Innoscience Technology, a company founded to create a global energy ecosystem based on high-performance, low-cost, gallium-nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) power solutions, hereby responds to the errors of recent statements made in the press on new patent infringement litigations brought by Infineon Technologies Austria AG (“Infineon”) in Germany.
While it is true that Infineon obtained a preliminary injunction against Innoscience Europe B.V. from the District Court in Munich, Germany, precluding Innoscience from offering some of Innoscience’s advanced GaN-on-Si power solutions at the PCIM Europe 2024 tradeshow, from June 11-13, in Nuremberg, the preliminary injunction was obtained “ex parte” without representation to or response from Innoscience. Indeed, the Court that issued the injunction did not afford Innoscience a chance to comment or present a defense before issuing the preliminary injunction. Infineon even engaged in odd gamesmanship by providing a cease-and-desist letter to Innoscience suggesting it would seek a preliminary injunction from the Court in Nuremberg, but then sought an injunction from the Court in Munich. Innoscience had in good faith contacted the Court in Nuremberg, but because Infineon filed its request for preliminary injunction in a different court, Innoscience was not provided notice or an opportunity to defend itself.
To be clear, the single patent raised in the ex parte preliminary injunction does not “cover core aspects of GaN power semiconductors.” The claims of the single patent are directed to packaging, not the core technologies of GaN transistors (nor Innoscience’s valued GaN wafers).
The preliminary injunction applies to the PCIM tradeshow only, so it has no effect on Innoscience’s current ability to make, use, sell, offer to sell, or import into Germany its cutting-edge GaN products for customers beyond the PCIM tradeshow. Further, the preliminary injunction only concerns a small fraction of Innoscience’s packaged high-voltage (650V-700V) GaN transistors and does not affect the vast majority of its other products (including unpackaged transistors and wafers, low-voltage devices, integrated solutions, bi-directional devices, mid-voltage devices, and certain packaged transistors).
In the end, Innoscience is confident that Infineon’s actions were unfounded and intends to present a full defense to the Munich Court to hold Infineon accountable.
Aside from the preliminary injunction, Infineon also filed several other patent lawsuits that Innoscience opposes and will vigorously defend. Of significant importance, the lawsuits only concern a small fraction of Innoscience’s packaged high-voltage (650V-700V) GaN transistors and does not affect the vast majority of its other products (including unpackaged transistors and wafers, low-voltage devices, integrated solutions, bi-directional devices, mid-voltage devices, and certain packaged transistors). The lawsuits have no effect on Innoscience’s current ability to deliver products, and even if they were successful (we are confident they will not be), this should have little to no effect on Innoscience’s ability to make, use, sell, offer to sell, or import its products for customers, especially its GaN wafers.
Innoscience respects others’ valid IP rights and is also dedicated to developing its own IP and technology. Despite being an eight-year old company, Innoscience has filed more than 800 patent applications globally. Innoscience’s R&D team boasts 500+ experts across the world.
Through continuing innovation, Innoscience has produced GaN devices to power a diverse range of products, from power delivery chargers to data centers and smartphones, showcasing its ability to align with evolving application demands and adapt to diverse customer specifications.
With professionalism and honesty, Innoscience seeks a cooperative and mutually beneficial approach to develop the global GaN industry, even among others in the same industry, including Infineon. Innoscience intends to prevail in the pending lawsuits and is determined to remain a trusted and reliable partner for its customers and contribute to their success by offering top-notch and versatile products and solutions based on Innoscience’s home-grown, superior technologies. Innoscience denies Infineon’s patent infringement allegations as well as the validity of the asserted Infineon German patents. Innoscience will vigorously defend itself and is confident that it will prevail.
