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Protecting Green Technology and Green Brands: Strategies for Getting Your Eco-Patents and Eco-Marks Through the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Lane E.L., Luce Forward / Green Patent Blog, US

I. From PV manufacturing to geothermal drilling and from gasification to wind turbines, many of the most successful clean energy technologies were previously developed in other industries and only later adapted to for use in [...]

Patent Pollution: Clearing the Patent Landscape and Protecting Innovation

Cornwell D.K.S., Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C., US

With concerns about both oil prices and global environmental issues, investment in clean technologies has risen dramatically over the past few years . Emerging companies have two major obstacles to their ultimate success. The first [...]

Strategically Securing and Protecting Intellectual Property in the Renewable and Emission Technology Space

Smith T., Lord R., Osha Liang LLP, US

New advances in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and emission control/reduction, and other clean technologies are constantly evolving. Further, the demand for these technologies continues to increase, both through public awareness and government mandates. As the [...]

Green Computing: Creating Efficiencies through Datacenter Energy Management

Bairat D., Nerac, Inc., US

The presentation talks about trend, partnership, case studies and growth related to energy efficient data centers. This presentation will examine how companies can advance energy-efficient datacenters through new virtualization technologies and through partnerships with utility [...]

Smartcool Systems: Providing Smart Solutions for Energy Efficiency

Stanfield A., Smartcool Systems USA Inc., US

Smartcool Systems Inc. has developed the Energy Saving Module(TM) into an energy efficiency solution available worldwide for application in air conditioning and refrigeration systems. By expanding its distribution network to encompass every continent, Smartcool Systems [...]

Water Conservation in Cooling Towers Using Controlled Hydrodynamic Cavitation

Vella P., VRTX Technologies, US

Cooling towers are a component of some buildings’ cooling systems. Where installed, cooling towers can account for up to 30% of the total water used in an average building, a statistic that can be even [...]

Clean Building Technologies in Architecture

Attmann O., University of Colorado at Denver, US

This paper presents an overview of clean building technologies, their use in architecture, and introduces an ongoing research project about the development of a green-wall system incorporating these technologies. In our research project, we introduce [...]

Optimizing HVAC Energy Efficiency Performance by Innovative Technologies

Xin D., Bes-Tech, US

The presentation will examine all aspects of continuous commissioning and TPOR technologies for mainly existing buildings, including: history, process, typical costs and savings, and cases studies as well as measurement and verification. The presentation will [...]

New Insulation Technology for the 21st Century

Morgan S., Smith R., Cormier R., Proactive Technology, US

Back in 1945, Everett Shuman promoted R-value as a standardized way to measure a material’s resistance to heat transfer. But R-values can only be achieved in laboratory conditions where there is no wind, no moisture [...]

Waste Heat Recovery Power Generation with WOWGen®

Romero M., WOW Energies, US

WOW Energy has developed two unique technologies: WOWGen® and WOWClean® as part of its commitment to meeting the world’s energy and environmental challenges WOWGen® is our patented process for generating power from waste heat sources. [...]