Acacia Media Technologies Corporation v. Comcast Corporation et al, No. 3:2004cv02308 - Document 155 (N.D. Cal. 2009)
Court Description: JUDGMENT The Court declares that Defendants are the prevailing parties and are entitled to recover costs of suit. The Court finds that there is no just reason for delay of the entry of final judgment in favor of Defendants and against Plaintiff Acacia.. This is a full and final adjudication of all issues before this Court. Signed by Judge James Ware on October 23, 2009. (jwlc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/23/2009) Modified on 10/27/2009 (cv, COURT STAFF).
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Acacia Media Technologies Corporation v. Comcast Corporation et al Doc. 155 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 SAN JOSE DIVISION In re: Acacia Media Technologies Corp. NO. C 05-01114 JW NO. M 05-01665 JW 11 For the Northern District of California United States District Court 10 JUDGMENT 12 13 / 14 15 Pursuant to the Court’s October 23, 2009 Amended Order Granting Defendants’ Motions for 16 Summary Judgment (hereafter, “October 23 Order,” Docket Item No. 354), there has now been an 17 adjudication of all of the claims asserted by Plaintiff Acacia Media Technologies Corp. (“Acacia”) 18 against all of the remaining Defendants in this MDL proceeding. The Defendants are: Echostar 19 Satellite LLC, Echostar Technologies Corp., DIRECTV Group, Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., CSC 20 Holdings, Inc., Hospitality Network, Inc., Cable America Corp., Comcast Cable Communications 21 LLC, Coxcom Inc., Insight Communications Company, Inc., Charter Communications, Inc. (solely 22 to the extent authorized by the Bankruptcy Court), Armstrong Group, Wide Open West LLC, Block 23 Communications Inc., East Cleveland Cable TV and Communications LLC, Massillon Cable TV 24 Inc., NPG Cable Inc., Mid-Continent Media, Inc., US Cable Holdings LP, Sjoberg’s Cablevision, 25 Inc., Savage Communications Inc., Loretel Cablevision, Cannon Valley Communications, Inc., 26 Arvig Communication Systems, Cable One, Inc., Mediacom Communications Corporation, Bresnan 27 Communications, Cequel III Communications I, LLC (dba Cebridge Connections), Game Link Inc., 28 ACMP LLC, Cybernet Ventures Inc., Global AVS Inc., National A-1 Advertising Inc., AEBN Inc., Dockets.Justia.com 1 Ademia Multimedia LLC, Audio Communications Inc., Cyber Trend Inc., Innovative Ideas 2 International, Adult Revenue Service, Lightspeed Media Group Inc., New Destiny Internet Group 3 LLC, VS Media Inc., Offendale Commercial Limited BV, AskCS.com, Inc., and International Web 4 Innovations Inc. (collectively referred to in this Judgment as “Defendants”). 5 First, for the reasons set forth in the October 23 Order, with respect to Defendants’ 6 counterclaims of invalidity under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 2 as to U.S. Patent Nos. 5,132,992 (“‘992 7 Patent”), 5,550,863 (“‘863 Patent”), 6,002,720 (“‘720 Patent”), and 6,144,702 (“‘702 Patent”), 8 respectively, judgment is entered in favor of Defendants and against Acacia. The Court declares 9 U.S. Patent Nos. ‘992, ‘863, ‘720, and ‘702 invalid. Second, for the reasons set forth in the October 23 Order, with respect to Acacia’s claims for 11 For the Northern District of California United States District Court 10 infringement and Defendants’ counterclaims for a declaration of non-infringement of the ‘992, the 12 ‘863, the ‘720, and the ‘702 Patents, judgment is entered in favor of Defendants against Acacia. The 13 Court declares that U.S. Patent Nos. ‘992, ‘863, ‘720, and ‘702 not infringed by Defendants. 14 Third, for the reasons set forth in the October 23 Order, with respect to Acacia’s claims for 15 infringement and Defendants’ counterclaims for a declaration of non-infringement of U.S. Patent 16 No. 5,253,275 (“‘275 Patent”) and with respect to Acacia’s state law claims, because Acacia has 17 voluntarily withdrawn all asserted claims of the ‘275 Patent and all state law claims, those claims are 18 dismissed without prejudice. 19 20 21 The Court declares that Defendants are the prevailing parties and are entitled to recover costs of suit. Accordingly, the Court finds that there is no just reason for delay of entry of final judgment 22 in favor of Defendants and against Plaintiff Acacia. This is a full and final adjudication of all issues 23 before this Court. 24 25 Dated: October 23, 2009 JAMES WARE United States District Judge 26 27 28 2 1 THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT COPIES OF THIS ORDER HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO: 2 Adam R. Alper aalper@kirkland.com Alan P. Block blocka@hbdlawyers.com Albert L. Underhill aunderhill@swlaw.com Annamarie A. Daley aadaley@rkmc.com Asim M. Bhansali amb@kvn.com Benjamin Hershkowitz bhershkowitz@gibsondunn.com Bobby T. Shih bshih@mount.com Bradford P. Lyerla blyerla@marshallip.com Bryant Carroll Boren bryant.c.boren@bakerbotts.com Christopher Scott Marchese marchese@fr.com Christopher W Kennerly chris.kennerly@bakerbotts.com Daniel Reisner dreisner@kayescholer.com Daniel E. Jackson djackson@kvn.com Daralyn J. Durie ddurie@durietangri.com David Benyacar dbenyacar@kayescholer.com David A. York david.york@lw.com David Jason Silbert djs@kvn.com David Michael Hymas dhymas@mofo.com David P. Pearson dpearson@winthrop.com Emmett J. McMahon ejmcmahon@rkmc.com Harold J. McElhinny HmcElhinny@mofo.com J. Timothy Nardell tim@jtnlaw.com James Michael Slominski jslominski@hh.com Jason A. Crotty jcrotty@mofo.com Jeffrey D. Sullivan jeffrey.sullivan@bakerbotts.com Jeffrey H. Dean jdean@marshallip.com John C. Englander jenglander@goodwinprocter.com Jon-Thomas Bloch jbloch@marshallip.com Jonathan Elliot Singer singer@fr.com Juanita R. Brooks brooks@fr.com Kevin D. Hogg khogg@marshallip.com Kevin G. McBride kgmcbride@jonesday.com Kevin I. Shenkman shenkmank@hbdlawyers.com Maria Kara Nelson mknelson@jonesday.com Marsha Ellen Mullin memullin@jonesday.com Matthew Ian Kreeger mkreeger@mofo.com Michael J. McNamara michael.mcnamara@bakerbotts.com Mitchell D. Lukin mitch.lukin@bakerbotts.com Morgan William Tovey morgantovey@quinnemanuel.com Patrick J. Whalen pwhalen@spencerfane.com Paul A. Friedman pafriedman@mofo.com Rachel Krevans rkrevans@mofo.com Richard R. Patch rrp@cpdb.com Robert Donald Carroll rcarroll@goodwinprocter.com Roderick G. Dorman dormanr@hbdlawyers.com Sean David Garrison sgarrison@lrlaw.com Stephen E. Taylor staylor@tcolaw.com Stephen P. Safranski spsafranski@rkmc.com Todd Glen Miller miller@fr.com Todd R. Tucker ttucker@rennerotto.com 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 For the Northern District of California United States District Court 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3 1 2 3 Victor de Gyarfas vdegyarfas@foley.com Victor George Savikas vgsavikas@jonesday.com William Joseph Robinson wrobinson@foley.com William R. Overend woverend@reedsmith.com William R. Woodford woodford@fr.com 4 5 Dated: October 23, 2009 Richard W. Wieking, Clerk 6 By: 7 8 9 11 For the Northern District of California United States District Court 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 /s/ JW Chambers Elizabeth Garcia Courtroom Deputy
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