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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:0283 Action to enjoin violation of right secured by patent

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TALAVERA HAIR PRODUCTS, INC., a 

Nevada corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

TAIZHOU YUNSUNG ELECTRICAL 

APPLIANCE CO., LTD., a business 

entity; and THE INDIVIDUALS, 

PARTNERSHIPS, AND 

UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS 

IDENTIFIED ON EXHIBIT “1”,

Defendants.

Case No.: 18-CV-823 JLS (JLB)

ORDER (1) GRANTING IN PART 

AND DENYING IN PART 

DEFENDANT’S REQUEST FOR 

JUDICIAL NOTICE, (2) DENYING 

DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR 

JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS, 

AND (3) TO SHOW CAUSE WHY 

THIS ACTION SHOULD NOT BE 

DISMISSED AS TO DEFAULTING 

DEFENDANTS

(ECF No. 75)

Presently before the Court is Defendant Taizhou Yunsung Electrical Appliance Co., 

Ltd.’s (“Taizhou”) Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings (“Mot.,” ECF No. 75), as well 

as Plaintiff Talavera Hair Products, Inc.’s Response in Opposition to (“Opp’n,” ECF No. 

78) and Defendant’s Reply in Support of (“Reply,” ECF No. 79) the Motion. The Court

took the matter under submission without oral argument pursuant to Civil Local Rule 

7.1(d)(1). See ECF No. 80. Having carefully considered the pleadings, the materials that 

are the proper subject of judicial notice, the Parties’ arguments, and the law, the Court 

GRANTS IN PART AND DENIES IN PART Defendant Taizhou’s request for judicial 

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notice and DENIES Defendant Taizhou’s Motion. The Court further ORDERS Plaintiff 

to SHOW CAUSE why this action should not be dismissed as to the Defaulted Defendants 

for failure to move for default judgment pursuant to Civil Local Rule 55.1.1

TAIZHOU’S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS

I. Background2

On October 17, 2016, Victor Carlos Talavera filed a civil action against Taizhou for 

infringement of Chinese Patent No. ZL02808380.6 (the “Chinese Patent”) in the People’s 

Republic of China, Intermediate People’s Court of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province (the 

“Chinese Action”). See ECF No. 1 (“Compl.”) ¶ 20(a); see also Decl. of Tony T. Liu in 

Support of Mot. (“Liu Decl.,” ECF No. 75-1) Ex. A, ECF No. 75-2. On December 27, 

2016, the Chinese court confirmed a settlement agreement reached by Mr. Talavera and 

Taizhou in the Chinese Action (the “Chinese Agreement”), pursuant to which Taizhou 

agreed not to infringe Plaintiff’s Chinese Patent. See Liu Decl. Ex. B, ECF No. 75-3; see 

also Liu Decl. Ex. D, ECF No. 75-5, ¶¶ 4–5; Liu Decl. Ex. E, ECF No. 75-6. 

On April 30, 2018, Plaintiff filed a Complaint against Taizhou and several other 

entities for copyright infringement pursuant to 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq.; unfair competition 

pursuant the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a); trademark infringement pursuant to 15 

U.S.C. § 1114; and infringement of Plaintiff’s Patents Nos. US 6,588,108, US 7,040,021, 

 

1 The “Defaulted Defendants” are those against whom Plaintiff secured an entry of default on February 

21, 2019: allforyoushopper.usa, ANIMON, anothercloud, Aosend, AoStyle, AuPolus, Beisirui Hair Store, 

Cai ming zhil, Ciao Fashion, Enjoy&Life, Fosen Man, Georgy’s Store, Hairsmile, JIN BISON, Judi Shop, 

Kosmasl, Lanmpu Creative, MKLOPED, Mokshee Mokshee/Donop, MyBeautyCC, NAMO SHOP/FF 

Health, NewPollar, Olungts US, Puck Du/SmartGo, PUTOS, SunNatural/SunNature, Turritopsis 

nutricula, Ukliss Beauty, Wsduos, Yara-Yarn, Noledo, nantongaotaiguoji Trading Co Ltd, Beskol, 

Chunhet, Funny Fala, Huixin Economic, NeSexy, Samantha Bowen, Vanylihair, YokEnjoy, 

BEAUTYDESIGN, S*SHOME. See generally ECF No. 65.

2 On a motion for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(c), as here, 

the Court may take into account the Parties’ pleadings, any documents physically attached to those 

pleadings or incorporated by reference therein, and any documents properly subject to judicial notice. See, 

e.g., Harris v. Cty. of Orange, 682 F.3d 1126, 1132 (9th Cir. 2012); see also Yang v. Dar Al-Handash 

Consultants, 250 F. App’x 771, 772 (9th Cir. 2007).

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and US 9,587,811 (the “’811 Patent”) (together, the “U.S. Patents”) pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 

§ 271(a).

3

 See generally Compl. After answering Plaintiff’s Complaint on April 19, 2019, 

see generally ECF No. 66, Taizhou filed the instant Motion seeking dismissal of Plaintiff’s 

fourth cause of action for patent infringement on the grounds that it is barred by the Chinese 

Agreement in the Chinese Action under the doctrine of claim preclusion. See generally 

Mot.

II. Legal Standard

Any party may move for judgment on the pleadings “[a]fter the pleadings are 

closed—but early enough not to delay trial.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c). A motion for judgment 

on the pleadings attacks the legal sufficiency of the claims alleged in the complaint. See

Patel v. Contemporary Classics of Beverly Hills, 259 F.3d 123, 126 (2d Cir. 2001). The 

Court must construe “all material allegations of the non-moving party as contained in the 

pleadings as true, and [construe] the pleadings in the light most favorable to the [nonmoving] party.” Doyle v. Raley’s Inc., 158 F.3d 1012, 1014 (9th Cir. 1998). “Judgment 

on the pleadings is proper when the moving party clearly establishes on the face of the 

pleadings that no material issue of fact remains to be resolved and that it is entitled to 

judgment as a matter of law.” Hal Roach Studios, Inc. v. Richard Feiner & Co., Inc., 896 

F.2d 1542, 1550 (9th Cir. 1990). “Analysis under Rule 12(c) is ‘substantially identical’ to 

analysis under Rule 12(b)(6) because, under both rules, ‘a court must determine whether 

the facts alleged in the complaint, taken as true, entitle the plaintiff to a legal remedy.’” 

Chavez v. United States, 683 F.3d 1102, 1108 (9th Cir. 2012).

III. Analysis

Taizhou seeks dismissal of Plaintiff’s fourth cause of action for infringement of the 

U.S. Patents on the grounds that it is barred by claim preclusion. See generally Mot.

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3 All other Defendants have been dismissed or defaulted from this action, see ECF Nos. 24, 33, 36, 38, 

40, 43–44, 46, 48, 51, 53, 59, 62, 64–65; consequently, Taizhou is the sole remaining Defendant. See 

Opp’n at 1 n.1.

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A. Incorporation by Reference and Judicial Notice

As an initial matter, Taizhou asks the Court to incorporate by reference or take 

judicial notice of several exhibits attached to the Liu Declaration:

1. Exhibit A, a notarized, English translation of the complaint filed in the 

Chinese Action (the “Chinese Complaint”), see Liu Decl. ¶ 2 & Ex. A;

2. Exhibit B, a notarized, English translation of the Chinese Agreement, see Liu 

Decl. ¶ 3 & Ex. B;

3. Exhibit C, a notarized, English translation of the Chinese Patent, see Liu Decl. 

¶ 4 & Ex. C;

4. Exhibit D, a copy of the Declaration of Victor Talavera in Support of 

Plaintiff’s Ex Parte Application for Entry of Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary 

Injunction (the “Talavera Decl.”), previously filed in this action on May 3, 2018 as ECF 

No. 9-11, see Liu Decl. ¶ 5 & Ex. D; and

5. Exhibit E, a copy of Exhibit A to the Talavera Declaration, previously filed in 

this action on May 3, 2018 as ECF No. 9-12, see Liu Decl. ¶ 6 & Ex. E.

Taizhou appears to seek judicial notice and incorporation by reference of Exhibits A 

and B to the Liu Declaration and judicial notice of Exhibits C through E. See Mot. at 6–7. 

1. Incorporation by Reference

“[I]ncorporation-by-reference is a judicially created doctrine that treats certain 

documents as though they are part of the complaint itself.” Khoja v. Orexigen 

Therapeutics, Inc., 899 F.3d 988, 1002 (9th Cir. 2018), cert. denied, 139 S. Ct. 2615 

(2019). “[A] defendant may seek to incorporate a document into the complaint ‘if the 

plaintiff refers extensively to the document or the document forms the basis of the 

plaintiff’s claim.’” Id. (quoting United States v. Ritchie, 342 F.3d 903, 907 (9th Cir. 

2003)). “However, if the document merely creates a defense to the well-pled allegations 

in the complaint, then that document did not necessarily form the basis of the complaint.” 

Id. “Submitting documents not mentioned in the complaint to create a defense is nothing 

more than another way of disputing the factual allegations in the complaint.” Id. at 1003. 

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“Although the incorporation-by-reference doctrine is designed to prevent artful pleading 

by plaintiffs, the doctrine is not a tool for defendants to short-circuit the resolution of a 

well-pleaded claim.” Id. Although “a court ‘may assume [an incorporated document’s] 

contents are true for purposes of a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6),’” id. (alteration 

in original) (quoting Marder v. Lopez, 450 F.3d 445, 448 (9th Cir. 2006)), “it is improper 

to assume the truth of an incorporated document if such assumptions only serve to dispute 

facts stated in a well-pleaded complaint.” Id. 

Taizhou “moves for judicial notice” of the Chinese Complaint and the Chinese

Agreement “[p]ursuant to the doctrine of incorporation by reference.” See Mot. at 6. 

Taizhou’s request relies on the following sentence from Plaintiff’s Complaint in this action: 

“In early 2016, Plaintiff filed an intellectual property complaint in China with respect to 

TAIZHOU’s infringing acts of sale and offer for sale of infringing products.” See Mot. at 

6 (citing Compl. ¶ 20(a)). Plaintiff opposes Taizhou’s request, noting that “the 2016 China 

Complaint . . . is certainly not ‘central to’ plaintiff’s patent infringement claims” and “the 

2016 Settlement Agreement . . . is not referenced in the complaint at all.” Opp’n at 3. 

Taizhou replies that the Chinese Complaint “serves as the basis of Plaintiff’s request for 

treble damages pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 284” and, therefore, is “‘central’ to Plaintiff’s 

patent infringement claim.” Reply at 2. 

To the extent Taizhou seeks incorporation by reference of Exhibit A and B to the 

Liu Declaration, the Court DENIES that request. Neither document is referred to 

“extensively”—if at all—in the Complaint, and neither can be said to serve as a “basis” for 

the patent infringement claim, particularly given that the basis of Taizhou’s request is 

“merely [to] create[] a defense to the well-pled allegations in the complaint.” See Khoja, 

899 F.3d at 1002. Consequently, incorporation by reference of Exhibits A and B is 

inappropriate.

2. Judicial Notice

“Judicial notice under Rule 201 permits a court to notice an adjudicative fact if it is 

‘not subject to reasonable dispute.’” Khoja, 899 F.3d at 999 (quoting Fed. R. Evid. 201(b)). 

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“A fact is ‘not subject to reasonable dispute’ if it is ‘generally known,’ or ‘can be accurately 

and readily determined from sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.’” 

Id. (quoting Fed. R. Evid. 201(b)(1)–(2)). “Accordingly, ‘[a] court may take judicial notice 

of matters of public record without converting a motion to dismiss into a motion for 

summary judgment.’” Id. (alteration in original) (quoting Lee v. City of Los Angeles, 250

F.3d 668, 689 (9th Cir. 2001)). “But a court cannot take judicial notice of disputed facts 

contained in such public records.” Id. (quoting Lee, 250 F.3d at 689).

Taizhou requests that the Court take judicial notice of Exhibits A through E to the 

Liu Declaration on the grounds that the Chinese Complaint, the Chinese Agreement, the 

Talavera Declaration, and Exhibit A to the Talavera Declaration are court records and that 

the Chinese Patent is a government document. See Mot. at 6–7 (citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 

201(b)(2); Reyn’s Pasta Bella, LLC v. Visa USA, Inc., 442 F.3d 741, 746 n.6 (9th Cir. 

2006); United States v. Author Servs., Inc., 804 F.2d 1520, 1522 (9th Cir. 1986); United 

States v. Camp, 723 F.2d 741, 744 n.** (9th Cir. 1984); Geo Vector Corp. v. Samsung 

Elecs. Co., 234 F. Supp. 3d 1009, 1016 n.2 (N.D. Cal. 2017)). Plaintiff argues that judicial 

notice of the translated documents—Exhibits A, B, C, and E—is not appropriate because 

their content is subject to reasonable dispute given apparent differences between the 

translations of the Chinese Agreement submitted by each Party in Exhibits B and E. See 

Opp’n at 3–4. Taizhou responds that Plaintiff has failed to identify any material differences 

between the translations of the Chinese Agreement and, at any rate, Plaintiff should have 

no issues with the translation it previously submitted to the Court as Exhibit E. See Reply 

at 2–3.

The Court GRANTS IN PART AND DENIES IN PART Taizhou’s request for 

judicial notice and takes judicial notice of the following facts:

1. Mr. Talavera and Plaintiff own the Chinese Patent, see Liu Decl. Ex. C; Liu 

Decl. Ex. D ¶ 3;

2. In October 2016, Mr. Talavera filed a complaint against Taizhou in China for 

infringement of the Chinese Patent, see Liu Decl. Ex. A; Liu Decl. Ex. D ¶ 4; and

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3. In December 2016, the Intermediate People’s Court of Taizhou City, Zhejiang 

Province of the People’s Republic of China entered an order confirming a settlement 

reached by Mr. Talavera and Taizhou in the Chinese Action, see Liu Decl. Ex. B; Liu Decl. 

Ex. D ¶ 4; Liu Decl. Ex. E, in which Taizhou agreed not to infringe the Chinese Patent, see 

Liu Decl. Ex. D ¶ 5.

See, e.g., Reyn’s Pasta Bella, 442 F.3d at 746 n.6 (“We may take judicial notice of court 

filings and other matters of public record.”) (citing Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport 

Auth. v. City of Burbank, 136 F.3d 1360, 1364 (9th Cir. 1998));Geo Vector, 234 F. Supp. 

3d at 1016 n.2 (taking judicial notice of Korean patent application); Fleischer Studios, Inc. 

v. A.V.E.L.A., Inc., No. CV1408864MMMSHX, 2015 WL 12743879, at *3 (C.D. Cal. May 

22, 2015) (taking judicial notice of the existence of a decision from an Italian court despite 

dispute concerning its translation). Taizhou’s request for judicial notice is otherwise 

DENIED.

B. Claim Preclusion

Taizhou seeks dismissal of Plaintiff’s fourth cause of action for infringement of the 

U.S. Patents as barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion. See Mot. at 9. The Parties agree 

that claim preclusion requires Taizhou to establish “(1) identity of claims; (2) a final 

judgment on the merits; and (3) the same parties, or privity between the parties.” Harris, 

682 F.3d at 1132; see also Mot. at 10 (citing Harris, 682 F.3d at 1132); Opp’n at 6 (citing 

Harris, 682 F.3d at 1132). Although the Parties dispute whether Taizhou has established 

each of these three elements, the Court addresses only the first, which is dispositive here.

Taizhou argues that there is an identity of the claims between the Chinese Action 

and this action because the Chinese Patent and the U.S. Patents are “‘essentially the same’ 

for purposes of claim preclusion.” Mot. at 16. Plaintiff opposes on several grounds: 

(1) “the two suits assert infringement of different patents,” Opp’n at 7 (emphasis in 

original); (2) the “China court had no jurisdiction over unasserted U.S. patent infringement 

claims,” id. at 8 (citing ProShipLine Inc. v. Aspen Infrastructures, Ltd., 609 F.3d 960, 968 

(9th Cir. 2010)); (3) patents are territorial, meaning that Plaintiff’s only remedy for 

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Taizhou’s infringement of the U.S. Patents is in this Court, see id. at 8–10; (4) the ’811 

Patent did not issue until after the Chinese Agreement, rendering claim preclusion as to 

that patent “impossible,” id. at 10; and (5) the Chinese Agreement covers subsequent 

infringement related only to the Chinese Patent. See id. at 10–11. Taizhou rejoins that it 

“seeks only to enforce the terms of the parties’ own settlement agreement that happens to 

concern a patent,” which “does not implicate the territorial nature of patents,” Reply at 8 

(emphasis in original) (citing LG Display Co. v. Obayashi Seikou Co., 919 F. Supp. 2d 17 

(D.D.C. Jan. 28, 2013)), and “there can be no dispute as to the scope of the Chinese 

judgment since . . . the Chinese patent and the 108 patent . . . [are] virtually identical” and 

“the other American patents present only colorable changes from the 108 patent and should 

also be considered within the scope of the Settlement Agreement.” Id. at 9. 

The Court concludes that Taizhou has failed to establish privity of the claims 

between the Chinese Action and this action such that Plaintiff’s causes of action for 

infringement of the U.S. Patents are barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion as a result 

of the Chinese Agreement. The Chinese Action and Agreement related solely to Taizhou’s 

infringement of the Chinese Patent, see Liu Decl. Exs. A, B, D ¶¶ 4–5, E, whereas the 

instant action concerns Taizhou’s alleged infringement of the U.S. Patents. See generally 

Compl. Consequently, despite any similarity of the claims between the Chinese Patent and 

the U.S. Patents and the allegedly infringing products in the Chinese Action and this action, 

the Court must conclude that there is no privity of claims between these actions. See, e.g., 

Abbey v. Mercedes Benz of N. Am., Inc., 138 F. App’x 304, 307 (Fed. Cir. 2005)

(“[N]ormally when patents are not included in a suit, they are not before a court, and while 

preclusion may attach to certain issues, causes of action based on patents that are not 

included in a suit are ordinarily not captured, and therefore precluded, by judgments that 

pertain to other patents.”) (footnote omitted); Kearns v. Gen. Motors Corp., 94 F.3d 1553, 

1555–56 (Fed. Cir. 1996) (“Each patent asserted raises an independent and distinct cause 

of action. . . . [I]nfringement of one patent is not a ground of liability for infringement of 

a different patent.”); Kokusai Semiconductor Equip. Corp. v. ASM Int’l, N.V., No. 3:18-

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CV-00323-AC, 2019 WL 1281290, at *7 (D. Or. Jan. 25) (“In evaluating a patent case 

involving claim preclusion, . . . [t]he court must also consider whether the same patents are 

involved in both suits.”) (citing Senju Pharm. Co. v. Apotex Inc., 746 F.3d 1344, 1349 (Fed. 

Cir. 2014)), report and recommendation adopted, 2019 WL 1281228 (D. Or. Mar. 20, 

2019); Trading Techs. Int’l, Inc. v. BCG Partners, Inc., No. 10 C 715, 2011 WL 3157304, 

at *4 (N.D. Ill. July 26, 2011) (“[I]t is undisputed that the patents asserted by [the plaintiff]

in the [prior] Actions are different than the ones it asserts in the [present] Actions. . . . 

[E]ach of the new patents asserted in the [present] Actions is an independent cause of action 

and consequently, the [present] Actions would not be barred by final judgment in the [prior]

Actions.”). In any event, Plaintiff is correct that patents are territorial, see Mot. at 8–10; 

accordingly, Plaintiff could not have pursued its claims under the U.S. Patents in the 

Chinese Action. See, e.g., Rotec Indus., Inc. v. Mitsubishi Corp., 215 F.3d 1246, 1251 

(Fed. Cir. 2000) (“[T]he right conferred by a patent under our law is confined to the United 

States and its territories.”) (quoting Dowagiac Mfg. Co. v. Minn. Moline Plow Co., 235 

U.S. 641, 650 (1915)). The Court therefore DENIES Taizhou’s Motion.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

On February 21, 2019, at the request of Plaintiff, see ECF No. 63, the Clerk entered 

default as to the Defaulting Defendants. See ECF No. 65; see also supra note 1. Pursuant 

to Civil Local Rule 55.1, Plaintiff was required to move for default judgment within thirty 

days, i.e., on or before March 22, 2019. As of the date of this Order and nearly a year later, 

Plaintiff has failed to do so. Accordingly, Plaintiff is ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE

why this action should not be dismissed as to the Defaulting Defendants for failure to move 

for default judgment pursuant to Civil Local Rule 55.1. 

CONCLUSION

In light of the foregoing, the Court GRANTS IN PART AND DENIES IN PART 

Defendant Taizhou’s request for judicial notice, as detailed above, and DENIES Defendant

Taizhou’s Motion (ECF No. 75). The Court further ORDERS Plaintiff to SHOW CAUSE 

why this action should not be dismissed as to the Defaulting Defendants, see supra note 1, 

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for failure to move for default judgment pursuant to Civil Local Rule 55.1. Plaintiff 

SHALL FILE a response to this Order, a notice of voluntary dismissal, or a motion for 

default judgment within fourteen (14) days of the electronic docketing of this Order. 

Should Plaintiff file a notice of voluntary dismissal or a motion for default judgment, the 

Order to Show Cause shall be discharged without further Order of the Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 2, 2020

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