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A patent term is generally limited to twenty-years from its filing date. Since the battery industry is more than twenty-years mature, certain seminal battery patents covering active materials, electrolytes, and separators are going offline. Does that mean anyone can practice what these patents claim? Or have the patent owners found ways to evergreen and extend their effective patent terms? This webinar will discuss freedom-to-operate in view of expired patents and the second-generation patents that followed.
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• Seminal battery patents that were filed more than twenty-years ago are going offline
• Does that mean you can infringe those patents with impunity?
• It depends on whether the patent owners have found means to extend their patent monopoly
• How can one evergreen a battery patent portfolio and what does that mean for competitors that want to practice expired patents?
Presenter
Todd Ostomel – Partner at Squire Patton Boggs
Todd focuses on patent prosecution and portfolio management, patent opinions, due diligence, utility and design patent applications, and trade secret counseling. Todd has extensive experience preparing and prosecuting US and international patent applications for energy storage devices, rechargeable battery materials, small and large molecules, ceramics, polymorphs, biofuels, diagnostics, chemical processes, cryptocurrency, LEDs, photovoltaics, and machine learning technology. Todd also has extensive experience with trade secret enforcement.
His clients appreciate his ability to understand the technical details of their inventions as well as the legal issues relevant to their business goals.
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