Contact:   Thomas E. Ciotti or Charles D. Holland

Morrison & Foerster’s Cleantech IP Group, with its technical and patent expertise and experience in engineering, physics, chemistry, biotechnology, and materials science, is at the crossroads of intellectual property rights and the new technologies, processes, and materials that will shape and define advances in energy generation and storage and environmental protection and maintenance in the 21st century. In addition to being intellectual property counsel to Cleantech companies in such sectors as syngas and biomass conversion, biofuels, solar energy, water purification, and high performance batteries, the Cleantech Group works closely with Morrison & Foerster’s Venture Intellectual Property Group in representing leading venture capital groups such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Khosla Ventures in conducting intellectual property due diligence on potential Cleantech investments. The Cleantech Group has performed intellectual property due diligence for investments in technologies including coal and biomass gasification, biofuels, transgenic crops for biofuels, pre-treatment of cellulosic feed stocks for biofuels, water purification, batteries, bioplastics, and solar energy.