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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:0271 Patent Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARINE TRAVEL LIFT, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

SHELTER ISLAND YACHTWAYS, 

LTD.,

Defendant.

Case No.: 16CV128 BEN (BLM)

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND 

DENYING IN PART JOINT 

MOTION TO STAY

[Docket Nos. 12, 24, 31]

Defendant Shelter Island Yachtways sought to stay this case pending the resolution 

of a related case proceeding in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Marine Travelift, Inc. v. 

SACOM SpA et al., Case No. 14CV443 WCG (E.D. Wis. 2014). (Docket No. 12.) 

Plaintiff opposed the Motion. On June 27, 2016, the Court set the case for a status 

conference on July 25, 2016 and ordered the parties to files brief by July 18, 2016 

addressing their respective positions on transferring this action to the Eastern District of 

Wisconsin. (Docket No. 30.) On July 18, 2016, the parties filed a joint motion to stay 

this action until resolution of the pending district court proceedings in the Wisconsin 

case. (Docket No. 31.)

“[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court 

to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for 

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itself, for counsel, and for litigants.” Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936). 

The Court recognizes the overlap in the factual and legal issues presented in this case and 

the Wisconsin case and that this case may be resolved more efficiently and expeditiously 

following the Wisconsin district court’s ruling on a pending motion for summary 

judgment. However, the Court is not convinced that this action should be stayed until 

that action is resolved entirely, as requested by the parties. At some point, the efficiency 

benefits will be outweighed by the detriments in delaying the progression of this case. 

The Court GRANTS in part and denies in part the parties’ joint motion to stay. 

The case is stayed, however, the case is only stayed until December 1, 2016 or until the 

Wisconsin court issues its summary judgment ruling, whichever is earlier. If the 

Wisconsin court issues its ruling before December 1, 2016, the parties shall notify this 

Court within 2 days of that ruling and the stay will automatically be lifted as of that date. 

If the summary judgment order is not issued by December 1, 2016, the stay will be lifted 

on that date. The Court notes that the efficiency gains from the stay will need to 

materialize because when the stay is lifted, this case will proceed on an expedited 

schedule.

Defendant’s opposed Motion to Stay is DENIED as moot. The associated motion 

to file under seal, (Docket No. 24), is GRANTED. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 22, 2016

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