Last day of voting for the "50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy"

Balloting open until 5pm EST to registered subscribers.

Today is the final day of voting for the "50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy".

Click HERE to cast your vote.

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Last chance to vote for your favorite High Tech Corn Oil Extraction Company!
SkunK

December?

"The only conditions under which the Company would be required to redeem its convertible preferred stock for cash would be in the event of a liquidation of the Company or in the event of a cash-out merger of the Company." p.13 3Q
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I just googled:
"liquidation of the Company or in the event of a cash-out merger of the Company" I got three hits, all the amended 1Q released about 13 October. So this is not new language to this 3Q, but it is new language since mid October. The new 3Q wording must have not hit - since the google bots haven't found it yet.

What does the new wording mean and why was it included? How one answers that question could be important. I was wrong about lots of info coming out last week. I do not expect lots of news this week since we have a Holiday. Last year we got a "December Surprise" out of the blue when the GE deal was announced 16 December:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1269127/000126912708000180/gers8k121608.txt

Even though GERS had been working on the GE deal for 9 months? We had no warning the month before in the 3Q. The GE deal came but regretfully did not finalize. Wonder what December has in store this time around?

SkunK

GERS 3Q

OS

The SkunK supremely over estimated the OS. He predicted 5.915B shares OS. "The number of outstanding shares of common stock as of November 20, 2009 was 3,116,171,820." That makes me off by like over 52%? WOW! Thats a (not so good) record! Well, I certainly did not under-estimate dilution here.

Lakota

We have also recently entered into an agreement to finance, build and commission two additional corn oil extraction facilities at a licensee ethanol plant in Lakota, Iowa. We have the long-term right (10 years or more) to buy the oil extracted from each facility in return for the use by each licensee of our patented and patent-pending corn oil extraction technologies.

This is the Global Ethanol Plant. It is a huge 100mmgy unit and that is why it requires two COES units. We already have on at their other facility at Riga MI.
http://www.globalethanolservices.com/Lakota.html

Here are some pictures of RIGA - one is the picture shown on this blog - go to bottom of this link:

http://www.globalethanolservices.com/Current_Projects.html

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"The only conditions under which the Company would be required to redeem its convertible preferred stock for cash would be in the event of a liquidation of the Company or in the event of a cash-out merger of the Company." p.13
Interesting wording. . . .
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more to come,


SkunK

Patent Litigation Continues

You can go to pacer, and with a credit card establish an account. Under the civil section, run a search with Greenshift as the only limiting factor. From there you can follow the filings in three separate suits.

As you can see the filings have continued non-stop. At eight cents a page you can spend your milk money before you know it. Some of it is interesting and some is legal jumbo mumbo. I would be interested in an experienced patent lawers opinion on all these filings.

SkunK

Guess Update on the OS

From the Blog below ". . . we get an approximate SkunK guesstimate of 4.273B shares OS as of cob 29 Oct."

http://greenshift-gers.blogspot.com/2009/10/dilution-and-os-skunk-guesstimate.html

The SkunK said he would try to update that number before the 3Q came out. Here it is:

We had about 2.44B traded since my last estimate. Subtracting out the base of 6.3M over the 15 trading days we get some 94.5M shares. We now take 70% of the resulting sum or 2.3455B x .7 = 1.642B additional dilution.

Add the 1.642 to the previous 4.273 and we get about 5.915B shares OS.

Just a guess,

SkunK

RED TRAIL ENERGY, LLC

Red Trail Energy is a coal fired Ethanol Plant in North Dakota. A year ago they were scheduled to be the 8th COES in the GERS stable. Since then, I believe all Greenshift COES construction was suspended during the credit crunch. It appears Red Trail is again looking seriously at getting a COES system. Will it be with Greenshift? I believe Letters of Intent were signed to include them in previous backlogs.

If it is, then it seems construction may soon restart - ". . . system implemented during the second quarter. . ."

We will monitor the news to find out. In the meantime here is an excerpt from the Red Trail Energy Q recently released:

"We continue to evaluate various corn oil extraction systems in an effort to add another revenue stream to our operation but have not yet signed a definitive agreement for the installation of the equipment or sale of product. If we continue to pursue this option, we believe it may be possible to have a system implemented during the second quarter of 2010." (3Q p. 19 )

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359687/000114420409059646/v166370_10q.htm

SkunK

GSEN 3Q (not GERS 3Q)

It is a minor sub-note to GERS world:
GSEN 3Q out
Our development activities and operations during the quarter ended September 30,2009 primarily involved evaluation of a number of different technologies designed to facilitate the production of renewable energy. The Company's plan for the balance of 2009 is to acquire additional senior management, to complete at least one strategic acquisition, and to obtain equity financing sufficient to capitalize these efforts.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163966/000126912709000140/gsenq309.txt

That locks me in for at LEAST 2/5 - on my 5 predictions for the week.
SkunK

Short Q&A with Mr. Kreisler

In the Biofuels Digest GERS' Profile the SkunK noted a list of three milestones covering a period that ends the end of next month. .
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3 Top Milestones for 2008‐09
A. Complete financing for construction of new facilities based on patented and patent‐pending corn oil extraction technologies.
B. Form strategic partnerships to accelerate and amplify execution of go‐to‐market strategy for corn oil extraction technologies, and to enhance the development of pilot and bench stage technologies.
C. Restructure $40 million in historical debt raised during 2004‐2007 to develop and commercialize extraction and refining technologies.
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I asked for clarification and received the following response from Mr. Kreisler:

"We intend to achieve each goal."

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The SkunK believes that if we can achieve these three things - especially "c" - the restructure of the debt by the end of 2009, (That's only 44 days) we will be sitting a lot closer to where we hope to end up.

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I do not see a shareholder letter yet today so the SkunK drops to 500.

SkunK

GreenShift Corporation (WHAT IS THIS? Photonic Fuels™)

This is New Info from the 50 hottest Competition!! You get Free download as Biofuels Digest Subscriber:

GreenShift develops and commercializes clean technologies designed to integrate into and leverage established production infrastructure and distribution channels to address the financial and environmental needs of its clients by decreasing raw material needs, facilitating co‐product reuse, and reducing the generation of wastes and emissions.

GreenShift’s founding mission is to build value by using its technologies to catalyze disruptive environmental gain. GreenShift believes that the first, best and most cost‐effective way to achieve this is to develop technology‐driven economic incentives that motivate large groups of people and companies to make incremental environmental contributions that are collectively very significant. GreenShift’s plan to achieve this goal is based on the extraction, beneficiation and refining of biomass‐derived co‐products that create value‐added renewable energy production opportunities capable of shaving meaningful amounts of carbon and cost off of existing liquid fuel supply chains. Since 2004, GreenShift has invented, developed and commercialized potent new cleantech that enables GreenShift and its clients to “drill” into the back‐end of first generation corn ethanol plants to tap into a new reserve of inedible crude corn oil with an estimated industry‐wide output of about 20 million barrels per year. This corn oil is a valuable second generation feedstock for use in the production of biodiesel and renewable diesel – advanced carbon‐neutral liquid fuels, thereby enhancing total fuel production from corn and increasing ethanol plant profits.

GreenShift’s patented and patent‐pending Corn Oil Extraction Technologies are widely considered to be the quickest and best path for margin improvement for first generation corn ethanol producers today. GreenShift’s extraction technologies increase biofuel yields per bushel of corn by 7% while reducing the energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of corn ethanol production by more than 21% and 29%, respectively.

These benefits correspond to increased ethanol producer income of about $0.12 per gallon of ethanol produced at current market prices, and can be realized for less than 10% of the capital cost of the host ethanol plant. No technologies have been developed for corn ethanol producers that begin to approach even a fraction of these results in the history of the ethanol industry.

Over 20% of the U.S. ethanol industry is using GreenShift’s patented and patent‐pending extraction technologies today. At full participation by the ethanol industry, GreenShift’s commercially‐available technologies can give way to the disruptive gains that GreenShift was founded to achieve by sustainably producing globally‐meaningful quantities of new carbon‐neutral liquid fuels for distribution through existing supply chains and combustion in our nation's boilers, generators and engines;
• displacing more than 20 million barrels per year of crude oil;
• saving up to 10 trillion cubic feet per year of natural gas;
• eliminating tens of millions of metric tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions; and
• infusing up to a billion dollars per year of cash flow into the corn ethanol industry ‐ the foundation of North America’s renewable fuel production capability.

GreenShift is focused today on supporting integration of its patented and patent‐pending corn oil extraction technologies into as much of the ethanol fleet as possible. GreenShift also maintains its strong commitment to continued innovation and has many additional patents pending for its “Backend Fractionation” portfolio of strategically‐compatible cleantech designed to continue pressing the corn ethanol industry into increased sustainability and global competitiveness.

Address: New York Year Founded :
2004 Annual Revenues:
2009 – about $5,000,000 (projected);
2008 – $23,600,000; and,
2007 – $14,700,000

Type of Technology(ies)

BACKEND FRACTIONATION TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO

Technology Function Status - Corn Oil Extraction Extraction of corn oil from ethanol co‐product — Commercially Available

Transesterification- Integrated refining upgrade for corn oil extraction facilities —Commercially Available

Cellulosic Oil™
Oleaginous microbes convert biomass into oil and protein —Pilot Stage

Desiccation/Cavitation Conditions corn and qualified biomass for increased yields —Pilot Stage

Biopolymer Extraction
Extract and convert byproducts into bioplastics — Pilot Stage

Photonic Fuels™
Reform exhaust carbon dioxide into natural gas and liquid fuels — Bench Stage

Fuel Type:

Corn Oil Extraction Produces inedible corn oil feedstock for conversion into biodiesel or renewable diesel

Transesterification Biodiesel Cellulosic Oil™ Produces lipids for conversion into biodiesel or renewable diesel

Desiccation/Cavitation Enhances Corn Oil Extraction and Cellulosic Oil™ yields for biodiesel or renewable diesel

Photonic Fuels™ Methane (for use on‐site in lieu of fossil fuels) and liquid fuels (for sale off‐site)

Major Investors YA Global Investments, L.P.

3 Top Milestones for 2008‐09

A. Complete financing for construction of new facilities based on patented and patent‐pending corn oil extraction technologies.
B. Form strategic partnerships to accelerate and amplify execution of go‐to‐market strategy for corn oil extraction technologies, and to enhance the development of pilot and bench stage technologies.
C. Restructure $40 million in historical debt raised during 2004‐2007 to develop and commercialize extraction and refining technologies.

3 Major Milestone Goals for 2010‐11
A. Build value for GreenShift’s clients and shareholders by building as many corn oil extraction facilities as possible, as quickly as possible, with a view towards achieving 100 million gallons per year of installed corn oil extraction capability within 5 years.
B. Continue to improve upon patented and patent‐pending corn oil extraction and related technologies (i) to maximize yield, (ii) to decrease cost, energy and carbon, and (iii) to enhance the value proposition to GreenShift’s clients and shareholders.
C. Make a meaningful contribution to shifting the corn ethanol industry into increased economic and environmental sustainability by demonstrating the commercial viability of GreenShift’s full Backend Fractionation technology portfolio in collaboration with strategic partners.

Business Model:
GreenShift’s business model is based on Feedstock Ownership and Margin Protection. A sustainable mining business requires a cost‐effective and reliable source of ore; a sustainable petrochemical refinery requires a cost‐effective and reliable source of petroleum; and a sustainable biofuels business requires a cost‐effective and reliable source of feedstock. GreenShift uses its technologies to sustainably produce biomass‐derived products by targeting, extracting, acquiring and refining cost‐effective and reliable raw materials. GreenShift does not generally sell equipment based on its technologies, nor does it provide services based on its technologies, nor does it license its technologies in any conventional way. Instead, GreenShift licenses its patented and patent‐pending corn oil extraction technologies to corn ethanol producers in return for the right to purchase the extracted oil for the life of the use of the technology. GreenShift earns money by buying and selling or refining the extracted oil. The price paid for the oil corresponds to a substantial premium to the value of the oil to participating ethanol producers prior to extraction. At this rate, GreenShift retains about 20% of the value of the extracted oil.

Fuel Cost (per gallon)
The capital cost of corn oil extraction can range from $1.50 to as high as $3.00 per gallon of installed capacity, depending on the specific operating conditions of each host ethanol plant, and the desired oil yield and energy savings. Competitive Edge(s): GreenShift’s primary competitive advantage is its use of its technology positioning to deliver powerful competitive advantages to the renewable fuels industry – increased sustainability, reduced cost, reduced energy, and reduced carbon, all through the industry’s existing production assets.

A. For GreenShift’s Ethanol Clients – increased revenue and earnings; decreased commodity and financial risk; increased nutritional content of DDGS; enhanced energy balance with less carbon emissions; safe harbor from tight margin environments; strong cost advantage; and, increased sustainability and competitiveness.

B. For GreenShift’s Partner Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel Producers – reliable large volume supply of previously unrecovered feedstock (versus no available feedstock); sustainable feedstock available at rates indexed to diesel fuel prices; safe harbor from tight margin environments; strong cost advantage; and, increased sustainability and competitiveness. For context, with a majority of plants adopting GreenShift’s patented and patent‐pending corn oil extraction technologies, and with an estimated 11.5 billion gallons of ethanol produced, the ethanol industry could be saving about 100 million MMBtu per year while producing more than 2.8 million tons of inedible corn oil per year (over 736 million gallons). The result at current market prices is staggering: the ethanol industry could be producing an additional $0.12 per gallon of ethanol produced, or over $1.1 billion, in additional profit today by using GreenShift’s patented and patent‐pending corn oil extraction technologies. Moreover, at 736 million gallons of extracted corn oil potential, backend corn oil could increase the output of the entire existing domestic production of biodiesel several‐fold.

Distribution, Research, Marketing or Production Partnerships or Alliances.
GreenShift’s partnerships include relationships with ethanol, biodiesel and renewable diesel producers. GreenShift is collaborating with corporate partners relative to its efforts to improve on the value proposition of its corn oil extraction and Backend Fractionation technology portfolio. In addition, GreenShift has developed partnerships with a number of academic institutions relative to its ongoing technology development and commercialization efforts.

Stage
Corn Oil Extraction Technologies –

Commercial Website URL www.greenshift.com

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SkunK

GERS-LAND Vote Early!

If you want to get a Positive word out about this company; if you think this company has something to offer investors and the American Economy; then you need to put your vote in.

How to do it? SkunK makes it EASY as one, two.

1. Register for the Newletter if you have not already. Biofuels Digest is a good newsletter and all you have to do is give them an email to send the newsletter to.
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2. They send you the email for free, then you just click on "Click here to cast your vote" and make your selection(s). .

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50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: first ballots received; subscriber voting to begin November 16

http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2009/11/03/50-hottest-companies-in-bioenergy-first-ballots-received-subscriber-voting-to-begin-november-16/

SELECTOR PANEL VOTING Selector voting will close on November 23, 2009.
SUBSCRIBER VOTING Subscriber voting will commence on November 16, 2009, and continue through November 25th.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS The rankings will be officially announced on December 1, 2009 at 9am EST
ELIGIBLE SELECTORS: Only the invited selectors and the 12,800+ subscribers of the Digest e-newsletters are eligible to vote in this year’s rankings. Digest readers who are not e-newsletter subscribers (i.e. the 30,000 monthly website visitors and 2,000+ RSS readers) will need to register for the newsletter in order to vote.

(You just need to give them one of your email addresses to vote)

(If you need help on how to vote - Here is the SkunK's idea of a good vote! lol)

SkunK

The SkunK Predicted:

1. Monday will at least one 3Q extension request.

Well we saw GERS take an extension so the SkunK starts the week batting 1000! One for one on a Monday! I will take it! Here is the regular GERS 3Q extension:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1269127/000126912709000138/gers12b25q309.txt

ESYM, CICS and GSEN also each filed an extension today. These are all independent companies, but related with Mr. Kreisler as the Chairman of the Board of each - and each of the others have various licensing agreements with GERS.

Now we will see if we get some news on Tuesday as I predicted:

"Monday -Tuesday we will see something along the lines of a "Letter to Greenshift Investors" The Patents potential will be explored and explained."

Good Luck,
SkunK

Penny Warriors Wonder What's UP??

Rumors abound on the Internet. The SkunK is bombarded by emails wondering what is going on. How much is Hype and how much can be Justified? Well the SkunK certainly doesn't know the future, however lets explore what we do know.

1. Greenshift has been excellent at keeping news under wraps until proper disclosure. Look at the history. The original GE deal was kept under wraps and came out of the blue. Was the recent GERS mini-spike a result of news getting out by another group? If it was leaked does it indicate a second or third party? If so, does that indicate at least a partial resolution of Patent Litigation? This would involve clerks, courts, lawyers, and many employees world wide.

2. ESYM lands another $13M financing. Why $13M? Well, minus the fees it is close to what GERS owes on the COES Line of Credit. More likely? It may be what is needed to add to the $76M to land the deal on a distressed Corn Ethanol plant(s).

3. The ESYM deal was released on a Friday. Singular good news is traditionally released on a Tuesday. Monday is hectic. People take long weekends. Tueday is the first day of the week people have time to pay attention. Friday people are leaving early and by Monday it is old news. . . . Unless. . . . there is more news to come. . .

4. The 3Q. News WILL be released next week. At a minimum the 3Q extension will be released. Likely the 3Q as well. ESYM PR? GERS PR and or Letter to Investors?

SkunK Predictions.

The SkunK has a varied record on predictions. Nobody would expect me to get the NFL line 100%. Some of the Pros drop below 50%. Use these predictions the same way - for entertainment purposes only!!! Read my Disclaimers below if you got a question! Well here we go:

1. Monday will at least one 3Q extension request.

2. Monday -Tuesday we will see something along the lines of a "Letter to Greenshift Investors" The Patents potential will be explored and explained.

3. Monday - Wednesday We find out how ESYM Capital will be spent.

4. Monday - Thursday We will get some some word on GERS Financing.

5. Monday-Friday We will see at least one 3Q come out before the 23 Nov ext deadline.

NO FENCE SITTING!!!

The SkunK purposely made an odd number of predictions so that in a week he can either be above or below 50%. I will either be right or wrong.

Hold your arrows till the results are in!

SkunK

Top OTC Stocks Movers - FMNJ, HTDS, GERS

Transworldnews
Top OTC StocksDallas, TX 11/12/2009 07:57 PM GMT

GreenShift Corporation (OTC: GERS) gains 33.33% to $0.0012 on over 333.57 million shares. The stock went down over 82% in last six months. The company has a market capitalization of 600K. GreenShift Corporation develops and commercializes clean technologies that facilitate the use of natural resources. GreenShift does this by developing and integrating technologies to produce biofuel and other biomass-derived products. As of December 31, 2008, it owns four corn oil extraction facilities that are located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Medina, New York, Marion, Indiana and Riga, Michigan.

Rest of Article Here:

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=139127&cat=1

SkunK

GreenShift: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Looks Like GreenSHIFT is in the running to be one of the 50 hottest Companies in Bioenergy - as reported in Biofuels Digest.

GreenShift

Based in: New York 2008-09 rank: Unranked

Business:
Extraction of corn oil from ethanol coproduct. Transesterification — integrated refining upgrade for corn oil extraction facilities

GreenShift develops and commercializes clean technologies designed to integrate into and leverage established production infrastructure and distribution channels to address the financial and environmental needs of its clients by decreasing raw material needs, facilitating coproduct reuse, and reducing the generation of wastes and emissions. Over 20% of the U.S. ethanol industry is using GreenShift’s patented and patent pending extraction technologies today.

See rest of Article here:
http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2009/11/10/greenshift-50-hottest-companies-in-bioenergy-candidate-profile/

Here are some details of the contest:
"The Hot 50 for 2009-10 will be released Tuesday, 12/1. Between now and then, you’ll see profiles of potential candidates in the Digest, and you’ll have a chance to vote for your favorites. Reader response will count for 50 percent of a company’s overall score in the preparation of the rankings. The remaining 50 percent is voted by a panel of experts."

When the SkunK figures out how to vote he will pass on the information here. I would think any investor here would like to see this company highlighted.

SkunK

Project 2.0 ????

The SkunK has limited and dated web site construction skills. However, he was able to discover this (as of yet), unlinked site being worked on the GERS site. I included the text found in the additional links just in case it gets taken down. What I found most interesting was the reference to "Project 2.0".

Our Partners
Project 2.0 ::
EcoSystem Corporation ::
Carbonics Capital Corporation

EcoSystem is GreenShift’s Early Adopter Licensee for GreenShift’s Cellulosic Corn™ portfolio of technologies designed to increase the yield and reduce the energy and carbon intensity of traditional corn ethanol facilities. While GreenShift has no intention of committing focus or capital to anything but the commercialization requirements of its patent-pending corn oil extraction technologies, GreenShift’s other technologies have the potential to deliver value to the corn ethanol industry for the mutual benefit of GreenShift’s ethanol clients and shareholders. The license with EcoSystem is intended to facilitate this. EcoSystem intends to acquire and upgrade existing ethanol plants with its technologies, with a goal of becoming a leading low cost and low carbon producer of renewable fuels. Additional information on EcoSystem is available online at http://www.eco-system.com/.

Carbonics was founded to facilitate decarbonization in ways that cost-effectively capitalize on the evolving carbon markets. GreenShift has granted Carbonics a license to GreenShift’s carbon mitigation technologies for targeted municipal and industrial processes (not including ethanol). Additional information on Carbonics is available online at http://www.carbonicscapital.com/.

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SkunK

There is such a thing as "Project Management 2.0" (social project management) is the natural evolution of project management practices brought by Web 2.0 technologies. Do not know if "Project 2.0" is related.

Fergus Falls Plant files Chapter 11

In the last published schedule for COES construction (DEC 2008), before construction was halted, the Fergus Falls, Mn plant had a planned 30 November 2009 COES Commissioning date. It was to be the 13th COES. They filed for bankruptcy on November 2nd.

Filing Here:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1425319/000114420409055789/v164400_8k.htm

Although the Ethanol Industry is on the rebound, some individual plants are still struggling - I suspect directly related to the structure of their debt load.

SkunK

Update on web site!!!

New outreach to potential COES customers @ Ethanol Plants!
http://www.greenshift.com/pdf/greenshift_backend_fractionation.pdf

SkunK

Monthy Volume

Looking at the numbers we can see we have had huge volume increases over the last 4 months. October is almost 100 times the July volume. What this means is for you to decide.

Jul 57,152,641
Aug 98,480,979 Increase +72.3%
Sep 270,408,251 Increase +174.6%
Oct 5,574,798,440 Increase +1961.6%

http://www.otcbb.com/asp/tradeact_mv.asp?SearchBy=issue&Issue=GERS&SortBy=volume&Month=10-1-2009&IMAGE1.x=28&IMAGE1.y=8

I think I got the percentages right, but in any case the increase in volume is obvious.

Good Luck to Investors,

SkunK

GreenShift-ing Focus to Pre-Grant Damages in Ethanol Processing Patent Suit

This from a Green Patent Blog:

The ‘858 Patent issued on October 13, 2009. The same day, GS filed suit in federal court in Manhattan accusing New Jersey-based separator and decanter maker GEA Westfalia Separator, Inc. (Westfalia) and multiple as yet unnamed defendants of contributory infringement and inducing infringement of the ‘858 Patent.

According to the complaint (greenshift-complaint.pdf), Westfalia sells centrifuges for corn oil extraction and directs its customers to use the methods taught in the ‘858 Patent.
Because the suit was filed upon patent issuance, GS’s recoverable damages are quite limited. So GS is claiming provisional patent rights under Section 154(d) of the patent statute, which allows recovery of a reasonable royalty if the infringer had actual notice of the published patent application and the claims of the issued patent are substantially identical to the originally published claims.

This strategy demonstrates the importance of promptly notifying any potential infringers as soon as your patent application publishes, which is 18 months after filing in the U.S.

Rest of Article here:
http://greenpatentblog.com/2009/11/05/greenshift-ing-focus-to-pre-grant-damages-in-ethanol-processing-patent-suit/

Here is an article credited:
http://cleantechlitigation.wordpress.com/category/biofuel/

SkunK

Mandate Adjustment?

This Article has two points that might be positive:
1. More and more pressure is being created to develop cellulosic ethanol. This is the kind of ethanol being tested at Global Ethanol by ESYM, under GERS license..

". . the EPA was considering whether a renewable fuel standard for cellulosic ethanol of something less than 100 million gallons/year might be the most viable option for next year due to the possibility that 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol might not be available in 2010"

2. If the cellulosic mandate for 2010 is reduced, then that gallonage may move to more traditional sources, possibly making corn oil more important as a feedstock for biodiesel.

"Mr Mauser said by adding these waived gallons to the required gallonage for undifferentiated advanced biofuels, EPA would be allowing this amount to be met by other advanced biofuels, such as biomass-based diesel replacements, or even unforeseen volumes of cellulosic biofuel. "

Rest of Article here:

http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/us-may-reduce-cellulosic-mandate-for-2010/1658809.aspx

Thanks to a reader for the tip on this link!

SkunK

Hot Stock Alerts

OTC Pink Sheets Stocks to Watch - 11/4/09
Note the last stock entry:
http://daytradingstockblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/stocks-to-buy-11409-november-4-2009.html

Here is another high volume mention:
http://www.crwenews.com/?p=25544

SkunK

Most Active OTC BB Stocks

High volume put Greenshift on the high volume list again. Note Greenshift listed second in the OTC list.

http://pennyomega.com/?p=1295

SkunK

7,608,729

It was announced that the second patent was going to be approved on 27 October 2009. Some have wondered if it was approved on schedule. Well, according to the records of the US Patent Office it was.


United States Patent
7,608,729
Winsness , et al.
October 27, 2009

It is right here:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,608,729.PN.&OS=PN/7,608,729&RS=PN/7,608,729

What caught the SkunK's eye was we have temps above 212. That means specific presures and temperatures are needed besides just spinning the stuff really fast to get the oil out.

SkunK