Solar panel assembly at Maxeon’s facility in Mexico.
Maxeon Solar Technologies announced on April 19 that it has initiated a patent infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas against REC Solar Holdings and Hanwha, alleging infringement of Maxeon patents relating to TOPCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) solar cell technology.
After buying Solaria’s shingled-cell technology patents last year, Maxeon now holds over 1,650 granted patents and over 330 pending patent applications related to interdigitated back contact (IBC), shingled hypercell and TOPCon solar technology. The company announced last year that it was investigating several companies for infringement of Maxeon’s patents. Maxeon also initiated a patent infringement lawsuit against Canadian Solar in March 2024.
“Intellectual property infringement sits alongside injurious dumping and subsidy-driven excess global production capacity as an unfair trade practice that distorts markets and tilts what should be a level playing field for global solar manufacturing,” said Marc Robinson, Maxeon’s Associate General Counsel. “Maxeon strongly supports fair competition and will continue to vigorously enforce the company’s patent rights in the United States and its other markets.”
News item from Maxeon Solar Technologies
The article reports MAXEON SOLAR’s desire not to let its technology be stolen by companies that have not invested in the progress of solar cells, thus saving many financial resources for many years. Ever since it was born, MAXEON SOLAR has been at the center of many disputes which see it succumb to negative judgments expressed by gurus who are always at the service of the strongest financial entity: the banks and hedge funds. Furthermore, MAXEON SOLAR is not a US company (even if the technology developed when it was SUNPOWER was born in the USA) and therefore the anger at having allowed CHINA to appropriate the relative majority of the company’s share capital makes the judgments of the GURUs paid, even harder. The reality is that MAXEON SOLAR’s SOLAR TECHNOLOGY is unbeatable, with or without the Chinese inside the capital. Rather, I would ask myself why over 35% of the capital of MAXEON SOLAR has been sold short for months… and no one is appropriating those actions to defeat the enemy in the shareholders’ meeting? Meditate on it and while you meditate…many people begin to buy the stock for when…those GURU will be ordered to speak well of MAXEON SOLAR, because whoever pays them will have told them to do so.