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Parties Involved:
Facebook Inc.
Defendant
Word To Info Inc
Plaintiff

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WORD TO INFO INC,

Plaintiff,

v.

FACEBOOK INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-03485-WHO 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND 

DENYING IN PART MOTION TO 

DISMISS

Re: Dkt. No. 17

On February 5, 2015, while this case was still pending in the Northern District of Texas, 

defendant Facebook Inc. filed a motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint. Dkt. No. 17. Facebook 

raised two arguments in the motion: (1) lack of personal jurisdiction; and (2) insufficient 

allegations in support of plaintiff’s willful infringement claims. Id. Although Facebook has not 

re-noticed the motion for hearing since this case was transferred to this district more than three 

months ago, it recently commented in its joint case management statement that the motion remains 

pending insofar as it concerns the willfulness issue. Dkt. No. 69 at 4.

At the case management conference today, the parties did not dispute that Facebook’s 

motion to dismiss plaintiff’s willfulness claims is based on the same analysis and concerns 

materially identical allegations as Google’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s willfulness claims, which 

I recently granted. See Word to Info, Inc v. Google Inc., No. 15-cv-03486-WHO, 2015 WL 

6126472, at *2-3 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 19, 2015). Accordingly, pursuant to the reasoning and 

authorities cited in that Order, Facebook’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s willfulness claims is 

GRANTED. Facebook’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction is DENIED AS MOOT in light 

of the transfer to this district.

Plaintiff shall file its amended complaint within 10 days of the date of this Order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 10, 2015

______________________________________

WILLIAM H. ORRICK

United States District Judge

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