Clean Energy’s Growth Boom is Creating New IP Risks

Clean energy’s rapid growth is creating new opportunities for innovation, investment, and consolidation, but it is also raising the stakes for companies that fail to protect their intellectual property early. In an article for Renewable Energy World, Marshall Gerstein attorneys Ryan Schermerhorn and Topher Zahn explain how renewable energy companies can build patent portfolios that support their long-term competitive, financing, and transactional goals.

“For technology-focused companies, selecting and implementing the appropriate IP strategy requires attention well before an acquisition,” they write. Ryan and Topher outline practical steps companies can take throughout product development, including tying invention reviews to operational milestones, documenting inventor contributions before personnel depart, protecting valuable trade secrets, preparing for future product iterations and competitor design-arounds, and controlling the use of confidential information in external AI tools.

Read their complete article in Renewable Energy World.