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

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

RPOST HOLDINGS, INC., et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

TREND MICRO INCORPORATED,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-02824-BLF 

ORDER INSTRUCTING DEFENDANT

TO FILE MOTION TO CONSIDER 

WHETHER CASES SHOULD BE 

RELATED

On May 16, 2014, the Honorable Rodney Gilstrap, United States District Judge for the 

Eastern District of Texas, ordered that the above-captioned case be transferred to this district. 

(ECF 29) The case was transferred on June 18, 2014, (ECF 30), and, after a party declined to 

proceed before a Magistrate Judge, (ECF 33), the case was reassigned to the undersigned judge. 

Judge Gilstrap transferred this case to this district because Trend Micro, Inc. had filed a 

declaratory judgment action in the Northern District of California on November 11, 2013, which 

pre-dated the filing of the above-captioned action in the Eastern District of Texas. Judge Gilstrap 

found that the above-captioned case was “substantially similar” to the declaratory judgment 

action, Case No. 13-cv-05227-VC (N.D. Cal. 2013), and, consistent with the “first-to-file” rule, 

see Genentech v. Eli Lilly & Co., 998 F.2d 931, 938 (Fed. Cir. 2008), ordered the case transferred.

Consistent with the rationale for transferring the above-captioned case to this district, the 

Court hereby instructs Defendant to file a Motion to Consider Whether Cases Should Be Related 

in Trend Micro Inc. v. RPost Holdings, Inc., Case No. 13-cv-05227-VC, within the next fourteen 

(14) days, no later than July 24, 2014. 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 10, 2014

______________________________________

BETH LABSON FREEMAN

United States District Judge

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