FoCo’s Ampt seeks import ban on alleged patent infringers 

FORT COLLINS — Ampt LLC, a Fort Collins-based developer of power-conversion technology for photovoltaic systems at solar power plants, has requested that the U.S. International Trade Commission investigate a competitor that it alleges is importing goods that infringe upon Ampt patents, and the commission has obliged. 

The quasi-judicial federal agency is investigating SolarEdge Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: SEDG), a company with operations in California and Israel, for allegedly profiting from power optimizers for solar panels and inverters for solar power systems that Ampt claims violate its intellectual property rights.

Ampt, represented by Greenberg Traurig LLP, has also filed infringement claims in U.S. District…