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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1114 Trademark Infringement

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BARNES & THORNBURG LLP

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November 6, 2015

Chief District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton

United States District Court

Northern District of California

Oakland Courthouse, Courtroom 3 - 3rd Floor

1301 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612

Re: Maktab Tarighe, et al v. Ali Kianfar, et al

U.S.D.C. for the Northern District of California

Case No.: 4:95-cv-02881-PJH

Our File: 718-35347-3

Your Honor:

Under the Court’s Order dated August 12, 2015 (Docket No. 158), the non-expert discovery

cutoff in the captioned matter is November 30, 2015. Pursuant to Local Rules 7-11 and 7-12, the

parties hereby jointly request that this deadline be extended fifteen (15) days, to and including

December 15, 2015.

Good cause supports this joint request. First, the extension will grant the parties the

opportunity to advance a recent and productive line of settlement discussions without the burden of

completing non-expert discovery simultaneously. The parties for many years have been unable to

agree as to what they can and cannot do with regard to possible future actions about the trademarks

at issue. Through the work of counsel, including personal counsel for the defendants, they have

come to terms on this set of issues. The only remaining issue is financial, and that is in the hands of

the defendants’ carrier. Second, the extension will not affect the overall case schedule delineated in

the Court’s December 9, 2014 Case Management Order (Docket No. 133). Pursuant to that Order,

expert disclosures are not due until January 15, 2016, a month after the new non-expert cutoff

proposed here. Third, this 15-day extension is narrowly tailored to meet the needs of the parties and

to address any scheduling difficulties created by the approaching Thanksgiving holiday.

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Chief District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton

November 6, 2015

For the foregoing reasons, the parties respectfully jointly request a fifteen (15) day extension

of the non-expert discovery cutoff to and including December 15, 2015.

Respectfully submitted,

BARNES & THORNBURG

JOSEPH D. LEWIS

By: /s/

Joseph D. Lewis

Counsel for Plaintiffs

MAKTAB TARIGHE

OVEYSSI MAGHSOUDI, INC.

AND NADER ANGHA

DILLINGHAM & MURPHY, LLP

JOHN N. DAHLBERG

By: /s/

John N. Dahlberg

Counsel for Defendants

ALI KIANFAR, NAHID KIANFAR, AND

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SUFISM

I, Joseph D. Lewis, am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used to

file this document. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5.1, I hereby attest that counsel for defendants has

concurred in this filing.

/s/

Joseph D. Lewis

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The parties’ request to extend the non-expert discovery cutoff from November 30, 2015 to

December 15, 2015 is GRANTED.

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

The Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton

United States District Judge

November 9, 2015

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton

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