On December 7, Zhuhai Guanyu Battery Co., Ltd. issued an announcement on the progress of the company's litigation, and the patents involved in the litigation of ATL were declared invalid by the State Intellectual Property Office. According to
the announcement, six ATL patents have been declared invalid by the State Intellectual Property Office in patent disputes between the company and Ningde New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and Dongguan New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (Individually or collectively referred to as "ATL"). The products developed and produced by the Company have completely independent intellectual property rights. The Company will continue to follow up the progress of this case and has taken measures such as appeal to effectively protect the legitimacy of the Company's technology and products and safeguard the interests of the Company and its shareholders.
It is reported that Zhuhai Guanyu Group was founded in 2007, headquartered in Zhuhai, with three major production bases in Zhuhai, Chongqing and Zhejiang, and set up factories in India. Zhuhai Guanyu is one of the major suppliers of consumer polymer soft-pack lithium-ion batteries in the world, serving world-renowned customers in the fields of notebook computers, tablet computers, smart phones, smart wear, power tools, unmanned aerial vehicles and so on. In the field of power batteries, Zhuhai Guanyu has become a qualified supplier of many automobile manufacturers after years of accumulation. At present, it has entered the fields of high-end electric motorcycles, automobile start-up batteries, energy storage and so on, and will gradually enter the fields of passenger car BEV and high-voltage energy storage.
On November 10, Zhuhai Guanyu announced that it had recently received a complaint from Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court of Fujian Province about ATL suing the company for patent infringement.
ATL claims that the related products produced and sold by Zhuhai Guanyu infringe the patent right of its ZL 201580082766.1 No., and accordingly requests the court to order the company to immediately stop manufacturing, using, selling and exporting the related products of the patent involved. Compensation for the plaintiff's economic losses of RMB 10 million and the reasonable expenses of RMB 1 million to stop the infringement, and bear the corresponding litigation costs.