Recently, Wal-Mart placed an order for 1,738 fuel cell powered forklifts that move products in the giant retailers’ warehouses.

Gibbons attorneys Uzoamaka N. Okoye and Samuel H. Megerditchian write in their firm’s Environmental and Green Issues blog that this: "highly publicized order spotlights the emerging commercial markets and the technologies and patents that have made the production of energy through fuel cells more cost effective."

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The attorneys note that the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index shows that "for the last decade fuel cell related patents outpaced all other clean energy technology patents until 2013 when solar patents for the first time surpassed fuel cell patents."

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