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Clean Energy Patent Growth Index – 2013 Year in Review

By Paul Dvorak | June 12, 2014

This article, from law firm Mintz Levin, is authored by Carl Kukkonen.

Mintz Levin top 10 clean tech cosThe Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) has

released its 2013 Year in Review report. The report, tracking green patent trends by sector, provides interesting insight on the status of Energy Technology investing.

Though there had been talk of an Energy Technology investing slowdown in 2013, the CEPGI report indicates that the number of green patentees is rapidly growing, especially in the solar sector. U.S. patents for Clean Energy technologies hit an all-time high in 2013, and nearly 1,500 entities contributed to Clean Energy patents. Solar rose as the leading sector in number of patents, taking Fuel Cell patents from the top spot for the first time since 2002.

These statistics imply that Energy Technology remains extremely dynamic, and market adoption of Energy Technology products is continually increasing. As innovation in these sectors

Author Carl A Kukkonen

Author Carl A Kukkonen

continues, it is very likely that Energy Technology will have a long and profitable future.

Mintz Levin
www.mintz.com


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