Legal
The Stormceptor® system is a simple but revolutionary stormwater quality treatment device that efficiently removes free oils and suspended solids. The Stormceptor system is protected by one or more of the following patents.
U.S. Patent No. 4,985,148 & 5,498,331 & 5,725,760 & 5,849,181 & 5,753,115 & 6,068,765
Canadian Patent No. 2,009,208 & 2,137,942 & 2,175,277 & 2,180,305 & 2,206,338
Australia Patent No. 693,164 & 707,133
New Zealand Patent No. 314,646
European Patent Treaty 95 307 996.9
A true Stormceptor system must be purchased from an organization licensed by Imbrium Systems. If engineers and designers specify equipment "equivalent" to the Stormceptor system , and that apparatus is truly an "equivalent", it will infringe the Stormceptor patent, if not literally then under a tenet well-established in the patent law and known as the "doctrine of equivalency".




