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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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UNITED 

STATES 

DISTRICT 

COURT

For the Northern District of California

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UNITED 

STATES 

DISTRICT 

COURT

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

Northern District of California

San Francisco Division

WORDTECH SYSTEMS, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

MICROBOARDS MANUFACTURING,

L.L.C., et al.,

Defendants.

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No. C 09-4612 SI

ORDER DENYING REQUEST FOR

INDEMNITEE DEFENDANTS’

REPRESENATIVES TO BE EXCUSED

FROM ATTENDING MEDIATION

Date: TBD (Deadline: 11/5/10)

Mediator: John Schlicher

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the request for the corporate representatives for defendants

Microboards Manufacturing, L.L.C., Microboards Technology, L.L.C., Octave Systems, Inc., and

Disc Makers, Inc. (“the indemnitee defendants”) to be excused from personally attending the

mediation session before John Schlicher is DENIED. The court finds that the indemnitee

defendants have not demonstrated that their representatives’ personal attendance at the mediation

would “impose an extraordinary or otherwise unjustifiable hardship” in accordance with ADR L.R.

6-10(d). Corporate representatives Messrs. John Westrum, Tony van Veen, Michael Allen and Roy

Worthington shall personally attend the mediation to be scheduled before Mr. Schlicher. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

August 6, 2010 By:

Dated Elizabeth D. Laporte

United States Magistrate Judge

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