Canadian Solar responds to ITC complaint filed by Solaria

Canadian Solar issued the following comment in response to Solaria’s ITC complaint regarding potential patent infringement:

Over the past five months, Canadian Solar has been vigorously litigating a patent lawsuit filed by Solaria in April 2020 in the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, entitled The Solaria Corporation v. Canadian Solar Inc., Case No. 4:20-cv-02169-JST (N.D. Cal.). Canadian Solar countersued with claims requesting that the Court declare, as Canadian Solar believes, that:

(1) none of the products at issue in the case infringe the Solaria patents;

(2) Solaria withheld key evidence from the U.S. Patent Office when seeking its patents; and

(3) this, among other reasons, renders the asserted claims both invalid and unenforceable.

In the face of Canadian Solar’s countersuit, Solaria opted to file a new lawsuit with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), entitled Certain Shingled Solar Modules, Components Thereof and Methods for Manufacturing the Same, Section 337 Investigation Docket No. 3491. The ITC investigation is expected to be instituted next month.

Asserting the same family of patents against the same limited number of products (HiDM and HiDM5) in a different forum does not make Solaria’s claims any less flawed. Canadian Solar will continue to vigorously defend these lawsuits, while the Company continues to focus its energy on developing superior product and bringing innovation to the market.

Solaria’s District Court complaint filed on March 31, 2020, can be read here.

Solaria’s amended District Court complaint filed on June 3, 2020, can be read here.

Solaria’s ITC complaint filed on September 15, 2020, can be read here.

News item from Canadian Solar

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Original Source: https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/09/canadian-solar-responds-to-itc-complaint-filed-by-solaria/