Westport Innovations Inc. • Intellectual Property

Westport’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio and strategy are integral to the business. We rely on a combination of patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and contracts to protect our IP.

Our IP strategy is tailored to our target markets and their product needs, and is designed to support new product commercialization and sustain a long-term competitive advantage.

Patent Applications Filed

We believe our IP portfolio encompasses technologies applicable to both our existing and future products. It currently includes the following key IP assets:

Our research continually yields new and patentable intellectual property. Our portfolio broadly encompasses technologies applicable to both current and future products.

Information about Westport's patents is available from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

Technical Publications
M. Kamel, Cummins Westport "Development of a Cummins Westport SI-EGR Natural Gas Engine at 0.2g/bhp-hr (NREL)", October 2006

Williams, G., Tanin, K., Ancimer, R., Chisholm, B., Dunn, M., zur.Loye, A.O. and Frazier, T. "High Performance HCCI Natural Gas Technology for Distributed Generation", Proceedings of ICES05 2005 Spring Technical Conference of the ASME Electric Power Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2005

Goudie, D., Dunn, M., Munshi, S.R., Lyford-Pike, E., Wright, J., Duggal, V. and Frailey, M. "Development of a Compression Ignition Heavy Duty Pilot-Ignited Natural Gas Fuelled Engine for Low NOx Emissions", presented at the 2004 Powertrain & Fluid Systems Conference & Exhibition, October 2004, Tampa, FL

Ouellette, P. "Natural Gas Engine Technologies for Commercial Vehicles in the North American Market", JSAE Paper Number: 20034677, Issue No. 13-03, December 2003

Harrington, J., Munshi, S., Nedelcu, C., Ouellette, P., Thompson J. and Whitfield, S. "Direct Injection of Natural Gas in a Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine", SAE Paper, 2002-01-1630

Jones, H.L., McTaggart-Cowan, G.P., Rogak, S.N., Bushe, W.K., Munshi, S.R. and Buchholz, B.A. "Source Apportionment of Particulate Matter from a Diesel Pilot-Ignited Natural Gas Fuelled Heavy Duty DI Engine", SAE Paper, 2005-01-2149

Munshi, S.R., Nedelcu, C., Harris, J., Edwards, T., Williams, J., Lynch, F. Frailey, M., Dixon, G., Wayne, S. and Nine, R. "Hydrogen Blended Natural Gas Operation of a Heavy Duty Turbocharged Lean Burn Spark Ignition Engine", SAE Paper, 2004-01-2956