Skyworks’ Infringement Claims Grounded

In an order dated February 4, 2015, the Honorable George A. O'Toole, Jr. effectively ended Woburn-based Skyworks Solutions, Inc.'s effort to enforce patent rights against manufacturers of LED driver products used in cellphones. Skyworks' amended complaint, filed in October 2013, accused California-based Kinetic Technologies, Inc. and Hong Kong-based Kinetic Technologies HK Limited ("Kinetic HK") of infringing U.S. Patent Nos. 8,539,275 and 7,921,320, both titled, "Single Wire Serial Interface." At issue were various LED components integrated into cellphones marketed and sold in Massachusetts by Samsung. Noting that Kinetic Technologies, Inc. was previously dismissed from the case for lack of personal jurisdiction in December 2013, the Court determined that Skyworks failed to show that Kinetic HK was subject to personal jurisdiction in Massachusetts under either the Massachusetts Long Arm Statute, M.G.L. ch. 233A §3, or due process.