Company: BCHT
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001477932-25-003808
Chunk: 57

Company: Birchtech Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 57
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 lawsuit against four defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.  Such lawsuit claims infringement of the Company’s patent rights related to the Company’s mercury emissions reduction technologies.  The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered that such patent infringement lawsuits be consolidated and centralized in the Southern District of Iowa. 

Effective as of October 8, 2024, we entered into agreement with one of the utilities and an affiliated entity named as defendants in the patent infringement lawsuit commenced by the Company in July 2024 in Arizona. Such agreement provides such parties and their affiliates with a non-exclusive license to certain Company patents for use in connection with a certain designated coal-fired power plant operated by such utility. The agreement includes a one-time license fee and provides the Company with a right of first refusal for certain of such utility’s product supply for mercury emissions capture at such designated power plant. 

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Effective as of January 7, 2025, we entered into agreement with another one of the utilities named as a defendant in the Arizona action. Such agreement provides such party and its affiliates with a non-exclusive license to certain Company patents for use in connection with a certain designated coal-fired power plant operated by such utility. The agreement includes a one-time license fee and 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. 

In January 2025, we commenced another patent infringement lawsuit against four defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.  Such lawsuit claims infringement of the Company’s patent rights related to the Company’s mercury emissions reduction technologies. Named as defendants in the action are Evergy, Inc., Evergy Metro Inc., Evergy Missouri West, Inc. and Evergy Kansas Central, Inc.  In the lawsuit, we request a trial by jury against the defendants and seek damages, costs, and legal expenses, along with a finding of willful infringement by the defendants, and an injunction prohibiting the defendants from further acts of infringement.  In February 2025, such lawsuit was consolidated with and transferred to the Southern District of Iowa.

Effective on October 17, 2024, as part of our rebranding, we changed our corporate name from Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. to Birchtech Corp. pursuant to a certificate of amendment to our certificate of incorporation filed with the State of Delaware, and on October 17, 2024 our common stock