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Industry Focus: Cleantech: NY Battery and Energy Storage Test Center Opens

The BEST Testing and Commercialization Center was inaugurated on April 30, 2014 in Rochester New York. The Center Is a collaboration of the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY BEST) with DNV GL.  The facility is focused on the testing of battery and other energy storage technologies and is located at the former Kodak Manufacturing campus.  A ribbon cutting ceremony was attended by Lt. Governor Duffy and assorted officials. 

John W. Boger, Partner with HRFM, To Speak at Business Law Section of Monroe County Bar Association’s M&A Seminar

Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Topic: Intellectual Property Considerations in M&A Transactions

Location: Rubin Center for Education – 1 W. Main Street

For more information, visit: http://www.mcba.org/Calendar/Detail.aspx?calendar=1&id=603

Speakers announced for Cleantech IP Forum July 19th NYC

Come join us for a half day program on Cleantech Intellectual Property on the second day of the New Energy Symposium in NYC focused on successful strategies and intellectual property protection for clean energy technologies and startups. This will include presentations on : Clean Energy Patent Trends: Solar Technology Analysis,and two panels of experts on the following topics: Strategies for Cleantech Companies Under the New America Invents Act and Importance of IP &Strategies for Commercialization

Speakers for this event include:

• Keynote Speaker

•              Michael Hervey,   Chief Operating Officer, Long Island Power Authority

• Clean Energy Patent Trends: Solar Technology Analysis
  • Victor Cardona,  Partner, Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
• Strategies for Cleantech Companies Under the New America Invents Act
  • Janet Gongola,  Patent Reform Coordinator, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Eric Lane, Of  Counsel, McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP
  • Nicholas  Mesiti, Partner, Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
• Importance of IP & Strategies for Commercialization
  • Stephen Filler, Director of Corporate Development, Prism Solar Technologies
  • James Groelinger, Executive Director, Clean Energy Alliance
  • Pradeep Haldar, Vice President for Clean Energy Programs, College of Nanoscale Science       and Engineering
  • George Powch, Chief Executive Officer, Versatilis    

To view the speakers and investors participating at this year's New Energy Symposium, please click here. To register, please click here .