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

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WO 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

James Jeffrey Caron; Spellbinders Paper 

Arts Company, LLC, 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

Lifestyle Crafts, LLC, 

Defendant.

No. CV-12-00124-PHX-NVW

ORDER 

On November 13, 2012, the Court entered judgment in Caron, et al. v. QuicKutz 

Inc., No. CV09-2600-PHX-NVW (Doc. 211), adjudicating that U.S. Patent No. 

7,469,634 is unenforceable due to the inequitable conduct of Plaintiffs James Jeffrey 

Caron and Spellbinders Paper Arts Company, LLC. Plaintiffs were ordered to show 

cause why judgment should not be entered in favor of Defendant and against Plaintiffs in 

this action. In their response, Plaintiffs acknowledged that entering judgment of 

unenforceability in this action is appropriate under the doctrine of collateral estoppel. 

(Doc. 57.) 

In patent actions, collateral estoppel bars a patentee from asserting patent claims 

against a defendant if those claims have been held invalid in a previous infringement 

action against a different defendant and the patentee had a fair opportunity to pursue its 

claim the first time. Blonder-Tongue Labs., Inc. v. Univ. of Ill. Found., 402 U.S. 313, 

332-33 (1971). This rule applies to prior determinations of unenforceability as well. 

General Electro Music Corp. v. Samick Music Corp., 19 F.3d 1405, 1413 (Fed. Cir. 

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1994). Therefore, this action will be dismissed because U.S. Patent No. 7,469,634 was 

previously determined to be unenforceable due to the inequitable conduct of Plaintiffs 

James Jeffrey Caron and Spellbinders Paper Arts Company, LLC, and Plaintiffs had fair 

opportunity to pursue its claim in Caron, et al. v. QuicKutz Inc., No. CV09-2600-PHXNVW. 

In addition, Defendant urges the Court to dismiss this action as a sanction for 

discovery misconduct by Plaintiffs based on findings made in Caron et al. v. QuicKutz 

Inc., No. CV09-2600-PHX-NVW (Doc. 210). The Court declines to do so. 

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that judgment is entered in the form of the 

separate judgment filed herewith. The Clerk shall terminate this case. 

Dated this 3rd day of December, 2012. 

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