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

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For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

Teleshuttle Technologies, L.L.C., et al.,

Plaintiff(s),

 v.

Microsoft Corporation, et al.,

Defendant(s).

 /

NO. C 04-02928 JW

ORDER GRANTING

DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR

LEAVE TO FILE FIRST

AMENDED ANSWERS

Plaintiff Teleshuttle Technologies, L.L.C., Teleshuttle Corporation, and BTG International Inc.

(collectively “BTG”) initiated this suit against Defendants Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) and Apple

Computer, Inc. (“Apple”) (collectively “Defendants”) for patent infringement of three United States

Patents: (1) U.S. Patent No. 6,125,388 (“the ‘388 patent”), entitled “System for Transporting Information

Objects Between a User Station and Multiple Remote Sources Based Upon User Modifiable Object

Manifest Stored in the User Station,” (2) U.S. Patent No. 6,611,862 (“the ‘862 patent”), entitled “User

Station Software that Controls Transport and Presentation of Content from a Remote Source,” and (3)

U.S. Patent No. 6,658,464, (“the ‘464 patent”) entitled “User Station Software that Controls Transport,

Storage, and Presentation of Content from a Remote Source.” Microsoft and Apple deny infringement and

have asserted a variety of defenses including patent invalidity and unenforceability. In addition, Microsoft

has filed counterclaims for declaratory relief seeking judgment that the asserted claims of the patents-in-suit

are not infringed, invalid, and/or unenforceable. 

Currently before this Court is Defendants’ joint motion for leave to file their respective first

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amended answers to add an affirmative defense of unenforceability of U.S. Patent No. 6,557,054 due to

inequitable conduct before the Patent Office. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) provides that when a

party seeks to amend a pleading after a responsive pleading has been served, it may do so “only by leave

of court or by written consent of the adverse party; . . .A” Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a). Here, Plaintiffs have

expressed, in writing, their non-opposition to Defendants’ motion to amend. The Court therefore

GRANTS Defendants’ leave to amend their respective answers. Defendants shall have ten (10) days from

the date of this order to file and serve their amended answers.

Dated: August 18, 2005 /s/ James Ware 

JAMES WARE

United States District Judge

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT COPIES OF THIS ORDER HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO:

Christopher P. Isaac chris.isaac@finnegan.com

Elaine Y. Chow echow@prestongates.com

Eric R. Lamison elamison@kirkland.com

Gregory S. Arovas garovas@kirkland.com

Jeffrey A. Berkowitz jeffrey.berkowitz@finnegan.com

John D. Vandenberg john.vandenberg@klarquist.com

John M. Desmarais jdesmarais@kirkland.com

Katherine Ford Horvath khorvath@microsoft.com

Michael J. Bettinger mikeb@prestongates.com

Myra Pasek myrap@prestongates.com

Patrick J. Coyne patrick.coyne@finnegan.com

Robert F. McCauley robert.mccauley@finnegan.com

Timothy P. Walker timothyw@prestongates.com

Zachariah Allen Higgins zhiggins@kirkland.com

Dated: August 18, 2005 Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: /s/ JW Chambers 

Ronald L. Davis

Courtroom Deputy

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