Greenshift Corporation (GERS)

[Harry Winston]

You know that I do research frequently, right? Well, the news about mushrooms that eat plastic isn't new. A similar article was published in the Smithsonian Magazine more than two years ago.

On another topic ...

The last of patents that Greenshift owns is in dispute, and not just because of the ongoing lawsuit. This company's IP page only lists four patents. The company posted a press release that also names four patents, but this press release is undated. That's a very poor level of public relations skill. The third paragraph of this September 2018 article in Biofuels Digest mentions five GS CleanTech patents that are the subject of the lawsuit.

The fourth paragraph of Greenshift's marketing page mentions a pending patent on a "recovery process from pulp and paper mills". This is time-sensitive material, so the people who read that web page, as I just did, should be told when they filed the patent application and whether this patent has been issued yet.

This news item on Greenshift's website names three patents, but none of these are listed on the company's IP page, located on a different part of their own website! This is more incompetence from the Greenshift management team!

This September 2016 article in Ethanol Producer magazine is about an unfavorable result in the U.S. District Court. The second paragraph names the same four patents that are on Greenshift's IP page, but this is the complete third paragraph of that article.

The court previously issued an order in November 2014 finding these patents and other to be invalid and not infringed. ICM also indicated that in a separate order issued on Sept. 15, the judge also dismissed with prejudice all cases against all ethanol plants and other defendants filed by GS CleanTech.

If we accept as a typo that the first sentence should've read like this:

"The court previously issued an order in November 2014 finding these patents and others to be invalid and not infringed."

... we are left with the statement that the four patents that were named in the second paragraph were not the only ones that the District Court ruled were invalid, meaning, Greenshift had other patents in addition to those four.

BTW, it's nice to see the price collapsing again.