Advanced Steel Recovery, LLC v. X-Body Equipment, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ADVANCED STEEL RECOVERY, LLC, No. 2: 16-cv-00148-KJM-JDP 12 Plaintiff/Counter-defendant, 13 v. ORDER 14 X-BODY EQUIPMENT, INC., JEWELL ATTACHMENTS, LLC, J.D.M.L., INC. dba 15 STANDARD INDUSTRIES, and ALLSTATE
PAPER & METAL RECYCLING CO., INC.,
16 Defendants/Counterclaimants. 17 18 19 Plaintiff Advanced Steel Recovery (ASR) sues defendants X-Body Equipment, 20 Inc. (X-Body) and Jewell Attachments, LLC (Jewell)1 alleging defendants’ “Acculoader” product 21 infringes ASR’s patent. X-Body and Jewell filed an amended answer and counterclaims 22 (“FACC”) on October 17, 2017. FACC, ECF No. 76. ASR filed a motion to dismiss 23 counterclaims four through eleven, or in the alternative for a more definite statement or to strike. 24 Mot., ECF No. 85-1. The court submitted the motion without hearing. Having read the moving 25 ///// 26 1 ASR also sues Standard Industries and Allstate Paper & Metal Recycling Co., but these 27 parties have been independently severed from the present…