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RotoGro Secures New Canadian Patent

28 October 2019

* Granting of Canadian patent for Stackable Modular Rotatable Gardening System
* Canadian patent compliments the recent US patent granted in July 2019
* Patents further enhance RotoGro's proprietary competitive advantage
* The Company will continue to prosecute patent all in other jurisdictions

Roto-Gro Inc., a wholly—owned subsidiary of Roto—Gro International Limited ("ASX:RGI", "RotoGro"
or the "Company"), is pleased to confirm the grant of a new Canadian Patent for its Stackable
Modular Rotatable Gardening System, Patent No. 2,908,184 (the "Patent").

The application for the Patent was filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office in October 2015, with parallel applications filed in the United States, Europe and Australia. The newly granted Canadian Patent now compliments the Company's recently granted patent in the United States for a Stackable Modular Rotatable Gardening System, Patent No. US 10,292,346 B2. The Company continues to work diligently towards the issuance of parallel patents in both Europe and Australia, requesting an expedited examination from the European Patent Office for its European patent application, and recent correspondence lends credence that Australian patent will be granted in CY Q1 2020.

Details of the Patent

The Patent for RotoGro's Stackable Modular Rotatable Gardening System embodies a modular rotatable garden comprising a drum and a modular main frame. The drum is supported within a modular main frame, such that the drum is rotatable. Plants are grown in soil or hydroponic mediums within the drum in a controlled indoor environment. The Patent also provides for a modular hot air removal system and direct carbon dioxide delivery to the plants within the rotatable garden.

More importantly, the Patent contemplates a stacked rotatable gardening system comprising numerous modular rotatable gardens being stacked vertically (i.e. one on top of the other) and horizontally (i.e. side by side), where each main frame is connected to the main frame of the other modular rotatable garden forming system pods.

Chief Executive Officer, Adam Clode states, “We are excited by the grant of our Canadian Patent in support of the already granted United States patent for a Stackable Modular Rotatable Gardening System. The granted patent was lodged in 2015 in the United States (granted), Canada (granted) as well as Europe (pending) and Australia (pending).

The grant is the successful culmination of several years of our team's laborious efforts through the arduous patent examination process. The Patent secures many different aspects of RotoGro's intellectual property covering stackability, modularisation, hot air removal and direct carbon dioxide delivery to the plants.

We will continue to prosecute our patent applications for Roto-Gro's Stackable Modular Rotatable Gardening System in other jurisdictions and our other patent applications for Roto-Gro's proprietary technology in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.”


https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20191028/pdf/449xyjlcvcd87p.pdf