Assembly of solar panels at Maxeon’s factory in Mexico.
Maxeon Solar Technologies announced on April 19 that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas REC Solar Holdings And Hanwhaalleging infringement of Maxeon patents relating to TOPCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) solar cell technology.
After purchasing the patents on Solaria’s shingled cell technology last year, Maxeon now owns more than 1,650 issued patents and more than 330 pending patent applications related to interdigitated back contact (IBC), shingled hypercell and TOPCon solar technology. The company announced last year that it is investigating several companies for infringing on Maxeon’s patents. Maxeon also initiated a patent infringement lawsuit against Canadian Solar in March 2024.
“Intellectual property infringement combines with harmful dumping and subsidy-driven excess global production capacity as an unfair trade practice that distorts markets and undermines a level playing field for global solar production,” said Marc Robinson, Associate General Counsel of Maxeon. “Maxeon is a strong supporter of fair competition and will continue to vigorously enforce the company’s patent rights in the United States and other markets.”
News item from Maxeon Solar Technologies