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

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: JUDGMENT OF NONINFRINGEMENT OF THE ’730 

PATENT, Case No. 3:15-cv-04525-EMC Page 1 

KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP 

David E. Sipiora (SBN 124951) 

Kristopher L. Reed (SBN 235518) 

Matthew C. Holohan (SBN 239040) 

1400 Wewatta St., Suite 600 

Denver, CO 80202 

Telephone: (303) 571-4000 

Facsimile: (303) 571-4321 

Email: dsipiora@kilpatricktownsend.com 

kreed@kilpatricktownsend.com 

 mholohan@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Robert J. Artuz (SBN 227789) 

Eighth Floor, Two Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 273-4713 

Facsimile: (415) 576-0300 

Email: rartuz@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP 

(SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD., 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. and ASUS 

COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL, 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 3:15-CV-04525-EMC

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER REGARDING JUDGMENT OF 

NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THE ’730 

PATENT 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: JUDGMENT OF NONINFRINGEMENT OF THE ’730 

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WHEREAS, Plaintiff Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (“Avago”) 

and Defendants ASUSTeK Computer Inc. and ASUS Computer International (collectively, 

“ASUS”) stipulate and move for entry of judgment of non-infringement under asserted Claims 1-

5, 9, 12, 18-21, and 31-34 of U.S. Patent No. 5,670,730 (the “’730 Patent”) as to all Accused 

Products under the Court’s Order Re Claim Construction (Dkt. No. 203); and 

WHEREAS, entry of judgment of non-infringement now will allow the parties to forego 

further expense and burden in litigation of Claims 1-5, 9, 12, 18-21, and 31-34 of the ’730 Patent, 

while preserving Avago’s right to appeal the Court’s Order re Claim Construction (Dkt. No. 203); 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by Avago and ASUS, subject to the 

approval of the Court, as follows: 

1. This is a patent infringement action brought by Avago against ASUS. Avago filed 

this patent litigation against ASUS on February 20, 2015, in the United States District Court for 

the Eastern District of Texas. See Dkt. No. 1. The patents-in-suit include U.S. Patent Nos. 

5,670,730; 5,870,087; 6,188,835; 6,430,148; 6,982,663; 6,744,387; and 5,982,830 (collectively, 

the “Asserted Patents”). 

2. Avago has accused certain electronic devices, namely certain desktop computers, 

laptop computers, and tablets, of infringing the ’730 Patent (the “Accused Products”) as identified 

in Plaintiff’s First Amended Disclosure of Asserted Clams and Infringement Contentions Under 

Patent L.R. 3. 

3. This case was transferred to the Northern District of California in September 2015. 

Dkt. No. 68. 

4. The parties have disputed the construction of the “first header” term found in 

independent Claim 1 of the ’730 Patent. Avago proposed the following construction: “a data 

structure on a music chip which includes information relating to the way the music tracks were 

encoded in the memory of the music chip for use by the audio player in decoding the stored 

music.” Dkt. 170-1 at 11. ASUS proposed the following construction: “a single data structure 

that contains information corresponding to the way in which pre-recorded audio tracks are 

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encoded for storage in memory, which is used by the audio player to decode tracks for playback.” 

Id.

6. On May 27, 2016, the Court issued its Order Re Claim Construction construing the 

disputed claim terms of the Asserted Patents. Dkt. No. 203. With regard to the “first header” 

claim term of the ’730 Patent, the Court adopted the following construction: “A single data 

structure that includes information used by the audio player to decode the collection of individual 

tracks of audio stored in memory [i.e., the B&N Construction].” Dkt. No. 203 at 3. 

7. Avago and ASUS stipulate that, given the Court’s construction of the “first 

header” term, the Accused Products do not infringe the asserted claims of the ’730 Patent. 

8. The parties respectfully request that the Court enter judgment of non-infringement 

by the Accused Products as to the ’730 Patent to conserve judicial resources and to avoid the time 

and expense of further discovery and motion practice related to the ’730 Patent. Upon entry of 

final judgment in this case resolving the remaining Asserted Patents, Avago may file a notice of 

appeal as to the Court’s construction of the “first header” claim term in the ’730 Patent in the 

Courts Order Re Claim Construction (Dkt. No. 203). 

IT IS SO AGREED AND STIPULATED this 1st day of July, 2016: 

Dated: July 1, 2016 KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP 

By: /s/ David E. Sipiora David E. Sipiora 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Avago Technologies General 

IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 

Dated: July 1, 2016 ALSTON & BIRD, LLP 

By: /s/ Michael J. Newton Michael J. Newton 

Attorneys for Defendants ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 

and ASUS Computer International

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

 

 UNITED STATES JUDGE 

July 5, 2016

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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