The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) announced on December 15th that the deadline for filing petitions under the Green Technology Pilot Program, originally set to expire on December 31 of this year, is being extended through March 30, 2012 or until 3,500 applications have been accorded special status under the program, whichever occurs [...]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has announced that it is revising its Green Technology Pilot Program to allow more categories of technology to be eligible for expedited processing under the program. Eligibility for the pilot program, which was designed to promote the development of green technologies, had previously been limited to applications within a [...]
Green technology, and resulting I.P. protection of the new technology are going to be a hot growth area in the new economy.See http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/08/24/daily37.html for an example of the growth on this area, especially in the area of fuel cells.
