Power Integrations, Inc. v. Silanna Semiconductor North America, Inc.

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC., Case No. 19-cv-02700-SVK

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ORDER ON SPECIALLY APPEARING

9 v. DEFENDANT THE PENBROTHERS INTERNATIONAL INC.'S MOTION TO 10 THE PENBROTHERS INTERNATIONAL DISMISS INC., et al., 11 Re: Dkt. No. 26 Defendants. 12 13 Plaintiff Power Integrations, Inc. (“PI”) claims that several of its former employees were 14 recruited by Defendant The Penbrothers International Inc. (“Penbrothers”) to work for Silanna 15 Semiconductor North America, Inc. (“Silanna”), a competitor of PI.1 PI is headquartered in San Jose, California. Silanna is headquartered in San Diego, California. Defendant Penbrothers is 16 located in the Philippines. Defendants Edison D. De Lara, Charles Reyes Evangelista, Ian 17 Barrameda, and Alex F. Mariano (collectively, the “Individual Defendants”) are all citizens of the 18 Philippines who formerly worked for PI in the Philippines and now work for Silanna.2 19 Now before the Court is Penbrothers’ motion to…