Canadian Solar Comments on ITC Complaint Filed by Solaria
- China-based solar module maker Canadian Solar has replied to the new ITC complaint filed by the Solaria Corporation.
The firm has stated that:
Over the past 5 months, Canadian Solar has been intensely litigating a license claim filed by Solaria in April 2020 in the US District Court in Oakland, California, qualified The Solaria Corporation v. Canadian Solar Inc., Case No. 4:20- cv-02169-JST (N.D. Cal.). Canadian Solar countersued with cases asking for that the Court proclaim, as Canadian Solar believes, that:
- none of the items at issue in case infringe the Solaria licenses;
- Solaria withheld key proof from the US Patent Office when seeking its patents; as well as
- this, to name a few reasons, renders the insisted cases both invalid as well as void.
In the face of Canadian Solar's countersuit, Solaria opted to file a new claim with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), qualified Certain Shingled Solar Modules, Components Thereof, and also Methods for Manufacturing the Same, Section 337 Investigation Docket No. 3491. The ITC investigation is anticipated to be set up next month.
The firm mentioned that "insisting the exact same family of patents versus the very same limited number of items (HiDM as well as HiDM5) in a various discussion forum does not make Solaria's cases any type of much less flawed. Canadian Solar will certainly continue to strongly defend these lawsuits, while the Company continues to focus its energy on creating exceptional products and bringing development to the market."
Recently, Solar had actually announced that it had actually submitted added cases against Canadian Solar with the International Trade Commission (ITC).
" Solaria has more than 250 licenses as well as has actually invested greater than USD 200 million in establishing our sophisticated photovoltaic panel technology," Solaria Founder and Director Suvi Sharma had actually stated. "Despite our pending District Court situation, Canadian Solar continues to wilfully abuse Solaria's intellectual property. It's unjust that an infringing firm can swoop in, as Canadian Solar has done below, use our trademarked creations, and also endanger American jobs. We filed the ITC problem because Canadian Solar regards itself above the law, and its anti-competitive behavior has to be fixed."
According to Solaria's problem, Canadian Solar's "HiDM" shingled modules infringe Solaria's U.S. patents that cover tiled or so-called "shingled" solar modules, as well as Solaria's trademarked procedure for dividing solar (PV) strips from solar cells for usage in such modules. Solaria asserts that it presented its high-efficiency, high-density module (HDM) modern technology to Canadian Solar when agents of Canadian Solar examined Solaria's next-generation shingling modern technology for a potential licensing bargain. Shortly after that, Canadian Solar introduced its HiDM shingled modules as well as began advertising and also offering them in the United States. Solaria is looking for an exclusion order that would certainly avoid Canadian Solar from importing infringing items into the United States.