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Non-Practicing Entities (patent trolls) target oil and gas companies

  • King & Spalding LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

As the number of patent infringement lawsuits brought by Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) has increased, oil and gas companies have increasingly become

Patents on treatment of hydraulic fracturing water

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2012

We continue to monitor patent literature for water and liquid treatment technologies related to hydraulic fracturing

Recent US patents granting for treatment of hydraulic fracturing waters

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 7 2012

We continue to monitor patent literature for water and liquid treatment technologies related to hydraulic fracturing

Recent clean-energy patents

  • King & Spalding LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 4 2012

Link to a Clean Energy Patent Growth Index report on numbers and types of recent clean-tech patents, and companies leading in patent filings

Hydraulic fracturing patent literature on the rise (with nanotech contributions)!

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 7 2012

Patent filings which refer to hydraulic fracturing are on the rise

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Patent trends (or lack thereof) in green energy technology

  • Andrews Kurth LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 10 2012

There is probably no dispute that patents relating to “green energy technology” have been increasing given the amount of resources that governments, universities, and private investors have poured into the sector

The rise of nanotechnology in the energy sector

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2012

President Obama’s 2011 Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future presented a goal of deriving at least 80 percent of our electricity from clean energy sources by 2035

New U.S. patent filings publish on treatment of hydraulic fracturing water, a growth industry

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 26 2012

In 2012, at least five patent applications have published related to treatment of hydraulic fracturing water including waste water

The extent of patent coverage in offshore waters: a comparison

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • April 5 2012

Patents are often said to be defined by their claims and, as such, are analogous in the parlance of real property to the “metes and bounds” of a deed to real property