Almost everything we do depends on fuel or power, but the economic and environmental costs of traditional energy are compelling us to develop renewable energy sources and technologies. Solar, wind, water, and geothermal power will all play growing roles in our electric infrastructure, just as hydrogen, hybrid, and biofuel technologies will continue to increase the efficiency of our transportation systems. And naturally innovations in energy conservation will play a growing role in all contexts that consume power.
Kolisch Hartwell has 50 years of experience providing the full range of intellectual property legal services to inventors, investors, technologists, and businesses. Our clients who are actively developing practical solutions for sustainable energy rely on our IP acumen to get them the patent and trademark protection they need to benefit from their ideas and build their businesses. Technologies developed by our clients have included:
- Conservation and recycling: Generators using municipal waste fuels; co-generation facilities such as waste-heat and solar combinations
- Hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen generation systems
- Solar Energy: Photovoltaic (PV) cells, modules, and fabrication methods; techniques to improve efficiency for solar arrays
- Wave/tidal: water turbine designs for wave-based generators
- Wind Power: vertical-axis and horizontal-axis wind turbines.
Our team includes patent attorneys and agents who have significant real-world experience in electrical, electronic, chemical, and mechanical engineering, in applied physics, and in related sciences. We’re well prepared to help clients protect “green” inventions that span multiple technologies. We can draft and prosecute patent and trademark applications that seek to gain the fundamental IP rights important to the enterprises investing in reviewable energy. We can provide full-spectrum IP legal advice—such as patent and trademark searches, freedom-to-operate opinions, and infringement, validity, and portfolio analyses—for individual inventors, startup businesses, and established enterprises. And we can, when necessary, defend IP rights through a range of strategies including negotiation, arbitration, and litigation.
Our portfolio shows some representative renewable energy patents that we have prosecuted.