SK Innovation, which first won the battery patent lawsuit against LG Energy Solutions, is confident that it has virtually won the patent litigation between the two companies over the past 10 years. He also emphasized that he will respond strictly to the remaining legal proceedings until the end.
On the 6th, SK Innovation said, “LG’s separation membrane patent lawsuit against our company is actually ending with our victory in 10 years. The company will respond strictly until the end, no matter how long it takes to normalize the abnormality.” “Consistent position of” he said.
ITC made a’Initial Determination’ in the battery patent infringement lawsuit filed by LG Energy Solutions against SK Innovation on the 31st of last month (hereafter local time), stating that SK did not infringe the patent.
At the same time, ITC said that LG’s’SRS 517′ patent was valid for the separation membrane coating, but that SK did not infringe LG’s patent. It was judged that there was no validity for another three patents.
The battery patent litigation between the two companies began in 2011 when LG Chem, the predecessor of LG Energy Solutions, filed. At that time, LG Chem filed a complaint against SK, which supplied the company with a separator, claiming that the patented technology of the battery separator was violated. SK Innovation also responded face-to-face by filing a patent invalidation lawsuit, and both companies agreed at the time of the Supreme Court ruling.
SK Innovation said, “In 2011 and 2019, when LG filed a lawsuit with a separator patent, it was the time when our company made significant results such as winning customer orders and business expansion in the battery business.” There is something in common: grabbing an ankle to do it,” he said.
“In a patent lawsuit filed against LG, if it is determined that LG has infringed our patent, LG’s battery business will be severely affected.” “If we had verified and judged it, a sufficiently different decision would have been made.”
The two companies are ahead of ITC’s preliminary decision on patent litigation on July 30th. This lawsuit was filed by SK Innovation against LG Energy Solutions.
In less than 10% of cases, ITC reversed its judgment when making a preliminary decision in a final decision on a patent litigation. The ITC also cited the preliminary decision containing SK’s early loss ruling in the trade secret infringement lawsuit. The win or loss of the patent lawsuit is also expected to be judged at this time.
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On the other hand, LG Energy Solutions issued a statement on the day and said, “SK Innovation is interpreting the contents of the judgment as sub-acquisition by expressing it as if the patent litigation was a preliminary decision, SK’s behavior of asserting itself is rather an ankle.”
LG said, “Even though he is a perpetrator that has been clearly revealed to have stolen the technology, he has even pretended to withdraw from the Georgia plant as a hostage against the US government.” It is necessary to look back on whether it is suitable for ESG management of a global company that is becoming increasingly important.”