Vertroleum
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On December 17, 2007, USSEC-owned Sustainable Power Corp. filed to protect the trademark Vertroleum in relation to "artificial petroleum". In addition to creating some buzz in the investment community, the term Vertroleum appeared on Wikipedia the very same day as the filing. Paraphrased from the Wikipedia entry: "Vertroleum is a word coined to describe the biocrude oil obtained from all green resources, or biomass. This process yields a biocrude oil that, like petroleum crude, can be refined into a large number of hydrocarbon based products. The term Vertroleum can be used in all the ways the term petroleum is used to facilitate ...