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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PIONEER CORP.,

Plaintiff,

 v.

SAMSUNG SDI CO. LTD.,

Defendant. /

No. C 06-05791 CRB

ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE

Now pending before the Court is defendant Samsung’s motion to transfer this action

to the Eastern District of Texas. After carefully considering the papers filed by the parties,

and having had the benefit of oral argument, the Court finds that it is in the interest of justice

to GRANT the motion to transfer. 

Two of the Samsung patents which Pioneer put at issue in this lawsuit (No. 6,828,731

and No. 6,674,237), and the two Pioneer patents which Pioneer asserted in the Texas lawsuit

(No. 5,640,068 and No. 5,182,489), involve micro-level plasma display panel structure. It is

in the interests of justice to have one judge (or at least the possibility that one judge will)

preside over cases between the same parties involving the same technology. Furthermore,

the third patent at issue in this District (No. 6,090,464) is technologically far less complex

than all the other patents at issue in the two cases combined, so it will not significantly

complicate the issues for a jury. In any event, the judges in Texas can decide, with the

assistance of the parties, how these related cases should be managed.

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Finally, Pioneer’s choice of forum is entitled to little weight as it has not identified

any contacts with this District, and it filed its infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of

Texas. Williams v. Bowman, 157 F. Supp. 2d 1103, 1106 (N.D. Cal. 2001). Pioneer has not

identified any factors that make this District more convenient for this case and the Eastern

District of Texas more convenient for its other case.

Accordingly, Samsung’s motion to transfer is GRANTED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 23, 2007 

CHARLES R. BREYER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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