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

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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

SAN JOSE DIVISION

Regal Electronics, Inc.,

Plaintiff,

 v.

Pulse Engineering, Inc., et al.,

Defendant.

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NO. C 03-01296 JW

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S

MOTION TO VACATE JUDGMENT

REGARDING THE GRANT OF

DEFENDANT'S COUNTERCLAIM

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a Motion by Regal Electronics, Inc. ("Plaintiff") seeking, pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P.

60(a), correction of the Judgment entered on May 3, 2005. (Motion for Correction of and/or Relief

from Judgment Entered, hereinafter "Motion," Docket Item No. 194, at 1:24-25.) The Judgment

granted Pulse Engineering, Inc.'s ("Defendant") First Counterclaim (Declaration of Patent

Noninfringement as to all of Defendant's products). (Judgment, Docket Item No. 193, at 1:24-27;

Answer, Docket Item No. 34, at 6:17-26.) However, this Court's Judgment should only have reached

Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment of Non-Infringement (hereinafter "MSJ," Docket Item No.

128), which pertained to a subset of Defendant's products. (Judgment, Docket Item No. 193, at 1:19-

24.) Therefore, Plaintiff's Motion is GRANTED. Specifically, Defendant's product platforms J0B,

J1, J3, J6, J7, J8, JC, JG, JK, JP, JU, JV, JW, JY have been either stipulated or found not to infringe

Plaintiff's U.S. Patent No. 6,171,152 ("'152 Patent"). (Declaration and Stipulation, hereinafter

"Stipulation," Docket Item No. 143, at 2:19-22; Order Granting Defendant Summary Judgment,

hereinafter "Order," Docket Item No. 191, at 1:17-26.) 

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II. BACKGROUND

The technologies at issue are RJ-45 modular connectors used to transmit data over local area

networks ("LANs"). Physically, these connectors resemble the click-together connectors used to set

up telephones. One difference is that RJ-45 modular connectors are wider, in part, because they

contain eight adjoining wires whereas telephone connectors contain less adjoining wires. Typically,

RJ-45 connectors are mounted near the outer edge of a computer's motherboard so that they can

receive matching, external RJ-45 plugs. Plaintiff argues Defendant's RJ-45 product platforms infringe

on its '152 Patent. (Order at 2:6-13.) Defendant moved for summary judgment of non-infringement

with regard to a subset of its product platforms. (MSJ at 1:1-10.)

On May 3, 2005, this Court issued its Judgment. This Court granted Defendant's MSJ. 

(Judgment at 1:19-24.) This Court also inadvertently granted Defendant summary judgment on its First

Counterclaim (Declaration of Patent Noninfringement as to all of Defendant's products). (Judgment at

1:24-27; Answer at 6:17-26.) Accordingly, this Court grants Plaintiff's Motion and vacates

Defendant's First Counterclaim Judgment.

III. STANDARDS

FED. R. CIV. P. 60 provides that a party may seek relief from a final judgment or order. 

Specifically, FED. R. CIV. P. 60(a) provides that "[c]lerical mistakes in judgments, orders or other

parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court

at any time of its own initiative or on the motion of any party and after such notice, if any, as the court

orders."

IV. DISCUSSION

Having reviewed Plaintiff's and Defendant's papers, it is clear that this Court made a mistake

in granting summary judgment on Defendant's First Counterclaim. Defendant's MSJ did not include all

of its product platforms. This is made clear by Defendant's withdrawal of product platforms J5 and J7

from its MSJ. (Notice of Withdrawal of Partial Contentions from Pulse's Motion for Summary

Judgment, hereinafter "Withdrawal," Docket Item No. 141-1, at 1:1-3.) Shortly after Defendant's

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Withdrawal, Plaintiff stipulated that product platform J7 did not infringe the '152 Patent. (Stipulation

2:19-22.) By Defendant's own papers, ajudication of product platform J5 still remains. Further,

Plaintiff's Preliminary Infringement Contentions include numerous pages about product platform J2. 

(Motion to Compel, Docket Item No. 174, Ex. 6 at 8-17.) Accordingly, this Court was correct in

granting Defendant's MSJ, but mistakenly granted Defendant's First Counterclaim.

V. CONCLUSION

For the reasons stated above, this Court GRANTS Plaintiff's Motion. Specifically,

Defendant's product platforms J0B, J1, J3, J6, J7, J8, JC, JG, JK, JP, JU, JV, JW, JY have all been

either stipulated or ajudicated not to infringe Plaintiff's '152 Patent. Defendant's remaining product

platforms are not subject to this Order.

Dated: June 20, 2005

03cv1296rei-mta-judg

/s/James Ware 

JAMES WARE

United States District Judge

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT COPIES OF THIS ORDER HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO:

Aimee Boss aboss@bannerwitcoff.com

Andres N. Madrid AMadrid@steinbergraskin.com

Charles Wilbur Shifley cshifley@bannerwitcoff.com

Daniel T. Shvodian shvodiand@howrey.com

Joshua L. Raskin JRaskin@steinbergraskin.com

Mark K. Dickson mdickson@winston.com

Mark Thomas Banner mbanner@bannerwitcoff.com

Martin C. Fliesler mcf@fdml.com

Martin G. Raskin mraskin@steinbergraskin.com

Stephen Christopher Kyriacou kyriacouc@howrey.com

W. Carlos Leet wcl@olimpia-whelan-lively.com

Dated: June 20, 2005 Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By:/s/JWchambers 

Ronald L. Davis

Courtroom Deputy

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