In addition, attorneys for Mitsubishi filed suit in U.S. District Court’s Middle District of Florida against GE charging them with infringing a Mitsubishi patent for variable speed wind turbines.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc., a United States Delaware corporation, today filed an antitrust lawsuit in United States District Court against General Electric Company (GE). The complaint charges GE with a scheme to monopolize the market for variable speed wind turbines in the United States. Mitsubishi seeks damages that will be calculated during litigation but are expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars and probably be in excess of a billion.
In the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court’s Western District of Arkansas, Mitsubishi alleges that after Mitsubishi gained a foothold in the United States market in 2006, GE embarked on an unlawful anticompetitive scheme to drive Mitsubishi suppliers out of the U.S. market.
In addition, attorneys for Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Ltd. (MHI) today filed suit in United States District Court’s Middle District of Florida against General Electric Company charging them with infringing a key Mitsubishi patent for variable speed wind turbines, alleging that GE has been making, using, selling and offering to sell infringing turbines without any authorization or license to do so.
As the nation is poised to embrace new wind turbines – a GE strategy to monopolize
Mitsubishi’s complaint alleges that GE used their lawsuits as a marketing tool. Company spokeswoman Sonia Williams explained, “GE’s patent infringement lawsuit deterred customers from purchasing variable speed wind turbines from Mitsubishi. Our lawsuit documents how GE representatives intimidated Mitsubishi customers by advising them to either purchase license agreements from GE or face infringement risk.”
Ms. Williams noted that Mitsubishi has signed a development agreement with the State of Arkansas to construct and operate a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on 100 acres of land formerly part of Fort Chaffee. Mitsubishi is expected to invest well over $100 million dollars in this project. The plant, once built, will employ over three hundred people to build the very variable speed wind turbine technology that is at the center of GE’s attacks. “If GE’s unlawful conduct continues, the plant will have to sit idle, as there may be no U.S. demand for Mitsubishi turbines at a time when America is moving forward with an energy strategy that seeks to harness the power of the wind.”
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc., a United States Delaware corporation, today filed an antitrust lawsuit in United States District Court against General Electric Company (GE). The complaint charges GE with a scheme to monopolize the market for variable speed wind turbines in the United States. Mitsubishi seeks damages that will be calculated during litigation but are expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars and probably be in excess of a billion.
In the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court’s Western District of Arkansas, Mitsubishi alleges that after Mitsubishi gained a foothold in the United States market in 2006, GE embarked on an unlawful anticompetitive scheme to drive Mitsubishi suppliers out of the U.S. market.
In addition, attorneys for Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Ltd. (MHI) today filed suit in United States District Court’s Middle District of Florida against General Electric Company charging them with infringing a key Mitsubishi patent for variable speed wind turbines, alleging that GE has been making, using, selling and offering to sell infringing turbines without any authorization or license to do so.
As the nation is poised to embrace new wind turbines – a GE strategy to monopolize
Mitsubishi’s complaint alleges that GE used their lawsuits as a marketing tool. Company spokeswoman Sonia Williams explained, “GE’s patent infringement lawsuit deterred customers from purchasing variable speed wind turbines from Mitsubishi. Our lawsuit documents how GE representatives intimidated Mitsubishi customers by advising them to either purchase license agreements from GE or face infringement risk.”
Ms. Williams noted that Mitsubishi has signed a development agreement with the State of Arkansas to construct and operate a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on 100 acres of land formerly part of Fort Chaffee. Mitsubishi is expected to invest well over $100 million dollars in this project.
The wind energy plant, once built, will employ over three hundred people to build the very variable speed wind turbine technology that is at the center of GE’s attacks. “If GE’s unlawful conduct continues, the plant will have to sit idle, as there may be no U.S. demand for Mitsubishi turbines at a time when America is moving forward with an energy strategy that seeks to harness the power of the wind.”
