Court Opinion

ID: 9910771
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-12-18 16:01:27.597322+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:54:22.866597
License: Public Domain

Case: 23-153    Document: 14     Page: 1    Filed: 12/18/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

 In re: TCL TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORP., fka TCL
   Corporation, TCL ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS
  LTD., fka TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings,
    Ltd., TCL KING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
          (HUIZHOU) CO., LTD., TCL MOKA
   INTERNATIONAL LTD., TCL SMART DEVICE
         (VIETNAM) CO., LTD., TCT MOBILE
    INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, HUIZHOU TCL
        MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.,
                     Petitioners
               ______________________

                         2023-153
                  ______________________

    On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in No. 4:23-
cv-00420-ALM, Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III.
                  ______________________

                      ON PETITION
                  ______________________

    Before PROST, HUGHES, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
                        ORDER
   Petitioners (collectively, “TCL”) seek a writ of manda-
mus directing the United States District Court for the
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2                        IN RE: TCL TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORP.

Eastern District of Texas to vacate its September 11, 2023,
order and stay all deadlines. Freedom Patents LLC op-
poses.
    Freedom Patents sued TCL for patent infringement.
TCL moved to dismiss for insufficient service of process and
separately moved to stay all pending deadlines while the
court considered the motion to dismiss. On Septem-
ber 11, 2023, the district court denied TCL’s motion for a
stay.    TCL then filed this petition, see 28 U.S.C.
§§ 1295(a)(1), 1651(a), challenging that decision. On No-
vember 9, 2023, the district court decided TCL’s motion to
dismiss, dismissing claims against certain defendants but
permitting alternative service, which Freedom Patents
states, without contradiction, has since been accomplished.
     To obtain the extraordinary remedy of a writ of man-
damus, the petitioners must show: (1) there are no ade-
quate alternative avenues for relief, (2) the right to
issuance of the writ is clear and indisputable, and (3) issu-
ance of the writ is appropriate under the circumstances.
Cheney v. U.S. Dist. Ct. for D.C., 542 U.S. 367, 380–81
(2004). The district court has now acted on TCL’s motion
to dismiss. Although TCL notes that it has asked the dis-
trict court to reconsider its November 9, 2023, decision,
TCL has not shown a clear and indisputable right to a stay
of proceedings under the circumstances.
    Accordingly,
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IN RE: TCL TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORP.                      3

    IT IS ORDERED THAT:
    The petition is denied.
                                          FOR THE COURT

 December 18, 2023
      Date