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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:2 Antitrust Litigation

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JOINT STATUS REPORT AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF CMC DATE

Case No. 14-022238-SI.

KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP

ROGER L. COOK (State Bar No. 55208)

SARA B. GIARDINA (State Bar No. 278954)

KEVIN J. O’BRIEN (State Bar No. 278823)

Eighth Floor, Two Embarcadero Center

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: 415 576 0200

Facsimile: 415 576 0300

E-mail: rcook@kilpatricktownsend.com

sgiardina@kilpatricktownsend.com

kobrien@kilpatricktownsend.com

JOSHUA H. LEE (admitted pro hac vice)

1100 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 2800

Atlanta, GA 30309-4528

Telephone: (404) 815-6500

Email: jlee@kilpatricktownsend.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

SIDENSE CORP.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

SIDENSE CORP., a Canadian Corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

KILOPASS TECHNOLOGY, INC., a

California Corporation,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-02238-SI

JOINT STATUS REPORT AND

REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE OF 

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

DATE

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INTRODUCTION AND REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE

Plaintiff Sidense Corp. and Defendant Kilopass Technology, Inc. (collectively “the 

Parties”) hereby respond to the Court’s April 22, 2015 Order (Dkt. No. 14) requesting a Joint 

Status Report, and request relief from compliance with the portion of that Order setting a Case 

Management Conference on May 8, 2015 and ordering a preliminary Joint Case Management 

Statement to be filed on May 1, 2015. The Parties request (1) that the present report be deemed to 

comply with the Order requiring a Joint Status Report to be filed on or before May 1, 2015, and 

(2) that the Case Management Conference currently scheduled for May 8, 2015 be continued to 

June 19, 2015, and the deadline for the Parties’ Joint Case Management Statement be continued to 

and including June 12, 2015. 

DISCUSSION

Upon issuance of the Court’s March 11, 2015 Order awarding fees and costs to Sidense in 

the related case 3:10-cv-02006, the Parties initiated global settlement discussions regarding the 

Parties’ collective legal disputes, including the above-captioned action.1 At the same time, 

recognizing that setting a Case Management Conference (“CMC”) date in the above-captioned 

action would trigger (1) compliance with preliminary CMC compliance requirements under the 

Court’s Local Rules, and (2) service of the Complaint which would, in turn, trigger deadlines for 

Kilopass’ response to the Complaint in the present case, and require the Court to begin spending 

time on this case, the Parties agreed to request a CMC date of May 22, 2015 in order to avoid 

triggering either of these events for a reasonable time to allow settlement discussions to bear fruit 

before requiring the Parties bear the expense of these compliances and responses, and to avoid 

having wasted the Court’s time in the event of settlement. See Dkt. No. 8 (stipulated and ordered 

1 On March 25, 2015, Kilopass filed a Notice of Appeal in C 10-2066 SI (Dkt. No. 462) as to (1) 

the Court’s August 12, 2014 Order granting Sidense’s motion for attorneys’ fees (Dkt. No. 427) 

and (2) the Court’s March 11, 2015 Order regarding the attorneys’ fees calculation (Dkt. No. 461). 

Sidense subsequently filed a Notice of Appeal on April 8, 2015 (Dkt. No. 467) as to the Court’s 

March 11, 2015 Order regarding the attorneys’ fees calculation (Dkt. No. 461). This is a cross 

appeal from Kilopass’ earlier appeal. These appeals are protective of the Parties’ positions, should 

settlement not occur. 

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agreement for the Parties to set a CMC “at the earliest date on the Court’s calendar that is at least 

21 days after filing of the attorneys’ fee order”). 

As settlement discussions progressed, however, it became evident that additional time 

would be required and, as a result, the Parties tentatively agreed—on April 22, 2015—to jointly 

request that the Case Management Conference be set for a later date. The Parties were in the 

process of preparing this report and request when they received the Court’s April 22, 2015 Order 

(Dkt. No. 14) setting the May 8, 2015 Case Management Conference. Accordingly, the parties 

jointly request that Case Management Conference be set for either June 5, June 19 or July 10, with 

June 19 being preferred. 

Good cause exists for the requested continuance of the Case Management Conference date 

to avoid wasting the Court’s time and the Parties’ resources preparing for a potentially 

unnecessary Case Management Conference in view of the Parties’ ongoing settlement discussions.

Additionally, Sidense would be potentially prejudiced by the current May 8, 2015 Case 

Management Conference date. If the Court were to enforce this date, Sidense’s deadline for 

service of the Complaint, according to the Court’s September 9, 2014 Order (Dkt. No. 13), would 

be 21 days prior to the May 8, 2015 date—i.e., April 17, 2015—a date which has already passed.

Enforcement of the May 8, 2015 date would thus be prejudicial to Sidense because it would raise 

potential statute of limitation issues. 

CONCLUSION

For the above reasons, the Parties request that the Case Management Conference currently 

scheduled for May 8, 2015 be continued to June 19, 2015, and the deadline for the Parties’ Joint 

Case Management Statement be continued to and including June 12, 2015. The Parties apologize 

for not having earlier informed the Court of the status of this case and their joint rationale for 

requesting the June 19, 2015 Case Management Conference date.

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DATED: April 24, 2014 Respectfully submitted,

KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP

By: /s/ Kevin J. O’Brien

ROGER L. COOK

SARA B. GIARDINA

KEVIN O’BRIEN

JOSHUA H. LEE

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Sidense Corp.

DURIE TANGRI LLP

By: /s/ Alex Feerst

ALEX FEERST

Attorneys for Defendant

Kilopass Technology, Inc.

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CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO CIVIL L.R 5-1(i)(3),

RE E-FILING ON BEHALF OF MULTIPLE SIGNATORIES

In accord with the Northern District of California’s Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I attest that 

concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from each of other signatories who 

are listed on the signature pages. I shall maintain records to support this concurrence for 

subsequent production for the Court if so ordered, or for inspection upon request by a party until 

one year after final resolution of the action (including appeal, if any).

April 24, 2014 /s/ Kevin J. O’Brien

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date:_______________

The Hon. Susan Illston

United States District Court Judge

67219697V.1

4/27/15

Case management conference is continued to 6/19/16 @ 3 p.m. 

The joint case management conference statement shall be filed on 6/12/15.

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