Many companies that offer environmental products and services are experiencing a dip in revenue streams because of the economic recession and the maturation of the laws impacting the environment. For those of you who are challenged to find ways to replace these diminishing returns, consider converting your company’s environmental intellectual property—ideas, inventions, innovations, patents, and processes—into commercial technologies.
The demand for innovative and environmentally friendly production processes is ever increasing. With advances in cleanup practices in the past two decades, even the remediation of contaminated industrial properties has undergone revolutionary changes. Many of these innovations are patent-protected by the U.S. government, which gives the inventor a monopoly on his/her invention and excludes others from using it. Not only does the U.S. Patent Office ac-cord special status to patents relating to environmental quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection
