Shoals Technologies Group Inc. won a $96 million jury award in a patent infringement lawsuit against Voltage LLC and Ningbo Voltage Smart Production Co. in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.
The jury found that Voltage willfully infringed Shoals' patents and rejected the defendants' validity challenges. The court indicated it will grant a preliminary injunction effective immediately, blocking the manufacture, distribution, or sale of Voltage's LYNX product in the United States. The judgment may be increased further due to the willfulness finding.
A prior ruling by the International Trade Commission in June found that Voltage's LYNX product infringed Shoals' patents covering aspects of its Big Lead Assembly products and barred the importation of those infringing products. The Presidential Review Period for the ITC determination has lapsed without intervention.
Shoals, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Tennessee, specializes in electrical infrastructure solutions for solar, battery storage, and data center power systems. Brandon Moss, CEO of Shoals, stated, 'These outcomes affirm the strength of our intellectual property and the importance of protecting the innovations behind our differentiated solutions.'
