Catalyst technology is becoming increasingly significant in the energy and environment sectors. New techniques for identifying catalysts, which accelerate chemical reactions in chemical manufacturing processes, allow researchers to prepare and test myriad potential new catalyst materials at an unprecedented rate. That means new avenues for producing cleaner fuels, such as diesel fuels from higher-impurity feedstocks and renewable fuels. Cutting-edge research into these new catalysts continues to mature and will have a huge impact on the way we produce energy, power vehicles and tackle climate change. In this article, Finnegan attorneys Jennifer H. Roscetti and Jessica M. Lebeis address how patenting activity in the field is rising and how as the patent landscape for catalyst technologies grows more crowded and becomes more complex, companies may find it more difficult to obtain patent protection for their innovations.
Previously published in WIPO Magazine
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