This doesn't include the new patent application lodged this year.
From altech announcement in Feb 18:
The new patent application expands on a previously lodged patent application titled ‘A Method for the
Preparation of Alumina’, which was filed by Altech in October 2014. The existing patent application describes
Altech’s method of preparing alumina from aluminous material, including kaolin. The new patent application
incorporates various refinements made to the Company’s HPA processing route during project due diligence,
and incorporates the Company’s latest invention, the flexible finished product line that is capable of producing
HPA product for both the synthetic sapphire industry (high density pellets) and HPA for the lithium-ion battery
industry (powder at sub-micron particle size).
In addition, Altech is pleased to report that as part of project due diligence initiated by KfW IPEX-Bank, a
global freedom to operate search was conducted to confirm that the Company will be free to produce, market,
sell or otherwise distribute HPA manufactured by its unique process. The search involve the detailed review of existing alumina manufacturing patents and was conducted by Wrays Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
(Wrays), a highly regarded Australian firm specialising in patent and trade mark law.
The search was conducted across a database covering over 100 patent authorities containing over 60 million
patent records. It involved identifying all patents or patent applications in the field of alumina preparation and
all patents and patent applications covered by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. The search
covered key market countries and areas such as Australia, People’s Republic of China, Canada, Federal
Republic of Germany, Europe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Japan, Republic of
India, Korea, Russian Federation, Taiwan, United States of America and Malaysia.
The results of the global search confirmed Altech’s unique manufacturing process (Intellectual Property).
Wrays did not identify any patent or patent application that could assert to prevent the production of HPA by
Altech using its unique process in Malaysia, nor prevent the marketing, selling or distributing its HPA, or
products containing its HPA, globally.
The search confirmed Altech’s view that its IP for producing HPA from kaolin/aluminous material using its
hydrochloric acid-based processing technology is unique, and that any other party that employs a similar
process to produce HPA would most likely be in breach of Altech’s patent applications.
I hope no one is butt hurt enough to run crying to the moderators that I'm promoting altech here. A discussion of the patent issue between fyi and atc is very pertinent to the fyi forum.
Altech has had third parties go over our intellectual property, has fyi? Has a patent lawyer looked at the issue for fyi?
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