Power Integrations Wins Another Patent Case Against Fairchild

Fairchild Semiconductor found to willfully infringe two of Power Integrations’ patents, implicating more than 140 Fairchild products; jury awards damages of $105 million

SAN JOSE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 5, 2014 — Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI) today announced a verdict in one of its ongoing patent infringement lawsuits against Fairchild Semiconductor. After a month-long trial in federal district court in San Francisco, a jury found yesterday that Fairchild willfully infringed two of Power Integrations’ patents, and awarded Power Integrations damages of $105 million. Based on the finding of willfulness, the Court could enhance the award up to three times the amount specified by the jury. The jury also denied all counterclaims by Fairchild alleging infringement by Power Integrations.

Based on the jury’s findings, Power Integrations intends to seek a permanent injunction against the more than 140 infringing parts implicated in the decision (and any additional parts with substantially identical infringing circuitry). The infringing features include what Fairchild terms its “Green Mode” technology; a list of part numbers determined to be infringing is shown below.

Today’s decision follows three previous findings of infringement against Fairchild and its System General (SG) subsidiary in cases brought by Power Integrations. In 2006, Fairchild was found in another federal court to infringe four of Power Integrations’ patents, resulting in a permanent injunction against more than 100 infringing Fairchild products (listed below). The court later found the infringement to be willful, describing Fairchild’s behavior as “blatant copying”. Also in 2006, the International Trade Commission found that SG infringed two of Power Integrations’ patents (including one of the same patents involved in the latest verdict) and later issued an exclusion order barring the infringing products from the U.S. market.

In 2012, Fairchild was again found to violate two of the same patents found to be infringed in the 2006 district-court decision. Power Integrations is presently seeking an injunction against approximately 80 Fairchild products implicated in that ruling (and any additional parts with substantially identical infringing circuitry), as listed below.

Commented Balu Balakrishnan, president and CEO of Power Integrations: “Today’s decision marks the fourth time Fairchild and its SG subsidiary have been found to infringe our patents. We hope this latest finding and the accompanying damage award will cause Fairchild to finally re-examine their business practices and begin respecting the intellectual property that we have worked so hard to develop over the past 25 years.”

The list of infringing Fairchild products implicated in yesterday’s decision is as follows:

AS1000   FAN6755W   FSBH0170A   LTA703S   SG6840
AS1003   FAN6756   FSBH0170W   LTA704S   SG6841
AS1207   FAN6756AHL   FSBH0270   LTA705S   SG6841x3
DAP024   FAN6791   FSBH0270_F116   LTA809FA   SG6842
DAP02A   FAN6793   FSBH0270A   LTA810FA   SG6842J
FAN100   FAN6861   FSBH0270W   LTA811FA   SG6843
FAN102   FAN6862W   FSBH0370   PO168   SG6846
FAN103   FAN6862   FSBH0370_F116   PO268   SG6846A
FAN103W   FAN6862H   FSBH0F70   PO368   SG6846B
FAN104   FAN6862HR   FSBH0F70A   SG3843G   SG6846C
FAN104W   FAN6862L   FSBH0F70A_F116   SG5701   SG6846G
FAN301   FAN6862R   FSBH0F70WA   SG5841   SG6846WA
FAN400A   FAN6863   FSEZ1016A   SG5841J   SG6848
FAN400C   FAN6863L   FSEZ1216   SG5842   SG6849
FAN6747   FAN6863R   FSEZ1216B   SG5842A   SG68502
FAN6747W   FAN6863W   FSEZ1217   SG5842J   SG68502A
FAN6747WA   FAN6863WE   FSEZ1307   SG5842JA   SG68502B
FAN6747WALMY   FAN6863WL   FSEZ1307S   SG5843   SG6858
FAN6749   FAN6863WR   FSEZ1317   SG5851   SG6859
FAN6751   FL103   FSEZ1317A   SG5851A   SG6859A
FAN6751MR   FL7730   FSEZ1317WA   SG6741   SG6859D
FAN6752   FL7732   FSEZ2007   SG6741A   SG6860
FAN6753   FSB117H   FSEZ2016   SG6742   SG6902
FAN6754   FSB127H   FSEZ2037   SG6742HL   SG6905
FAN6754A   FSB137HL   FSL127H   SG6742HR   SG6932
FAN6754B   FSB147H   FSL137H   SG6742ML   SGP100
FAN6754WA   FSBH0170   LTA504SG   SG6742MR   SGP101
FAN6755   FSBH0170_F116   LTA504SJ   SG6742WMR   SGP400
FAN6755UW                

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