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

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Doc. No. 422694 MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE RELIEF

Case No. C 04 2581 JSW

Scott R. Mosko (State Bar No. 106070)

E-Mail: scott.mosko@finnegan.com

FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,

 GARRETT & DUNNER, L.L.P.

Stanford Research Park

700 Hansen Way

Palo Alto, California 94304

Telephone: (650) 849-6600

Facsimile: (650) 849-6666

E. Robert Yoches (Admitted Pro Hac Vice)

E-Mail: robert.yoches@finnegan.com

FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,

 GARRETT & DUNNER, L.L.P.

901 New York Avenue, N.W..

Washington, D.C. 20001-4413

Telephone: (202) 408-4000

Facsimile: (202) 408-4400

John R. Alison (Admitted Pro Hac Vice)

E-Mail: john.alison@finnegan.com

FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,

 GARRETT & DUNNER, L.L.P.

12D, 167 DunHua North Road

Taipei 105, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Telephone: 011-886-22-712-7001

Facsimile: 011-886-22-712-7080

Attorneys for Defendants

System General Corporation - Taiwan

and System General USA

aka System-General Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC., a Delaware 

corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

SYSTEM GENERAL CORPORATION, a 

Taiwanese corporation, and SYSTEM GENERAL 

USA, a California corporation,

Defendants.

CASE NO. C 04 2581 JSW

DEFENDANT SYSTEM GENERAL 

CORPORATION - TAIWAN’S 

MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE 

RELIEF

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AND ORDER DENYING REQUEST

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Doc. No. 422694 1 MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE RELIEF

Case No. C 04 2581 JSW

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION

Defendant System General Corporation (“SG-Taiwan”) requests a three week continuance of 

the Case Management Conference (currently scheduled on May 20, 2005), and a three week stay of 

the proceedings in this matter because of the complaint Plaintiff Power Integrations (PI) filed in the 

International Trade Commission (“ITC”). Although the ITC has some discretion whether to institute 

an investigation based on a complaint, neither side doubts that the ITC will so act.

The ITC complaint will then result in the institution of an ITC proceeding no later than June 

9, 2005. Once the ITC proceeding is initiated, SG-Taiwan is entitled to a mandatory stay of the 

current action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1659. This week, it advised PI that it will seek such a stay.

SG-Taiwan seeks this three-week stay of proceedings and continuance to avoid wasting this 

Court’s time and expending additional efforts on a matter that will be stayed. The three weeks are 

proposed so that the Section 1659 formal request for stay will be ripe, and so that the parties and the 

Court need not waste time on activities scheduled before the ITC institutes the formal proceedings.

Because the ITC proceedings typically take at least a year, there will be no activity in this case for 

that time, and any efforts will have no effect.

PI notified SG-Taiwan on May 18, 2005 it would not be willing to stipulate to a stay or a 

continuance of the CMC because of the possibility, however low, that the ITC will not institute the 

proceeding. For this reason, SG-Taiwan has proposed a short three-week stay and continuance of 

the CMC. By that time, the proceeding should be instituted, and SG-Taiwan will have filed the 

mandatory request to stay. If the ITC does not institute the proceeding, PI will not have suffered 

prejudice.

SUPPORTING DECLARATION OF SCOTT R. MOSKO

I, Scott R. Mosko, declare as follows:

1. I am an attorney admitted to practice in the State of California and the United States 

District Court for the Northern District of California, and a member of Finnegan, Henderson, 

Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, attorneys of record for Defendant System General Corporation -

Taiwan in the above-identified matter. The matters referred to in this declaration are based on my 

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personal knowledge and if called as a witness I could, and would, testify competently to those 

matters.

2. On May 17, 2005, I suggested to Power Integrations counsel that all activity in this 

case be stayed because SG-Taiwan would exercise its rights to stay it as a result of Power

Integrations filing of the ITC complaint which involves the same patents and accused products as the 

current action. I submitted a proposed stipulation to Power Integrations consistent with my proposal.

On May 18, 2005, Howard Pollack, who represents Power Integrations advised that it would not 

agree to my proposed stipulation. Mr. Pollack and I telephoned the court that afternoon.

3. This morning, I received a call from the court’s clerk indicating that my proposal 

should be submitted in writing.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing is 

true and correct.

Dated: May 19, 2005 FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,

 GARRETT & DUNNER, L.L.P.

By: /s/ Scott R. Mosko 

Attorneys for Defendant

System General Corporation - Taiwan

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Upon good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Case Management Conference 

currently scheduled for May 20, 2005 shall be continued to June 10, 2005. IT IS FURTHER 

ORDERED that all proceedings in this case are temporarily stayed pending SG-Taiwan’s anticipated 

Request for Stay pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1659.

DATED:______________________

____________________________________

Jeffrey S. White

United States District Judge

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Defendant's request is DENIED. The 

parties shall appear for the case 

management conference.

May 19, 2005

/s/ Jeffrey S. White

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