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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 RE: ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION

TO SEAL PORTIONS OF PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION FOR FEES AND EXHIBITS J,

LL, AND MM IN SUPPORT THEREOF;

DIRECTIONS TO PLAINTIFF

Before the Court is plaintiff Power Integrations’s Administrative Motion to Seal, filed

January 4, 2016, by which Power Integrations seeks permission to seal material

designated confidential by defendant Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., Fairchild

Semiconductor Corporation, and System General Corporation (collectively, “Fairchild”),

namely, portions of Power Integrations’ Renewed Motion Requesting a Declaration that this

Case is Exceptional and for Award of Enhanced Damages and Attorneys’ Fees

(hereinafter, “Motion for Fees”), as well as the entirety of Exhibits J, LL, and MM to the

supporting declaration of Michael R. Headley (“Headley Declaration”). On January 8, 2016,

Fairchild filed a responsive declaration in support of sealing. See Civil L.R. 79-5(d)-(e)

(providing, where party seeks to file under seal material designated confidential by another

party, such party shall file motion for sealing order, after which designating party must file,

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within four days, “declaration . . . establishing that all of the designated information is

sealable”). Having read and considered the administrative motion and Fairchild’s

responsive declaration, the Court hereby 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). “The request must be narrowly tailored

to seek sealing only of sealable material.” See id.

To the extent the instant administrative motion seeks to seal Exhibits J and MM to

the Headley Declaration, good cause has been shown for the relief requested. 

Accordingly, Power Integrations’s administrative motion to seal is hereby GRANTED as to

said exhibits and the portions of the Motion for Fees that reference said exhibits.

In its responsive declaration, Fairchild states that Exhibit LL to the Headley

Declaration “does not contain any Fairchild confidential information.” (See Ondrick Decl.,

filed Jan. 8, 2016.) Accordingly, to the extent the administrative motion seeks to seal said

exhibit, the motion is hereby DENIED. 

Power Integrations is hereby DIRECTED to file in the public record, no later than

January 18, 2016, Exhibit LL to the Headley Declaration and a version of the Motion for

Fees in which only those portions referencing Exhibits J and MM to the Headley

Declaration are redacted. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 11, 2016 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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