飞兆将面临315亿美元专利侵权赔偿

发布时间：2020-01-14 14:58:39 阅读：次来源：羊毛球厂家

元器件交易网讯 3月6日消息，据外媒eetimes报道，位于加利福尼亚州北部的一家法院判决，飞兆半导体侵犯了Power Integrations持有的两项电源芯片专利。由此，飞兆将面临至少1.05亿美元的赔偿—也可能是这一数字的三倍。

Power Integrations是一家高能效电源转换的高压集成电路公司。

Power Integrations 称，飞兆的侵权是故意的。法院可能将陪审团判决的赔偿数额提高三倍。陪审团也否决了飞兆对Power Integrations 的所有侵权起诉索赔。

Power Integrations 试图禁止飞兆销售被此案牵涉的超过140款芯片。

赔偿数额的大小与此纠纷的长期性有关，这场纠纷可追溯到2004年。虽然当前的案件是在2009年这两项专利被美国专利和商标局认定后才引发出来的。

陪社团认为Power Integrations 没有侵犯飞兆的专利，而飞兆子公司System General Corp采用的一些电源芯片则侵犯了专利号为 6212079 和6538908的专利。

最新的判决结果和先前Power Integrations起诉飞兆半导体和其子公司System General 侵权的三个判决结果一致。

Power Integrations公司总裁兼首席执行官Balu Balakrishnan在一份声明中称，“今天的判决标志着飞兆和其子公司SG第四次侵犯我们的专利。我们希望这次的结果和相关的赔偿能让飞兆彻底反省其商业行为，并开始尊重我们用25年辛苦工作换来的知识产权。”

3月5日，飞兆在网站上的声明中称，侵权的判决结果是错误的，公司将重新审查并上诉陪审团的判决。（元器件交易网刘光明译）

外媒原文如下：

Fairchild Faces $315M Patent Infringement Charge

Fairchild Semiconductor of San Jose, Calif., must pay at least $105 million in damages possibly three times that amount having been found guilty of infringing two patents on power supply ICs held by Power Integrations Inc., also based in San Jose, in a North California district court.

Power Integrations said that based on the finding that Fairchild"s infringement was wilful, the court could triple the level of damages specified by the jury. The jury also denied all counterclaims by Fairchild alleging patent infringement by Power Integrations.

Power Integrations intends to seek a permanent injunction against Fairchild selling more than 140 chips that Power Integrations claims are implicated in the decision.

The size of the damages claim relates to the long-running nature of the dispute, which dates back to 2004, although the current case was brought in 2009 after two patents were validated by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The jury found that Power Integrations does not infringe the Fairchild patent but that several power supplies containing chips made by System General Corp., a subsidiary of Fairchild, infringed US Patent Numbers 6,212,079 and 6,538,908.

The latest decision follows three previous findings of infringement against Fairchild and its System General (SG) subsidiary in cases brought by Power Integrations.

"Today"s decision marks the fourth time Fairchild and its SG subsidiary have been found to infringe our patents,” said Balu Balakrishnan, president and CEO of Power Integrations, in a statement. “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."

Fairchild was approached for comment but had not responded by the time this article was posted.

Update

In a statement posted March 5 on its website, Fairchild said the infringement findings were in "error," and the company plans to review and possibly appeal the jury"s findings.