U.S. Patent & Appeals Board Denies IET Appeal for Rehearing of January Ruling Invalidating their “709 Patent" In our January 26, 2021 Newsletter we reported that a three judge panel of the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) found that ”Petitioner...
For those of us in the environmental industry, the word "remediation" has a very specific meaning and conjures images of long abandoned industrial properties or contaminated sites where we may have worked. In Colorado, the city of Arvada has an extensive trail network. The more urban...
As RPI Group enters its 20th year, it is time for a bit of reflection. We are very grateful to the property owners, environmental consultants, and regulatory professionals who embraced something “new” early and eventually often. The remarkable growth of the market segment that Remediation...
Well, Potesta & Associates (www.potesta.com) did - AND they and the property owner have graciously permitted us to share the good news. Potesta is an environmental consulting company with offices in West Virginia and Virginia. As part of an overall solution at an industrial site in...
We first published today’s photograph more than seven years ago (01/30/2014). At that time, we and our clients began noticing that Trap & Treat® BOS 200® was doing more than simply reducing or eliminating groundwater contamination in monitoring wells. Some head scratching ensued when it...
The considerable resources of Ejlskov A/S (Aarhus, Denmark) and RPI Group were mustered to create a phenomenal remediation result at a former dry cleaning operation located in Northern Europe. The challenges were many: DNAPL levels of PCE, complex hydrogeology and injecting inside a building basement with...
It is my honor and pleasure to announce that Ed Winner has joined our RPI Group team as Vice President of Remediation Products, Inc. Over the past 19 years our devotion to having the best products, processes and people has never failed us. Scott &...
This U.S. site had been substantially contaminated since the 1950s. Compromised drainage pipes were assumed to be the source of chlorinated solvent contamination across the site in both the saturated and unsaturated zones. High Resolution Characterization activities pinpointed a zone of concern between 8 feet...
Open bidding in 2017 resulted in IET losing a project in New Jersey. Instead of selecting IET, the client chose an approach that used RPI’s CAT 100 technology. Mike Scalzi of IET cried foul, accused the client of infringing IET’s US 7,531,709 patent because of their use...
Adios, 2020. It’s been…well, interesting. No doubt, 2020 has been a messed-up year, but would we have known about the Tiger King, seen so many incredible decorated cakes on TikTok, or watched ALL of Netflix without it? While RPI Group didn’t go crazy baking sourdough or knitting...