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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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CASE NO. C-05-01703 SBA [PROPOSED] ORDER 

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HENNIGAN, BENNETT & DORMAN LLP 

RODERICK G. DORMAN (SBN 96908) 

ALAN P. BLOCK (SBN 143783) 

KEVIN SHENKMAN (SBN 223315) 

601 South Figueroa Street, Suite 3300 

Los Angeles, California 90017 

Phone: (213) 694-1200 

Fax: (213) 694-1234 

dormanr@hbdlawyers.com

blocka@hbdlawyers.com

shenkmank@hbdlawyers.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

ACACIA MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ACACIA MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES 

CORPORATION,

 Plaintiff, 

vs.

CEBRIDGE CONNECTIONS, 

 Defendant. 

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Case No. C 05 01703 SBA 

Case No. C 05 01114 JW 

[PROPOSED] ORDER RE ACACIA’S 

MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE 

RELIEF TO CONSIDER WHETHER 

CASES SHOULD BE RELATED 

DATE: N/A 

TIME: N/A 

CTRM: Hon. James Ware

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge James Ware

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On May 4, 2005, Plaintiff Acacia Media Technologies Corporation (“Acacia”) 

filed a motion, pursuant to Local Rule 3-12, for administrative relief to consider 

whether this case, which involves claims for infringement of patents within Acacia’s 

“Yurt family” of patents, should be deemed related to the twenty other actions 

currently-pending before this Court which also involve claims for infringement of 

Acacia’s Yurt family of patents. Acacia specifically requested that this case be 

reassigned to this Court to conserve judicial resources and promote an efficient 

determination of the action. All of the other twenty cases currently before Judge 

Ware were transferred to Judge Ware in this District by order of the Judicial Panel on 

Multidistrict Litigation. 

On May 11, 2005, this Court issued an Order Denying Acacia’s Administrative 

Motion on the grounds that: “[T]his Court finds that assignment must be made in 

accordance with the MDL Rules of Procedure.” On the same day, this Court issued 

an Order of Referral of Tag-Along Action to the MDL Clerk, notifying the clerk of 

the Multidistrict Panel that this action “appears to be a ‘tag-along’ action as defined in 

MDL Rule 1.1” and referring “this matter to the Clerk of the Multidistrict Panel for 

further action pursuant to MDL Rule 7.4.” 

MDL Rule 7.5(a) applies to potential “tag-along” actions that are filed in the 

transferee district, such as the present case. According to Rule 7.5(a), the MDL Panel 

will take no action on the Court’s referral of this case to the MDL Panel as a “tagalong” action, because assignment to the transferee judge is to be handled pursuant to 

the court’s local rules for assignment of related actions: 

Rule 7.5(a) Potential “tag-along actions” filed in the transferee 

district require no action on the part of the Panel and requests 

for assignment of such actions to the Section 1407 transferee 

judge should be made in accordance with local rules for 

assignment of related actions. 

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Upon reconsideration of its denial of Acacia’s administrative motion, this 

Court, applying MDL Rule 7.5(a), hereby conditionally GRANTS Acacia’s 

administrative motion only for the purpose of pre-trial proceedings pursuant to the 

MDL transfer Order dated February 24, 2005. 

Accordingly, this Court reassigns the case of Acacia Media Technologies 

Corporation v. Cebridge Connections, Case No. 05-CV-01703 SBA to this Court to 

be included, only for the purpose of pre-trial proceedings, with the twenty cases 

comprising case no. MDL-1665, which have been grouped for convenience as In re 

Acacia Media Technologies Corporation, Case No. CV-05-1114 JW (HRL). 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ______________, 2005 

 Honorable James Ware 

 United States District Judge 

Presented by: 

HENNIGAN, BENNETT & DORMAN LLP 

By: /S/ 

 Alan P. Block 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ACACIA MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES 

CORPORATION

June 27 /s/ James Ware

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PROOF OF SERVICE-UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

I, Sylvia A. Berson, declare: 

I am a citizen of the United States and employed in Los Angeles County, 

California. I am over the age of eighteen years and not a party to the within-entitled 

action. My business address is 601 South Figueroa Street, Suite 3300, Los Angeles, 

California 90017.

On June 20, 2005, I served a copy of the within document(s) described as

[PROPOSED] ORDER RE ACACIA’S MOTION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE 

RELIEF TO CONSIDER WHETHER CASES SHOULD BE RELATED by

transmitting via United States District Court for the Central District of California 

Electronic Case Filing Program the document(s) listed above by uploading the 

electronic files for each of the above listed document(s) on this date, addressed as set 

forth on the attached Service List.

The above-described document was also transmitted to the parties indicated 

below, by Federal Express only. 

Chambers of the Honorable James Ware 

Attn: Regarding Acacia Litigation 

280 South First Street 

San Jose, CA 95113 

3 copies 

I am readily familiar with Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP's practice in its 

Los Angeles office for the collection and processing of mail with the United States 

Postal Service; pursuant to that practice, envelopes placed for collection at designated 

locations during designated hours are deposited with the United States Postal Service 

with first class postage thereon fully prepaid that same day in the ordinary course of 

business; and, 

I am readily familiar with Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP's practice in its 

Los Angeles office for the collection and processing of federal express with Federal 

Express.

I declare that I am employed in the office of a member of the bar of this Court 

at whose direction the service was made. 

Executed on June 20, 2005, at Los Angeles, California. 

 /s/ 

 Sylvia A. Berson 

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SERVICE LIST

Stephen S. Korniczky

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP

3579 Valley Centre Drive

San Diego, CA 92130 

Counsel for:

Cebridge Connections 

Juanita R. Brooks

Todd G. Miller

Fish & Richardson 

12390 El Camino Real 

San Diego, California 92130-2081 

Counsel for: 

New Destiny Internet Group LLC; Audio 

Communications; VS Media Inc.; Ademia 

Multimedia LLC; Adult Entertainment 

Broadcast Network; Cyber Trend Inc.; 

Lightspeedcash; Adult Revenue Services; 

Innovative Ideas International; Game Link 

Inc.; Club Jenna Inc.; CJ Inc.; Global AVS 

Inc.; ACMP LLC; Cybernet Ventures Inc. 

Jonathan E. Singer 

William R. Woodford 

Fish & Richardson 

60 South Sixth Street, Suite 3300 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 

Counsel for: 

New Destiny Internet Group LLC; Audio 

Communications; VS Media Inc. ; Ademia 

Multimedia LLC; Adult Entertainment 

Broadcast Network; Cyber Trend Inc.; 

Lightspeedcash; Adult Revenue Services; 

Innovative Ideas International; Game Link 

Inc.; Club Jenna Inc.; CJ Inc. ; Global AVS 

Inc.; ACMP LLC; Cybernet Ventures Inc.

Victor De Gyarfas

William J. Robinson 

Foley & Lardner 

2029 Century Park E, 35th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90067 

Counsel for: 

International Web Innovations, Inc. 

Gary A. Hecker 

James Michael Slominski 

Hecker Law Group 

1925 Century Park East, Suite 2300 

Los Angeles, California 90067 

Counsel for: 

Offendale Commercial Limited BV

Mark D. Schneider 

Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle, Anderson 

 and Citkowski 

280 N. Old Woodward Avenue, Suite 400 

Birmingham, Michigan 48009-5394 

Counsel for: 

Askcs.com Inc. 

Dan Fingerman 

Mount & Stoelker, P.C. 

River Park Tower, 17th Floor 

333 W. San Carlos St. 

San Jose, CA 95110 

Counsel for: 

Askcs.com Inc.

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David Allen York 

Latham & Watkins 

135 Commonwealth Drive 

Menlo Park, California 94025 

Counsel for: 

AP Net Marketing Inc.; ICS Inc. 

Rachel Krevans 

Jason A. Crotty 

Paul A. Friedman 

Morrison & Foerster LLP 

425 Market Street 

San Francisco, California 94105-2482 

Counsel for: 

Echostar Satellite LLC; Echostar Technologies 

Corporation; Echostar Communications 

Corporation 

Annemarie A. Daley 

Tara DeAnne Sutton 

Stephen P. Safranski 

Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP 

2800 LaSalle Plaza 

800 LaSalle Avenue 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 

Counsel for: 

Coxcom, Inc.; Hospitality Network, Inc. 

J. Timothy Nardell 

Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP 

One Ferry Building, Suite 200 

San Francisco, California 94111-4213 

Counsel for: 

Coxcom, Inc.; Hospitality Network, Inc.

Jeffrey H. Dean 

Kevin D. Hoag

Bradford P. Lyerla 

Carl E. Myers 

Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP 

6300 Sears Tower 

233 South Wacker Drive, 

Chicago, Illinois 60606 

Counsel for: 

Charter Communications, Inc.; Armstrong 

Group; East Cleveland TV and 

Communications LLC; Massillon Cable TV, 

Inc.; Wide Open West, LLC 

William R. Overend 

Morgan D. Tovey 

Reed Smith Crosby Heafey 

Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Counsel for: 

Charter Communications, Inc.

Daralyn J. Durie 

Joshua H. Lerner 

David J. Silbert 

Keker & Van Nest LLP 

710 Sansome Street 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Counsel for: 

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Maria K. Nelson 

Victor G. Savikas 

Jones Day Reavis & Pogue 

555 West Fifth Street, Suite 4600 

Los Angeles, California 90013-1025 

Counsel for: 

DirecTV Group, Inc.

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Stephen E. Taylor 

Taylor & Co. Law Offices, Inc. 

One Ferry Building, Suite 355 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Counsel for: 

Mediacom Communications Corporation 

Mitchell D. Lukin 

Baker Botts L.L.P. 

One Shell Plaza 

910 Louisiana 

Houston, Texas 77022 

Counsel for: 

Mediacom Communications Corporation 

Jeffrey D. Sullivan 

Michael J. McNamara 

Baker Botts L.L.P. 

30 Rockefeller Plaza 

New York, New York 10112 

Counsel for: 

Mediacom Communications Corporation 

Rebecca Anne Bortolotti 

John Christopher Reich 

Albert L. Underhill 

Merchant & Gould 

80 S. 8th Street, Suite 3200 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 

Counsel for: 

Arvig Communications Systems; Cannon 

Valley Communications, Inc.; Loretel 

Cablevision; Mid-Continent Media, Inc.; 

Savage Communications, Inc.; Sjoberg’s 

Cablevision, Inc.; US Cable Holdings LP 

Sean David Garrison 

Robert Francis Copple 

Lewis & Roca LLP 

40 N. Central Avenue 

Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4429 

Counsel for: 

Cable America Corp. 

C. Mark Kittredge 

Perkins Coie Brown & Bain PA 

P.O. Box 400 

Phoenix, Arizona 85001-0400 

Counsel for: 

Cable One Inc. 

Troy Blinn Forderman 

George Chun Chen 

Bryan Cave LLP 

2 N. Central Avenue, Suite 2200 

Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4406 

Counsel for: 

Cable System Service Inc. 

Gregory T. Spalj 

Fabyanske Westra & Hart PA 

800 LaSalle Avenue, Suite 1900 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 

Counsel for: 

Cable System Service, Inc. 

Patrick J. Whalen 

Spencer Fan Britt & Brown LLP 

1000 Walnut Street, Suite 1400 

Kansas City, Missouri 64106 

Counsel for: 

NPG Cable Inc. 

Fritz Byers 

520 Madison Avenue 

Toledo, Ohio 43604 

Counsel for: 

Block Communications, Inc. 

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Clay K. Keller 

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs 

50 South Main Street 

Akron, Ohio 44308 

Counsel for: 

Nelsonville TV Cable, Inc. 

Melissa G. Ferrario 

Barry S. Goldsmith 

Gary H. Nunes 

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 

8065 Leesburg Pike, Fourth Floor 

Tysons Corner, VA 22182 

Counsel for: 

Nelsonville TV Cable, Inc. 

Christopher B. Fagan 

Fay Sharpe Fagan Minnich & McKee 

1100 Superior Avenue, Seventh Floor 

Cleveland, Ohio 44114-2518 

Counsel for: 

Armstrong Group; East Cleveland TV and 

Communications LLC; Massillon Cable TV, 

Inc.; Wide Open West, LLC 

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