Wind manufacturers act to defend intellectual property rights

Ros Davidson, Windpower Monthly Magazine, 26 January 2012, 3:11pm

WORLDWIDE: Intellectual property (IP) - especially patents relating to technological innovation - is at the heart of today's wind industry. It is a sign of the industry's age. Unlike in wind power's youth, innovation is no longer freely shared at conferences. And as the industry comes up with new inventions, the major players - GE, Siemens and Vestas - are spending millions of dollars building and maintaining IP portfolios to drive profit and gain the strategic upper hand.

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