Birchtech Corp. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Major Power Utility, Evergy

CORSICANA, Texas, Feb. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Birchtech Corp., (TSX:BCHT) (OTCQB:BCHT), (“Birchtech” or the “Company”), a leader in specialty activated carbon technologies for sustainable air and water treatment, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri against Evergy, a major power utility company in the Midwest. The lawsuit filed on January 23, 2025, names four defendants and claims that the defendants knowingly violated patent rights related to Birchtech’s mercury emissions reduction technologies, commercially known as “SEA® (Sorbent Enhancement Additive) Technologies under Birchtech’s division, “ME₂C Environmental”. At Birchtech’s request, the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation ordered this case transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

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