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Parties Involved:
Advanced Steel Recovery, LLC
Counter Defendant
Allstate Paper & Metal Recycling Co., Inc.
Defendant
J.D.M.L., Inc.
Defendant
Jewell Attachments, LLC
Counter Claimant
Standard Industries
Defendant
X-Body Equipment, Inc.
Counter Claimant

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Locke Lord LLP 

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 4100 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING STIP MTN TO SEVER & STAY CASE AS TO DEFS. STANDARD & ALLSTATE 

CISLO & THOMAS LLP 

Mark D. Nielsen, State Bar No. 210,023 

mnielsen@cislo.com 

12100 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1700 

Los Angeles, CA 90025 

310-451-0647 

Attorneys for Plaintiff ADVANCED STEEL 

RECOVERY, LLC 

LOCKE LORD LLP 

Robert Harkins, State Bar No. 179525 

robert.harkins@lockelord.com 

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 4100 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

415-318-8810 

Attorneys For Defendants J.D.M.L., INC. 

dba STANDARD INDUSTRIES, X-BODY 

EQUIPMENT, INC., and JEWELL 

ATTACHMENTS, LLC 

Lauren Keller Katzenellenbogen (SBN 223,370) 

lauren.katzenellenbogen@knobbe.com 

KNOBBE, MARTENS, OLSON & BEAR, LLP 

2040 Main Street, Fourteenth Floor 

Irvine, CA 92614 

Telephone: (949) 760-0404 

Facsimile: (949) 760-9502 

Attorneys for Defendant ALLSTATE PAPER & 

METAL RECYCING CO., INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

ADVANCED STEEL RECOVERY, LLC, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

X-BODY EQUIPMENT, INC., 

JEWELL ATTACHMENTS, LLC, J.D.M.L., INC. 

dba STANDARD INDUSTRIES, and ALLSTATE 

PAPER & METAL RECYCLING CO., INC., 

Defendants. 

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CASE NO. 2:16-CV-00148-KJM-EFB 

[PROPOSED ORDER] GRANTING 

STIPULATED JOINT MOTION TO 

SEVER AND STAY CASE AS TO 

DEFENDANTS J.D.M.L., DBA 

STANDARD INDUSTRIES AND 

ALLSTATE PAPER & METAL 

RECYCLING CO., INC. TO RESPOND 

TO COMPLAINT

Hon. Kimberly J. Mueller 

Courtroom 3, 15th Floor 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING STIP MTN TO SEVER & STAY CASE AS TO DEFS. STANDARD & ALLSTATE 

Having considered the joint stipulated motion of all parties in the above-entitled lawsuit to 

sever and stay the lawsuit as to defendants J.D.M.L., Inc. dba Standard Industries (“Standard”) and 

Allstate Paper & Metal Recycling Co., Inc. (“Allstate”), and good cause appearing therefore, the 

MOTION IS HEREBY GRANTED. See In re Nintendo of Am., Inc., 756 F.3d 1363, 1365 (Fed. Cir. 

2014) (“When a patent owner files an infringement suit against a manufacturer’s customer and the 

manufacturer then files an action of noninfringement or patent invalidity, the suit by the 

manufacturer generally take precedence . . . . for it is the manufacturer who is generally the ‘true 

defendant’ in the dispute.”). 

The lawsuit is hereby severed as to defendant Standard, and that case is stayed pending the 

outcome of the patent infringement claim by plaintiff Advanced Steel Recovery, LLC (“ASR”) 

against defendants X-Body Equipment, Inc. (“X-Body”) and Jewell Attachments, LLC (“Jewell”). 

Independently, the lawsuit is hereby severed as to defendant Allstate, and that case is stayed 

pending the outcome of the patent infringement claim by ASR against X-Body and Jewell. See 35 

U.S.C. § 299(a)(1) (multiple defendants cannot be joined in one patent action unless the right to 

relief asserted in the complaint arises “out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of 

transactions or occurrences relating to the making, using, importing into the United States, offering 

for sale, or selling of the same accused product”); Fed. R. Civ. P. 21 (the court may sever any claim 

against a party that is misjoined); see also Mednovus, Inc. v. QinetiQ Grp. PLC, No. 2:12-03487, 

2012 WL 4513539 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 1, 2012). 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: March 30, 2016 

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