Company: BCHT
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001477932-25-008185
Chunk: 107

Company: Birchtech Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 107
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 utility’s product supply for mercury emissions capture at such designated power plant and the other agreement provides the Company with the right to be included in such party’s bidding process for certain product supply for mercury emissions capture at such party’s designated power plant. On December 17, 2024, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered the consolidation of the three lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa for coordinated pretrial proceedings. In January 2025, the Company initiated an additional infringement suit in the Western District of Missouri against several Evergy-affiliated entities. Named as defendants in the action were Evergy, Inc., Evergy Metro Inc., Evergy Missouri West, Inc. and Evergy Kansas Central, Inc. One of such defendants was dismissed from the Western District of Missouri action and named as a defendant in a separate case commenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Such cases were transferred to the Iowa court pursuant to the existing transfer order. Between January and July 2025, certain defendants in the consolidated Iowa actions filed inter partes review (“IPR”) petitions with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeking to invalidate various asserted claims. Effective as of August 5, 2025, the Company entered into separate agreements with two utilities, which are affiliated with each other, and named as defendants in the Southern District of Iowa action. In addition, as of September 9, 2025, the Company entered into an agreement with a utility and its affiliated entities, named as defendants in the Western District of Missouri and District of Kansas actions. Such agreements provide such parties and their affiliates with a non-exclusive license to certain Company patents related to the Company’s two-part SEA® process for use in connection with certain designated coal-fired power plants operated by them. Each agreement includes a one-time license fee. The agreements effective as of August 5, 2025 entered into with the two utilities, provide the Company with the right to be included in each utility’s bidding process for certain product supply for mercury emissions capture at such party’s operated power plants. Such two utilities have also agreed to withdraw from the IPR petitions. 

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Effective as of September 30, 2025, the Company entered into an agreement with another utility not named as a defendant in the Company’s patent litigations, but a party to the IPR petitions filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Such agreement provides such