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Futura Innovations, Inc., the Philippine patent owner of Patent No. P-334455 for a "self-cleaning solar-panel module" (claims 1–4). Without authority from Futura, SunCharge Technologies, a local company, manufactures and uses the device in its solar-maintenance service in Mindanao, and also sells units to customers in the Philippines. Separately, GlobalSolar Imports, a foreign supplier, imports into the Philippines a device marketed as the patented solar-panel cleaner and sells it to Philippine buyers for use in the Philippines, all without authority from Futura. (a) Determine whether SunCharge’s acts constitute infringement. (b) Determine whether GlobalSolar Imports’ importation and sale constitute infringement. (c) State the remedies available to Futura Innovations and the basis for those remedies.