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“Stealing is not competition”: SolarEdge founder comments on IP claim
Following Monday’s announcement, pv magazine spoke to Lior Handelsman, of SolarEdge. The company VP is adamant Huawei has infringed the Israeli firm’s intellectual property, and says defending IP will see the PV industry grow.
June 22, 2018 Marian Willuhn
Lior Handelsman is SolarEdge’s founder and VP for Marketing and Product Strategy.
On Monday SolarEdge announced it had filed a lawsuit in the regional court of Mannheim, Germany, against Huawei. The lawsuit pertains to alleged intellectual property infringements of the HD-Wave topology used in SolarEdge’s inverters. Huawei has denied the claim.
At Intersolar Europe, which closes in Munich today, pv magazine sat down with SolarEdge Vice President for Marketing and Product Strategy – and one of the company’s founders – Lior Handelsman.
pv magazine: What type of signal are you sending, with Monday’s announcement of the IP claim filed against Huawei?
Lior Handelsman: The signal is clear! Like any other industry, the photovoltaic sector can only grow if companies invest in innovation. When other companies use intellectual property [IP] that you developed, and that is rightfully yours without paying you for it, it is considered stealing. Since we believe that Huawei infringed our IP rights, we filed a lawsuit. The only way the PV industry will grow is if IP laws are upheld. We believe that our IP has been copied by Huawei, so we sued them and their distributor in Germany because it is also an IP infringement to bring these products into Germany. Now, this is a matter for the court.
What makes the HD-Wave technology patentable, and why do you believe that will stand up in court?
Patent law is very complicated, but the specific law that we filed a lawsuit for is a granted patent. The U.S. patent office has reviewed that patent, and the European patent office, and they came to view it as a patent. If now, that exact same typology is in another inverter, I think this is an infringement. ... "
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