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FindACase | Valmont Industries Inc. v. Lindsay Corp.
Valmont Industries Inc. v. Lindsay Corp.
1. In this patent infringement action filed by Plaintiff Valmont Industries, Inc. ("Plaintiff' or "Valmont"), Defendant Lindsay Corporation ("Defendant" or "Lindsay") has filed a motion to dismiss the operative First Amended Complaint ("FAC"), pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) (the "Motion"). (D.I. 33) More specifically, Defendant moves to dismiss Plaintiffs allegations of direct infringement, induced infringement, contributory infringement and willful infringement of the one patent-in-suit, United States Patent No. 7, 003, 357 ("the '357 patent" or the "patent-in-suit"). (D.I. 34 at l-2) The instant Motion has been referred to the Court for resolution by Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark, (D.I. 5), and was fully, briefed as of August 14, 2017, (D.I. 37).
2. The standard of review here is the familiar two-part analysis applicable to motions made pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6). See Raindance Techs., Inc. v. I Ox Genomics, Inc., Civil Action No. 15-152-RGA, 2016 WL 927143, at *2 (D. Del. Mar. 4, 2016) (applying the Twomblyllqbal standard to claims of direct patent infringement filed subsequent to the December 2015 abrogation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 84 and patent pleading Form 18); see also North Star Innovations, Inc. v. Micron Tech., Inc., Civil Action No. 17-506-LPS-CJB, 2017 WL 5501489, at *1 (D. Del. Nov. 16, 2017). First, the court separates the factual and legal elements of a claim, accepting "all of the complaint's well-pleaded facts as true, but [disregarding] any legal conclusions." Fowler v. UPMC Shadyside, 578 F.3d 203, 210-11 (3d Cir. 2009). Second, the court determines "whether the facts alleged in the complaint are sufficient to show that the plaintiff has a 'plausible claim for relief.'" Id. at 211 (quoting Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 679 (2009)). A plausible claim does more than merely allege entitlement to relief; it must also demonstrate the basis for that "entitlement with its facts." Id. Thus, a claimant's "obligation to provide the 'grounds' of his 'entitle[ment] to relief requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do." BellAtl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007). In assessing the plausibility of a claim, the court must '"construe the complaint in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, and determine whether, under any reasonable reading of the complaint, the plaintiff may be entitled to relief" Fowler, 578 F.3d at 210 (quoting Phillips v. Cnty. of Allegheny, 515 F.3d 224, 233 (3d Cir. 2008)).
3. With regard to the claims of direct infringement, Plaintiff alleges in the FAC that Defendant's FieldNet products (the "accused products") infringe claims 11 and 25-90 of the patent-in-suit, but Plaintiff makes detailed exemplary allegations about infringement of only one such claim-claim 25 (a system claim). (D.I. 31 at ¶¶ 14-24) Thus, inter alia, Plaintiff needs to have pleaded facts that plausibly indicate that the accused products practice each of the limitations found in claim 25. See e.Digital Corp. v. iBaby Labs, Inc., Case No. 15-cv-05790-JST, 2016 WL 4427209, at *3-4 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 22, 2016); Raindance Techs., Inc., 2016 WL 927143, at *2-3; see also North Star, 2017 WL 5501489, at *1. After all, if it is not plausible, after reading a complaint, that the accused infringer's product reads on a limitation in the one asserted claim from a patent-in-suit on which the complaint focuses, then it is not plausible that the accused infringer actually infringes the patent claim (or the patent). See e.Digital Corp., 2016 WL 4427209, at *3; Atlas IP, LLC v. Exelon Corp, 189 F.Supp.3d 768, 775 (N.D. 111. 2016); see also North Star, 2017 WL 5501489, at *1.
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