{"id":15656,"date":"2012-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120201-03n"},"modified":"2012-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:00:00","slug":"gevo-butamax-patent-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/gevo-butamax-patent-saga-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Gevo, Butamax patent saga continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>There are not really a lot of bio-isobutanol producers out there &#8212; the blog counts three right now and two of them are at each other&#8217;s throats when it comes to patents.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Both US-based Gevo and Butamax (the biobutanol business of DuPont and BP) have been going at it for a year now when Butamax first filed an infringement lawsuit in January last year regarding a patent (7,851,188) that Butamax received from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2011, Gevo asked the USPTO to invalidate the patent &#8216;188 and as well Butamax&#8217;s patent 7,993,889 (granted to Butamax that month) which covers methods for low-cost bio-isobutanol production.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icis.com\/blogs\/green-chemicals\/2012\/02\/gevo-butamax-patent-saga-conti.html\" >http:\/\/www.icis.com\/blogs\/green-chemicals\/2012\/02\/gevo-butamax-patent-saga-conti.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Tags: patents, low-cost bio-isobutanol production<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>There are not really a lot of bio-isobutanol producers out there &#8212; the blog counts three right now and two of them are at each<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[3169,818,3026],"class_list":["post-15656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-butamax","supplier-gevo-inc","supplier-united-states-patent-and-trademark-office-uspto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}