January 12, 2023: Asahi Kasei revealed on January 10 that it received a sequence of court docket challenges in China to guard its patent for lithium ion battery separators.
The Japanese tech agency mentioned the ultimate ruling by the supreme individuals’s court docket of China, handed down on November 2, 2022, ended a four-year authorized battle over Li’s battery separator patents in Asia.
The ultimate ruling ends a protracted authorized battle that started in August 2018, when Asahi filed a patent infringement lawsuit within the Shenzhen intermediate individuals’s court docket in opposition to Shenzhen Xu Ran Digital Co Ltd and others.
The transfer seeks to ban the businesses from promoting their ‘single-layer Wscope’ battery separators in China and obtain damages for patent infringement value a complete of Rmb1 million ($148,000).
Asahi mentioned its declare was initially accepted in full by the supreme individuals’s court docket in December 2020.
Nevertheless, Xu Ran then tried to invalidate Asahi’s patent – a bid that was rejected by the China Nationwide Mental Property Administration and in addition by the Beijing Mental Property Court docket, which handed down its resolution in September 2021.
Xu Ran made a closing attraction to the supreme individuals’s court docket, whose ruling in November ended the matter.
Asahi says it takes nice care to guard mental property rights, warning it is able to cope with violations.
