King.com Limited v. 6 Waves LLC

Filing 28

JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER CONTINUING HEARING ON DEFENDANTS' FORUM NON CONVENIENS MOTION, MODIFYING BRIEFING SCHEDULE, AND CONTINUING INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE. Opposition due December 6, 2013; reply due January 3, 2014; Case Management Conference re-set for February 21, 2014. Signed by Judge Maxine M. Chesney on November 6, 2013. (mmclc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/6/2013)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 LAURENCE F. PULGRAM (CSB No. 115163) lpulgram@fenwick.com JENNIFER L. KELLY (CSB No. 193416) jkelly@fenwick.com CLIFFORD C. WEBB (CSB No. 260885) cwebb@fenwick.com FENWICK & WEST LLP 555 California Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: 415.875.2300 Facsimile: 415.281.1350 Attorneys for Plaintiff KING.COM LIMITED 8 9 10 SAN FRANCISCO 12 ATTORNEYS AT LAW F ENWICK & W EST LLP 11 DURIE TANGRI LLP SONALI D. MAITRA (SBN 254896) 217 Leidesdorff Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: 415.362-6666 Facsimile: 415-236-6300 13 Attorneys for Defendants 6 WAVES LLC and SIX WAVES INC. 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 17 18 KING.COM LIMITED, Case No.: 13-cv-03977-MMC 19 Plaintiff, JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CONTINUING HEARING ON DEFENDANTS’ FORUM NON CONVENIENS MOTION, MODIFYING BRIEFING SCHEDULE, AND CONTINUING INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 20 v. 21 22 23 6 WAVES LLC, SIX WAVES INC, and DOES 1-5, Defendants. Courtroom: 7, 19th floor Hon. Maxine M. Chesney Judge: 24 25 26 27 28 JOINT STIP AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CONTINUING HEARING, CMC, AND MODIFYING BRIEFING SCHEDULE 1 Case No. 13-cv-03977-MMC 1 2 WHEREAS, on August 27, 2013, Plaintiff King.com Ltd. (“King”) filed a Complaint for copyright infringement against Defendant 6waves LLC (“6waves”); 3 WHEREAS, King served 6waves with that Complaint on September 4, 2013; 4 WHEREAS, on September 23, 2013, King and 6waves stipulated to extend 6waves’s 5 deadline to respond to that Complaint until October 25, 2013 (Dkt. 13); 6 7 WHEREAS, on October 1, 2013, this Court set the initial case management conference in this case for December 6, 2013 (Dkt.19); 8 9 WHEREAS, on October 31, 2013, King filed a First Amended Complaint for copyright infringement adding 6waves’ parent corporation Six Waves Inc. (“SWI”) as a defendant; 10 WHEREAS, on November 1, 2013, SWI and 6waves (collectively, “Defendants”) filed a SAN FRANCISCO motion to dismiss on grounds of forum non conveniens, noticed for hearing on December 6, 2013 12 ATTORNEYS AT LAW F ENWICK & W EST LLP 11 and supported by, inter alia, a 46-page declaration from Jacques deLisle and a 23-page 13 declaration from Meph Jia Gui regarding the laws and legal systems of the People’s Republic of 14 China; 15 16 17 18 19 WHEREAS, under this Court’s local rules, King’s response to that motion would normally be due on November 15, 2013; WHEREAS, lead counsel for King, Jennifer Kelly, has jury duty from November 4 until November 8, 2013, and a long-planned vacation scheduled to begin on November 13, 2013; WHEREAS, Defendants’ lead counsel, Sonali Maitra, is scheduled to be out of the office 20 for a vacation scheduled to begin on December 13, 2013, and Defendants’ counsel’s staff is 21 largely unavailable the week of Christmas until New Years; 22 WHEREAS, the parties believe that it would be the most efficient use of judicial resources 23 to schedule the initial case management conference in this case after the date set for the hearing 24 on Defendants’ motion; 25 NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereby stipulate and respectfully request that: 26 1. 27 The hearing on Defendants’ motion to dismiss on the grounds of forum non conveniens be continued until January 17, 2014; 28 JOINT STIP AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CONTINUING HEARING, CMC, AND MODIFYING BRIEFING SCHEDULE 2 Case No. 13-cv-03977-MMC 1 2 2. The deadline for King to file its opposition to that motion be extended until December 6, 2013; 3 3. 4 January 3, 2014; 5 4. 6 2014; and 7 5. The deadline for Defendants to file their reply to that opposition be extended until The initial case management conference in this case be continued until January 31, The deadlines triggered by the initial case management conference are adjusted as 8 follows: the deadline to meet and confer under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) is set for 9 January 17, 2014 and the deadline to submit a joint case management statement is set for January 24, 2014. 11 Dated: November 5, 2013 FENWICK & WEST LLP SAN FRANCISCO 12 ATTORNEYS AT LAW F ENWICK & W EST LLP 10 13 By /s/ Jennifer L. Kelly Jennifer L. Kelly 14 Attorneys for Plaintiff KING.COM LIMITED 15 16 17 Dated: November 5, 2013 DURIE TANGRI LLP 18 19 By /s/ Sonali D. Maitra Sonali D. Maitra 20 Attorneys for Defendants 6 WAVES LLC and SIX WAVES INC. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 JOINT STIP AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CONTINUING HEARING, CMC, AND MODIFYING BRIEFING SCHEDULE 3 Case No. 13-cv-03977-MMC 1 [PROPOSED] ORDER Pursuant to the above stipulation, and good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY 2 3 ORDERED that: 4 1. 5 conveniens is continued until January 17, 2014; 2. 6 7 The hearing on Defendants’ motion to dismiss on the grounds of forum non The deadline for King to file its opposition to that motion is extended until December 6, 2013; 4. 11 at 10:30 a.m.; and 12 SAN FRANCISCO January 3, 2014; 10 ATTORNEYS AT LAW 3. 9 F ENWICK & W EST LLP 8 The deadline for Defendants to file their reply to that opposition is extended until 5. February 21 The initial case management conference in this case is re-set for January 31, 2014 Deadlines triggered by the initial case management conference are adjusted as follows: the deadline to meet and confer under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) is set for February 7 14 January 17, 2014 and the deadline to submit a joint case management statement is set for February 14 15 January 24, 2014. 13 16 17 Dated: ___________________, 2013 November 6 18 19 The Hon. Maxine M. Chesney United States District Court Judge 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 JOINT STIP AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CONTINUING HEARING, CMC, AND MODIFYING BRIEFING SCHEDULE 4 Case No. 13-cv-03977-MMC

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