Along with the brand new lawsuit, which was filed in Germany, Maxeon introduced that it’s interesting a preliminary injunction determination just lately made by a court docket within the Netherlands because of an ongoing patent dispute with Aiko.
Singapore-based PV producer Maxeon Solar Technologies has filed a patent infringement lawsuit on the Düsseldorf Local Division of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court.
The case is towards Aiko Solar’s models: Aiko Energy Germany GmbH, Solarlab Aiko Europe GmbH and Aiko Energy Netherlands BV, in addition to a few of Aiko’s European companions, together with Memodo, Libra, VDH, PowerDeal, and Coenergia . Maxeon alleged that the businesses infringed on a Maxeon patent associated to photo voltaic cell know-how.
Marc Robinson, Maxeon’s Associate General Counsel, mentioned the corporate is looking for an injunction towards Aiko and its distributors in every of the contracting member states, together with Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. “Maxeon has a deep patent portfolio and can proceed to take aggressive actions to cease infringing actions,” added Robinson.
Maxeon additionally filed an attraction in a preliminary injunction determination within the Netherlands in reference to the continuing patent dispute with Aiko. In May, the choose dominated that Aiko Solar didn’t infringe Maxeon Solar’s EP2297788B1 patent for back-contact photo voltaic cells. The case has already been filed November 2023.
In a press release launched in the present day, Maxeon mentioned it “continues to strongly imagine within the energy, validity, and enforceability of its patent portfolio and the infringement claims filed towards of Aiko Energy Netherlands BV (previously named Eironn Netherlands BV), VDH, and Libra.”
In March, Maxeon filed a lawsuit towards Canadian Solar in US court docket, claiming patent infringement on an unspecified TOPCon photo voltaic cell know-how.
It was adopted by two different instances of patent infringement within the US towards South Korea’s Hanwha Qcells and Norway-headquartered REC Solar Holdings AS in April, which Maxeon mentioned was additionally associated to unspecified photo voltaic cell know-how at TOPCon.
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