One Industries, LLC v. Jim O'Neal Distribut

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ONE INDUSTRIES, LLC, a limited  liability company, Plaintiff-counter-defendant- Appellee, v. No. 08-55316 JIM O’NEAL DISTRIBUTING, INC., a  D.C. No. corporation, CV-06-01133-JAH Defendant-counter-claim-3rd- party-plaintiff-Appellant, OPINION v.

MARC BLANCHARD; LUDOVIC

BOINNARD,

Third-party-defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California John A. Houston, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 4, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed August 24, 2009

Before: John T. Noonan, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Graber

11595 ONE INDUSTRIES v. O’NEAL DISTRIBUTING 11599

COUNSEL

R. Joseph Trojan, Trojan Law Offices, Beverly Hills, Califor- nia, argued the cause for Jim O’Neal Distributing, Inc., and filed the briefs.

Jonathan Hangartner, X-Patents, APC, La Jolla, California, argued the cause for One Industries, LLC, Marc Blanchard, and Ludovic Boinnard and filed the…