Form: 8-K

Current report filing

March 5, 2024

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) March 4, 2024

 

MIDWEST ENERGY EMISSIONS CORP.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Commission file number 000-33067

 

Delaware

 

87-0398271

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

1810 Jester Drive

Corsicana, Texas

 

75109

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (614) 505-6115

 

None

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None.

 

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Item 8.01 Other Events.

 

On March 4, 2024, Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware awarded a $57 million patent infringement verdict in favor of the Company against the remaining group of defendants in the Company’s patent infringement lawsuit which commenced in 2019. The Company stated that the jury awarded separate amounts totaling $57 million against the group of affiliated defendants that included multiple limited liability companies with refined coal industry operations, including CERT Operations II LLC, CERT Operations IV LLC, CERT Operations V LLC, and CERT Operations RCB LLC. The jury determined that these defendants infringed the Company’s patented technologies for mercury emissions and were liable for willful infringement, along with inducing and contributory infringement.

 

A copy of the press release is included as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

Exhibit Number

 

Description

 

 

 

99.1

 

Press release dated March 4, 2024

104

 

Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

 

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

Date:  March 5, 2024

By:

/s/ Richard MacPherson

 

 

 

Richard MacPherson

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

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