CO2tool
CO2 tool is an open innovation project to support efforts against greenhouse effect.
Our policy is collect IPR and offer it to provide cost effectively freedom to operate (FTO) for serious projects to reduce the green house effect. We aim to negotiate of pool of key patent rights for allowing effective FTO. We’ll contact the companies we have identified in the field and wish you contact to us, if there is mutual interests.
It is realized that there is a) increasing amount of patenting activities directed to climate change, and b) the patenting is unevenly distributing between pioneering companies and these may limit development of best technologies.
The licensing policy of the project offers low/non-profit licenses for low/non-profit organizations and commercially reasonable terms for for-profits. The major patenting policy is non-exclusive.
Our first project is Personal Emission Project including shop based and mobile solutions.
Personal Emission ProjectThe first project is directed to consumer and product based emission info and trading. we offering for licensing and co-operation a patent platform for 1) consumer carbon information and 2) shop based personal carbon emission trading/compensation/offset systems.
Information about patent platform is under Patent Applications.
The patent family is applicable e.g. in following fields
1. Shop based carbon information and reduction systemsThis would be in the interest of major retail companies such as Wall-Mart, TESCO, Carrefour etc. and local/national companies ICA, KESKO etc
Several international companies are involved in carbon marking of products including TESCO, and Mark & Spencers in UK. The personal emission control would be a logic continuation of these efforts.
Furthermore several international consumer goods producers are joining carbon labelling projects. Technology, which allows effective comparison and follow up of own carbon foot print would support carbon labelling projects.
A shop based system is under development by Finnish Technology Development Center involving major companies such as a major Finnish retail company KESKO. The technology is based on system product information for food nutritional information.
Carbon trading would provide a new product for shops and possibility for consumers to minimize their carbon foot prints. 2. Internet portals for shopping and emission compensationThere are several internet portals selling even millions of products and using part of their sales commissions for the compensation of the emissions of the products.
The major internet portals include currently: ClimateCooler, US, indicating aim for compensation of consumer products worth USD 20 billion until 2012 (Clinton Foundation www-pages). The international patent application WO2007/079228 is under the name of Redefining Progress
Earthmoment, US, indicating over 15 million products from over 1000 producers.
GoCarbonFree, UK TheOffsetShop, UK Froggy Bank, UK OffsetMy, UK
More information is available under internet portals.
3. Green Credit CardsGreen credit cards are currently the major form of personal emission control.
The field includes innovative companies such as Redefining Progress providing GreenCardVisa and Brighter Planet together with Bank of America. These efforts include actual product emission based control attempts/technology. Many other schemes such as by GE Money or Barclays Bank card compensations are based on fixed % of purchases. The compensations are in general very low compared to commissions of credit cards and this appears to be very profitable business for the service providers.
GreenCardVisa, Holland and US, EP1630732(appeal), US application US2006095356 Brighter Planet working with Bank of America, International WO2007/127920 Bright Planet Network CarbonCard US, patent application under names Shelby and Tennant US2006/0098951 other credit cards without patenting and clear product based compensation policy:
Rabobank and WWF, Holland (over 1.1 million customers) GE Money Earth Rewards℠ Platinum MasterCard® (General Electric), BarclayCard Breathe (BarclaysBank), Triodos Bank, Metabank, Wells Fargo, American Express, Emissary Credit Card (Design Stream), and Citigroup.
4. Mobile technologies for emission control and compensation
Part of the future of mobile technologies is concentrated on consumer services. There is competition on mobile internet and intelligent phone sectors by Nokia, Apple, Google, RIM, Microsoft and others. This is also clearly a major part of the strategy of the biggest company Nokia buying mobile maps company Navteq and launching portal “ovi”.
MobGas is an EU project with a mobile portal counting personal emissions
Nokia, the international mobile phone producer -Nokia is providing Offset program for phone and service by JPMorgan ClimateCare http://www.nokia.com/environment/weoffset Google Android a novel intelligent phone by Google -carbon offset by ECO2go http://www.eco2go.org/start.php ELISA, a Finnish mobile operator is involved in Finnish TEKES Climate Bonus project http://extranet.vatt.fi/climatebonus/partners/
These would be models for other major mobile companies: Samsung, LG, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola etc. and other operators such as Orange, Sprint, Verizon, Sonera etc. 5. Carbon emission reduction and offset tradingPersonal emission trading will be useful also in context of production of carbon emission reduction and trading offsets.
Technology companies: General Electric (GE Ecomagination), a major company carbon free technologies Caterpillar has patenting (WO/2007/126498) on carbon reduction and trade
Consumer/industrial offset trading organizations such as: Terrapass and other members of ICROA, http://www.icroa.org/ Chicago Climate Exchange, EU
Banks and energy companies trading emissions e.g. JP Morgan (ClimateCare), Nordea, Fortum 6. Companies producing cash register systems and shop ICTThe technology would be useful for development of future ICT systems for shops and retail chains. Some of the companies in the field include:Siemens, Aldata, Solteq, TietoEnator
Current patent applications of the project
The project has a developing international patent platform, based currently on the international patent applications:
1) PCT/FI/2006/050112 (WO2006100351) filed 23.3.2006, priority 23.3.2005, national phase filed in USA 2) PCT/FI2007/050161, filed 23.3.2007, priority from previous PCT 23.3.2006 3) PCT/FI2007/037856, filed 28.9. 2007, priority FI 20060864 filed 28.9.2006 and non-public IPR. The public applications are available from WIPO pages http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/index.jsp for more information about these, check Personal CO2 patent landscape, or contact us.
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