Cleantech

Our Cleantech Group is dedicated to helping today’s innovative Cleantech companies protect the technologies that will assure our clean energy future. The Group aims to provide added value to you, its clients, by knowing your industry and its technical, financial, and legal challenges.

We support the Cleantech industry and are members of industry groups such as New Energy New York, the Alliance for Clean Energy New York and the Clean Tech Venture Network. We participate in and sponsor industry events such as ACENY’s Fall Conference, the New Energy Symposium, the Tech Valley Energy Forums, and Power Gen International, among many others.

Our Group is multi-disciplinary and has expertise in mechanical, electrical, and chemical disciplines to allow us to procure intellectual property protection for your ideas, not to mention the expertise to enforce your rights via litigation should it become necessary.

We track innovations in Clean Energy and publish the Clean Energy PATENT GROWTH Index  along with analyzing patent trends. We also have expertise in traditional environmental disciplines.

Some areas of our Group’s expertise include:

• Analysis of contaminants in fuels
• Contaminant Transport
• Clean Room Air Quality Monitoring and Control
• Drinking Water Treatment
• Energy Distribution
• Environmental and Emissions Monitoring
• Environmental Hydrology
• Environmental Microbiology and Bioremediation
• Fuel Cells
• Immobilization and Containment of Hazardous Waste
• Landfill Design and Management
• Modeling and Control Software
• Power Generation
• Remediation of Polluted Sites
• Solar Energy
• Turbines and Controls
• Waste Water Treatment

Representative Clients

· DayStar Technologies
· Environment One
· Foster-Miller Technologies
· General Electric
· Landfill Technologies, Inc.
· MTI Micro Fuels
· Mechanical Dynamics and Analysis
· Plug Power
· Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Research Foundation – SUNY
· Rupprecht & Patashnick (now Thermo Electron)
· X-ray Optical Systems

Member Experience

Members of the Group have a variety of backgrounds in the Energy & Environmental Fields.

Jeff Rothenberg, the firm’s Managing Partner has experience in waste water treatment, environmental monitoring, fuel cells and solar energy.
Education: Mr. Rothenberg holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Istitute, and a J.D. from George Washington University. He is admitted to the New York Bar, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of N.Y., and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Nicholas Mesiti has experience in alternative energy systems, fuel cells, power generation turbines, landfill design, and energy control systems.
Education: Mr. Mesiti graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He acquired his law degree from Albany Law School. Admitted to the bar in New York, and before the U.S. District Court for the Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal and Second Circuits, Mr. Mesiti is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Kevin Radigan has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the fields of fuel cells, nuclear energy, solar energy, clean rooms and power generation, distribution and control systems.
Education: Mr. Radigan received a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with great distinction from Clarkson College of Technology, and a Juris Doctorate cum laude from Albany Law School. Mr. Radigan is admitted to the New York State Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Victor Cardona has prepared and/or prosecuted patent applications relating to fuel cells, hydrogen generation and purification, hydrogen automotive applications, power generation turbines, drinking water treatment, nuclear fuel storage, and clean rooms. He also has six years experience evaluating environmental remediation technologies as an Environmental Engineer with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Education: Victor graduated with a Juris Doctorate cum laude from Albany Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University.

Alana Fuierer has experience in the areas of bioremediation, environmental microbiology, hydrology, and contaminant transport.
Education: Alana graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and a Master’s degree in Hydrology from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

Lee Palmateer, a former mechanical engineer in the Naval nuclear reactor industry, advises clients regarding technology transfer and commercialization agreements in the solar energy industry.
Education: Lee earned his Juris Doctor degree from Albany Law School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University.

Franklin Abrams has experience with solution thermodynamic systems and microemulsions.
Education: Franklin has a B.S. degree in chemistry from SUNY College at Oneonta, an M.S. degree in chemistry from SUNY at Stony Brook, a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from SUNY at Stony Brook, and a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Shanna K. O'Brien
Education: Shanna received her Juris Doctor from Albany Law School and graduated from Union College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology.

For more information, please contact any member of the group or:
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