Category: Green Technologies
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Power provider AES and partner Fluence targeted by non-practicing entity over patents relevant to clean energy distribution, storage
GridScale Solutions LLC has sued the two companies in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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UPC to become “default choice” for patent litigation across many industries, says Umicore Head of IP
The UPC is a “hugely important development in the global IP landscape” and is proving to be an “excellent forum” for patent disputes, Umicore’s head of IP, Sean Alexander, told ip fray in an interview at the third annual IP Dealmakers Europe. Umicore has filed one infringement case in the UPC and is considering filing…
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Decoding BYD’s patent footprint: from stack control to scale, from foreign bets to policy friction
BYD used to look, from outside China, like a distant domestic EV champion. It no longer does. This study mines BYD’s patent-family data for the underlying strategy, not just the counts. The result is a map of stack control, foreign bets, and policy-constrained markets.
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China announces first-ever patent pool: solar panel entities join forces
China’s first-ever patent pool has officially launched, under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), established by solar panel manufacturers Trina Solar, JA Solar, and JinkoSolar. The pool focuses on TOPCon cell and module technologies in mainland China.
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PTAB invalidates Trina Solar’s TOPCon patents, ending parallel U.S. proceedings against Canadian Solar
The PTAB invalidated all claims of two TOPCon patents asserted by Trina Solar against Canadian Solar. The rulings effectively halt the parallel U.S. proceedings, leaving appeal as the only path forward.
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Jinko Solar settles another U.S. solar panel patent infringement dispute
Chinese solar panel manufacturer JinkoSolar has settled its patent infringement litigation against rivals VSUN Solar USA Inc., Toyo Co. Ltd., Abalance Corporation, and subsidiaries WWB Corporation and Fuji Solar Co., Ltd. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Canadian Solar gains victory in U.S. solar panel infringement dispute against Maxeon: all patents-in-suit invalidated
The USPTO PTAB has invalidated three of Maxeon’s solar panel technology patents, granting Canadian Solar a major win in the ongoing solar panel patent infringement wars.
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Solar panel patent wars continue to heat up in Germany, while CAT faces patent infringement suits in UPC, ITC, Eastern District of Texas
Solar panel manufacturer Maxeon has filed its third patent infringement lawsuit against Aiko Solar over solar technology patents in the Munich I Regional Court, while Caterpillar (CAT) has also been hit with a third suit over the alleged infringement of one of rival Doosan Bobcat’s hydraulic patents (following two in the U.S.).
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JinkoSolar dealt blow in solar panel patent infringement dispute: U.S. district court clarifies standard for suing foreign companies
The Northern District of California has clarified that a patentee must be able to establish an agency relationship, prove a “stream of commerce theory”, or why limited jurisdiction discovery is warranted, to sue a foreign company in the U.S.
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UPC’s Court of Appeal makes it easier to show that enforcement in given non-EU/EEA country is unduly burdensome
Context: Unified Patent Court (UPC) decisions on whether a defendant is entitled to collateral covering litigation expenses turn can be justified based on the plaintiff’s financial strength and/or potential enforcement difficulties. Some decisions by the Court of First Instance (CFI) reflected a limited degree of skepticism regarding the enforceability of fee-shifting orders in foreign jurisdictions,…