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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

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AMENDED PRETRIAL PREPARATION ORDER 

Scott D. Baker (SBN 84923)

James A. Daire (SBN 239637) 

REED SMITH LLP

Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3922 

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 7936 

San Francisco, CA 94120-7936 

Telephone: 415.543.8700 

Facsimile: 415.391.8269 

Attorneys for Defendant/Counterclaimant 

General Sales and Service, Inc., 

Robert W. Payne (SBN 073901) 

Nicole A. Smith (SBN 243823) 

LA RIVIERE, GRUBMAN & PAYNE LLP 

Post Office Box 3140 

19 Upper Ragsdale Drive 

Monterey, CA 93942-3140 

Telephone: 831.649.8800 

Facsimile: 831.649.8835 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant 

TORCO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

TORCO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, 

a California corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs.

GENERAL SALES AND SERVICE, INC., 

a Michigan corporation; and DOES 5-50, 

 Defendants. 

GENERAL SALES AND SERVICE, INC., 

a Michigan corporation, 

 Counterclaimant, 

vs.

TORCO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, 

a California corporation, 

 Counterdefendant. 

No.: C 06 2033 MMC 

[PROPOSED] AMENDED PRETRIAL 

PREPARATION ORDER 

The parties, through their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate as follows: 

1. The parties have agreed to mediate this dispute and to alter the future dates and/or 

deadlines in order to accommodate such meditation. 

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AMENDED PRETRIAL PREPARATION ORDER 

2. On June 19, 2006, the Court entered a Pretrial Preparation Order setting forth the 

dates and/or deadlines for certain events in this action. Since then, the parties have exchanged Initial 

Disclosures and conducted non-expert discovery in preparation for private mediation. 

3. The proposed extended deadlines apply only to future Court-ordered dates and 

deadlines. 

4. Accordingly, the parties to this action jointly submit this [Proposed] Amended 

Pretrial Preparation Order. The parties respectfully request that the Court enter the following as the 

Pretrial Preparation Order in this matter such that the parties’ mediation may be accommodated: 

Task/Action Schedule (Proposed) 

Jury Trial Date July 23, 2007 (unchanged) 

Non-Expert Discovery Cutoff April 9, 2007 

(moved from February 9, 2007) 

Designation Of Experts 

Rebuttal No Later Than

March 15, 2007 

(moved from March 2, 2007) 

April 2, 2007 

(moved from March 16, 2007) 

Expert Discovery Cutoff April 13, 2007 

(moved from April 6, 2007) 

Dispositive Motions April 20, 2007 (unchanged) 

Last Day For Hearing on Dispositive

Motions

May 25, 2007 

Pretrial Conference Date July 10, 2007 (unchanged) 

Meet and Confer June 4, 2007 (unchanged) 

Further Status Conference May 4, 2007 (unchanged) 

Further Status Conference Statement April 27, 2007 (unchanged) 

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AMENDED PRETRIAL PREPARATION ORDER 

Dated: November 7, 2006. REED SMITH LLP 

/s/ James A. Daire 

Scott D. Baker 

James A. Daire 

Attorneys for Defendant/Crossclaimant General Sales 

and Service, Inc. 

Dated: November 6, 2006. LA RIVIERE, GRUBMAN & PAYNE LLP

/s/ Robert W. Payne 

Robert W. Payne 

Nicole A. Smith 

Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterdefendant Torco 

International Corporation 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED 

Dated: , 2006. ________________________________________ 

 Honorable Maxine M. Chesney 

 United States District Judge 

November 7

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