of November 29, Jingao Technologies and Zhengtai Xinneng issued a joint statement. Both parties and their affiliated companies have reached a settlement on the ongoing patent disputes worldwide (for details, please click: the market was not surprised by the settlement between the two leading companies.". In the past patent disputes, there are not a few cases that finally choose to settle.
In addition to the above cases, this year there is a "handshake" between JinkoSolar and Longji Green Energy. The patent dispute
between JinkoSolar and Longji Green Energy began at the end of 2024. In just a few months, the two sides "fought" from home to abroad, involving China, the United States, Australia, Europe and other places, involving more than 10 cases. Further back in
time, at the end of 2024, Maxeon , a subsidiary of TCL Zhonghuan Holdings, and Tongwei Solar Energy (Hefei) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tongwei Co., Ltd., reached a global settlement on shingled solar cell and module technology and related patent disputes between the two sides; In 2023, the patent dispute between Trina Solar and Hanwha was settled; in 2022, Maxeon and Atlas settled the patent infringement lawsuit.
Since then, Trina Solar and Atlas have launched a series of "pulling" around patent disputes. On February 10, 2025, Trina Solar announced that it had filed a lawsuit with the Jiangsu Provincial Higher People's Court on the grounds that Atlas had infringed its two invention patents, demanding compensation from the other party . 10.
As soon as the announcement came out, the photovoltaic industry was instantly fried. The claim amount of 1.058 billion yuan is not only the https://www.databm. of In response, Atlas responded that Trina Solar's two patents should be invalid, and it has taken active action to deal with them.
According to the 2025 semi-annual report released by Atlas on August 22, the relevant cases are still under trial . The patent disputes between Trina Solar Energy and Runyang Stock and Zhongqing Solar Energy have not yet been announced publicly.
this year, First Solar sued Jingke Energy and Atlas in the United States for the same patented technology , accusing two leading Chinese photovoltaic companies of infringing their TOPCon patented technology .
In response to First Solar's allegations, in July and August this year, Jingke Energy and Atlas filed IPR proceedings with the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for the relevant patented technologies of First Solar. Similar to patent invalidation procedure).
According to the latest news, on November 20, the director of the US Patent Office rejected the IPR procedure proposed by JinkoSolar for the second time. The IPR proposed by Atlas was rejected in October, but the company filed an objection in November. At present, the final result of the IPR request of Atlas has not yet come out. However, there is a view in the market that Atlas's IPR request will probably be rejected.
In addition, pending patent lawsuits include patent disputes between Maxeon and Atlas, patent disputes between Trina Solar and Indian company Adani, and infringement disputes between JinkoSolar and Japanese company VS UN Solar, Indian company Waaree and American company SEG.
Reconciliation & Litigation, Not AB Side
The author believes that both reconciliation and litigation are essentially one of the commercial means for enterprises to compete for the target market. Whether it is war or peace ultimately depends on the balance of the enterprise's own interests at present. The downward cycle of the
photovoltaic industry has been two years, although with the help of the "visible hand", there are signs of recovery on the surface of the industry, but the real talent in the industry knows that the dark moment has not passed.
According to Digital New Energy DataBM. Many manufacturers, even leading enterprises, have already begun to take holidays , and some enterprises "notify" employees to "leave voluntarily" . Some small factories have declared bankruptcy directly (for details, please click: that domestic market demand has not yet recovered." While the overseas market is developing localization, it also blocks all kinds of encirclement and interception of China's photovoltaic industry. Chinese photovoltaic companies have long been accustomed to trade barriers such as
high tariffs and lists of restrictions. Now it has made great efforts in the technology patents of Chinese photovoltaic enterprises.
According to overseas media reports in October, the European Patent Office revoked the patent EP 4092759B1 for a photovoltaic cell manufacturing process of Jingao Technologies. The reason is that "the new content is beyond the scope of the original application" (for details, please click: long slope and thick snow"). In today's environment, for China's photovoltaic enterprises, the top priority should be to abandon internal friction, hold together to keep warm, and carry through the cold winter in order to win more possibilities.
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