Claim construction relating to integrated circuit devices
Power Integrations, Inc., v. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., et al.,
No. 04-1371-JJF, March 31, 2006.
Farnan, J. Claim construction decision with respect to patents which relate to integrated circuit devices used in power supplies. The Court construes 16 claim terms from 4 patents. It declines at this juncture to import a limitation from a claim term not found in the patent.
Defendant contended that a term describing structures disclaimed during prosecution should be interpreted even though it does not appear in the patent. The Court declined to construe this term until presented with equivalence or estoppel issues involving the term. Furthermore, it declined to construe terms for which there is no dispute except for how they relate to the disclaimed technology.
