Court Opinion

ID: 4406500
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-06-13 16:00:46.004654+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:45:04.104070
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
                ______________________

          POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC.,
                  Appellant

                           v.

 SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES,
       LLC, DBA ON SEMICONDUCTOR,
                  Appellee

    ANDREI IANCU, UNDER SECRETARY OF
  COMMERCE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
   AND DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES
     PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE,
                  Intervenor
            ______________________

                 2018-1602, 2018-1741
                ______________________

    Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. IPR2016-
00995, IPR2016-01597.
                 ______________________

                Decided: June 13, 2019
                ______________________

    FRANK SCHERKENBACH, Fish & Richardson, PC, Bos-
ton, MA, argued for appellant. Also represented by
HOWARD G. POLLACK, MICHAEL R. HEADLEY, NEIL WARREN,
2               POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC. v. SEMICONDUCTOR
                                               COMPONENTS

Redwood City, CA; JOHN WINSTON THORNBURGH, San Di-
ego, CA.

   LAUREN J. DREYER, Baker Botts, LLP, Washington, DC,
argued for appellee.   Also represented by BRETT J.
THOMPSEN, Austin, TX; MICHAEL HAWES, ROGER FULGHUM,
Houston, TX.

    KAKOLI CAPRIHAN, Office of the Solicitor, United States
Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, argued for
intervenor. Also represented by THOMAS W. KRAUSE,
JOSEPH MATAL, FARHEENA YASMEEN RASHEED, PHILIP J.
WARRICK.
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    Before TARANTO, MAYER, and CHEN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
    We vacate the Board’s final written decisions in
IPR2016-00995 and IPR2016-01597, and we remand for
dismissal of those inter partes reviews as time-barred un-
der 35 U.S.C. § 315(b). See Power Integrations, Inc. v. Sem-
iconductor Components Indus., LLC, No. 2018-1607 (Fed.
Cir. June 12, 2019).
    The parties shall bear their own costs.
              VACATED AND REMANDED