A small California company is wielding patents in court and at a US trade agency to fortify its position in the battle for global supremacy over next-generation power semiconductor devices.
Efficient Power Conversion Corp. scored a first-round win earlier this month in its effort to block imports of China-based Innoscience (Zhuhai) Technology Co.’s gallium nitride-based, or GaN-based, power semiconductor devices. A trade judge at the US International Trade Commission upheld the validity of two EPC patents and found Innoscience’s devices infringe one of those, US Patent No. 8,350,294.
EPC’s parallel federal lawsuit, filed in May 2023 over Innoscience’s ...
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