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Huawei won SolarEdge patent lawsuit, EUIPO uplift previous decision
According to the latest media reports, Huawei won the patent lawsuit filed by the SolarEdge technology in Europe. The European Intellectual Patent Office (EUIPO) board has to uplift the previous decision to give the Chinese firm a clearance note.
The verdict court was in Mannheim, Germany that appointed for the hearings regarding this subject. This story begins when Israeli solar technology manufacturer SolarEdge filed a lawsuit in Mannheim against Huawei and German distributor Wattkraft.
The plaintiff accused both firms of infringing on three of their patents. Although, the Appeal Board of the European Patent Office rejected SolarEdge’s appeal against the patent revocation procedure EP 29 30 839 B1 (Case ID: TO678/20-3.5.02) in mid-October this year.
On this subject, the Appeals Board of the European Patent Office stated that this multi-level inverter patent is superannuated. According to the info, SolarEdge may withdraw the lawsuit in Mannheim in the next few days, or the Israeli company has to pay a high compensation for dismissing the infringement lawsuit.
Huawei SolarEdge Patent Lawsuit:
For your information, the other two infringement lawsuits that SolarEdge filed against Huawei in Mannheim were not easygoing. SolarEdge accused Huawei of infringing its European patents EP 2 135 348 B1 and EP 28 59 650 B1 in 2018, the patents involved and solar inverters are related to the optimizer.
Later in October 2019, the Mannheim District Court dismissed the infringement lawsuit against EP 2 135 348 B1. SolarEdge appealed the decision to the Karlsruhe High District Court (Case No. 6 U 26/20), but the court declared the patent invalid in November 2020. SolarEdge subsequently appealed these two decisions to the Federal Court (Case No. X ZR 39/21), and the court has not yet ruled on these two appeals.
Reaching June 2021, the Federal Patent Court upheld the third litigation patent EP 28 59 650 B1, but with some restrictions. Both SolarEdge and Huawei challenged the ruling (Case No: X ZR 79/21).
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