What are the compensation of 5 million compensation for the hive energy and launching a sky -high price lawsuit against China Innovation Airlines.

Hongxing Capital Bureau learned on July 20 that under the auspices of the Ningde Intermediate People's Court in Fujian Province, the Ningde Times (300750.SZ) and Honeycomb Energy were in unfairly competitive disputes [(2021) Fujian 09 Minchu 74] reached reach In settlement, Ningde Times received RMB 5 million from the reconciliation of honeycomb energy. On July 18, 2022, the two parties received the "Civil Mediation Council" from the Ningde Intermediate People's Court, and through the full friendly consultation between the two parties. The lawsuit caused by unfair competition finally reached a settlement.

According to the court's trial, although the relevant competition restriction agreement in Ningde Times did not include honeycomb energy in the "Restrictions on the Enterprise of the Competition", the court believed that the business scope of the hive energy was highly overwhelmed by the operation scope of the Ningde Times, and it was possible to identify two. Family companies are competitive corporate relations.

While reaching reconciliation, honeycomb energy also issued a statement saying: "We believe in resolving disputes between enterprises by reconciliation, which is in line with the concept of Chinese traditional culture 'harmony", which will help enterprises focus on the development of technical product development and market operations. Management. The orderly flow of talents in the lithium battery industry will be conducive to the integration and innovation of the industry. Only collaborative cooperation can avoid the industry's rolls. "

Behind the improper competition of bee nest energy

It is a battle for new energy talents

According to the Red Star Capital Bureau, in February this year, Ningde Times filed a lawsuit against honeycomb energy, and the case was in unfair competition.

According to a number of court judgments, from 2018 to 2019, a total of nine Ningde Times employees joined Wuxi Tianhong Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Wuxi Tianhong") and Baoding Yixin Consulting Service Co., Ltd. (The following referred to as "Baoding Yixin") provides services for competitors in Ningde Times. In the Ningde era, the nine people violated the "Confidentiality and Competition Restriction Agreement" signed with them and asked them to compensate for 1 million yuan in liquidated damages.

During his tenure in the Ningde era, the above -mentioned posts were chief engineers, manufacturing engineers and market specialists. Among them, Wang Moumou first resigned from the Ningde Times to transfer the hive energy association.

Baoding Yixin's legal representative is Yang Hongxin, general manager of Hive Energy, and the company's registered address is consistent with the address of Honeycomb Energy Baoding Branch.

In the Ningde era, Baoding Yixin was associated with honeycomb energy. Wang Moumou and others joined Baoding Yixin as a cover. It was intended to avoid the competition agreement signed with him and provide services to competitors' honeycomb energy.

Honeycomb energy was formerly known as the Great Wall Motor (601633.SH) Power Battery Division. It was separated from Great Wall Motors in 2018 and opened independent operations and recently launched listing counseling. The Tianyancha APP shows that the hive energy has currently undergo 7 rounds of financing, and the last one occurred on January 17, and the company's valuation has reached 46 billion yuan.

At present, honeycomb energy has ranked among the top ten in the industry in terms of installation volume. In the first half of this year, the number of hive energy was 2.58GWh, ranking sixth in the industry. As the leading Ningde era, the installed capacity was 52.5GWh in the first half of this year, and the market accounted for 47.67%, but it decreased from 52.1%in 2021.

Launch a sky -high price lawsuit to China Innovation Airlines

By borrowing patent wars to combat competitors

Not only the hive energy, but the Ningde era also sued Tofel and China Innovation Aviation to invade the battery patent technology.

In August last year, the Ningde Times sued Tofel New Energy's case, and the latter brought compensation to the Ningde Times' economic losses of nearly 22.98 million yuan and the rational expenses of Ningde Times to stop infringement expenditure of 326,800 yuan.

In July last year, Ningde Times sued China Innovation Airlines patent infringement, involving three inventions and two practical new patents. To this end, China Innovation Hair submitted five invalid announcements to the National Intellectual Property Office of the National Intellectual Property Office. In May of this year, Ningde Times applied to the court to increase the amount of compensation for China Innovation Airlines from 185 million yuan to 518 million yuan.

After nearly a year of litigation, Ningde's era victory was looking at it. The State Intellectual Property Office was reviewed and decided that the "explosion -proof devices" patent in Ningde Times maintained all effective, and the patent maintenance of the "collection of flow components and batteries" was valid. China Innovation Airlines has taken the initiative to withdraw the two invalid applications of "positive polar chip and battery" and "power battery top cover structure and power battery". There are currently only one of the review results.

Insiders told the Red Star Capital Bureau that behind the battle of talents and patents, there is actually a commercial game between battery factories. Under the Wolf Wolf Ring, Ningde Times crack down on competitors and safeguard their own interests in this way.

At the 2021 performance briefing, Zeng Yuqun, chairman of Ningde Times, responded to the company's successive prosecution of China Innovation Airlines and Honeycomb Energy that protecting intellectual property rights is to protect innovation and can jointly promote industry development.

Red Star News reporter Wu Danruo

Editor Ren Zhijiang

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