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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 [...]

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 [...]

International Patent Protection: Important Considerations and Trends in the Nanotechnology Industry

Manning M., Maebius S.B., Foley & Lardner LLP, US

Many nanotechnology companies have limited intellectual property budgets in the short term, but the potential for global markets for their products and services in the long term. As a result, a coherent and targeted international [...]

Building an Effective Patent Portfolio

Itchkawitz B.S., KNOBBE, MARTENS, OLSON & BEAR LLP, US

Effective patent portfolios provide a competitive advantage to high-tech companies by (i) protecting the company’s core technologies or “crown jewels,” (ii) defining areas of exclusivity and barriers to entry to the marketplace by competitors, (iii) [...]

The Impact of Patent Reform on Nanotechnology: File Early and File Often

Featherstone D.J., Messinger M., Specht M.D., Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, US

2005 could have be remembered as the year with the most significant changes to United States patent law since the Patent Act of 1952. The proposals to update U.S. patent law would substantially change the [...]

PatGen DB – A Consolidated Genetic Patent Database Implementing Standard Data Mining Resources

Rouse R., PatentInformatics, US

This effort addresses the need to establish a comprehensive resource for searching genetic patent information. PatGen DB is a meta database containing data from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) [...]