Cleantech and Renewables
Representative Client List
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun has a strong presence in the diverse fields that converge to form the growing industries of Cleantech and Renewables. We are immersed in the world of evolving technological solutions and challenges faced by entities committed to an ever "greener" stewardship of our environment. MGB provides and implements intellectual property strategies for securing, defending, enforcing and transferring these technologies.
Our professionals understand the hard science behind and have the technical skills and business acumen to work hand-in-hand with emerging Cleantech and Renewables companies and academia regarding their intellectual property. Our capabilities extend from “green” workbench to “green” manufacturing and marketplace, across the full technological range, including:
- Fuel cells to recycling processes
- Renewable energy to waste recovery systems
- “Green” chemicals to biomass processing
- Biofuel formulations to wind, tidal/wave, and nuclear energy
- Environmental remediation advances to ethanol-creating enzymes
- Geothermal devices to energy storage
- Solar panel displays to biogas systems
- Smart batteries to carbon reduction business methods
Representative Cleantech and Renewables intellectual property issues include:
- Biofuel/Biomass:
- pre-treatment processes
- biomass-to-liquid
- genetic engineering of enzymes and microbes
- fermentation and gasification processes
- biowaste and cellulose conversion to fuels
- biofuel blends from animal and plant wastes
- Fuel dispensing and containment monitoring systems
- Vehicle modifications for alternative fuels
- Cogeneration process enhancements, and energy efficiency systems
- Wastewater remediation systems, and processes for water desalination and ground water extraction
- Stripper well pumping technology for extending oil production
- Landfill leachate pumping systems
- Removal of pollutants in contaminated waste gases from industrial and landfill operations
- Phytoremediation technologies for removing environmental toxins, such as heavy metals
- Chemically altered bio-remediation materials
- Climate change abatement/storing carbon
- Conversion processes for discarded food and wastes into feedstock and industrial raw materials
- Environmental control/monitoring systems
- Bio-byproduct conversion technologies for plastics, specialty chemicals, solvents, textiles, food, animal feed, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical ingredients, oils and related consumer goods
- Agribusiness system enhancements
- Trash-to-energy process, environmentally friendly surface treatment processes, and biodegradable packaging license agreements
- “Green” trademarks registrations and marketing campaign assessments for such brands
- Litigation concerning Clean Air, Clean Water, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Acts
- Trade secret issues related to environmentally friendly detergent formulations
Our attorneys operate daily at the intersection between science, sustainability, and the protection of intellectual property. We represent industry leaders in Cleantech and Renewables, and academic research, non-profits, start-ups, emerging growth and development stage companies, and R&D joint ventures.
We share the growing concerns for our environment from the standpoint of climate change, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, energy independence, increasing worldwide energy demands, increasing eco-consciousness, environmentally friendly technologies, sustainability and social responsibility. Our breadth of educational backgrounds and our technical and legal experience in the relevant scientific disciplines enables our professionals to be valuable partners for Cleantech and Renewables-related patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, transactional matters and litigation.
Representative Client List
- Blackhawk Environmental Company
- Chemithon Corporation
- Colloid Environmental Technologies Company (CETCO)
- Dynamic Fuels, LLC
- GEI Development
- Iowa State University
- Liquid Solutions
- OpenCEL LLC
- Tuf-Tite, Inc.
- Tyson Foods, Inc.
