Tesla sued Australian firm Cap-XX in Texas federal courtroom on Friday, claiming its supercapacitors used for storing power in electric-vehicle batteries infringe two U.S. patents owned by a Tesla subsidiary.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk pledged in 2014 to not “provoke patent lawsuits in opposition to anybody who, in good religion, desires to make use of our know-how.” The corporate says the authorized motion is available in response to a lawsuit that Cap-XX initially filed in opposition to Tesla subsidiary Maxwell Applied sciences in 2019 for patent infringement.
“Maxwell has a historical past of innovation that has resulted in its personal patents, now assigned to Tesla, and thus Tesla brings this go well with in opposition to Cap-XX to guard its mental property rights,” the lawsuit mentioned.
Representatives for Tesla and Cap-XX didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Courtroom for the Jap District of Texas.
Tesla acquired Maxwell in 2019. Like Cap-XX, Maxwell makes capacitors for electrical automobiles that improve their energy-storage capabilities. The patents that Cap-XX allegedly infringed relate to electrodes utilized in supercapacitors, which Tesla referred to as the “major supply of the gadget’s energy capabilities.”
Tesla mentioned the electrodes utilized in Cap-XX’s supercapacitors work in the identical approach as Maxwell’s patented know-how. It requested the courtroom for an unspecified amount of cash damages.
Cap-XX’s ongoing lawsuit in Delaware federal courtroom accuses Maxwell of infringing its personal supercapacitor patents.
