Acres 4.0 v. IGT

Opinion

1 LEIFR. SIGMOND, JR. 2 Pro hac vice Email: lsigmond@bakerlaw.com 3 JENNIFER M. KURCZ Pro hac vice 4 Email: jkurcz@bakerlaw.com SCOTT A. SKILES 5 Pro hac vice Email: sskiles@bakerlaw.com 6 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP OneNorth Wacker Drive, Suite 4500 7 Chicago, IL 60606-2841 Telephone: (312) 416-6200 8 ALAINA J. LAKAWICZ Pro hac vice 9 Email: alakawicz@bakerlaw.com ROBERT P. LEESON 10 Pro hac vice Email: rleeson@bakerlaw.com 11 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 1735 Market Street, Suite 3300 12 Philadelphia, PA 19103-7501 Telephone: (215) 568-3100 13 NEVADA LOCAL COUNSEL LISTED IN 14 SIGNATURE BLOCK BELOW 15 Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaim Plaintiff IGT 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 17 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 18 ACRES 4.0, 19 Case No.: 2:21-cv-01962-GMN-BNW Plaintiff and 20 Counterclaim Defendant, UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE 21 TO FILE SUPPLEMENT TO v. AMENDED ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE 22 DEFENSES, AND COUNTERCLAIMS IGT, 23 Defendant and 24 Counterclaim Plaintiff, 25 v. 26 Acres Manufacturing Company, John F. Acres, 27 Counterclaim 28 Defendants. 1 Defendant/Counterclaim Plaintiff, IGT, by and through its counsel, hereby respectfully 2 || submits this Motion for Leave to File Supplement to Amended Answer, Affirmative Defenses, an 3 || Counterclaims (ECF No. 40) (the “Motion”). The Motion is made in accordance with LR IA 6-2 4 || and LR 7-2(g) of the Local Rules of the District of Nevada. Plaintiff/Counterclaim Defendants, 5 || Acres 4.0, Acres Manufacturing Company, and John F. Acres (collectively, “Acres”) have agreed 6 || to not oppose the Motion. 7 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 8 “A party may not file supplemental pleadings, briefs, authorities, or evidence without leave 9 || of court granted for good cause. The judge may strike supplemental filings made without leave of 10 || court.” LR 7-2(g); accord Steward vy. CMRE Financial Services, Inc., 2:15-cv-00408-JAD-NJK, 11 || 2017 WL 4390102, at *4 (D. Nev. Sept. 28, 2017) (striking supplement because plaintiff did first 12 || obtain leave of court). 2 13 IGT’s Amended Answer, Affirmative Defenses, and Counterclaims (ECF No. 40) □□□□□□□ 14 || Amended Answer’) responds to Plaintiff’s Complaint (ECF No. 7) and asserts multiple 15 || affirmative defenses and four counterclaims of infringement. Throughout IGT’s Amended 16 || Answer, IGT cites to and links video/digital hyperlinks. However, it recently came to the 17 || attention of IGT and Acres that one of the hyperlinks, ECF No. 40-45, is no longer active. In 18 || order to correct the inactive hyperlink and maintain the record, IGT seeks to supplement the 19 || record with a supplemental pleading and accompanying exhibits. IGT proposes that for its video/ 20 || digital exhibits (i.e., ECF No. 40-37, -38A, -38B, -38C, -38D, -39, -40, -41, -43, -45, -48, -49, and 21 || -51), IGT will submit a file-stamped placeholder document along with a CD-ROM of the video/ 22 || digital files to the clerk’s office and file a Notice of Manual Filing to indicate that IGT made a 23 || physical submission inclusive of the CD-ROM. 24 Based on the above, IGT seeks leave of the Court to supplement IGT’s Amended Answer. 25 || A proposed supplement is attached here as Exhibit A. There is good cause to permit the filing of 26 || the proposed supplement. First, the proposed supplement is a duplicate of the original pleading 27 || and contains identical exhibits, which include certain video/digital exhibits that the supplement 28 || seeks to provide in alternative CD-ROM format. Second, the primary purpose of the proposed _2-

1 supplement is to provide the Court with the full record and not cause undue burden to the Court 2 by requiring it to find any inactive hyperlinked video/digital file exhibits. Lastly, IGT made a 3 good faith attempt to preserve the record by raising this issue with the Court as soon as it became 4 aware of the inactive video/digital files. Accordingly, IGT submits that good cause exists to grant 5 this Motion. 6 Dated: May 17th, 2022 7 /s/ Anthony J. DiRaimondo 8 LEIF R. SIGMOND, JR. Pro hac vice 9 Email: lsigmond@bakerlaw.com JENNIFER M. KURCZ 10 Pro hac vice Email: jkurcz@bakerlaw.com 11 SCOTT A. SKILES Pro hac vice 12 Email: sskiles@bakerlaw.com BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 13 One North Wacker Drive, Suite 4500 Chicago, IL 60606-2841 14 Telephone: (312) 416-6200 Facsimile: (312) 416-6201 15 ALAINA J. LAKAWICZ Pro hac vice 16 Email: alakawicz@bakerlaw.com ROBERT P. LEESON 17 Pro hac vice Email: rleeson@bakerlaw.com 18 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 1735 Market Street, Suite 3300 19 Philadelphia, PA 19103-7501 Telephone: (215) 568-3100 20 Facsimile: (215) 568-3439 21 -and- 22 David A. Carroll, Esq. (NSB #7643) dcarroll@rrsc-law.com 23 Anthony J. DiRaimondo, Esq. (NSB #10875) adiraimondo@rrsc-law.com 24 Robert E. Opdyke, Esq. (NSB #12841) ropdyke@rrsc-law.com 25 RICE REUTHER SULLIVAN & CARROLL, LLP 26 3800 Howard Hughes Parkway, Ste 1200 Las Vegas, Nevada 89169 27 Telephone: (702) 732-9099 Facsimile: (702) 732-7110 28 1 Attorneys for Defendant and 5 Counterclaim Plaintiff IGT

3 IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated this 18 day of May, 2022. 6 . Glori Navarro, District Judge 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ? INDEX OF EXHIBITS

1] IGT’s Amended Answer, Affirmative Defenses, and A Counterclaims to Plaintiff Acres 4.0’s Complaint, with exhibits 12

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