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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

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNILOC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

INC, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

LG ELECTRONICS U.S.A. INC., et al.,

Defendants.

UNILOC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

INC, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

LG ELECTRONICS U.S.A. INC., et al.,

Defendants.

UNILOC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

INC, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

LG ELECTRONICS U.S.A. INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 18-cv-06737-JST 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Case No. 18-cv-06739-JST

Case No. 18-cv-06740-JST

The Court has granted Defendants’ unopposed motion to relate cases 18-cv-6737, 18-cv6739, and 18-cv-6740. In Defendants’ motion, they identified substantial similarities between 

these cases as the basis for relating them. ECF No. 72 at 3-4. Moreover, in proceedings in front 

of Judge Koh in case 18-cv-6738, Plaintiffs stated that they “could have filed one case with all 

four patents” involved, but that they filed four separate cases in order to avoid an inter partes 

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review stay of one patent affecting the remaining patents. ECF No. 72-3 at 17-18. 

In light of the parties’ seeming agreement that these cases can proceed as a single action, 

the Court hereby orders the parties to show cause why these cases should not be consolidated 

pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(a). Any party opposing consolidation shall file a 

brief of no longer than 10 pages by January 31, 2019. If no party files an opposition by that date, 

the Court will consolidate the cases. If both parties file an opposition, the matter will be placed 

under submission unless the Court sets a hearing on the question of whether to consolidate the 

cases. If only one party files an opposition, the other party will have until February 14, 2019 to 

file a brief in favor of consolidating the case, at which time the Court will take the matter under 

submission unless the Court sets a hearing. 

In any consolidated action, the parties shall be limited to a combined total of ten claim 

construction terms pursuant to Patent Local Rule 4-3(c). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 15, 2019

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JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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