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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1127 Trademark Infringement

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

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PAUL W. REIDL (State Bar No. 155221)

Law Office of Paul W. Reidl

Second Floor

241 Eagle Trace Drive

Half Moon Bay, CA 94019

(650) 560-8530

paul@reidllaw.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

CENTRAL GARDEN AND PET COMPANY

ROBERT A. WEIKERT (State Bar No. 121146)

Nixon Peabody LLP

One Embarcadero Center, Suite 1800

San Francisco, CA 94111

(415) 984-8200

rweikert@nixonpeabody.com

Attorney for Defendant

WEGMAN’S FOOD MARKETS, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CENTRAL GARDEN & PET

COMPANY,

a Delaware Corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

WEGMAN’S FOOD MARKETS, INC.,

a New York Corporation,

Defendant.

Case No. CV 15-00627 VC

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

CONTINUING INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT

CONFERENCE AND RELATED DATES (Civil

L.R. 6-2(a)); DECLARATION OF ROBERT A.

WEIKERT IN SUPPORT THEREOF

Complaint filed: February 10, 2015

Complaint served: March 27, 2015

Response due: April 17, 2015

Response due by

stipulation: May 18, 2015

Plaintiff CENTRAL GARDEN & PET COMPANY and Defendant WEGMAN’S FOOD

MARKETS, INC. (collectively, the “Parties”) respectfully submit this stipulation and proposed order

in support of their request to continue the Initial Case Management Conference, presently set for May

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12, 2015, and all related dates, by thirty (30) days in order to permit the Parties to complete their

settlement discussions and hopefully resolve this matter.

WHEREAS, the initial Complaint in this matter was filed on February 10, 2015, and served

on March 27, 2015;

WHEREAS, the parties have stipulated to a thirty (30) day extension of time for Defendant to

answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint pursuant to Civil Local Rule 6-1(a); that stipulation

was filed with the Court on April 16, 2015; the new response date is Monday, May 18, 2015, which is

after the date of the Initial Case Management Conference as currently scheduled;

WHEREAS, as set forth below in the Declaration of Robert A. Weikert, the Parties are

presently engaged in settlement discussions (and have been since the case was filed in February), and

hope to arrive at an informal resolution of this matter shortly; and

WHEREAS, in light of the active settlement discussions, the Parties would like to avoid the

expense of meeting and conferring regarding the initial disclosures, preparing and serving the initial

disclosures, preparing and filing the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) Report, and appearing at

the Initial Case Management Conference;

THEREFORE, the Parties hereby stipulate to, and respectfully request, the issuance of an

Order from the Court continuing for thirty (30) days the May 12, 2015 date of the Initial Case

Management Conference, as well as all related dates as set forth in the Court’s February 11, 2015

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Order Setting Initial Case Management Conference and ADR Deadlines, in order to give the Parties

an opportunity to complete their settlement discussions and hopefully reach an informal resolution of

this matter.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: April 20, 2015 LAW OFFICE OF PAUL W. REIDL

By /s/ Paul W. Reidl

Paul W. Reidl

Attorneys for Plaintiff

CENTRAL GARDEN & PET COMPANY

Dated: April 20, 2015 NIXON PEABODY LLP

By /s/ Robert A. Weikert

Robert A. Weikert

Attorney for Defendant

WEGMAN’S FOOD MARKETS, INC.

DECLARATION OF ROBERT A. WEIKERT

1. I am an attorney at law duly admitted to practice before all courts in the State of

California, and a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, attorney for Defendant Wegman’s Food Markets,

Inc. I have personal knowledge of the matters testified to herein.

2. The parties, through their principals, are currently involved in active discussions to

informally resolve this matter. Those discussions began shortly after the Complaint was filed in

February 2015, which is why there was some delay in service of the Complaint. In order to allow the

Parties sufficient time to complete their discussions, and without them having to incur additional fees

and expenses in the interim, it would assist the process if the Court would continue the Initial Case

Management Conference date by thirty (30) days, as well as the other dates set forth in the Court’s

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February 11, 2015 Order Setting Initial case Management Conference and ADR Deadlines. A

proposed Order to that effect is set forth below.

3. The only other time modification that has occurred to date in the case is the April 16,

2015 Stipulation extending the time for Defendant to respond to the Complaint by no more than thirty

(30) days.

4. The Parties do not believe that the thirty (30) day continuance that is the subject of the

present Stipulation and [Proposed] Order will have any material or other impact on the schedule for

the case. Indeed, the case is in its infancy and Defendant has not yet responded to the Complaint.

Moreover, the requested continuance is necessary because without it Defendant’s response to the

Complaint is now due after the date of the Initial Case Management Conference. From a general case

administration standpoint, it makes far more sense for the Parties to discuss their respective initial

disclosures and the subjects set forth in Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16 and 26, as well as the

Court’s February 11, 2015 Order, after Defendant has responded to the Complaint and not before

then.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of California that the foregoing

is true and correct.

Executed this 20th day of April 2015 in San Francisco, California.

__________/s/ Robert A. Weikert_________

Robert A. Weikert

ORDER

Based on the foregoing stipulation and supporting declaration, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED

that the Initial Case Management Conference is continued from 10:00 AM on May 12, 2015 to 10:00

AM on June ___, 2015, and the other deadlines set forth in the Court’s February 11, 2015 Order

Setting Initial Case Management Conference and ADR Deadlines are continued accordingly and for

the same period of time.

Dated: April ___, 2015 ________________________________

Vince Chhabria

United States District Court Judge

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