Boston Robotic Hair Restoration, PLLC v. Venus Concept Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 BOSTON ROBOTIC HAIR Case No. 21-cv-07933-JST RESTORATION, PLLC, et al., ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO Plaintiffs, TEMPORARILY LIFT STAY AND FOR INTERIM RELIEF v. Re: ECF No.

VENUS CONCEPT, INC.,

11 Defendant.

12 Before the Court is Plaintiff Boston Robotic Hair Restoration, PLLC’s (“Boston Robotic”) motion to temporarily lift the stay and for interim relief. ECF No. 43. The Court will grant the motion. I. BACKGROUND A. Factual Background Defendant Venus Concept, Inc. markets and sells the ARTAS iX, a robotic device designed to assist physicians with follicular unit extraction surgery, a time- and labor-intensive hair transplant procedure. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 1, 2. The ARTAS iX “promised to perform all three steps of [the procedure:] graft harvesting, recipient site making, and now, implantation.” Id. ¶ 4 (emphasis omitted). Venus advertised the implantation…