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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1125 Trademark Infringement (Lanham Act)

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Joint Case Management Statement And [Proposed] Order 

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HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP 

CHUNG-HAN LEE (SBN 231950) 

50 California Street, 28th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 743-6900 

Facsimile: (415) 743-6910 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ROBELLE SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY, INC. 

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP 

NEIL A. SMITH (SBN 63777 

Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111-4106 

Telephone: (415) 434-9100 

Facsimile: (415) 434-3947 

Attorneys for Defendants 

QUANTEL INC. AND QUANTEL LIMITED 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ROBELLE SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY, 

INC., a Canadian corporation, 

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QUANTEL INC., a U.S. corporation, 

QUANTEL LIMITED, a foreign corporation; 

RETINA, a California company; DOES 1 

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Case No. C-05-01612 

JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT 

STATEMENT AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

Plaintiff ROBELLE SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY, INC. (hereinafter "Robelle") and 

Defendants QUANTEL, INC. and QUANTEL LIMITED (hereinafter collectively "Quantel") 

submits this Joint Case Management Statement and Proposed Order and respectfully requests that 

the Court adopts the Proposed Order continuing this initial case management conference currently 

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scheduled for December 14, 2005 to January 18, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. to allow the parties to continue 

their settlement negotiations and finalize the remaining unresolved settlement terms. If the 

settlement is not resolved, the parties believe that it makes more sense for the initial case 

management conference setting forth a scheduling order to be set at a time after the responsive 

pleadings have been filed. 

GENERAL STATEMENT REGARDING CURRENT STATUS OF CASE

Defendants Quantel, Inc. and Retina have been served with the Summons and Complaint. 

Defendant Retina was served with the Summons and Complaint on April 20, 2005. It is Plaintiff 

Robelle's position that Defendant Quantel, Inc. was served with the Summons and Complaint on 

May 9, 2005. It is the position of Quantel, Inc. that it was served on November 10, 2005. 

Defendant Quantel Limited, a foreign corporation, was served with the Summons and Complaint on 

November 14, 2005. None of the parties have filed a responsive pleading because Robelle and 

Quantel have been engaged in active settlement negotiations since the initiation of this lawsuit, but 

Robelle has consented to an extension of time for the Quantel defendants to file a responsive 

pleading by December 16, 2005 if the settlement is not finalized by that date. If settlement is not 

finalized by that date, the Quantel defendants anticipate that they will require an additional two 

weeks to file responsive pleadings. 

The initial case management conference was originally scheduled for August 17, 2005. 

However, because settlement negotiations were ongoing, Robelle respectfully requested that the 

Court continue the initial case management conference until Wednesday, October , 2005, to allow 

the parties to continue their settlement discussions and hopefully resolve this case. The Court 

granted Robelle’s request. On September 27, 2005, the Court sua sponte continued the initial case 

management conference until October 12, 2005, at 10:30 a.m. Prior to the October 12, 2005 initial 

case management conference, the Court again granted Robelle's request to continue the October 12, 

2005 initial case management conference until December 14, 2005, to allow the parties’ ongoing 

settlement negotiations to continue. 

On December 2, 2005, Quantel filed a Stipulated Extension of Time to Answer or Otherwise 

Plead in Response to the Complaint seeking an extension, to the extent Robelle offered its consent, 

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until Friday, December 16, 2005, to file an answer or otherwise plead to the Complaint. The 

extension of time was not for the purposes of delay but for the defendants to review and consider 

the issues raised by Complaint and for the parties to continue settlement discussions before the 

answer is due. In view of these circumstances, the parties respectfully request that the initial case 

management conference be continued until January 18, 2006 at a time after the responsive 

pleadings have been filed. 

DATED: December 9, 2005 Respectfully submitted, 

ROBELLE SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY, INC. 

By: /s/ 

Chung-Han Lee (SBN 231950) 

HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP 

50 California Street, Suite 2800 

San Francisco, California 94111-4624 

Tel: 415-743-6900 

Fax: 415-743-6910 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ROBELLE SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY, INC. 

DATED: December 9, 2005 QUANTEL, INC. and QUANTEL LIMITED 

By: /s/ 

Neil A. Smith (SBN 63777) 

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & 

HAMPTON LLP 

Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111-4106 

Telephone: (415) 434-9100 

Facsimile: (415) 434-3947 

Attorneys for Defendants 

QUANTEL, INC. AND QUANTEL LIMITED 

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ORDER

The Court, having reviewed Plaintiff ROBELLE SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY, INC.’s 

(hereinafter “Robelle”) Case Management Statement, hereby grants the parties request to continue 

the initial case management conference currently scheduled for Wednesday, December 14, 2005, at 

10:30 a.m. until the Wednesday, January 18, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. to allow the parties to continue 

their ongoing settlement negotiations. 

If the case is not settled by that time, the parties will submit a Joint Case Management 

Statement by January 11, 2006. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: _________________________ 

MAGISTRATE JUDGE JAMES LARSON 

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12/9/05

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge James Larson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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IT IS SO ORDERED

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge James Larson

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