BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

It is interesting to see lawyers in other cultures. Japan has 135 million people
and less than 20,000 lawyers. In Japan, lawyers are used to clean up the mess
after every possible alternative has failed. In Japan, when Americans bring an
attorney to a business meeting, many Japanese business people will politely sit
and listen and leave. They will not discuss business in front of a U.S.
attorney. In the U.S., there is a lawyer for every 153 man, woman and child. The
U.S. is a nation of laws and we need attorneys, but suing has gotten
surrealistic.

Bill Brooks wrote:

> Joel,
>
> "What a wonderful world this could be...." Ironic isn't it. The good news is
> that any money they extorted out of those lawsuits they lost in their a-Si
> manufacturing venture when they couldn't make it work. Maybe that's what
> just desserts are... I guess sueing wasn't the path to big profits.
>
> Bill.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 6:04 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: Re: BP Solar Closes Thin Film Operations [RE-wrenches]
>
> Some of you may remember that Solarex sued APS (former owner of the
> Fairfield, CA building that BP now occupies) and sued Siemens Solar and sued
> Utility Power Group (Mike Stern's amorphous PV company) for infringing on an
> old RCA amorphous silicon PV patent that Solarex had licensed. Solarex won
> the law suit, forced those three companies to shut down their aSi operations
> and then started pushing Millennium Modules thanks to the $0.75/W subsidy
> that Virginia gave to them.
>
> ***snip****
>
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