Editing Enercon (section)

==Issues==
===Patent dispute===
Enercon was prohibited from exporting their wind turbines to the US until 2010 due to alleged infringement of {{US patent|5083039}}.<ref name="USC">{{cite web
|url         = http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/Federal/judicial/fed/opinions/97opinions/97-1554.html
|title       = Enercon vs. International Trade Commission and Zond Energy Systems
|access-date  = 15 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url         = http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_Greening_Of_Patent_Litigation_999.html
|title       = The Greening of Patent Litigation
|author      = Space Daily Staff Writers
|date=April 2008
|access-date  = 15 July 2011}}</ref> In a dispute before the [[United States International Trade Commission]], Enercon did not challenge the validity of the US patent but argued that their technology was not affected. The ITC decided that the patent covered the technology in question and banned Enercon turbines from the US market until 2010.<ref name="itc.report">{{cite web |url=https://www.usitc.gov/publications/337/pub3003.pdf |title=In the matter of certain variable speed wind turbines and components thereof |publisher=[[U.S. International Trade Commission]] |date=November 1996 |access-date=8 May 2017}}</ref> Later, a cross patent agreement was made with the competitor [[General Electric]], the successor of Kenetech, after similar claims of Enercon against GE. According to a [[National Security Agency|NSA]] employee detailed information concerning Enercon was passed on to Kenetech via [[ECHELON]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.zeit.de:80/1999/40/199940.nsa_2_.xml?page=all
 |title        = Verrat unter Freunden
 |trans-title  = Treachery among friends
 |last         = Schröm
 |first        = Oliver
 |author-link  = Oliver Schröm
 |publisher    = [[Die Zeit]] (Zeit Online)
 |date         = 30 October 1999
|language     = de
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100420072230/http://www.zeit.de/1999/40/199940.nsa_2_.xml?page=all
 |archive-date = 20 April 2010
|access-date  = 4 May 2008
|url-status     = live
}}</ref> The aim of the alleged [[industrial espionage]] against Enercon was the forwarding of details of [[Aloys Wobben|Wobben]]'s generator technology to a US firm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/rapport_echelon_en.pdf|title=Echelon Rapport, EU Parliament}}</ref>