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Parties Involved:
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Counter Claimant
Worldslide, LLC
Counter Defendant

Document Text:

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Laura L. Chapman (State Bar No. 167249)

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111-4109

Email: lchapman@sheppardmullin.com.com

Telephone: 415.774-3215

Facsimile: 415.774-3267

Attorneys for Defendant 

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

WILLIAM S. BERNHEIM SB 56555

BERNHEIM, GUTIERREZ & McCREADY

255 North Lincoln Street

Dixon, CA 95620

Ph.: (707) 678-4447

Fax: (707) 678-0744

e-mail: law@bernheimlaw.net

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

WORLDSLIDE, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

WORLDSLIDE, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

WAL-MART STORES, INC., 

Defendant.

Case No: 2:11-cv-1806-MCE-GGH

JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER

TO STAY CASE PENDING APPEAL 

IN DECLARATORY RELIEF 

ACTION INVOLVING THE SAME 

PATENT

Judge: The Hon. Morrison C. England, Jr.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between Plaintiff Worldslide, LLC

(“Plaintiff” or “Worldslide”) and Defendant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (“Defendant”)

(hereinafter referred to collectively as “the Parties”), by and through their counsel of 

record as follows:

WHEREAS, this action, which was filed on July 8, 2011, alleges infringement of 

U.S. Patent No. 7,309,302 (“the patent-in-suit” or the “’302 Patent.”);

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WHEREAS, plaintiff in this action alleges that Walmart sold products that infringe 

the ’302 Patent (“the Accused Products”);

WHEREAS, an action known as AquaWood, LLC v. Worldslide, LLC and Forest 

B. Phillips, Case No. CV11-5611-JFW (“the AquaWood Case”), was filed on July 7, 

2011, is pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, 

and seeks a declaratory judgment that the patent-in-suit in this action is invalid and not 

infringed by AquaWood;

WHEREAS, the Accused Products in this action are a subset of the products at 

issue in the AquaWood case;

WHEREAS the trial in this action was originally scheduled to take place on 

August 19, 2013;

WHEREAS, the AquaWood case was set for trial on July 31, 2012 but the dates in 

the AquaWood Case were continued, such that the new trial date was November 27, 

2012;

WHEREAS, on September 21, 2012, the court granted the parties’ previous 

stipulation to continue dates in this action for a period of six months pending the outcome 

of the AquaWood case. As a result, the trial date in this action was continued to February 

19, 2014;

WHEREAS, on October 31, 2012, the court in the AquaWood case issued an order 

granting Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, which is Document 104 on 

AquaWood court’s docket. The court in AquaWood concluded that the ’302 Patent is 

invalid for indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. § 112, because it is anticipated by numerous 

prior art references under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) and because it is obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 

103(a).

WHEREAS, the court in the AquaWood case entered a final judgment in favor of 

plaintiff, AquaWood, and against Worldslide in the AquaWood Case on November 8, 

2012; 

WHEREAS, Worldslide file a notice of appeal of the judgement in the AquaWood

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case on November 30, 2012;

WHEREAS, the outcome of the appeal of the AquaWood case may determine the 

outcome of this Action and therefore the Parties to the Action agree that it is in the 

interest of judicial efficiency to stay this Action pending resolution of the appeal in the 

AquaWood case, as the resolution of the appeal of AquaWood Case may eliminate the 

need to continue to litigate this action;

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to Civil Local Rule 144(a), the undersigned parties 

hereby stipulate and respectfully request the Court order as follows: that all dates set in 

the Court’s January 19, 2012 Pretrial Scheduling Order as amended by the Court’s order, 

dated September 21, 2012, be stayed pending the outcome of the appeal in the AquaWood

case. The parties suggest a case management conference be conducted every six months 

and will notify the court promptly upon the resolution of the appeal in the AquaWood

case.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: March __, 2013 SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & 

HAMPTON LLP

By: /s/ Laura L. Chapman 

Laura L. Chapman

Attorneys for Defendant

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 

DATED: March __, 2013 BERNHEIM, GUTIERREZ & MCCREADY

By: /s/ William S. Bernheim 

William S. Bernheim

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Worldslide, LLC

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: March 27, 2013

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