The clean energy manufacturing arm of General Electic Co. plans to appeal a federal judge’s decision to ban it from U.S. market deployment of its Haliade-X offshore wind energy mega-turbine, the only 14-MW machine available, saying it infringes on a patent owned by Siemens Gamesa, a German-Spanish manufacturing rival.
In a ruling sought by the European firm following a federal jury verdict in June favoring it in key aspects of the patent dispute, Massachusetts federal district court Judge William Young said Siemens would suffer irreparable injury if it did not issue a permanent injunction against Haliade-X’s continued use by GE, saying legal remedies are inadequate to compensate Siemens for the injury.