Centrify Corporation v. Quest Software, Inc., No. 4:2010cv03873 - Document 21 (N.D. Cal. 2010)

Court Description: ORDER Granting re 20 Notice of Withdrawal of Motion and Stipulation. Signed by Judge Claudia Wilken on 11/15/2010. (ndr, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/15/2010)

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Centrify Corporation v. Quest Software, Inc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Doc. 21 EDWARD V. ANDERSON (SBN 83148) evanderson@sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 1801 Page Mill Road, Suite 110 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Telephone: 650-565-7000 Facsimile: 650-565-7100 PHILIP W. WOO (SBN 196459) pwoo@sidley.com MARC R. ASCOLESE (SBN 251397) mascolese@sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 555 California Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: 415-772-1200 Facsimile: 415-772-7400 Attorneys for Plaintiff Centrify Corporation 11 12 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 15 OAKLAND DIVISION 16 17 18 Case No. 10-3873-CW CENTRIFY CORPORATION, 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Plaintiff, v. QUEST SOFTWARE, INC. Defendant. WITHDRAWAL OF QUEST’S MOTION TO DISMISS STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING CENTRIFY LEAVE TO FILE AMENDED COMPLAINT AND EXTENDING THE PERIOD FOR QUEST’S RESPONSE Date: Time: Courtroom: Judge: withdrawn withdrawn 2, 4th Floor Hon. Claudia Wilken 26 27 28 Dockets.Justia.com STIPULATION 1 2 Defendant Quest Software, Inc. (“Quest”) hereby withdraws its Motion to Dismiss (Docket 3 No. 19), and together with Plaintiff Centrify Corporation (“Centrify”) stipulates that: (1) pursuant to 4 Rule 15(a)(1)(B) and/or 15(a)(2), Centrify may file its First Amended Complaint for Patent 5 Infringement, attached as Exhibit A; and (2) Centrify agrees to extend the period for Quest to answer 6 from 14 to 21 days after service of the First Amended Complaint for Patent Infringement. 7 In the First Amended Complaint for Patent Infringement, Centrify provides additional fact- 8 based allegations and a revised infringement count regarding U.S. Patent No. 7,591,005 (“the ‘005 9 patent”). Pursuant to Rule 15(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Quest has consented in 10 writing to Centrify’s First Amended Complaint for Patent Infringement. To the extent necessary, 11 Centrify seeks leave to file its First Amended Complaint for Patent Infringement. 12 13 The parties respectfully request an order granting leave to file the First Amended Complaint for Patent Infringement and extending the period for response from 14 to 21 days. 14 15 Dated: November 10, 2010 SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 16 17 By: 18 19 /s/ Edward V. Anderson Edward V. Anderson Attorneys for Plaintiff Centrify Corporation 20 21 Dated: November 10, 2010 COOLEY LLP 22 23 By: 24 25 /s/ Orion Armon Orion Armon Attorneys for Defendant Quest Software, Inc. 26 27 28 -1WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION; STIPULATION RE LEAVE TO AMEND COMPLAINT AND EXTEND PERIOD FOR RESPONSE CASE NO. 4:10-cv-3873-CW 1 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: 2 3 Dated: 11/15/2010 4 The Honorable Claudia Wilken United States District Judge 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 SIGNATURE ATTESTATION Pursuant to General Order No. 45(X)(B), I hereby certify that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from each of the other signatories shown above. 13 14 /s/ Marc R. Ascolese 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -2WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION; STIPULATION RE LEAVE TO AMEND COMPLAINT AND EXTEND PERIOD FOR RESPONSE CASE NO. 4:10-cv-3873-CW 1 6 Edward V. Anderson (SBN 83148) evanderson@sidley.com Philip W. Woo (SBN 196459) pwoo@sidley.com Marc R. Ascolese (SBN 251397) mascolese@sidley.com SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 1801 Page Mill Road, Suite 110 Palo Alto, California 94304 (650) 565-7000 (650) 565-7100 (Fax) 7 Attorneys for Plaintiff Centrify Corporation. 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 11 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 12 OAKLAND DIVISION 13 14 15 CENTRIFY CORPORATION, 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Plaintiffs, vs. QUEST SOFTWARE, INC. Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 10-3873-CW FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL 1 2 Plaintiff Centrify Corporation (“Centrify”), for its First Amended Complaint For Patent Infringement alleges as follows: PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 3 4 1. This is an action for patent infringement under the patent laws of the United States, 5 35 U.S.C. §1 et seq., from the defendant’s direct and indirect infringement of United States Patent 6 No. 7,591,005. PARTIES 7 8 9 10 11 2. Plaintiff Centrify Corporation is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business at 785 N. Mary Avenue, Suite 200, Sunnyvale, California 94085. 3. On information and belief, Defendant Quest Software, Inc. (“Quest”) is a Delaware corporation with a principal place of business at 5 Polaris Way, Aliso Viejo, California 92656. JURISDICTION AND VENUE 12 13 14 15 16 17 4. This is an action for patent infringement, arising under 35 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. generally, and 35 U.S.C. §§ 271(a)-(c) specifically. 5. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this dispute pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1338(a). 6. The Court has personal jurisdiction over Quest because Quest committed and is 18 committing acts of infringement in this Judicial District and is doing business in this Judicial 19 District at 469 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050. 20 7. Venue is proper in this District pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1391 and 1400(b) because a 21 substantial part of the events giving rise to Plaintiff’s cause of action occurred in this Judicial 22 District. INTRADISTRICT ASSIGNMENT 23 24 25 8. Division, and will be assigned on a district wide basis. FACTUAL BACKGROUND 26 27 This patent action is in an excepted category for Local Rule 3-2(c), Assignment to a 9. On September 15, 2009, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. 28 1 FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT CASE NO. 4:10-3873-CW 1 Patent No. 7,591,005 (“the ‘005 Patent”) entitled “Method and Apparatus for User Log-in Name 2 Mapping.” Centrify is the owner by assignment of all right, title and interest to the ‘005 Patent, 3 including all rights to enforce the ‘005 Patent and to collect past and future damages for 4 infringement. A copy of the ‘005 Patent is attached as Exhibit A. 5 6 10. Quest has knowledge of the ‘005 Patent by and through, at least, Centrify’s Complaint for Patent Infringement. Docket No. 1. 7 11. Quest makes, uses, and sells the Quest Authentication Services software product 8 (“QAS”), including at least version 4.0 of the software product, as well as earlier and subsequent 9 versions thereof. 10 12. 11 maps local Unix user accounts to Active Directory users accounts. 12 13 13. 14. 15. 16. FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION (DEFENDANT’S INFRINGEMENT OF THE ‘005 PATENT) 21 17. Plaintiff incorporates each of the preceding paragraphs 1-16 as if fully stated 18. 22 24 Quest provides documentation, instructions, and other support to customers for QAS and the mapped user or mapped user mode feature of QAS. 20 23 Quest sells QAS to its customers, and at least some of those customers use the mapped user or mapped user mode feature of QAS. 18 19 QAS provides and/or uses a Pluggable Authentication Module (“PAM”) that provides or facilitates, at least in part, Active Directory authentication. 16 17 The mapped user or mapped user mode feature of QAS uses a Network Information Service (“NIS”) “passwd” file or map. 14 15 QAS provides a feature called “mapped user” (or “mapped user mode”) where one Quest, in making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing into the United States herein. 25 and/or exporting from the United States its Quest Authentication Services software product, 26 including version 4.0, and reasonably similar products or services, has infringed and continues to 27 infringe one or more claims of the ‘005 Patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271. In particular, Quest 28 2 FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT CASE NO. 4:10-3973-CW 1 makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, imports into the United States and/or exports from the United 2 States computer readable media in accordance with one or more apparatus claims of the ‘005 3 Patent or operating in accordance with one or more method claims of the ‘005 Patent , including 4 but not limited to exemplary claims 1, 2, 5, and 6. Quest further actively induces infringement of 5 the ‘005 Patent through, for example, providing customers with instructions and support for 6 Quest Authentication Services and other reasonably similar products or services. Quest 7 contributorily infringes the ‘005 Patent by making Quest Authentication Services, its mapped 8 user or mapped user mode feature, and reasonably similar products or services, which have no 9 substantial non-infringing uses, and which Quest sells to its customers with knowledge of the 10 11 ‘005 Patent. 19. As a result of Quest’s infringement of the ‘005 Patent, Centrify has lost profits 12 and suffered irreparable harm, and will continue to lose profits and suffer irreparable harm unless 13 and until Centrify is enjoined by this Court from future infringement. PRAYER FOR RELIEF 14 WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully prays that this Court enter a judgment as 15 16 follows: 17 A. Judgment that the ‘005 Patent is valid and enforceable. 18 B. Judgment that the Defendant has directly and/or indirectly infringed the 19 claims of the ‘005 Patent. 20 C. 21 trial, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §284. 22 D. 23 Award Centrify compensatory damages, in an amount to be ascertained at Permanently enjoin Quest and its officers, directors, employees and agents from infringing or inducing others to infringe the ‘005 Patent. 24 E. Award Centrify interest and costs. 25 F. Award Centrify reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of the litigation, 26 pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §285. 27 28 3 FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT CASE NO. 4:10-3973-CW 1 2 G. Award Centrify such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper. 3 4 Dated: November __, 2010 SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 5 6 By: ________________________________ Edward V. Anderson 7 Attorneys for Plaintiff Centrify Corporation. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT CASE NO. 4:10-3973-CW DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL 1 2 Plaintiff respectfully requests a jury trial on all issues triable thereby. 3 4 Dated: November __, 2010 SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 5 6 By: ________________________________ Edward V. Anderson 7 Attorneys for Plaintiff Centrify Corporation. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT CASE NO. 4:10-3973-CW

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