Fairchild Semiconductor counsel retained Cornerstone Research and Michael Keeley to analyze damages claims by the plaintiff, Power Integrations, Inc., from alleged patent infringement in mobile charging technology.
Retained by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Fairchild Semiconductor counsel retained Cornerstone Research and Senior Vice President Michael Keeley to analyze damages claims by the plaintiff, Power Integrations, Inc., from alleged patent infringement in mobile charging technology. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated the $12.9 million in damages awarded by a lower court. The Federal Circuit’s March 26, 2013, decision described Power Integrations’ damages evidence as “derived from unreliable data and built on speculation.”
The Federal Circuit vacated even the reduced amount and instructed the lower court to conduct further proceedings to determine damages.
The $12.9 million in damages awarded by the lower court previously had been reduced from an original claim of $33.9 million. Dr. Keeley had analyzed and testified about the many flaws in Power Integrations’ damages claim in a lower court trial seven years earlier, including the fact that Power Integrations had claimed damages on worldwide sales, not U.S. sales. The Federal Circuit vacated even the reduced amount and instructed the lower court to conduct further proceedings to determine damages that could result from the approximately $500,000 to $750,000 worth of U.S. sales and imports into the United States of affected products.