Company: BCHT
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001477932-25-008185
Chunk: 122

Company: Birchtech Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 122
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 LLC, and CERT Operations RCB LLC. The jury determined that these defendants infringed our patented technologies for mercury emissions and were liable for willful infringement, along with inducing and contributory infringement. Following the trial, the Court entered non-final judgments on the verdict against the CERT defendants and the parties submitted post-trial motions relating to the jury trial. The CERT defendants also asserted that the Company’s claims were barred due to their defense that they had an implied license to the asserted patents. A bench trial was held on such issue. On June 10, 2025, the Court ruled that the CERT defendants failed to prove that they had such an implied license and denied their motion to alter or amend the non-final judgment. In addition, on September 25, 2025, the Court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order that denied the CERT defendants’ post-trial motion that they should not be held liable as a matter of law for induced infringement, contributory infringement or willful infringement. We are awaiting the Court’s determination as to the final judgment.

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In July 2024, we commenced three additional patent infringement lawsuits in U.S. District Courts in Arizona, Iowa and Missouri against multiple utilities and related entities. These actions allege willful infringement of our patents related to mercury emissions control. In October 2024, we entered into an agreement with one of the utility defendants and an affiliated entity in the Arizona action, and in January 2025, we entered into an agreement with another utility named in the Arizona action. Such agreements provide such parties and their affiliates with a non-exclusive license to certain Company patents related to our two-part SEA® process for use in connection with a certain designated coal-fired power plant operated by them. The agreements include one-time license fees which have been received by us. One agreement provides us with a right of first refusal for certain of such utility’s product supply for mercury emissions capture at such designated power plant and the other agreement provides us 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, we initiated an additional infringement suit in the Western District of Missouri against several Evergy-affiliated entities. One of such defendants was dismissed from the Western District