From power electronics and energy storage to smart-grid controls, we help clean tech innovators protect the technology that makes energy cleaner and more efficient.
Clean tech inventions are often a mix of hardware, electronics and software. We protect:
Before law school, Craige Thompson worked in analog design, power electronics and magnetics, including research at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC). He has had particular success protecting and licensing complex green technologies that radically improve energy efficiency, and he drafts claims that capture the engineering that makes them work.
Tell us about your invention in a Complimentary Patent Needs Assessment. We’ll tell you honestly whether it’s patentable, what it would take to protect it, and what it would cost.
Get a Complimentary Patent Needs AssessmentYes. Clean energy and efficiency inventions are patentable like any other technology when they are new, useful and non-obvious, from new battery chemistries and power converters to control software for energy systems.
Power electronics, energy storage and battery management, solar and wind systems, EV charging, smart-grid and building-efficiency controls, and sustainable materials and packaging, among others.
Many green tech inventions live in circuits, power conversion and control algorithms. Craige Thompson is a licensed electrical engineer (PE) with a background in power electronics, so he can claim those details accurately.
Yes. Licensing is a common way to commercialize clean tech, especially for inventors and startups partnering with manufacturers or utilities. We help structure and negotiate those licenses.
