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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC.,

Plaintiff,

 v.

FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR

INTERNATIONAL, INC., et al.

Defendants. /

No. C-09-5235 MMC

ORDER DENYING POWER

INTEGRATIONS’S MOTION TO FILE

UNDER SEAL PORTIONS OF ITS

MOTION TO EXCLUDE GU-YEON WEI,

AND SUPPORTING EXHIBITS

Before the Court is an administrative motion to file under seal, filed September 4,

2015, by plaintiff Power Integrations, Inc. (“Power Integrations”), pursuant to Civil Local

Rule 79-5, by which Power Integrations seeks permission to seal the entirety of Exhibits D

and E to the Declaration of Michael R. Headley (“Headley Declaration”) filed in support of

“Power Integrations’ Motion to Exclude Certain Testimony of Dr. Wei,” as well as portions of

Power Integrations’s motion that make reference to said exhibits. 

All of the material sought to be sealed has been designated confidential by

defendants Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., Fairchild Semiconductor

Corporation, and Fairchild (Taiwan) Corporation (collectively, “Fairchild”), and, in

accordance with the requirements of the Local Rules of this district, Fairchild has submitted

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Although the Headley Declaration also identifies Exhibit B as a document that

Fairchild has designated confidential (see Headley Decl. ¶ 3), Fairchild does not discuss

Exhibit B in its responsive declaration. Moreover, Power Integrations does not seek leave

to file said exhibit under seal in its administrative motion, and, indeed, filed the entirety of

said exhibit in the public record. Accordingly, the Court does not address Exhibit B further

herein.

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a declaration in support of Power Integrations’s administrative motion.1 See Civil L.R. 79-

5(d)-(e) (providing, where party seeks to file under seal material designated confidential by

another party, designating party must file, within four days, “a declaration . . . establishing

that all of the designated information is sealable”). Having read and considered the

administrative motion and Fairchild’s declaration, the Court rules as follows.

“A sealing order may issue only upon a request that establishes that the document,

or portions thereof, is privileged or protectable as a trade secret or otherwise entitled to

protection under the law.” See Civil L.R. 79-5(a). According to Fairchild’s declaration,

Exhibit D, which consists of excerpts from the deposition of Gaurang Shah, “includes

Fairchild’s confidential internal evaluations and details regarding product development,”

and Exhibit E, which consists of excerpts from the deposition of James Malackowski,

“includes Fairchild’s confidential internal financial information[,] confidential internal

evaluations and details regarding product development.” (See Ondrick Decl. ¶¶ 4-5.) It

would appear, however, that the testimony, in each instance, primarily concerns matters of

public record, and that the remainder of the testimony likewise fails to reveal anything of a

confidential nature.

Accordingly, the administrative motion to seal is hereby DENIED, and Power

Integrations is hereby DIRECTED to file the entirety of Exhibits D and E, as well as the

unredacted motion to exclude, in the public record.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 20, 2015 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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