This story is excerpted from a June 9, 2011 post on Renewable Energy World :Solar Patents Shine in 2010-Shine on Solar edition of CEPGI
As reported by The Cleantech Group at Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti, Applied led other solar photovoltaic patent owners in 2010. The findings were published June 9 in the firm’s Shine-On Solar edition of the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI). As detailed in the report, Applied Materials was first in the number of solar photovoltaic (PV) patents granted last year, a total of 15. Published quarterly, the CEPGI provides in depth solar energy patent analysis and indications of the trend of innovative activity in the Clean Energy sector since 2002 in the U.S. The Shine On Solar edition provides an indication of the trends in innovative activity in the Solar energy sector including leading solar patent owners and geographic areas.
