Few people give much time to thinking about algae, but Fredrikson & Byron's Phil Goldman does. Goldman has been noticing the rising number of patents for algae technologies, which seem to be driving it from a backwater topic, so to speak, to a major subject today.
"In 1968," says Goldman, in his article "Algae Bloom in the Patent Office" that ran in Biomass Magazine, "there were only four international patent applications published having the word 'algae' in their abstract, as compared to ... 90 during 2008. Similarly, only three U.S. patents were issued in 1988 containing the words 'algae' and 'bioreactor' ... as compared to 51 in 2008."
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