Interval Licensing LLC v. AOL, Inc. et al

Filing 244

MOTION to Stay re #199 Declaration, Renewed Motion to Stay Proceedings Pending Reexamination by Defendant Yahoo! Inc. Noting Date 6/7/2011, (Walters, Mark)

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Honorable Marsha J. Pechman 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, 8 Plaintiff, 9 10 v. AOL, INC., Defendant. 11 Case No. 2:11-CV-00716-MJP Lead Case No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING REEXAMINATIONS Note on Motion Calendar: June 7, 2011 12 13 14 15 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-708-MJP 16 Plaintiff, LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP 17 v. 18 19 APPLE, INC., Defendant. 20 21 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, 22 CASE NO. C11-709-MJP Plaintiff, 23 LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP v. 24 25 26 EBAY INC., Defendant. 27 28 DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING REEXAMINATIONS Civil Case No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP -1 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 (206) 336-5690 1 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-710-MJP 2 Plaintiff, 3 v. 4 5 LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP FACEBOOK, INC., Defendant. 6 7 8 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-711-MJP Plaintiff, LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP 9 v. 10 GOOGLE INC., 11 12 13 Defendant. INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-712-MJP 14 Plaintiff, 15 LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP v. 16 17 18 NETFLIX, INC., Defendant. 19 20 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-713-MJP 21 Plaintiff, 22 v. 23 OFFICE DEPOT, INC., 24 LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP Defendant. 25 26 27 28 DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING REEXAMINATIONS Civil Case No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP -2 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 (206) 336-5690 1 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-714-MJP 2 Plaintiff, 3 v. 4 5 LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP OFFICEMAX, INC., Defendant. 6 7 8 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-715-MJP Plaintiff, LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP 9 v. 10 STAPLES, INC., 11 12 13 Defendant. INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-716-MJP 14 Plaintiff, 15 LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP v. 16 17 18 YAHOO! INC., Defendant. 19 20 INTERVAL LICENSING LLC, CASE NO. C11-717-MJP 21 Plaintiff, 22 v. 23 24 LEAD CASE NO. C10-1385-MJP YOUTUBE, INC., Defendant. 25 26 27 28 DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING REEXAMINATIONS Civil Case No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP -3 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 (206) 336-5690 1 Defendants AOL, Inc., Apple, Inc., eBay, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Google Inc., Netflix, Inc., 2 Office Depot, Inc., OfficeMax Inc., Staples, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., and YouTube, LLC (collectively, 3 the “Defendants”), through their undersigned counsel, respectfully renew their Joint Motion to 4 Stay Proceedings Pending Reexaminations (Dkt. 198). The Defendants respectfully renew their 5 request that the Court stay each of the above-captioned cases pending resolution of 6 reexamination proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) 7 concerning each of the respective patents in suit. Specifically, as indicated in the parties’ 8 Updated Status Report Regarding Petitions For Reexamination (Dkt. 243), the PTO has ordered 9 reexamination of all four of the patents involved in this litigation (United States Patents No. 10 6,263,507 (“the ’507 patent”), No. 6,034,652 (“the ’652 patent”), No. 6,788,314 (“the ’314 11 patent”), and No. 6,757,682 (“the ’682 patent”)). Opening claim construction briefs are due in 12 approximately one week on June 16, 2011 and a claim construction hearing is currently 13 scheduled for July 22, 2011. 14 The Defendants' Joint Motion to Stay, renewed herein, was fully briefed as of April 1, 15 2011 (Dkt. 198, 199, 206-209, 211) (All prior docket entries for this Motion are in the Lead Case 16 No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP). A proposed order was provided to the Court as Dkt. 198-1. 17 The PTO decisions ordering reexamination for each of the patents-in-suit and Office 18 Actions from the PTO for the ‘314 and ‘682 patents (the only patents for which office actions 19 have issued) are attached as: 20 21  Exhibit 1 (‘507 patent order regarding reexamination), 22  Exhibit 2 (‘682 patent order regarding reexamination and non-final office action), 23  Exhibit 3 (‘652 patent order regarding reexamination) and  Exhibit 4 (‘314 patent order regarding reexamination and non-final office action). 24 25 26 Respectfully submitted, 27 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 28 DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING REEXAMINATIONS Civil Case No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP -4 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 (206) 336-5690 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Dated: June 7, 2011 By: s/ Mark P. Walters Mark P. Walters, WSBA No. 30819 Dario A. Machleidt, WSBA No. 41860 Gregory F. Wesner, WSBA No. 30241 1191 Second Avenue, Suite. 2000 Seattle, WA 98101 Telephone: (206) 336-5690 Facsimile: (206) 336-5691 Email: mwalters@flhlaw.com dmachleidt@flhlaw.com gwesner@flhlaw.com Attorneys for Defendant Yahoo! Inc. 8 9 10 11 12 By: s/ Justin A. Nelson Justin A. Nelson SUSMAN GODFREY (WA) 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3800 Seattle, WA 98101 Telephone: (206) 516-3880 Email: jnelson@susmangodfrey.com Attorneys for Plaintiff Interval Licensing 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING REEXAMINATIONS Civil Case No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP -5 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 (206) 336-5690 1 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Mark P. Walters, hereby certify that on June 7, 2011, I caused the foregoing 3 DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING 4 REEXAMINATIONS to be served on the following parties by Electronic CM/ECF: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Attorneys for Interval Licensing LLC Justin A. Nelson: jnelson@susmangodfrey.com Edgar Guy Sargent: esargent@susmangodfrey.com Eric J. Enger: EENGER@HPCLLP.COM Matthew R. Berry: mberry@susmangodfrey.com Max L. Tribble: mtribble@susmangodfrey.com Michael F. Heim: MHEIM@HPCLLP.COM Nathan J. Davis: ndavis@hpcllp.com Douglas R. Wilson: dwilson@HPCLLP.com Oleg Elkhunovich: oelkhunovich@susmangodfrey.com Attorneys for AOL Inc. Molly A. Terwilliger: mollyt@summitlaw.com Gerald F. Ivey: gerald.ivey@finnegan.com Robert L. Burns: robert.burns@finnegan.com Cortney S. Alexander: cortney.alexander@finnegan.com Elliot C. Cook: elliot.cook@finnegan.com Attorneys for Apple, Inc. David Almeling: dalmeling@omm.com Brian Berliner: bberliner@omm.com George Riley: griley@omm.com Jeremy Roller: jroller@yarmuth.com Scott Wilsdon: wilsdon@yarmuth.com Neil Yang: nyang@omm.com Xin-Yi Zhou: vzhou@omm.com 21 22 23 24 25 26 Attorneys for eBay, Inc., Netflix, Inc., Office Depot, Inc. and Staples, Inc. Christopher Carraway: chris.carraway@klarquist.com Kristin Cleveland: kristin.cleveland@klarquist.com John Vandenberg: john.vandenberg@klarquist.com Christopher Wion: chrisw@dhlt.com Arthur Harrigan, Jr.: arthurh@dhlt.com Derrick W. Toddy: derrick.toddy@klarquist.com Jeffrey S. Love: jeffrey.love@klarquist.com Klaus H. Hamm: klaus.hamm@klarquist.com 27 28 DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING REEXAMINATIONS Civil Case No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP -6 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 (206) 336-5690 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Attorneys for Facebook, Inc. Heidi Keefe: hkeefe@cooley.com Michael Rhodes: mrhodes@cooley.com Elizabeth Stameshkin: lstameshkin@cooley.com Mark Weinstein: mweinstein@cooley.com Chris Durbin: cdurbin@cooley.com Sudhir Pala: spala@cooley.com Attorneys for Google, Inc. and YouTube, LLC Aaron Chase: aaron.chase@whitecase.com Dimitrios Drivas: ddrivas@whitecase.com John Handy: jhandy@whitecase.com Warren Heit: wheit@whitecase.com Kevin McGann: kmcgann@whitecase.com Scott Johnson: sawj@stokeslaw.com Shannon Jost: shannon.jost@stokeslaw.com Theresa Wang: theresa.wang@stokeslaw.com Wendi R. Schepler: wschepler@whitecase.com 11 12 13 14 Attorneys for OfficeMax, Inc. Kevin Baumgardner: kbaumgardner@corrcronin.com Steven Fogg: sfogg@corrcronin.com John Letchinger: letchinger@wildmanharrold.com Douglas Rupert: rupert@wildman.com Jeff Neumeyer: jeffneumeyer@officemax.com 15 16 DATED: June 7, 2011 17 18 s/ Mark P. Walters Mark P. Walters, WSBA No. 30819 Dario A. Machleidt, WSBA No. 41860 Gregory F. Wesner, WSBA No. 30241 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DEFENDANTS’ JOINT RENEWED MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS PENDING REEXAMINATIONS Civil Case No. 2:10-CV-01385-MJP -7 FROMMER LAWRENCE & HAUG LLP 1191 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 (206) 336-5690

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