U.S. Philips Corporation v. Kbc Bank N.V.

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

U.S. PHILIPS CORPORATION, a  Delaware corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 08-56296 v. D.C. No.

KBC BANK N.V.,

Movant-Appellee,  2:05-cv-08953-

R-PLA

and

OPINION

KXD TECHNOLOGY, INC., a California corporation, Defendant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 2, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed January 12, 2010

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges, and Donald W. Molloy* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Gould

*The Honorable Donald W. Molloy, United States District Judge for the District of Montana, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Sean A. O’Keefe (argued), O’Keefe & Associates Law Cor- poration, P.C., Newport Beach, California; Robert W. Pitts, Law Office of Robert W. Pitts, Irvine, California, for plaintiff-appellant U.S. Philips Corporation.

James M. Andriola (argued), Reed Smith LLP, New York, New York; Tony L. Richardson, Reed Smith LLP, Los Ange- les, California, for intervenor-appellee KBC Bank…