INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
- United States Patent 8333032
- United States Patent 8181386
- Registered Trademark mangrove.org ®
- Sole Source mangrove.org
Intellectual property rights relating to an invention, granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Cylindrical encasement devices and methods for planting mangrove propagules or seedlings along shorelines and nonnative environments. The devices can use interior (or exterior) longitudinal grooves or thinned channels or lines of holes that hinge the device along the longitudinal axis to facilitate increases in displacement which results in acceleration of plant development and adaptation, improving survivability and reproductive maturity to establish self-sustaining mangrove trees and forests. A manufacturing enables control of the structure, color and opacity, to facilitate applications in habitat creation, restoration, shoreline stabilization, erosion control, and environmental remediation. Safe and easy removal of the device from the environment occurs without harm and damage.
14 Claims, 8 Drawing Sheets
Intellectual property rights relating to an invention, granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Cylindrical type encasement devices and method for planting mangrove propagules or seedlings along high-energy shorelines and in non-native environments. The devices can use interior (or exterior) longitudinal grooves or thinned channels or lines of holes that hinge the device along the longitudinal axis to facilitate increases in the displacement. This displacement results in acceleration of both plant development and the adaptation process, thereby improving long-term survivability and promoting reproductive maturity in order to establish self-sustaining mangrove trees and forests. The device facilitates forced adaptation, that is, induced changes in morphology and structure in order to habituate the developing mangrove tree to environments where natural recruitment cannot occur. A manufacturing process enables control of the structure, color and opacity, to facilitate optimization of the device for applications in habitat creation, restoration, shoreline stabilization, erosion control, and environmental remediation. Safe and easy removal of the device from the environment occurs at the completion of the adaptation process without harm and damage to the tree.
10 Claims, 8 Drawing Sheets
Federal registration of trademark with the USPTO providing information in the field of habitat creation and restoration, shoreline preservation, pollution control, and estuary water quality improvement via a global computer network; computer services, namely, providing a web site via a global computer network featuring information in the field of habitat creation and restoration, shoreline preservation, pollution control and estuary water quality improvement; performing research in the field of environmental remediation.
Filing Date November 13, 2000
This letter provides notification that mangrove.org is the sole source provider of Riley Encased Methodology ® and the REM Encasement Device as-well-as propriety protocols & procedures necessary in implementations of Costal Mangove Reforestation, Ecological Engineering, Sustainable Development & Green Infrastructure.
