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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:501 Copyright Infringement

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AGREED REQUEST TO RESCHEDULE CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

CASE NO. C 07-1839 JSW 

Paul J. Andre (Bar No. 196585) 

(pandre@perkinscoie.com) 

Esha Bandyopadhyay (Bar No. 212249) 

(ebandyopadhyay@perkinscoie.com) 

Perkins Coie LLP 

101 Jefferson Drive 

Menlo Park, California 94025-1114 

Phone: (650) 838-4370 

Fax: (650) 838-4350 

Scott T. Wilsdon (pro hac vice) 

(wilsdon@yarmuth.com) 

Jeremy Roller (pro hac vice) 

(jroller@yarmuth.com) 

Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC 

925 Fourth Avenue, Suite 2500 

Seattle, Washington 98104 

Phone: (206) 516-3800 

Fax: (206) 516-3888 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

MICROSOFT CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MICROSOFT CORPORATION, a 

Washington corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

EEE BUSINESS INC., a California 

corporation, d/b/a EBUSZONE.COM and 

EBZ EBZ; MING NI SHANG; LIFENG 

WANG, a/k/a ALICE WANG; NANCY 

LINKER; and JOHN DOES 1-5, 

Defendants. 

No. 3:07-cv-01839-JSW 

AGREED REQUEST TO 

RESCHEDULE CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

 A Case Management Conference in this matter presently is on this Court’s 

calendar for Friday, July 13, 2007. For the following reasons plaintiff Microsoft Corporation 

(“Microsoft”) respectfully requests that the conference be rescheduled. The single defendant who 

has answered Microsoft’s complaint does not oppose Microsoft’s request. 

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AND ORDER THEREON

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BACKGROUND

 Microsoft filed this action on April 2, 2007. Defendant EEE Business Inc. (“EEE”) was 

served with the Summons, Complaint (Dkt. # 1), and Order Setting Initial Case Management 

Conference and ADR Deadlines (“Initial Scheduling Order”) (Dkt. # 2) on May 1, 2007. See

Proof of Service (Dkt. # 15). EEE’s answer was due May 21, 2007. As of the filing of this 

Request, EEE has not answered or otherwise responded to Microsoft’s complaint. 

 Defendants Ming Ni Shang (“Shang”) and Lifeng (Alice) Wang (“Wang”) were served 

with the Summons, Complaint, and Initial Scheduling Order on May 30, 2007. See Proofs of 

Service (Dkt. ## 16, 17). Shang’s answer and Wang’s answer were due on June 19, 2007. 

Neither Shang nor Wang timely answered or otherwise responded to Microsoft’s complaint. 

 Pursuant to this Court’s Initial Scheduling Order, June 21, 2007 was the deadline to meet 

and confer regarding initial disclosures, early settlement, ADR process selection, and discovery 

plan, and was also the deadline for filing a Joint ADR Certification with Stipulation to ADR 

Process or Notice of Need for ADR Phone Conference. Despite Microsoft’s counsel’s attempts to 

contact EEE, Shang, and Wang (collectively, the “Served Defendants”), Microsoft and the Served 

Defendants were unable to confer as ordered by this Court. Microsoft therefore filed a Status 

Report in lieu of the Joint ADR Certification on June 21, 2007. See Status Report Regarding Fed. 

R. Civ. P. 26(f) Conference and Civil L.R. 16-8 ADR Certification and Stipulation (Dkt. # 18). 

 As noted above, a Case Management Conference in this matter presently is on this Court’s 

calendar for Friday, July 13, 2007. The Initial Scheduling Order requires that any request to 

reschedule that conference be made in writing at least ten days prior to the conference. The 

Initial Scheduling Order also requires that the parties’ Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f) Report be filed by 

July 5, 2007, and that a Joint Case Management Statement be filed no later than five court days 

prior to the Case Management Conference. 

 The morning of Monday, July 2, 2007, Jeremy Roller, counsel for Microsoft in this 

matter, learned that Wang had filed an answer to Microsoft’s complaint on Friday, June 29, 2007. 

See Lifeng (Alice) Wang’s Answer to Microsoft Corporation’s Complaint (Dkt. # 20). Upon 

learning that Wang had answered Microsoft’s complaint, Microsoft’s counsel immediately 

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telephoned Wang’s counsel at the telephone number listed on her answer. Microsoft’s counsel 

left a message for Wang’s counsel, and asked that his telephone call be returned to discuss this 

case and the various deadlines set forth in the Initial Scheduling Order. Microsoft’s counsel again 

telephoned Wang’s counsel the morning of Tuesday, July 3, 2007, and asked that his telephone 

call be returned as soon as possible. Later that morning Wang’s counsel, James Chai, returned 

Microsoft’s counsel’s telephone call. Microsoft’s counsel described the initial deadlines that have 

passed and those that are imminent, and suggested that the parties request that the Case 

Management Conference be rescheduled. Wang’s counsel agreed that rescheduling the Case 

Management Conference would be appropriate, and stated that Microsoft could represent Wang’s 

non-opposition to the request. Microsoft and Wang are scheduled to meet and confer regarding 

initial disclosures, early settlement, ADR process selection, and discovery plan within the next 

week. 

 Because Microsoft was unable to confer with Wang’s counsel until this morning and 

because EEE and Shang have not yet answered Microsoft’s complaint, Microsoft has been unable 

to file the ADR Certification with Stipulation to ADR Process or Notice of Need for ADR Phone 

Conference. Additionally, the Served Defendants have, as of the filing of this Request, been 

unavailable to meet and confer regarding initial disclosures, to participate in filing the Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 26(f) Report, or to participate in submitting a Joint Case Management Statement as 

required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court’s Initial Scheduling Order. As 

stated above, now that Wang has answered Microsoft’s complaint and counsel for Wang and 

Microsoft have preliminarily conferred, Microsoft and Wang will promptly meet and confer as 

required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court. 

REQUEST

 Given the foregoing facts, Microsoft respectfully submits that there is good cause to reschedule the Initial Case Management Conference. That conference will be far more productive 

if, prior to it, Microsoft and the Served Defendants (or, at a minimum, Wang) are able to meet 

and confer regarding initial disclosures and other matters and to file the Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f) 

Report and Joint Case Management Statement. Microsoft therefore requests that the Initial Case 

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Management Conference be rescheduled for the third week of August, 2007, or such other time as 

convenient for the Court. 

 Respectfully submitted this 3rd day of July, 2007. 

 

 /s/ Esha Bandyopadhyay 

 Esha Bandyopadhyay 

Paul J. Andre 

PERKINS COIE LLP 

/s/ Jeremy E. Roller 

Scott T. Wilsdon (pro hac vice) 

Jeremy E. Roller (pro hac vice) 

YARMUTH WILSDON CALFO PLLC 

 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation 

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The Case Management Conference is RESET for 

August 24, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. 

Dated: July 5, 2007

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

I

A

GRANTED

Judge Jeffrey S. White

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