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

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DILLINGHAM & MURPHY, LLP 

PATRICK J. HAGAN (SBN 68264) 

MARK J. ROGERS (SBN 173005) 

J. CROSS CREASON (SBN 209492) 

225 Bush Street, 6th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94104-4207 

Telephone: (415) 397-2700 

Facsimile: (415) 397-3300 

Attorneys for Defendant and Cross-Complainant 

Z-MAN FISHING PRODUCTS, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - OAKLAND DIVISION 

APPLIED ELASTOMERICS, 

INCORPORATED, a California corporation 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

Z-MAN FISHING PRODUCTS, 

INCORPORATED, a South Carolina 

corporation 

 Defendant. 

Case No. C062469 CW 

Honorable Claudia Wilken 

Trial Date: November 13, 2007 

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS 

Z-MAN FISHING PRODUCTS, INC., 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

APPLIED ELASTOMERICS, INC., 

 Defendant. 

Case No. C0700011 CW 

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION RE 

DISMISSAL OF CONSOLIDATED 

ACTION 

_______________________________________ 

 Applied Elastomerics, Incorporated (“AEI”) and Z-Man Fishing Products, Incorporated 

(“Z-Man”), through their respective attorneys and pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 

41(a), hereby stipulate as follows: 

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 Whereas Z-Man filed an action as Plaintiff against AEI as Defendant in the United District 

Court for the District of South Carolina on July 13, 2006, entitled “Z-Man Fishing Products, Inc., 

Plaintiff v. Applied Elastomerics, Inc., Defendant,” Case No. 2:06-cv-02022CWH (the “South 

Carolina action”). 

 Whereas AEI responded on to the South Carolina Action on September 13, 2006 by filing 

a motion to Stay, Dismiss, or Transfer Venue it to this Court. 

 Whereas the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina ruled in AEI’s favor on 

its motion to transfer on December 27, 2006 and transferred the South Carolina action to this 

Court; 

 Whereas the South Carolina action was subsequently transferred to this Court on January 

3, 2007 and assigned the case number C-07-00011 RS; 

 Whereas this Court issued an order on February 27, 2007 relating and consolidating the 

South Carolina action with the original action filed in this Court by AEI against Z-Man, case 

number 06-2469 CW. 

 Whereas the parties discussed the transfer of the South Carolina action to this Court during 

their March 2, 2007 appearance before the Court on AEI’s motion to dismiss and Z-Man’s motion 

for leave to file an amended answer, and counsel for Z-Man indicated that it was Z-Man’s 

intention to incorporate those claims set forth in the South Carolina action that Z-Man contended 

to be valid as additional counter-claims in case number 06-2469 and subsequently dismiss the 

South Carolina lawsuit; 

 Whereas in the Court’s March 5, 2007 Order, the Court indicated that Z-Man should 

include as part of a Third-Amended Counter-complaint those claims from the South Carolina 

Action it wanted to pursue; 

 Whereas on March 15, 2007, Z-Man filed a Third-Amended Counter-complaint; 

 Whereas Z-Man cannot voluntarily dismiss the South Carolina action without an order 

from this Court. 

 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED between AEI and Z-Man as follows: 

 The South Carolina action, case number 07-00011, shall be dismissed in its entirety, 

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without prejudice, each party to bear its own attorneys’ fees and costs. 

Dated: April 18, 2007 MORRISON & FOERSTER, LLP 

By: /S/ JENNIFER TAYLOR 

JENNIFER TAYLOR 

Attorneys for Applied Elastomerics, Inc. 

Dated: April 18, 2007 DILLINGHAM & MURPHY 

By: /S/ MARK ROGERS 

MARK J. ROGERS 

Attorneys for Z-Man Fishing Products, Inc. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

 4/23/07 

Dated: ____________________ _________________________________ 

 HONORABLE CLAUDIA WILKEN 

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