1 THE HONORABLE RICARDO S. MARTINEZ THE HONORABLE THERESA L. FRICKE 9 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 10 AT SEATTLE ll UTHERVERSE GAMING LLC, Case No. 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF 12 Plaintiff, 13 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND v. MEDIATION DEADLINE AND 14 ORDER EPIC GAMES, INC., 15 NOTE ON MOTION CALENDAR: Defendant. June 29, 2022 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 - STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION POLSINELLI DEADLINE AND ORDER - 1 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLEF SEATTLE, WA 98104 © Tel: 206-393-5400
I. INTRODUCTION Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4) and Local Civil Rules 7(d)(1), 10(g), ° and 16(b)(6), Plaintiff Utherverse Gaming LLC (‘Plaintiff’) and Defendant Epic Games, Inc. (“Defendant’’) submit this stipulated motion to request that the Court extend the current June 30, ° 2022 deadline for mediation, as set forth in the current Case Schedule, ECF No. 48, until a date ° that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim construction ruling. This limited extension will not ’ impact any other Case Schedule deadline, including the existing dispositive motion deadline of March 2, 2023. ° Good cause exists for this minor adjustment to the case schedule because the parties agree that resolution of disputed claim construction issues is necessary to facilitate productive mediation.
D Il. BACKGROUND A. Existing Case Schedule Deadlines Under the existing Case Schedule, mediation is to be completed by June 30, 2022; the claim construction hearing is set for August 16, 2022; disclosure of opening expert witnesses’ reports is due November 3, 2022; disclosure of rebuttal expert witnesses’ reports is due December 1, 2022; '6 discovery is to be completed by February 2, 2023; and the last date to file and serve dispositive " motions and Daubert motions is March 2, 2023. B. The Parties Jointly Request Extending the Deadline for Mediation, With No Impact 19 to Any Other Case Schedule Deadline 20 Plaintiff and Defendant have jointly agreed to request that the Court extend the current 21 || June 30, 2022 deadline for mediation, until a date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim 22 || construction ruling. This extension will not impact any other existing deadlines under the Case 23 || Schedule, including the existing dispositive motion deadline of March 2, 2023. I. ARGUMENT A. The Court May Modify the Case Schedule for Good Cause * The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Rules provide that a case schedule may be *6 modified for good cause and with the judge’s consent. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4); LCR 16(b)(6). “In STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION f=, LSINELLI DEADLINE AND ORDER - 2 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF SEATTLE, WA 98104 * Tel: 206-393-5400
1 || determining whether ‘good cause’ exists under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b) to modify a 2 || case schedule, the court ‘primarily considers the diligence of the party seeking amendment.’” Doe 3 || v. Trump, 329 F.R.D. 262, 272 (W.D. Wash. 2018) (citing Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 4 ||975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992)). “Good cause” exists “when the deadline in the scheduling 5 || order ‘cannot reasonably be met despite the diligence of the party seeking the extension.”” Id. 6 || B. Good Cause Exists to Extend the Deadline for Mediation 7 Plaintiff and Defendant each assert that they have diligently prosecuted and defended this 8 ||case. The parties have exchanged written discovery requests and responses, are engaged in fact 9 || discovery, including third-party discovery, and continue to produce documents to each other. The 10 || parties have also served patent contentions, exchanged claim construction disclosures, and have 11 || completed claim construction briefing in accordance with the Local Patent Rules and the Case 12 || Schedule. The parties conferred about the prospect of mediation prior to resolution of the disputed 13 || claim construction issues, and the parties agree mediation would not be productive until those 14 || issues were resolved. Notably, the current June 30, 2022 mediation deadline comes from the 15 || parties’ proposal in a September 18, 2021 joint status report, in which the parties contemplated a 16 || mid-June 2022 claim construction hearing, which was ultimately set for August 16. Dkt. 43 at 5- 17 || 6, 8; April 28, 2022 oral order. 18 Under the circumstances, good cause exists to extend the deadline for mediation until a 19 || date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim construction ruling. The extension will allow 20 || the parties to continue working on discovery while conserving their mediation efforts until a time 21 || when they will be most productive. The extension will not result in a delay of any of the other 22 || case deadlines. 23 IV. CONCLUSION 24 For the foregoing reasons, the parties respectfully request that the Court extend the current 25 || June 30, 2022 deadline for mediation until a date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim 26 || construction ruling, consistent with the Proposed Order accompanying this Motion.
STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION f=, LSINELLI DEADLINE AND ORDER - 3 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF SEATTLE, WA 98104 * Tel: 206-393-5400
1 IT IS SO STIPULATED by and between the parties hereto. 3 DATED this 29" day of June, 2022. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Jessica M,. Andrade 5 By: Jessica M. Andrade (WSBA No. 39297) POLSINELLI PC 6 1000 Second Avenue, Suite 3500 Seattle, WA 98104 7 Tel: 206-393-5400 Fax: 206-393-5401 8 Of Counsel: Email: jessica.andrade @ polsinelli.com 9 Colby B. Springer (admitted pro hac vice) Mark T. Deming (admitted pro hac vice) POLSINELLI LLP POLSINELLI PC 10 Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 2400 150 N. Riverside Place, Suite 3000 San Francisco, CA 94111 Chicago, IL 60606 || Tel: 415-248-2100 Tel: 312-819-1900 Fax: 415-248-2101 Fax: 312-819-1901 12 Email: cspringer@ polsinelli.ccom Email: mdeming @polsinelli.com 13 Melenie Van (admitted pro hac vice) Enes Ovcina (admitted pro hac vice) POLSINELLI LLP POLSINELLI PC |) 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2900 1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 6400 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Houston, TX 77002 IS |] Tel: (310) 229-1355 Tel: 713-374-1600 Fax: (415) 276-8959 Fax: 713-374-1601 16|| Email: mvan@ polsinelli.com Email: eovcina@polsinelli.com 17 Attorneys for Plaintiff 18 UTHERVERSE GAMING LLC
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> Dated: June 29, 2022 By: s/ Eugene Novikov Eugene Novikov (pro hac vice) 3 enovikov @durietangri.com Mark A. Lemley (pro hac vice) 4 mlemley @ durietangri.com Timothy C. Saulsbury (pro hac vice) 5 tsaulsbury @ durietangri.com Bethany D. Bengfort (pro hac vice) 6 bbengfort @ durietangri.com Matthaeus Martino-Weinhardt (pro hac vice) 4 mweinhardt @ durietangri.com Nari E.C. Ely (pro hac vice) 8 nely @durietangri.com DURIE TANGRI LLP 9 217 Leidesdorff Street San Francisco, CA 94111 10 Telephone: (415) 362-6666 Facsimile: (415) 236-6300 11 12 || Dated: June 29, 2022 By: _s/ Christina McCullough Antoine M. McNamara (WSBA No. 41701) 13 AMcNamara @ perkinscoie.com Christina J. McCullough (WSBA No.
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1 THE HONORABLE RICARDO S. MARTINEZ THE HONORABLE THERESA L. FRICKE 9 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 10 AT SEATTLE ll UTHERVERSE GAMING LLC, Case No. 2:21-cv-00799-RSM-TLF 12 Plaintiff, 13 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND v. MEDIATION DEADLINE AND 14 ORDER EPIC GAMES, INC., 15 NOTE ON MOTION CALENDAR: Defendant. June 29, 2022 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 - STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION POLSINELLI DEADLINE AND ORDER - 1 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLEF SEATTLE, WA 98104 © Tel: 206-393-5400
I. INTRODUCTION Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4) and Local Civil Rules 7(d)(1), 10(g), ° and 16(b)(6), Plaintiff Utherverse Gaming LLC (‘Plaintiff’) and Defendant Epic Games, Inc. (“Defendant’’) submit this stipulated motion to request that the Court extend the current June 30, ° 2022 deadline for mediation, as set forth in the current Case Schedule, ECF No. 48, until a date ° that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim construction ruling. This limited extension will not ’ impact any other Case Schedule deadline, including the existing dispositive motion deadline of March 2, 2023. ° Good cause exists for this minor adjustment to the case schedule because the parties agree that resolution of disputed claim construction issues is necessary to facilitate productive mediation.
D Il. BACKGROUND A. Existing Case Schedule Deadlines Under the existing Case Schedule, mediation is to be completed by June 30, 2022; the claim construction hearing is set for August 16, 2022; disclosure of opening expert witnesses’ reports is due November 3, 2022; disclosure of rebuttal expert witnesses’ reports is due December 1, 2022; '6 discovery is to be completed by February 2, 2023; and the last date to file and serve dispositive " motions and Daubert motions is March 2, 2023. B. The Parties Jointly Request Extending the Deadline for Mediation, With No Impact 19 to Any Other Case Schedule Deadline 20 Plaintiff and Defendant have jointly agreed to request that the Court extend the current 21 || June 30, 2022 deadline for mediation, until a date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim 22 || construction ruling. This extension will not impact any other existing deadlines under the Case 23 || Schedule, including the existing dispositive motion deadline of March 2, 2023. I. ARGUMENT A. The Court May Modify the Case Schedule for Good Cause * The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Rules provide that a case schedule may be *6 modified for good cause and with the judge’s consent. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4); LCR 16(b)(6). “In STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION f=, LSINELLI DEADLINE AND ORDER - 2 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF SEATTLE, WA 98104 * Tel: 206-393-5400
1 || determining whether ‘good cause’ exists under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b) to modify a 2 || case schedule, the court ‘primarily considers the diligence of the party seeking amendment.’” Doe 3 || v. Trump, 329 F.R.D. 262, 272 (W.D. Wash. 2018) (citing Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 4 ||975 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992)). “Good cause” exists “when the deadline in the scheduling 5 || order ‘cannot reasonably be met despite the diligence of the party seeking the extension.”” Id. 6 || B. Good Cause Exists to Extend the Deadline for Mediation 7 Plaintiff and Defendant each assert that they have diligently prosecuted and defended this 8 ||case. The parties have exchanged written discovery requests and responses, are engaged in fact 9 || discovery, including third-party discovery, and continue to produce documents to each other. The 10 || parties have also served patent contentions, exchanged claim construction disclosures, and have 11 || completed claim construction briefing in accordance with the Local Patent Rules and the Case 12 || Schedule. The parties conferred about the prospect of mediation prior to resolution of the disputed 13 || claim construction issues, and the parties agree mediation would not be productive until those 14 || issues were resolved. Notably, the current June 30, 2022 mediation deadline comes from the 15 || parties’ proposal in a September 18, 2021 joint status report, in which the parties contemplated a 16 || mid-June 2022 claim construction hearing, which was ultimately set for August 16. Dkt. 43 at 5- 17 || 6, 8; April 28, 2022 oral order. 18 Under the circumstances, good cause exists to extend the deadline for mediation until a 19 || date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim construction ruling. The extension will allow 20 || the parties to continue working on discovery while conserving their mediation efforts until a time 21 || when they will be most productive. The extension will not result in a delay of any of the other 22 || case deadlines. 23 IV. CONCLUSION 24 For the foregoing reasons, the parties respectfully request that the Court extend the current 25 || June 30, 2022 deadline for mediation until a date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim 26 || construction ruling, consistent with the Proposed Order accompanying this Motion.
STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION f=, LSINELLI DEADLINE AND ORDER - 3 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF SEATTLE, WA 98104 * Tel: 206-393-5400
1 IT IS SO STIPULATED by and between the parties hereto. 3 DATED this 29" day of June, 2022. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Jessica M,. Andrade 5 By: Jessica M. Andrade (WSBA No. 39297) POLSINELLI PC 6 1000 Second Avenue, Suite 3500 Seattle, WA 98104 7 Tel: 206-393-5400 Fax: 206-393-5401 8 Of Counsel: Email: jessica.andrade @ polsinelli.com 9 Colby B. Springer (admitted pro hac vice) Mark T. Deming (admitted pro hac vice) POLSINELLI LLP POLSINELLI PC 10 Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 2400 150 N. Riverside Place, Suite 3000 San Francisco, CA 94111 Chicago, IL 60606 || Tel: 415-248-2100 Tel: 312-819-1900 Fax: 415-248-2101 Fax: 312-819-1901 12 Email: cspringer@ polsinelli.ccom Email: mdeming @polsinelli.com 13 Melenie Van (admitted pro hac vice) Enes Ovcina (admitted pro hac vice) POLSINELLI LLP POLSINELLI PC |) 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2900 1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 6400 Los Angeles, CA 90067 Houston, TX 77002 IS |] Tel: (310) 229-1355 Tel: 713-374-1600 Fax: (415) 276-8959 Fax: 713-374-1601 16|| Email: mvan@ polsinelli.com Email: eovcina@polsinelli.com 17 Attorneys for Plaintiff 18 UTHERVERSE GAMING LLC
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> Dated: June 29, 2022 By: s/ Eugene Novikov Eugene Novikov (pro hac vice) 3 enovikov @durietangri.com Mark A. Lemley (pro hac vice) 4 mlemley @ durietangri.com Timothy C. Saulsbury (pro hac vice) 5 tsaulsbury @ durietangri.com Bethany D. Bengfort (pro hac vice) 6 bbengfort @ durietangri.com Matthaeus Martino-Weinhardt (pro hac vice) 4 mweinhardt @ durietangri.com Nari E.C. Ely (pro hac vice) 8 nely @durietangri.com DURIE TANGRI LLP 9 217 Leidesdorff Street San Francisco, CA 94111 10 Telephone: (415) 362-6666 Facsimile: (415) 236-6300 11 12 || Dated: June 29, 2022 By: _s/ Christina McCullough Antoine M. McNamara (WSBA No. 41701) 13 AMcNamara @ perkinscoie.com Christina J. McCullough (WSBA No. 47147) 14 CMcCullough @ perkinscoie.com PERKINS COIE LLP 15 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900 Seattle, WA 98101-3099 16 Telephone: 206-359-8000 Facsimile: 206-359-9000 M7 Attorneys for Defendant Epic Games, Inc. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 - STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION POLSINELLI DEADLINE AND ORDER - 5 1000 SECOND AVENUE, SUITE 3500 CASE NO. 2:21-CV-00799-RSM-TLF SEATTLE, WA 98104 * Tel: 206-393-5400
1 ORDER 2 PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING STIPULATION, it is ORDERED that the June 3 || 30, 2022 deadline for mediation is reset to the date that is sixty days after the issuance of a claim 4 || construction ruling. All other provisions of the Case Schedule remain in effect. DATED this 30thlay of _ June , 2022. « Netw □□ Fricke 8 HON. THERESA L. FRICKE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
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1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 On June 29, 2022, I caused to be served the foregoing document(s) in the manner described 3 || below: 4 STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE AND 5 [PROPOSED] ORDER 6 || to be served on the following parties as indicated below: 7 || Antoine M. McNamara [] By United States Mail Christina J. McCullough By Electronic Mail 8 || PERKINS COIE (SEA) [] By Facsimile 1201 3rd Avenue, Ste. 4900 9 || Seattle, WA 98101-3099 Fax: (206) 359-9000 10 || Email: amcnamara@perkinscoie.com Email: cmecullough @ perkinscoie.com 11 |) Eugene Novik NeGEC ck Ov L] By United States Mail 12 Bethany D Bengfo tt By Electronic Mail 13 || Mark A. Lemley [] By Facsimile Matthaeus Martino-Weinhardt 14 Timothy C. Saulsbury DURIE TANGRI LLP 15 217 Leidesdorff Street San Francisco, CA 94111 16 || Fax: (415) 236-6300 Email: enovikov @durietangri.com 17 || Email: nely @durietangri.com Email: bbengfort@durietangri.com 18 Email: mlemley @durietangri.com Email: mweinhardt@durietangri.com 19 Email: tsaulsbury @durietangri.com Email: SERVICE- 20 PENDRAGON @durietangri.com 21 22 23 24 Evan S. Nadel [] By United States Mail 95 || MINTZ, LEVIN, COHN, FERRIS, GLOVSKY By Electronic Mail and POPEO, P.C. [] By Facsimile 26 44 Montgomery Street, 36th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Fax: (415) 432-6001 Email: enadel@mintz.com - STIPULATED MOTION TO EXTEND MEDIATION POLSINELLI
Daniel Weinger 2 || MINTZ, LEVIN, COHN, FERRIS, GLOVSKY and POPEO, P.C. 3 || One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111 4|| Fax: (617) 542-2241 Email: dbweinger@ mintz.com COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT 6 || EPIC GAMES, INC. 7 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 8 foregoing is true and correct. Executed June 29, 2022. By: _/s/Tricia Northgrove 10 Tricia Northgrove 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
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