
7, CEO Daniel McGahn said the company is "awaiting our first substantive hearing in our trade secrets case.


More than $1 billion in market value has been wiped out.Īpparently, the wheels of justice are finally starting to turn. Shares eventually plunged more than 90% from their 2009 peaks, which is where they stand today. Sinovel - and eventually the FBI - found a number of documents directly implicating several employees at both firms with bribery and theft of trade secrets.īut that legal effort appeared to go nowhere, and the $1.2 billion in damages sought seemed like more bark than bite.

AMSC cried foul, alleging that Sinovel simply stole the company's technology base, and sued Sinovel in September 2011 in four separate cases. Unfortunately, according to AMSC, Sinovel apparently decided to simply replicate AMSC's wind turbine operating software, and within a few quarters, orders began to dry up.
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That enabled AMSC to generate its first profits (and positive free cash flow) ever. Sales shot up from $52 million in fiscal 2007 to more than $300 million by fiscal 2010. It's a very competitive field, but when Sinovel, China's largest maker of wind turbines, signed up to be a customer, AMSC's future brightened.
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Those engineers developed a variety of hardware and software products that enable wind-powered turbines to operate in an extremely efficient manner.
