Free Proposed Voir Dire - District Court of Delaware - Delaware

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC., a
Delaware corporation,
Plaintiff
v.
mincniro ssmicounucroa CA N°· 04*371 HF
INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware
corporation, and FAIRCHILD
SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation,
Defendants.
POWER INTEGRATION? |PROPOSED| VOIR DIRE
It is the parties’ understanding that the Court will conduct standard voir dire in the
form appended to this document, entitled "Standard Voir Dire." In addition, the parties
propose that the jury pool be asked the following specific voir dire questions:
I. Do you have education, vocational training, or work experience in patents,
electronics, engineering, or the design of integrated circuits?
2. Does anyone in your immediate family, such as a spouse or child who
lives with you or a close relative, have education, vocational training, or
work experience in patents, electronics, engineering, or the design of
integrated circuits?
3. Are you, or is anyone in your immediate family, an inventor or co-
inventor on a U.S. patent or an application for a U.S. patent?
4. Have you, or has anyone in your immediate family, ever been involved in
applying for or obtaining a U.S. patent?
5. Does your employer own any U.S. patents, or have a license to use patents
owned by someone else?
6. Do you have strong feelings, either positive or negative, about patents, the
rights of patent holders, or the process by which patents are obtained?

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?'. Have you ever heard of Power Integrations or Fairchild or any of their
products?
8. Have you ever used a Power Lntegrations or Fairchild product, or a
product that contains a Power Integrations or Fairchild product?
9. Do you or any member of your household own stocks or bond or have any
other financial interest in Power Inte grations, Fairchild, or any company
involved in the production or sale of power supplies or power supply
components?
IO. Have you ever been sued or been a party to a lawsuit, testified at a
deposition or in court, or served as a juror in a civil lawsuit?

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STANDARD VOIR DIRE
1. Judge will read brief description ofthe case.
Is any member of the panel familiar with the case, or has any member of the panel
heard or read anything about it?
2. Judge will ask counsel to introduce himself or herself. Do you know or have you
or has any member of your family had any business dealings with any of the
attomeys in their law tirms.
3. Judge will ask counsel to introduce the parties and name any witnesses they
expect to call. Do any members of the panel know the parties or any ofthe
witnesses?
4. If you are selected to sit on this case, will you be able to render a verdict solely on
the evidence presented at the trial and in the context ofthe law as I will give it to
you in my instructions, disregarding any other ideas, notions, or beliefs about the
law that you may have encountered in reaching your verdict?
5. Is there any member of the panel who has any special disability or problem that
would make it difficult or impossible for you to serve as a member ofthe jury?
6. This case is expected to take days to try, so that we expect the testimony
in the trial will be completed by . Is there any member
ofthe panel who would be unable to sit as a juror in the case for that period of
time?
Voir dire as submitted by the parties
A. Up to ten questions from plaintiff The questions should be
designed to elicit a yes or no answer.
B. Up to ten questions from defendants. The questions should be
designed to elicit a yes or no answer.
FINAL QUESTION: Having heard the questions put to you by the court, does any other
reason suggest itself to you as to why you could not sit on this jury and render a fair
verdict based on the evidence presented to you and in the context of the court’s
instructions to you on the law?