GreenShift, Google, Yum, Mattel, PepsiCo: Intellectual Property
(This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics.) May 11 (Bloomberg) -- GreenShift Corp., a New York-based company that developed and commercialized clean technologies, sued 15 ethanol producers for patent infringement.
The company’s GS CleanTech unit filed six separate patent- infringement suits May 3 in federal courts in Madison, Wisconsin; North Dakota; Chicago; Lafayette, Indiana; Minnesota and Iowa. The ethanol producers -- who make fuel from corn --are located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota.
All the suits allege infringement of GreenShift’s patent 7,601,858, which covers a method of recovering inedible corn oil from the byproducts of corn-derived ethanol production. The oil can then be used for biodiesel, according to the patent.
GreenShift sued a unit of GEA Group AG for patent infringement the same day that patent was issued in October.
On May 6 GreenShift filed a request with the U.S. Judicial Patent on Multidistrict Litigation to consolidate all the pending patent suits to one federal court.
GreenShift said it would rather not sue ethanol producers for patent infringement. “We would much rather focus on win-win solutions,” David Winsness, the company’s chief technology officer, said in a statement May 7.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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