EQS-News: EcoGraf Limited: Australian Patent Application
EcoGraf Limited (EcoGraf or the Company) (ASX: EGR; FSE: FMK; OTCQX: ECGFF) has been made aware of an ASX announcement by Renascor Resources Limited (ASX: RNU) (Renascor) dated 10 August 2023 in which Renascor states “As reported in April 2022, Renascor lodged an opposition to a pending patent application relating to the purification of graphite.
- EcoGraf Limited (EcoGraf or the Company) (ASX: EGR; FSE: FMK; OTCQX: ECGFF) has been made aware of an ASX announcement by Renascor Resources Limited (ASX: RNU) (Renascor) dated 10 August 2023 in which Renascor states “As reported in April 2022, Renascor lodged an opposition to a pending patent application relating to the purification of graphite.
- Renascor considers the pending patent application to be overly broad and relating to processing procedures that are not sufficiently novel or inventive to merit patent protection.”
EcoGraf understands that the patent application referred to by Renascor in that announcement is the same patent application made by EcoGraf and referred to in its ASX announcement dated 8 November 2021. - As reported by EcoGraf in the announcement to ASX on 8 November 2021:
The International Preliminary Examining Authority of the Patent Co-operation Treaty has deemed the EcoGraf™ purification process as novel and inventive. - Accordingly, the Company strongly disagrees with the statement by Renascor and notes that EcoGraf has also received notice from the US Patent and Trademark Office that its patent application “Method of Producing Purified Graphite” has been granted on 18 July 2023 as United States Patent 11,702342.