Allgreen y presentation is called “Global Green Patenting: Risks and Opportunities from the Fast Track to the Highway,” and will review the anti-patent policies proposed by the UN and developing countries in the recent international climate change treaty talks. Such policies seek to weaken or eliminate green patents due to a belief that patents act as a barrier to international transfer of clean technologiesMy talk will highlight significant instances of clean tech transfer that belie the notion that green patents are acting as such a barrier.
I will also provide an overview of some of the exciting opportunities in international green patenting such as the fast track programs offered by the United States, the UK, Korea, and others, which expedite processing and examination of clean tech patent applicationAside from academic symposia at law schools, the Green IP Congress is the first conference I know of in the U.S. that is focused entirely on green IP issues. It’s a two-day affair and includes presentations and panel discussions on green IP licensing models, international joint ventures using green IP, IP issues in smart grid, green IP litigation, and green branding and green marketingPhilip Totaro, who has written insightful pieces about wind patents in this space,
will speak on “Current and Future Trends in Wind Turbine TechnologOther featured presentations include John Lucas of DOE on government assistance for green technologies and Kathryn Atchison and Kathleen McCowin, of UCLA and Berkeley, respectively, on the role of the university in developing and commercializing green energy technologieRobert Bahr, the Acting Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, will deliver the keynote address.
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