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