Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. has announced results for
the second quarter of 2009 of the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI)
produced by the firm’s Cleantech Group.



The CEPGI tracks the granting of patents in the Clean Energy sector
and monitors
technological breakthroughs in this field. Victor Cardona, Co-chair of
the firm’s Cleantech Group
stated, “we are pleased to announce that the Clean Energy Patent
Growth Index reached a new
quarterly high at 274 granted U.S. clean energy patents indicating an
uptick in innovative activity
in the vital clean energy sector. Fuel cells continued to dominate the
other technologies while
wind and solar patents continued an upswing. Honda earned more patents
than the other
patentees to again claim the Clean Energy Patent Crown.”



Japan led the geographic areas tracked with 75 granted clean energy
patents (up 3 relative to the
second quarter and up 10 over 2008) to again claim the geographical
clean energy patent crown.
California was second with 29 granted Clean Energy patents, up 10 over
the first quarter and up 9
over the second quarter of 2008. Michigan (up 5 over the first quarter
and up 9 over the same
period in 2008) and Germany (up 4 over the fist quarter and up 6 over
2008) tied for third at 23
granted patents. New York had 15 patents dominated by wind (9) and
fuel cells (5), and was up
2 over the first quarter and down 5 over the same period of 2008.
Korea (up 6 over the first
quarter and 7 over 2008) tied New York at 15 clean energy patents
while Canada had 7 patents to
tie its first quarter results and up one over the second quarter of
last year. Connecticut trailed
Canada with 6 granted clean energy patents but improved on its two
patents in the first quarter
and 4 from the second quarter of 2008.



Further information regarding the CEPGI is available at
target=”new”>http://www.cleanenergypatentgrowthindex.com.

Source: Clean Edge News