Cirql® holds more than 90 patents across the globe: granted, published, allowed, and pending. We pursue patents to protect our intellectual property (IP) and technologies, and to protect product differentiation for us and for our brand partners into the future.
Each patent represents an exclusive, proven path to performance, sustainability, and efficiency that our Tier 1 partners and brand partners can build on with confidence.
Here are a few ways Cirql IP is a value multiplier along the supply chain.
Innovation Credibility and Protected Advantage
Cirql materials and processes deliver measurable advantages in performance and sustainability. When backed by a patent portfolio, these innovations remain exclusive, reliable, and protected across the supply chain.
Each of our 90+ patents represents progress: toward lower emissions, cleaner chemistry, or circular materials that perform better. Patents are only awarded to truly exceptional ideas, delineating a distinction between an intriguing product claim and truly transformative IP. Partnering with us gives access to innovations that are proven and protected.
Footwear brands can amplify their own proven commitment to innovation and sustainability when they choose the Cirql Zero series and the Cirql Recyclable series foams. Patents add another layer of advantage that protects brands from knock-offs and low-quality imitations. The differentiation lasts far beyond the first model year.
Supportive Brand Storytelling and Marketing
This is innovation and a compelling story competitors cannot copy. Cirql patented materials and processes give our partners a secure edge, helping to bring differentiated products to market faster, and with a protected performance that can’t be replicated.
As more brands choose Cirql foams, it has the effect of a rising tide lifting all boats. Cirql is one of the only foams on the market offering a truly circular, end-of-life solution that can be produced at scale. This gives Cirql the capacity to support far more than a niche “sustainable” collection. Brands that choose Cirql become active leaders in advancing a lower-impact, more circular footwear industry.
As leaders in a movement that benefits the world, each brand’s sustainability story grows stronger, not more diluted.
Research and Development That Fuels a Brighter Future
Patenting our technologies and processes allows Cirql to invest in research and development, personnel, and facilities to help ensure the highest quality and strictest manufacturing standards to achieve the audacious, global sustainable mission we’re pursuing.
Our patents cover our scalable, chemical-free, supercritical foaming process and our materials solutions. For a complete list of Cirql patents, click here or contact us with any questions.
