Utherverse Gaming LLC v. Epic Games Inc, No. 2:2021cv00799 - Document 96 (W.D. Wash. 2022)
Court Description: ORDER granting Parties' 95 Stipulated Motion for Extension of Time for Mediation Deadline. The deadline for mediation is reset to the date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim construction ruling. All other provisions of the Case Schedule remain in effect. Signed by Judge Theresa L Fricke. (SR)
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Utherverse Gaming LLC v. Epic Games Inc Doc. 96 Case 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF Document 96 Filed 06/30/22 Page 1 of 8 1 THE HONORABLE RICARDO S. MARTINEZ THE HONORABLE THERESA L. FRICKE 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 10 11 UTHERVERSE GAMING LLC, Case No. 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF 12 Plaintiff, 13 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER v. 14 EPIC GAMES, INC., 15 Defendant. NOTE ON MOTION CALENDAR: June 29, 2022 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER - 1 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 SEATTLE, WA 98104 • Tel: 206-393-5400 Dockets.Justia.com Case 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF Document 96 Filed 06/30/22 Page 2 of 8 1 I. INTRODUCTION 2 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4) and Local Civil Rules 7(d)(1), 10(g), 3 and 16(b)(6), Plaintiff Utherverse Gaming LLC (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Epic Games, Inc. 4 (“Defendant”) submit this stipulated motion to request that the Court extend the current June 30, 5 2022 deadline for mediation, as set forth in the current Case Schedule, ECF No. 48, until a date 6 that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim construction ruling. This limited extension will not 7 impact any other Case Schedule deadline, including the existing dispositive motion deadline of 8 March 2, 2023. 9 Good cause exists for this minor adjustment to the case schedule because the parties agree 10 that resolution of disputed claim construction issues is necessary to facilitate productive mediation. 11 II. 12 A. 13 14 15 16 17 BACKGROUND Existing Case Schedule Deadlines Under the existing Case Schedule, mediation is to be completed by June 30, 2022; the claim construction hearing is set for August 16, 2022; disclosure of opening expert witnesses’ reports is due November 3, 2022; disclosure of rebuttal expert witnesses’ reports is due December 1, 2022; discovery is to be completed by February 2, 2023; and the last date to file and serve dispositive motions and Daubert motions is March 2, 2023. 18 19 B. The Parties Jointly Request Extending the Deadline for Mediation, With No Impact to Any Other Case Schedule Deadline 20 Plaintiff and Defendant have jointly agreed to request that the Court extend the current 21 June 30, 2022 deadline for mediation, until a date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim 22 construction ruling. This extension will not impact any other existing deadlines under the Case 23 Schedule, including the existing dispositive motion deadline of March 2, 2023. 24 A. 25 26 III. ARGUMENT The Court May Modify the Case Schedule for Good Cause The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Rules provide that a case schedule may be modified for good cause and with the judge’s consent. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4); LCR 16(b)(6). “In STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER - 2 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 SEATTLE, WA 98104 • Tel: 206-393-5400 Case 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF Document 96 Filed 06/30/22 Page 3 of 8 1 determining whether ‘good cause’ exists under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b) to modify a 2 case schedule, the court ‘primarily considers the diligence of the party seeking amendment.’” Doe 3 v. Trump, 329 F.R.D. 262, 272 (W.D. Wash. 2018) (citing Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 4 975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992)). “Good cause” exists “when the deadline in the scheduling 5 order ‘cannot reasonably be met despite the diligence of the party seeking the extension.’” Id. 6 B. Good Cause Exists to Extend the Deadline for Mediation 7 Plaintiff and Defendant each assert that they have diligently prosecuted and defended this 8 case. The parties have exchanged written discovery requests and responses, are engaged in fact 9 discovery, including third-party discovery, and continue to produce documents to each other. The 10 parties have also served patent contentions, exchanged claim construction disclosures, and have 11 completed claim construction briefing in accordance with the Local Patent Rules and the Case 12 Schedule. The parties conferred about the prospect of mediation prior to resolution of the disputed 13 claim construction issues, and the parties agree mediation would not be productive until those 14 issues were resolved. Notably, the current June 30, 2022 mediation deadline comes from the 15 parties’ proposal in a September 18, 2021 joint status report, in which the parties contemplated a 16 mid-June 2022 claim construction hearing, which was ultimately set for August 16. Dkt. 43 at 5- 17 6, 8; April 28, 2022 oral order. 18 Under the circumstances, good cause exists to extend the deadline for mediation until a 19 date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim construction ruling. The extension will allow 20 the parties to continue working on discovery while conserving their mediation efforts until a time 21 when they will be most productive. The extension will not result in a delay of any of the other 22 case deadlines. 23 IV. CONCLUSION 24 For the foregoing reasons, the parties respectfully request that the Court extend the current 25 June 30, 2022 deadline for mediation until a date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim 26 construction ruling, consistent with the Proposed Order accompanying this Motion. STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER - 3 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 SEATTLE, WA 98104 • Tel: 206-393-5400 Case 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF Document 96 Filed 06/30/22 Page 4 of 8 1 IT IS SO STIPULATED by and between the parties hereto. 2 3 DATED this 29th day of June, 2022. Respectfully submitted, 4 5 By: 6 7 /s/ Jessica M. Andrade Jessica M. Andrade (WSBA No. 39297) POLSINELLI PC 1000 Second Avenue, Suite 3500 Seattle, WA 98104 Tel: 206-393-5400 Fax: 206-393-5401 Email: jessica.andrade@polsinelli.com 8 Of Counsel: 9 Colby B. Springer (admitted pro hac vice) POLSINELLI LLP Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 2400 San Francisco, CA 94111 Tel: 415-248-2100 Fax: 415-248-2101 Email: cspringer@polsinelli.com Mark T. Deming (admitted pro hac vice) POLSINELLI PC 150 N. Riverside Place, Suite 3000 Chicago, IL 60606 Tel: 312-819-1900 Fax: 312-819-1901 Email: mdeming@polsinelli.com Melenie Van (admitted pro hac vice) POLSINELLI LLP 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2900 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Tel: (310) 229-1355 Fax: (415) 276-8959 Email: mvan@polsinelli.com Enes Ovcina (admitted pro hac vice) POLSINELLI PC 1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 6400 Houston, TX 77002 Tel: 713-374-1600 Fax: 713-374-1601 Email: eovcina@polsinelli.com 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Attorneys for Plaintiff UTHERVERSE GAMING LLC 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER - 4 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 SEATTLE, WA 98104 • Tel: 206-393-5400 Case 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF Document 96 Filed 06/30/22 Page 5 of 8 1 2 Dated: June 29, 2022 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 By: s/ Eugene Novikov Eugene Novikov (pro hac vice) enovikov@durietangri.com Mark A. Lemley (pro hac vice) mlemley@durietangri.com Timothy C. Saulsbury (pro hac vice) tsaulsbury@durietangri.com Bethany D. Bengfort (pro hac vice) bbengfort@durietangri.com Matthaeus Martino-Weinhardt (pro hac vice) mweinhardt@durietangri.com Nari E.C. Ely (pro hac vice) nely@durietangri.com DURIE TANGRI LLP 217 Leidesdorff Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: (415) 362-6666 Facsimile: (415) 236-6300 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Dated: June 29, 2022 By: s/ Christina McCullough Antoine M. McNamara (WSBA No. 41701) AMcNamara@perkinscoie.com Christina J. McCullough (WSBA No. 47147) CMcCullough@perkinscoie.com PERKINS COIE LLP 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900 Seattle, WA 98101-3099 Telephone: 206-359-8000 Facsimile: 206-359-9000 Attorneys for Defendant Epic Games, Inc. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER - 5 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 SEATTLE, WA 98104 • Tel: 206-393-5400 Case 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF Document 96 Filed 06/30/22 Page 6 of 8 1 ORDER 2 PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING STIPULATION, it is ORDERED that the June 3 30, 2022 deadline for mediation is reset to the date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim 4 construction ruling. All other provisions of the Case Schedule remain in effect. 5 30thday of __________, June DATED this ___ 2022. 6 _____________________________ 7 HON. THERESA L. FRICKE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER - 5 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 SEATTLE, WA 98104 • Tel: 206-393-5400 Case 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF Document 96 Filed 06/30/22 Page 7 of 8 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 On June 29, 2022, I caused to be served the foregoing document(s) in the manner described below: STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER to be served on the following parties as indicated below: Antoine M. McNamara Christina J. McCullough PERKINS COIE (SEA) 1201 3rd Avenue, Ste. 4900 Seattle, WA 98101-3099 Fax: (206) 359-9000 Email: amcnamara@perkinscoie.com Email: cmccullough@perkinscoie.com Eugene Novikov Nari E.C. Ely Bethany D. Bengfort Mark A. Lemley Matthaeus Martino-Weinhardt Timothy C. Saulsbury DURIE TANGRI LLP 217 Leidesdorff Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Fax: (415) 236-6300 Email: enovikov@durietangri.com Email: nely@durietangri.com Email: bbengfort@durietangri.com Email: mlemley@durietangri.com Email: mweinhardt@durietangri.com Email: tsaulsbury@durietangri.com Email: SERVICEPENDRAGON@durietangri.com By United States Mail By Electronic Mail By Facsimile By United States Mail By Electronic Mail By Facsimile By United States Mail By Electronic Mail By Facsimile 21 22 23 24 25 26 Evan S. Nadel MINTZ, LEVIN, COHN, FERRIS, GLOVSKY and POPEO, P.C. 44 Montgomery Street, 36th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Fax: (415) 432-6001 Email: enadel@mintz.com STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER - 7 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 SEATTLE, WA 98104 • Tel: 206-393-5400 Case 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF Document 96 Filed 06/30/22 Page 8 of 8 1 2 3 4 Daniel Weinger MINTZ, LEVIN, COHN, FERRIS, GLOVSKY and POPEO, P.C. One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111 Fax: (617) 542-2241 Email: dbweinger@mintz.com 5 6 7 8 COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT EPIC GAMES, INC. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed June 29, 2022. 9 10 By: /s/ Tricia Northgrove Tricia Northgrove 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND ORDER - 7 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 SEATTLE, WA 98104 • Tel: 206-393-5400
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