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Energy and green technologies
The green energy and renewables industry is of huge significance to wider society, and represents a rapidly evolving market, with technical advancement at its core. It is a highly active and competitive IP environment. Alongside large, existing patent portfolios from established, multinational players, there is continued innovation from smaller start-ups, bringing their own revolutionary ideas and concepts to the market.
Regulation is fast-moving in the energy sector as a whole, and with each iteration of renewables and sustainability policy comes new requirements for IP. Moving swiftly to secure patents for new innovations to meet evolving standards is paramount for large-scale clients, and a source of opportunity for smaller firms and inventors.
Carbon footprint is central to everything in the industry. Green solutions stretch far beyond simply producing renewable energy, with all facets of major sectors such as industrial, chemical and construction needing to reduce their carbon output, for example through carbon-capture or employing products and processes to put the emissions to use. Our work in the sector encompasses the breadth of this field of invention.
The green energy and renewables team
Our team at Boult is well-known and respected within the green energy and renewables space. We combine the technical expertise to draft efficiently and effectively on the most complex of energy products, with the commercial acumen to understand our clients’ and the regulators’ needs. Our team’s experience is broad, covering emissions reduction/control products, battery storage for renewables, photovoltaics and beyond.
Owing to the rapidly evolving nature of the industry, oppositions can be common. We not only represent clients in opposition hearings – with a strong track record before the European Patent Office – but also take a proactive stance during the patent drafting stage to mitigate any potential claims before they can occur. This is critical both in maintaining a robust portfolio, and giving an inventor’s novel invention the best possible legal head start.
“The growth in green energy and renewables is, of course, of massive importance to us all. Working alongside clients in this space is hugely exciting and immensely rewarding.”
The green energy and renewables industry is of huge significance to wider society, and represents a rapidly evolving market, with technical advancement at its core. It is a highly active and competitive IP environment. Alongside large, existing patent portfolios from established, multinational players, there is continued innovation from smaller start-ups, bringing their own revolutionary ideas and concepts to the market.
Regulation is fast-moving in the energy sector as a whole, and with each iteration of renewables and sustainability policy comes new requirements for IP. Moving swiftly to secure patents for new innovations to meet evolving standards is paramount for large-scale clients, and a source of opportunity for smaller firms and inventors.
Carbon footprint is central to everything in the industry. Green solutions stretch far beyond simply producing renewable energy, with all facets of major sectors such as industrial, chemical and construction needing to reduce their carbon output, for example through carbon-capture or employing products and processes to put the emissions to use. Our work in the sector encompasses the breadth of this field of invention.
The green energy and renewables team
Our team at Boult is well-known and respected within the green energy and renewables space. We combine the technical expertise to draft efficiently and effectively on the most complex of energy products, with the commercial acumen to understand our clients’ and the regulators’ needs. Our team’s experience is broad, covering emissions reduction/control products, battery storage for renewables, photovoltaics and beyond.
Owing to the rapidly evolving nature of the industry, oppositions can be common. We not only represent clients in opposition hearings – with a strong track record before the European Patent Office – but also take a proactive stance during the patent drafting stage to mitigate any potential claims before they can occur. This is critical both in maintaining a robust portfolio, and giving an inventor’s novel invention the best possible legal head start.
What sets us apart
We pride ourselves on really understanding the technology behind our clients’ inventions. Our team have taken time to complete several secondments directly with clients, which provides hands-on experience beyond pure IP acumen. Our green energy team also includes a former founding member of a university spin-out company that worked on high efficiency concentrated photovoltaic cells (CPV).
Uncommonly among IP firms, our size and collegiate approach means we are equipped to advise on all areas of even the most complex of green-tech products. By bringing together in-house chemists, physicists and engineers with ease, we are able to truly appreciate all aspects of a product or solution, across the technical fields it covers and to advise on the best possible IP route for our clients to take in bringing it to market.
