Gregory D. Len, a partner and registered patent attorney with Troutman Pepper Locke, published the September 18, 2026 article, “Industrial Gas Firms Must Catch Up With IP and Data Ownership,” in GasWorld.

In this column, Greg outlines issues relating to intellectual property (IP) and data and explains why industrial gas firms need to step up in a data-driven digital era. The industrial gases industry shares many of the same digital pressures affecting all industries but is at an earlier stage of addressing the IP and data ownership questions that oil and gas operators have started to confront.

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