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Award · December 3, 2024 · Washington, D.C.

USPTO Trademarks for Humanity — Environment Category

USPTO Trademarks for Humanity Award Program

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) honored Genmoji LLC as one of four inaugural recipients of the Trademarks for Humanity Award in the Environment category — recognizing brand owners who harness the power of trademarks to help solve humanitarian challenges.

Genmoji was recognized for developing, manufacturing, and installing renewable energy and artificial wind energy recycling technologies, along with AI software focused on sustainability, efficiency, and significant reductions in greenhouse emissions — particularly for communities facing challenges with traditional energy infrastructure in the aftermath of major natural disasters.

"Francisco Laboy, Chief Executive Officer, accepts the TM4H award on behalf of Genmoji LLC — a company that develops, manufactures, and installs artificial wind energy recycling technologies for communities facing ongoing challenges with traditional energy infrastructure."

— USPTO, December 3, 2024
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Acceptance Speech · 23:32 – 27:31

Francisco Laboy, CEO of Genmoji, delivers the acceptance speech at the 2024 USPTO Patents & Trademarks for Humanity Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Press · November 18, 2022 · Agents of Change Series

The Hill — Agents of Change

The Hill

"This Puerto Rican Green Energy Company Offers Alternative Solution to the Faulty Grid"

The Hill's Agents of Change series profiled Genmoji as a pioneering Puerto Rican energy company using micro-grids and renewable technology to decentralize power away from the island's aging central infrastructure — offering a resilient, community-scale alternative in the wake of Hurricane Maria and ongoing grid failures.

The feature highlighted Genmoji's mission to bring reliable, clean energy to communities that have been left vulnerable by traditional centralized power systems, positioning the company as a national model for post-disaster energy resilience.

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Article Details

Publication

The Hill

Series

Agents of Change

Date

November 18, 2022

Topic

Puerto Rico Energy Resilience

Subject

Genmoji LLC — Micro-grid & Renewable Energy

Feature · July 5, 2023 · Journeys of Innovation Series

USPTO — Journeys of Innovation

USPTO.gov
Francisco Laboy and Vanessa Carballido at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 in The Hague

Francisco Laboy Colondres and Vanessa Carballido Clerch at the 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, The Hague.

"A Renewable Resolve" — The Story of Genmoji's Co-Founders

The USPTO's Journeys of Innovation series profiled Genmoji co-founders Vanessa Carballido Clerch and Francisco Laboy Colondres — a married entrepreneurial couple who overcame personal hardships and the devastation of Hurricane Maria to launch a renewable energy startup in Puerto Rico.

In the aftermath of Maria — the worst blackout in U.S. history — the pair partnered with nonprofits and NGOs to install over 200 microgrids across the island, providing electricity to remote communities for months. That "baptism by fire" became the foundation of Genmoji as a company. The feature also details their participation in the 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in The Hague, where a conversation with a Fortune 500 CEO helped them identify intermittency of renewable energy as the core problem they would dedicate themselves to solving.

"We wanted to brand ourselves as a company that wanted to change the generational perception and lead toward a cleaner, more renewable future... [the name] has served us amazingly."

— Vanessa Carballido Clerch, Co-Founder

"IP is a huge component of what we do, and we are very zealous of our IP protection."

— Vanessa Carballido Clerch, Co-Founder
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Feature · August 26, 2020 · Energy & Sustainability

Forbes

Forbes

"Women at the Forefront of Puerto Rico's Energy Revolution"

Forbes profiled Vanessa Carballido as one of the women driving Puerto Rico's clean energy transformation. Written by Melissa Rowley, the feature chronicles how Vanessa — an intellectual property lawyer with no prior energy background — co-founded Genmoji with Francisco Laboy after Hurricane Maria exposed the catastrophic fragility of the island's centralized grid, where some communities went without power for over a year.

The article highlights Genmoji's AIRMOJI turbine — described as a state-of-the-art magnetically driven-suspended wind turbine that utilizes both natural wind and forced wind from industrial air conditioners and exhaust systems — as a key differentiator that kept the company growing even through COVID-19 shutdowns. It also spotlights Genmoji's partnership with Solar Libre and their commitment to hiring graduates from the nonprofit's apprentice program.

"If we can change the way energy here is used and distributed, we could change Puerto Rico. It could change the way we do business — the way we attract companies. There are so many companies that don't come here because of how expensive our energy is, how inefficient the system is."

— Vanessa Carballido, Co-Founder, Genmoji

"To me, energy in Puerto Rico has been one of the key economic components in the development of the island that has not only been completely overlooked, but that the public itself has not adopted up until recently as critical to empowering the community for growth."

— Vanessa Carballido, Co-Founder, Genmoji
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Article Details

Publication

Forbes

Author

Melissa Rowley

Date

August 26, 2020

Section

Energy & Sustainability

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