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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement

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TPL’S AND SIRIUS XM’S CIV. L.R. 3-12 ADMIN. 

MOTION TO CONSIDER WHETHER CASES SHOULD 

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John L. Cooper (State Bar No. 050324) 

jcooper@fbm.com 

Jeffrey M. Fisher (State Bar No. 155284) 

jfisher@fbm.com 

Eugene Y. Mar (State Bar No. 227071) 

emar@fbm.com 

Farella Braun & Martel LLP 

235 Montgomery Street, 17th Floor 

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Telephone: (415) 954-4400 

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Attorneys for Defendants 

TECHNOLOGY PROPERTIES LIMITED and 

ALLIACENSE LIMITED 

(In Case Nos. 08-00877 JF; 08-00882 JF; 08-00884 

JF; 08-05398 JF; & C10-00816 EDL) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

ACER, INC., ACER AMERICA CORP., and 

GATEWAY, INC., 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

TECHNOLOGY PROPERTIES LIMITED, 

PATRIOT SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, 

and ALLIACENSE LIMITED, 

Defendants. 

Case No. C 08 00877 JF 

JOINT CIVIL L.R. 3-12 

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO 

CONSIDER WHETHER CASES 

SHOULD BE RELATED AND 

REQUESTING ENTRY OF CASE 

SCHEDULE 

(Jointly Filed By Sirius XM Radio, Inc., 

plaintiff in Case No. C10-00816 EDL, and 

Technology Properties Limited, Patriot 

Scientific Corp., and Alliacense Limited, 

Defendants in Case Nos. 08-00877 JF; 08-

00882 JF; 08-00884 JF; 08-05398 JF; & C10-

00816 EDL) 

AND RELATED COUNTER-CLAIMS 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 3-12(b), Sirius XM Radio, Inc. (“Sirius XM”) and 

Technology Properties Limited (“TPL”), Patriot Scientific Corporation (“Patriot”) and Alliacense 

Limited (“Alliacense”) (TPL, Patriot, and Alliacense collectively referred to herein as the “TPL 

Defendants”), jointly submit this Administrative Motion requesting that the fifth case listed below 

(Sirius XM Radio v. Technology Properties Limited et al.) be related to the first four cases listed 

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below, all of which are or were pending in this district and had been previously related by this 

Court, and in all of which the TPL Defendants are parties: 

(1) Acer, Inc., Acer America Corp. and Gateway, Inc. v. Technology Properties Ltd., 

Patriot Scientific Corp. and Alliacense Ltd., Case No. 08-00877 JF (N.D. Cal., filed on February 

8, 2008); 

(2) HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc. v. Technology Properties Ltd., Patriot 

Scientific Corp. and Alliacense Ltd., Case No. 08-00882 JF (N.D. Cal., filed on February 8, 

2008); 

(3) ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. and ASUS Computer Int’l v. Technology Properties Ltd., 

Patriot Scientific Corp., MCM Portfolio LLC and Alliacense Ltd., Case No. 08-00884 JF (N.D. 

Cal., filed on February 8, 2008); 

(4) Barco N.V. v. Technology Properties Ltd., Patriot Scientific Corp. and Alliacense Ltd., 

Case No. 08-05398 JF (N.D. Cal., filed on December 1, 2008); and 

(5) Sirius XM Radio, Inc. v. Technology Properties Ltd., Patriot Scientific Corp. and 

Alliacense Ltd., Case No. C10-00816 EDL (N.D. Cal., filed in S.D.N.Y. on April 24, 2009 and 

filed in the N.D. Cal. on February 26, 2010 after transfer). 

I. THE SIRIUS XM CASE SHOULD BE RELATED. 

In the Acer/Gateway Action, (number (1) above), Acer filed a motion to have its case 

considered to be related to the HTC and ASUSTeK cases (numbers (2) and (3) respectively). 

This Court granted that motion in a written Order dated April 29, 2008. Or. Granting Pl.’s Mot. 

To Consider Whether Cases Should be Related (April 29, 2008) [Docket No. 22]. Pursuant to 

that Order, the first three cases were assigned to Judge Fogel. The third action mentioned above, 

brought by ASUSTeK, has settled and is no longer pending. In the fourth action, Plaintiff Barco, 

N.V. brought an Administrative Motion filed to relate its case to the first three cases. On 

December 17, 2008, this Court granted Barco’s request and related that action to the Acer, HTC, 

and Asustek actions. 

The Sirius XM Radio, Inc. v. Technology Properties Limited et al. action was filed in the 

Southern District of New York on April 24, 2009. The TPL Defendants moved to dismiss the 

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action for improper venue, or in the alternative, to transfer the action to the Northern District of 

California. Judge Buchwald of the Southern District of New York granted the motion to transfer 

venue pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1404 on February 17, 2010, and the Sirius action was transferred to 

the Northern District of California. A true and correct copy of Judge Buchwald’s Order is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

Local Rule 3-12 provides that an action is related to another action pending in this district 

when “(1) [t]he actions concern substantially the same parties, property, transaction or event; and 

(2) [i]t appears likely that there will be an unduly burdensome duplication of labor and expense or 

conflicting results if the cases are conducted before different Judges.” 

Both of these prongs are met here. The TPL Defendants are parties to all of the actions. 

The Acer and HTC actions share four of the same patents-in-suit (the ‘148, ‘749, ‘336, and ‘890 

patents from the Moore microprocessor patent portfolio [“MMP”]) as the Sirius XM case. 

Similarly, the Barco action shares three of the same patents-in-suit, (‘336, ‘749, and ‘890 patents) 

as the Sirius XM case. All of the pending actions seek a declaratory judgment of noninfringement and invalidity of the TPL Defendants’ patents. Because of the overlapping parties, 

property, and issues common to all of the actions, judicial economy and efficiency would be 

achieved by having a single judge hear and decide claim construction and related issues. 

Because the recently filed action brought by Sirius XM and the previously related actions 

satisfy both prongs of Local Rule 3-12(a), the TPL Defendants and Sirius XM1

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request that the Sirius XM action be administratively related to the pending Acer, HTC, and Barco 

actions and assigned to the Honorable Jeremy Fogel pursuant to Local Rule 3-12(f). 

II. SIRIUS XM AND THE TPL DEFENDANTS PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING CASE 

SCHEDULE IN THE EVENT THE CASES ARE DEEMED RELATED AND 

ASSIGNED TO JUDGE FOGEL.

As mentioned above, the Acer, HTC, Barco, and Sirius XM actions all involve at least 

three of the same patents-in-suit from TPL’s MMP portfolio. To permit Sirius XM and the TPL 

 

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 Sirius XM’s joinder in this request is respectfully contingent upon the Court’s modification of 

the case schedule in the previously pending related actions to allow at least as much additional 

time for Sirius XM to prepare its case as is afforded it in the Schedule proposed in Section II of 

this Motion. 

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Defendants an opportunity to prepare and advance the MMP portion of the case to the same stage 

as the other three pending suits, Sirius XM and the TPL Defendants have agreed to a proposed 

schedule as set forth in the table below, which follows the sequence of events set forth in the 

February 22, 2010 Order Following Case Management Conference in Case Nos. 08-00877 JF; 08-

00882 JF; and 08-05398 JF, with the dates moved back by an average of 3-4 weeks for the 

disclosures under Patent Local Rules 3-1, 3-2, 4-1, and 4-2. 

The parties to the Sirius XM matter have met and conferred with the parties in the Acer, 

HTC and Barco actions. The parties in the Acer, HTC and Barco actions have agreed to file 

stipulations and proposed orders in their respective actions continuing the existing dates in their 

respective scheduling orders to match the MMP dates set forth below. The stipulations that 

would be filed are attached as Exhibit A. 

In addition, the Sirius XM action also involves three additional patents (‘853, ‘212, and 

’949 patents) from a second TPL patent portfolio known as Fast Logic. Patents from the Fast 

Logic portfolio were initially asserted in the ASUSTeK action, which has settled. The Fast Logic 

patents are not involved in the Acer, HTC, and Barco actions. To minimize the burden upon the 

Court at claim construction, Sirius XM and the TPL Defendants propose that the Fast Logic 

patents be phased from the MMP patents such that all the patent local rule disclosures for the Fast 

Logic patents occur sixty days after the corresponding dates in the MMP schedule. 

Sirius XM’s and the TPL Defendants’ proposed schedule is set forth below in the 

following chart, which shows the existing schedule for various events, alongside Sirius XM’s and 

the TPL Defendants’ proposed schedule: 

EVENT CURRENT MMP 

SCHEDULE 

PROPOSED 

MMP 

SCHEDULE 

FAST LOGIC 

PATENTS PROPOSED 

SCHEDULE 

Disclosure of Asserted 

Claims and 

Infringement 

Contentions and 

Related Documents 

April 19, 2010 April 30, 2010 June 30, 2010 

Invalidity Contentions 

and Related 

Documents 

June 3, 2010 June 30, 2010 August 30, 2010 

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Proposed Terms and 

Claim Elements for 

Construction 

June 25, 2010 July 23, 2010 September 23, 2010 

Preliminary Claim 

Constructions and 

Extrinsic Evidence 

June 25, 2010 August 30, 2010 November 1, 2010 

Last day to file joint 

claim construction and 

pre-hearing statement 

July 16, 2010 September 21, 

2010 

November 19, 2010 

Claim construction 

discovery cut-off 

August 13, 2010 October 19, 2010 December 17, 2010 

Defendants’ opening 

claim construction 

brief 

August 27, 2010 November 2, 2010 January 14, 2011 

Plaintiffs’ responsive 

claim construction 

brief 

September 10, 2010 November 30, 

2010 

February 14, 2011 

Defendants’ reply 

claim construction 

brief 

September 17, 2010 December 14, 2010 February 28, 2011 

Patent Technology 

Tutorial* 

*If requested by the court 

Approximately 20 days after reply claim construction brief. 

Claim construction 

hearing 

To be determined 

Status conference Three weeks after the claim construction hearing 

 For the reasons set forth above, Sirius XM and the TPL Defendants respectfully 

request that the Sirius XM Radio v. Technologies Properties Ltd. action, Case No. C10-00816 

EDL, be related to Acer, Inc., v. Technology Properties Ltd., Case No. 08-00877 JF; HTC 

Corporation v. Technology Properties Ltd., Case No. 08-00882 JF and Barco N.V. v. Technology 

Properties Ltd., Case No. 08-05398 JF, and that the schedule set forth above be adopted in the 

case, with respect to Sirius XM and the TPL Defendants, if and when it is related. 

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Respectfully submitted: 

Dated: April 30, 2010 FARELLA BRAUN & MARTEL LLP 

By: /s/ John L. Cooper 

 John L. Cooper 

Attorneys for Defendants 

TECHNOLOGY PROPERTIES LIMITED and 

ALLIACENSE LIMITED 

Dated: April 30, 2010 KIRBY NOONAN LANCE & HOGE, LLP 

By: /s/ Charles T. Hoge 

 Charles T. Hoge 

Attorneys for Defendant 

PATRIOT SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 

Dated: April 30, 2010 CARROLL BURDICK & 

MCDONOUGH LLP 

By: /s/ Eric J. Knapp____________ 

 Eric J. Knapp 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

SIRIUS XM RADIO, INC. 

IT IS SO ORDERED: 

 

Dated: 

The Honorable Jeremy Fogel 

United States District Judge 

5/7/10

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