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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:145 Patent Infringement

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STIPULATION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS

CASE NO. C 07 4587 PVT 

Todd A. Lorenz, Esq. SBN 175950 

Sri Sankaran, Esq. SBN 236584 

DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP 

1717 Embarcadero Road 

P.O. Box 51050 

Palo Alto, California 94303 

Telephone: (650) 857-1717 

Facsimile: (650) 857-1288 

E-mail: eFilingPA@dorsey.com 

E-mail: lorenz.todd@dorsey.com 

E-mail: sankaran.sri@dorsey.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

EPPENDORF NORTH AMERICA, INC. 

Kevin P. B. Johnson, Esq. SBN 177129 

Victoria A. Maroulis, Esq. SBN 202603 

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART 

OLIVER & HEDGES, LLP 

555 Twin Dolphin Drive 

Redwood Shores, CA 94065 

Telephone: (650) 801-5000 

Facsimile: (650) 801-5100 

E-mail: kevinjohnson@quinnemanuel.com 

E-mail: victoriamaroulis@quinnemanuel.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC. 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

EPPENDORF NORTH AMERICA, INC., 

a Delaware Corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC., 

a Delaware Corporation, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. C 07 4587 PVT 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

TO STAY PROCEEDINGS 

Magistrate Judge Patricia V. Trumbull 

Pursuant to Local Rule 7-12, the parties, Eppendorf North America, Inc., and Bio-Rad 

Laboratories, Inc., submit this Stipulation and Order to Stay the Proceedings. In support of this 

Stipulation, the parties state as follows: 

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STIPULATION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS

CASE NO. C 07 4587 PVT

1. There is a corresponding case, 2:07-CV-281 (E.D. Tex) (“the Texas case”), filed 

on July 5, 2007 and pending in the pleading phase in the United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, involving some of the same parties. In that case, 

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., brought an action against, inter alia, Eppendorf North America, Inc. 

alleging infringement of United States Patent No. 6,340,589—the same patent at issue in the 

present case. 

2. Eppendorf North America, Inc. asserts that venue is improper in the Eastern 

District of Texas and has filed a motion to dismiss or to transfer the Texas case to this Court for 

consolidation. 

3. The parties have agreed that should Eppendorf North America, Inc.’s motion in the 

Texas case be denied, Eppendorf North America, Inc. will move to voluntarily dismiss the present 

case. 

4. Therefore, the parties have agreed that this proceeding should be stayed for the 

period of time that it takes to resolve Eppendorf North America, Inc.’s motion to dismiss or 

transfer the Texas case. 

5. Accordingly the parties request that this proceeding be stayed until resolution of 

Eppendorf North America, Inc.’s motion to dismiss or transfer the Texas case. 

 

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STIPULATION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS

CASE NO. C 07 4587 PVT

 Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: October 1, 2007 

DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP 

By /S/ 

TODD A. LORENZ 

SRI K. SANKARAN 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

EPPENDORF NORTH AMERICA, INC. 

Dated: October 1, 2007 

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART 

OLIVER & HEDGES, LLP 

By /S/ 

KEVIN P. B. JOHNSON 

Attorneys for Defendant 

BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC. 

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: _______________________ 

 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

October 2, 2007 PATRICIA V. TRUMBULL

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