Green technology patents live where hardware, data, and the environment meet: a sensor platform that survives salt water, the analytics that turn its readings into decisions, the process that makes a material cleaner or a plant more efficient. Before practicing law, your counsel worked as an engineer on exactly this intersection, including UAVs and floatable decoy platforms built to measure ocean temperature and pollution.
Environmental monitoring and autonomous sensors
Ocean buoys and floatable sensor platforms, UAV-based surveying, distributed air- and water-quality networks: these inventions span a rugged physical device, an embedded sensing and communications layer, and a data pipeline that turns measurements into insight. The strongest protection claims that whole chain – the platform, the method of sensing, and the concrete analytical result – so a competitor can't cherry-pick the uncovered layer.
- Sensor platforms and deployment mechanisms built for hostile environments
- Sensing and calibration methods claimed as technical improvements
- Data-pipeline and analytics claims drafted §101-aware
Clean energy and water technology
Wisconsin sits on one of the country's densest water-technology corridors, and the Midwest builds a disproportionate share of its clean-energy hardware. Treatment and filtration systems, energy recovery, storage, and grid-edge controls all reward the same engineering-first drafting the rest of this practice runs on.
Sustainable manufacturing and materials
Recycled and bio-derived materials, lower-energy processes, and remanufacturing methods often split between patents (what shows in the product) and trade secrets (what stays in the plant). We help you draw that line deliberately.
Typical trigger: "Our pilot deployment is about to go public," or "A grant application wants our IP position." Both mean it's time to file before the disclosure, not after.
What we handle
- Utility patents for sensing platforms, clean-energy systems, and water technology
- Claim strategies spanning device, method, and data analytics
- Provisional filings timed to pilots, publications, and grant cycles
- Freedom-to-operate before scale-up
- Patent/trade-secret splits for process innovations