Power Integrations Awarded $139.8 Million in Damages from Fairchild Semiconductor
Power Integrations has announced the latest result in one of its ongoing patent cases against Fairchild Semiconductor. After a trial in federal district court in San Francisco, a jury awarded Power Integrations $139.8 million in damages stemming from Fairchild’s infringement of two Power Integrations patents.
The infringement finding occurred in March 2014 and remains intact; the just-concluded trial was solely to retry damages after an earlier award of $105 million was set aside by the court in view of an intervening change in the law. Power Integrations will also be seeking a permanent injunction against the more than 140 Fairchild parts implicated in this case.
