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On Tuesday June 28, 2011, 8:00 am

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GreenShift Corporation (OTCQB: GERS) today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has issued a notice of allowance for patent application number 12/559,136, titled “Method of Recovering Oil From Thin Stillage” (the “’136 Patent Application”).

Increased Strength

The new notice of allowance is the second allowance issued by the USPTO on this particular application. To further strengthen its legal position, GreenShift previously requested the USPTO to withdraw the earlier allowance and review all of the materials submitted by all of the defendants in GreenShift’s current patent infringement litigation, including ICM, Flottwegg, and Westfalia in support of their invalidity arguments. The USPTO issued the new notice of allowance for the ‘136 Patent Application in spite of everything raised by each and every defendant, including ICM.

GreenShift believes that the allowance of the new patent by the USPTO is further substantial confirmation of the validity of GreenShift’s patents, and significantly increases the strength of GreenShift’s legal position in asserting its claims of infringement of its corn oil extraction patents.

GreenShift will continue to protect the competitive advantage of its licensees. David Winsness, GreenShift’s Chief Technology Officer, said that “We are aware of no practical method to recover corn oil from stillage that is not covered by our patents, including processes involving ‘staged’ recovery of oil from emulsion layers [ICM], recovery of oil following cold fermentation [Poet], and use of chemical additives [Ashland]/[U.S. Water Services]. We welcome and expect innovation, however, we also expect any and all use of our technologies to be lawful.”

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Some will notice that this mirrors this press release in APRIL 2011.  You will notice it is a different patent - however GreenShift is using the same tactic - strengthening their legal position by having the patent office review the 'evidence" being brought up in the litigation case by the defendants.