date:Sep 20, 2012
nt and Trademark Office for their bio-based isobutanol-generating process, which both allege the other party has infringed.
The Butamax 188 and 189 patents and Gevos 375 and 376 patents are set for trial in July 2013 in Delaware.
Butamaxs suit against Gevo for patents 162 and 328 will be heard in July 2014 and the 017 and 878 patents have not yet been assigned a trial date.
The focus of the dispute
Gevo's technology, developed in 2007, uses engineered yeast to produce 90% isobutanol. It clai