11 January 2024

Tekcapital Plc

("Tekcapital")

Innovative Eyewear, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance

for Fourteen Patent Applications

Tekcapital Plc (AIM: TEK), the UK intellectual property investment group announces that Innovative Eyewear, Inc. ("Innovative Eyewear") (NASDAQ: LUCY; LUCYW), the developer of ChatGPT enabled smart eyewear under the Lucyd®, Nautica®, Eddie Bauer® and Reebok® brands, is pleased to announce it has received Notices of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark in fourteen design patent applications protecting Innovative Eyewear's Lucyd Lyte eyewear designs. Receipt of a Notice of Allowance indicates that claims in the patent applications are patentable, and Innovative Eyewear expects the patents to be issued after payment of the issue fees.  These design patents are directed to Innovative Eyewear's front plate and temple designs.

Harrison Gross, CEO of Innovative Eyewear Inc., commented:

 "We are thrilled to receive these additional Notices of Allowance. This underscores our mission to upgrade the world's eyewear whilst developing a strong intellectual property position to protect our unique smart eyewear designs and innovations, which now includes 109 licensed and owned patents including 20 patent applications."

The Company's products include the world's first smart eyewear powered with ChatGPT, which enables a wearer to speak any query to ChatGPT handsfree and hear the response through the glasses.

About Innovative Eyewear Inc.

Innovative Eyewear is a developer of cutting-edge ChatGPT enabled smart eyewear, under the Lucyd®, Nautica®, Eddie Bauer® and Reebok® brands. True to our mission to Upgrade Your Eyewear®, our Bluetooth audio glasses allow users to stay safely and ergonomically connected to their digital lives and are offered in hundreds of frame and lens combinations to meet the needs of the optical market. To learn more and explore our continuously evolving collection of smart eyewear, please visit www.lucyd.co.

Tekcapital currently owns 5,189,086 shares of Innovative Eyewear, Inc. (approximately 40%).

About Tekcapital plc

Tekcapital creates value from investing in new, university-developed discoveries that can enhance people's lives and provides a range of technology transfer services to help organisations evaluate and commercialise new technologies. Tekcapital is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: symbol TEK) and is headquartered in the UK. For more information, please visit www.tekcapital.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

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