- Siemens and GE have agreed to settle their wind turbine technology patent dispute.
- Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy sued General Electric for patent infringement in 2020.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and General Electric have reached an agreement to settle all of their wind turbine technology patent disputes in the US and Europe.
The settlement terms were not disclosed, but it was described as amicable, and the companies and their subsidiaries will reportedly receive cross-licenses for the patents in question.
Siemens Gamesa sued GE for patent infringement in 2020, claiming that the latter’s Haliade-X turbines infringed on its patents.
Siemens Gamesa stated in a release that “GE and Siemens Gamesa have reached an amicable settlement of all their wind turbine technology patent disputes in the US and Europe on confidential terms and have granted each other and their respective subsidiaries worldwide cross licenses under the asserted patent families, for the life of those patent families.”