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Patent And Trademark Success Stories – As Of August 2024

Mr. Wendt has helped many startup companies file patents in “green” technologies, including direct air capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide, geothermal energy, and other endeavors where traditional chemical engineering principles are adapted to solve today’s climate change issues. Mr. Wendt is experience in gaining approval of US patent applications to participate in various initiatives of the US Patent & Trademark Office on behalf of clients to speed the examination of patent applications.

In the medical device field, Mr. Wendt helped Slow Wave, Inc., based in Spicewood, Texas, and its owner Wayne Wagner build a portfolio of US patents on oral devices used for treating bruxism, sleep apnea, and/or nasal draining issues, and mouthguards for sports and other end uses. Several of Wayne’s patented devices are shown below. Mr. Wendt also helped Wayne register his trademark, SLOW WAVE, a stylized version of which is also shown below.

Figure one of oral device
US Patents 11,963,903 B1 and 11,806,274 B1

Figure 7 of oral device
US Patent 11,779,486 B2

Figure 10 of oral device
Slow Wave trademark
US registration number 7,102,218

Mr. Wendt has helped tubular inspection client Scan Systems Corp (Houston, Texas) patent many innovative tubular inspection apparatus and inspection methods, including those illustrated below:

Tubular inspection apparatus
US Patent No. 11,402,351 B1

The firm has handled patenting of many oilfield tools, such as the mud motor universal joint illustrated below, covered by US Patent No. 8,870,666 B1,

mud motor universal joint

and the mud motor flow diverter and tiled bearing illustrated here and covered by US Patent No. 9,279,289 B2.

Mud motor flow diverter and tiled bearing

Systems and methods of producing forced axial vibration of a drillstring are covered in US Patent No. 9,544,440 B2.

drill string

The firm has secured patents in the offshore oilfield technology, such as the following patent:

Offshore oilfield technology

He has also helped a client establish a portfolio of subsea managed pressure operations patents, including US Patent No. 11,035,192”

Mr. Wendt has also helped a local Austin startup ezNG Solutions LLC secure a patent for pressurized LNG storage, a key to reducing costs in transporting natural gas and other gases.

Patent for pressurized LNG storage

The firm helped a real estate firm in Austin, and a burger restaurant in Houston secure their federal trademark registrations:

Federal Trademark for Better Broker Texas Realty
Federal Trademark for Burger Bodega

Mr. Wendt has worked on many patents for Johns Manville, a worldwide manufacturer of glass fiber insulation and other productions, in the area of submerged combustion melting of glass, including the following furnace and combustion burner patents. Submerged combustion melting is much greener than traditional “tank” melting furnaces.

Patent for submerged combustion melting device
Patent for submerged compression melting device
Submerged combustion melting device

Mr. Wendt has helped secure patent rights to many consumer and sports-related items, such as the bicycle stand and rack covered by the following us patent:

Bicycle rack and stand

Mr. Wendt has written and procured many patents for international oilfield services company Schlumberger, now known as SLB, including the following patents:

Patent secured for Schlumberger, now known as SLB
Patent obtained for Schlumberger, now known as SLB
Patent secured for Schlumberger, now known as SLB
Patent secured for Schlumberger, now known as SLB
Patent obtained for Schlumberger, now known as SLB

Mr. Wendt, as in-house counsel to Air Liquide and 3M, secured many US patents in the industrial gases area and abrasives technology, including ultra-pure gases for semiconductor manufacturing.