Newcal Industries v. Ikon Office Solution

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NEWCAL INDUSTRIES, INC., a  California Corporation; CPO. LTD., a California Corporation; PINNACLE DOCUMENT SYSTEMS, INC., a California Corporation; KEARNS No. 05-16208 BUSINESS SOLUTION, INC., a South Carolina Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants,  D.C. No.

CV-04-02776-FMS

v. OPINION

IKON OFFICE SOLUTION; GENERAL

ELECTRIC CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Fern M. Smith, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 19, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed January 23, 2008

Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges, and Timothy M. Burgess,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Thomas

*The Honorable Timothy M. Burgess, District Court Judge for the Dis- trict of Alaska, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Maxwell M. Blecher, James Robert Noblin, Matthew E. Hess, Blecher & Collins, Los Angeles, California; and James A. Hennefer, Hennefer & Wood, San Francisco, California, attorneys for the…