【Reporter Tse Shou-chin/Comprehensive Report】
The patent dispute between two lithium battery giants, CATL and CALB, has entered a new stage. CALB announced that CALB has recently filed four lawsuits with the Higher People’s Courts of Hubei Province and Jiangsu Province against CATL and other companies for infringing its patent rights. The total amount of the lawsuits reached 1.007 billion RMB (approximately 4.5 billion NTD).
According to the above announcement, the one with the highest claim amount among the four lawsuits involves the “liquid-cooling plate battery module” patent, and the defendants are CATL and Tesla Auto Sales and Service (Wuhan) Co., Ltd.
CALB claimed that the two companies had infringed on its patent rights and demanded that they stop manufacturing and selling infringing products; at the same time, CALB required CATL to destroy all infringing products and special molds/equipment for the infringing products, and to compensate CALB for economic losses of 560 million RMB and rights protection expenditure of 2 million RMB.
The patents involved in the other three patent lawsuits are “battery device and assembly method thereof”, “battery pack and battery device” and “battery pack”. In addition to CATL, the defendants also include Sichuan Times, a subsidiary of CATL, as well as new energy vehicle manufacturers of Avita and automobile sales companies of Zeekr.
CATL has previously filed six patent lawsuits against CALB, claiming a total amount of more than 700 million RMB. In the six patent infringement lawsuits, CATL lost two and won three, and the other lawsuit has not yet been pronounced in the first instance.
The latest data shows that in the first nine months of this year, CATL’s domestic market share of power-battery-installation-on-vehicle reached 45.85%, ranking first; CALB’s market share was 6.94%, ranking third.
【2024-10-20/Economic Daily reporter/A8】
188 total views, 2 views today