Case 3:20-cv-08297-RS Document 49 Filed 04/05/21 Page 1 of 2
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`In re EXPRESS MOBILE CASES
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`Case Nos. 3:19-cv-06559-RS
`3:20-cv-06152-RS
`3:20-cv-08297-RS
`3:20-cv-08321-RS
`3:20-cv-08335-RS
`3:20-cv-08339-RS
`3:20-cv-08461-RS
`3:20-cv-08491-RS
`3:20-cv-08492-RS
`3:21-cv-01145-RS
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`ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
`DENYING IN PART STAY MOTIONS
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`In the interests of efficiency and to avoid delaying the parties’ efforts to comply with the
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`prior order directing them to coordinate claim construction in these matters, the motions to stay
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`will be decided without reply briefing or oral argument. It is apparent there is a basis to treat the
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`five patents at issue across these cases in two separate groups. The ’397 patent and the ’168 patent
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`will hereinafter be referred to as the Rempel patents, after the sole named inventor. The ’755
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`patent, the ’287 patent, and the ’044 patent will be referred to as the RCB patents, after the initials
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`of the three named inventors.
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`The Rempel patents are presently subject to reexamination proceedings, and the one case
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`in this court involving only those patents, X.Commerce, Inc. (Magento) v. Express Mobile, Inc.,
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`Adobe v. Express Mobile - IPR2021-01227
`PO_EM287_2007-0001
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`Case No. 17-cv-2605- RS, is temporarily stayed for that and other reasons. Claim construction
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`proceedings as to the Rempel patents were completed in the X.Commerce matter.
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`Good cause appearing, further claim construction of the Rempel patents will not go
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`forward in any of these cases at the present time, and the stay motions are granted to that extent.
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`The parties are relieved from any remaining deadlines relating to claim construction as to the
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`Rempel patents only. The status of this stay will be reviewed on or before November 30, 2021 in
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`conjunction with further consideration of the status in the X.Commerce matter. The parties need
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`not separately file any status updates in these cases, however. Additionally, the parties should not
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`assume the stays in these cases necessarily will remain tied to the status of the stay in
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`X.Commerce, as some of the relevant considerations differ.
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`The stay motions are denied as to the RCB patents. The parties should proceed with the
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`efforts to comply with the order requiring coordination of claim proceedings as to those patents.
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`The parties may now presume that one joint claim construction hearing will be held as to the RCB
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`patents, and that another joint claim construction hearing will be held as to the Rempel patents at a
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`later time, after the stay has been lifted.
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`In both the RCB patents claim construction hearing and the subsequent Rempel patents
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`claim construction hearing the parties will be expected to make every effort to comply with the ten
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`terms limit—i.e., ten terms for the RCB patents and ten terms for the Rempel patents. Again, some
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`flexibility may be available in the event differences among defendants’ accused instrumentalities
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`make different claim terms important to some defendants.
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`IT IS SO ORDERED.
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`Dated: April 2, 2021
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`______________________________________
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`RICHARD SEEBORG
`Chief United States District Judge
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