Aixu was sued for patent infringement by TCL Zhonghuan Shareholding Company again! BC Patent Dispute Expands Again

On Dec. 21, TCL Zhonghuan Holdings Maxeon Solar Technologies (Maxeon) jumped 16% in midday trading. The reason for the surge may be related to a news announced by the company on the same day. On the

news side, Maxeon announced on the 21st that its subsidiary is Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.

. Maxeon and Aixu's patent dispute over BC has expanded from Germany to the Netherlands, and according to company sources. Its patent infringement investigation of TOPCon has been launched in the United States.

Interestingly, on December 20, Aixu just launched the world's first ABC component with high double-sided rate- "Star Series", which is specially designed for centralized power plant scenarios, with a double-sided rate of 70%. The next day, he was sued by Maxeon in the Netherlands.

Earlier, on November 18 , Aixu shares were disclosed. The Aiko Energy Germany GmbH and Solarlab Aiko Europe GmbH of the company's overseas subsidiaries received the litigation documents served by the Mannheim District Court of Germany. In Germany

, Maxeon accused two German subsidiaries of developing and selling ABC module products of "A450-MAH54Mb" model, which used Maxeon Solar's European patent number EP2297788B1 without permission.

In the German lawsuit, Maxeon claimed a claim of 500,000 euros and assumed the cost of the plaintiff's lawsuit, demanded to stop the infringement and recall the products suspected of infringement, and demanded to provide information about the sales of the products suspected of infringement.

In response to the German lawsuit, Aixu said in the announcement that the company's ABC products are fundamentally different from Maxeon Solar's EP2297788B1 patented technology, and there is no infringement of the patent.

Digital New Energy DataBM. For details, please click [ Photovoltaic Giant's "Patent War" Rises Again! In an interview with the media at the end of November, the Chief Operating Officer of Weixin. QQ. Maxeon

said that "the quality status of its products is the key to the fierce competition from Chinese manufacturers", which shows that its confrontation with Chinese photovoltaic enterprises is like water and fire. Since

this year, Aixu's expansion in the European market has been accelerating.

In August, Aixu signed a 650MW ABC module supply agreement with LIBRA, the largest consumer distributor in the Netherlands ; In September, Aixu signed a 520 MW supply agreement with VDH SOLAR, the general supplier of photovoltaic products in the Netherlands ; In October, the company once again joined hands with HADEC, a Dutch photovoltaic company, and officially released the Benelux Economic Union marketing plan on the same day to continuously expand the depth of cooperation with local enterprises. Lu Haojie, deputy general manager

of Aixu, said, "Aixu took its first step into the European market in 2023, and the Netherlands is one of its important strategic countries in Europe.".

At present, Aixu has overseas subsidiaries in nine countries and regions, including the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Singapore and Japan. In the foreseeable future, in order to compete for the market, Dutch Aixu will not be the last stop of Maxeon's patent lawsuit , and Aixu will not be the last company to be sued by Maxeon.

and just before, Several of the companies under investigation have announced plans to export or manufacture TOPCon components in the United States. In response, Maxeon has begun to actively monitor the U.S. market for potentially infringing products.

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