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Fractus, S.A. v. AT&T Mobility LLC, No. 2:18-cv-00135 (E.D. Tex. Feb. 6, 2019)

Denied
Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division
Case No.
No. 2:18-cv-00135, Dkt. No. 157
Decided
February 6, 2019
Judge
Rodney Gilstrap, J. — Marshall
Document
Order
Docket Entry
ORDER DENYING WITHOUT PREJUDICE 120 Motion for Leave to Supplement Defendants Invalidity Contentions
Length
2 pages

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

MARSHALL DIVISION

FRACTUS, S.A., §

§ Plaintiff, § CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:18-CV-00135-JRG § LEAD CASE v. § § AT&T MOBILITY LLC, §

§

SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS § CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:18-CV-00136-JRG COMPANY, L.P., SPRINT SPECTRUM, § MEMBER CASE

L.P., SPRINT SOLUTIONS, INC., § NEXTEL OPERATIONS, INC., §

§

T-MOBILE US, INC., T-MOBILE USA, § CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:18-CV-00137-JRG INC., § MEMBER CASE

§

§

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC., § CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:18-CV-00138-JRG CELLCO PARTNERSHIP D/B/A VERIZON § MEMBER CASE

WIRELESS, §

§

Defendants. §

ORDER

Before the Court is Intervenor-Defendant CellMax Technologies AB’s (“CellMax”) Unopposed Motion for Leave to Supplement Defendants’ Invalidity Contentions (the “Motion). (Dkt. No. 120.) On January 17, 2019, the Court held a hearing on the above-pending motion. At that hearing, the Parties represented to the Court on the record that this proposed additional prior art reference will not be used to present a new invalidity theory that differs from that of the named Defendant cellular carriers. Having considered the Motion, and based on the Parties’ representation, the Court finds that the Motion should be and hereby is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE; however, leave is granted for a subsequent joint filing by CellMax and the corresponding named Defendant cellular carriers in the above-numbered cases seeking the same

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or similar relief. To be clear, any future motion seeking the relief requested in the Motion by an intervenor must be made in and through a joint motion from the intervenor and the corresponding Defendant cellular carrier.

SIGNED this 19th day of December, 2011.

So ORDERED and SIGNED this 6th day of February, 2019.

RODNEY GILSTRAP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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