Clean Tech Intellectual Property : Eco-Marks, Green Patents and Green Innovation

Clean Technology and Intellectual Property, by Eric L. Lane, is the first comprehensive review of intellectual property and clean technology. It analyzes the interplay of such technologies and the various IP regimes, using trends, statistics, legal developments and case studies to demonstrate how IP law is influencing the growth of clean technology and how the business model is shaping IP practice. Special focus is given to patent litigation, patent prosecution and issues of trademark prosecution and branding, which are the three most important clean-technology areas currently implicating IP law.

Eric L. Lane is Special Counsel at Luce Forward in San Diego, where he is in the Intellectual Property practice group and is a founding member of the firm's Climate Change & Sustainable Technology practice. Mr. Lane is an IP generalist with broad-based experience in all areas of intellectual property law. His practice includes patent prosecution and counselling, trademark prosecution and counselling, copyright prosecution and counselling, IP litigation, IP due diligence and IP licensing. His patent work involves complex technologies such as medical devices, chemical arts, and clean technology, including LED systems, carbon capture and sequestration methods, energy efficiency technology and energy storage systems. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Mr. Lane is the founder and author of Green Patent Blog - www.greenpatentblog.com (http://www.greenpatentblog.com/) - a web site dedicated to discussion and analysis of intellectual property issues in clean technology and renewable energy. In addition to extensive publication on clean tech IP issues, he has published articles on a wide range of legal subjects in such publications as the John Marshall Law School Review of Intellectual Property Law, the New York Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Mealey's (Lexis-Nexis) Litigation Report on Intellectual Property, IPLaw360, New Matter (the Official Publication of the IP Law Section of the State Bar of California), and the San Diego Daily Transcript.