Who’s trade marking smart grid terms, tag lines, and products? Utilities, solar firms, and some of the ones you’d expect: GE, S&C, SmartSynch and Grid Net. If you were considering trade marking a product under the term GridSmart, better think again, there’s two companies — Nexant and AEP — that have been gunning for that term. And here’s a sign Xcel Energy isn’t so stoked on SmartGridCity anymore: it let its trade mark application for “SmartGridCity Kids” expire. Darn, no smart grid themed daycare.
Where Solar Meets Smart Grid, Smart Grid Neurons, Petra Solar, April 23, 2010
Smart Solutions for a Smarter Grid, Sempra Power, June 9 2010
Smart Grid Law, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, April 19, 2010
The Eyes And Ears of the Smart Grid, Sentient Energy, December 4 2009
GridSmart, Nexant, February 23 2010
Smart Grid Intelligence as a Service, Energics, February 10, 2010
Smart Grid SMS, S&C Electric, September 11 2008
Plug Into the Smart Grid, GE, December 18 2008
Smart Kids for the Smart Grid, City of Glendale, January 26 2010
Smart Grid OS, Universal Devices, November 2 2009
Smart Grid City, Xcel Energy, April 7 2008, Xcel also abandoned its trade mark for Smart Grid City Kids on June 14 2010
We Put the Smart in Smart Grid, Grid Net, March 31 2009
GridSmart, AEP, May 22 2008
Enabling the Smart Grid, SmartSynch, August 30, 2007
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