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Incidentally, http://blogs.orrick.com/trade-secrets-watch/2013/07/10/money-money-money-top-10-trade-secret-verdicts/,
Out of top 10 Trade Secret IP theft verdicts, NOT 1 involved pure software based trade secret. And ONLY 2 had verdicts exceeding $800 million.
More bad news for AMSC just keep coming: AUGUST 2013
(1) AMSC, this month of August 2013, “dismissed” its public auditing firm of PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC), over unspecified “disagreements”.
Hmm…. I think PwC smells an investigation coming.
(2) AMSC’s VP of Communication Jason Fredette left AMSC, in 2013, to become “independent communication consultant”. His Linkedin profile indicates “Independent Communications Consultant Client: AMSC (American Superconductor Corp.)”

Yes, this was the same Jason Fredette quoted by numerous articles about the Sinovel dispute.
Hmm…. Why would a VP of Communication leave to become an independent communication consultant for the same company??
Can someone say, “laid off”, kick off to the curb, on furlough, resume place holder?
(3) AMSC’s General Counsel, John W. Powell, left AMSC to join as an “of counsel” for a small Boston IP law firm of Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao LLP. (The move is only indicated on his linkedin, as AMSC still list him as general counsel, and the law firm has not added him on their website yet).

When I say “small law firm”, I mean tiny tiny. The firm has less than 10 lawyers.
Mr. Powell, previously worked for noted companies like Motorola and Raytheon, and even testified before the US Sentencing Commission regarding the Sinovel case.
Pretty giant fall from in-house Fortune 500 to “of counsel” of a D-list law firm.
Perhaps Mr. Powell is laid off? Or he knows legal troubles coming when he smells them.
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