Report

1. Prior Art Strategy Determines Petition Success

Petitions that combined multiple patents with Non-Patent Literature (NPL) achieved the highest institution success rate of 68% and the strongest invalidation outcomes at the Final Written Decision stage.

Single-reference strategies continue to struggle because they rarely disclose every claim limitation.

What this means:
Winning arguments rely on deep technical mapping across patents, standards, and literature, not isolated references.

2. Anticipation Grounds Deliver the Strongest Outcomes

While §103 obviousness accounts for 92% of filings, it shows only moderate institution success.
By contrast, §102 anticipation grounds achieved a 71% institution rate and near-total claim invalidation when successful.

Strategic takeaway:
Finding a single, precise reference can outweigh multiple obviousness combinations.

3. Discretionary Denials Are Now the Biggest Risk

Nearly 46% of petitions were denied, and 58% of those denials resulted from discretionary factors like parallel litigation. Many strong petitions never reached technical review because of procedural timing conflicts with district court trials.

Implication:
Filing timing and litigation coordination now matter as much as prior art strength.

4. Technology Sector Greatly Influences Outcomes

Institution rates vary dramatically by technology domain:

• Semiconductors / Memory: ~72% institution success
• Cloud / Software technologies: ~68%
• Bio-pharma: ~28% institution success due to inherency and enablement hurdles

Lesson:
Prior art density and claim structure shape PTAB success rates.

5. Petition Quality Matters More Than Filing Volume

Petition filings fell by over 40% in Q4, but institution rates recovered as petitioners adapted to denial trends.

The PTAB is increasingly rewarding targeted petitions with strong technical reasoning rather than high-volume filings.

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The complete report includes:

• Detailed prior art success statistics
• Technology-specific IPR outcomes
• Petition and defense strategies used by leading firms
• Claim vulnerability patterns observed across cases
• Litigation timing insights and settlement dynamics

Download the PTAB IPR Trend Report – Q4 2025

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What’s Inside The Report?

Neurocosmetics Revolution – Discover how brands are tapping into the skin-brain connection with mood-enhancing ingredients like ashwagandha and rhodiola, addressing both aesthetics and mental well-being in a single formulation.

Biotechnology Breakthroughs – Explore lab-grown actives that replace traditional animal and plant sources, from fermented squalane to probiotic-enhanced formulations, using Japanese classical music to boost efficacy.

Waterless Innovation – See how industry leaders are solving the sustainability challenge with powder formulations, advanced dispensing systems, and ingredient delivery mechanisms that eliminate 70-80% water content.

AI-Powered Personalization – Learn how Custom D.O.S.E systems, interreality makeup platforms, and skin analysis technologies are closing the gap between consumer demand and brand offerings.

Nanocosmeceutical Delivery – Understand how liposome technology and nano-emulsions are smuggling vitamins past skin defenses for enhanced efficacy and targeted treatment.

These innovations represent the trends reshaping beauty R&D from ingredient consciousness to personalization gaps to sustainability demands. Sign up now to access our comprehensive analysis of breakthrough innovations defining the next generation of cosmetics!

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Distilled from 4,000+ patents by GreyB analysts.

Everything you need to see clearly in V2X, organized into one report

From USPTO-flagged high-value patents to who’s actively buying, selling, and suing, the report gives you the full picture without the noise.

Patents with the Highest Litigation Cases

The V2X patents that have already been tested in court and survived. These are assets with demonstrated enforceability, not theoretical value.

Potential Buyer Companies Whose Patents Are Blocked

A mapped view of companies whose V2X implementations are constrained by third-party patents. Includes Cisco-owned assets that are actively limiting others in the space.

Companies Actively Selling V2X Patents

Know who’s divesting and why. These signals often precede strategic exits, licensing pushes, or restructuring that reshapes competitive dynamics.

Companies Actively Buying V2X Patents

Identify who’s building a position in the V2X patent market and what domains they’re targeting. Acquisitions signal strategy before press releases do.

Universities with Active Patent Programs + Gem Patents

Research institutions are some of the most underestimated actors in V2X. This section identifies those with active monetization programs and highlights their highest-value assets.

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5 Patents with High Licensing Potential as Indicated by USPTO

These assets sit at the center of every V2X claim filed today. The USPTO consistently uses them as primary prior art to reject newer applications.

Unlock Complete Insights in the Full Top V2X Patents Report

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