ARC Energy Defends Proprietary Sapphire Technology; Countersues GT Solar for Anticompetitive Conduct

摘要

2011 JUL 29 - (VerticalNews.com) -- Advanced RenewableEnergy Company, LLCrn(ARC Energy), a provider of innovative c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkeyrnsolutions for the LED industry, last week filed an Answer and Counterclaim in HillsboroughrnCounty, New Hampshire Superior Court against GT Solar International, Inc. and various of itsrnsubsidiaries (GT Solar). In its filing, ARC vigorously denies that any of ARC's products orrntechnologies make use of any proprietary GT Solar technology and has countersued GT Solarrnfor anticompetitive conduct. ARC Energy's Counterclaim asserts that GT Solar has madernknowingly false and defamatory statements about ARC Energy's business and products for thernunlawful purpose of inhibiting sales of ARC Energy's sapphire crystal growth system into thernfast growing LED market.