Parsons

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Composite Resources, Inc., No. 2:21-cv-02352-KJM-DMC Plaintiff, ORDER v. Derek R. Parsons, 1S Defendant. 16 Defendant Derek Parsons, the chief operating officer of Recon Medical, LLC, moves to 18 dismiss plaintiff Composite Resources, Inc.’s six claims of patent infringement on claim 19 preclusion grounds. As explained below, Composite’s lawsuit in this court concerns the same 20 patents, the same infringing products, and mostly the same claims at issue in its now-concluded lawsuit against Recon in the District of Nevada. Because Composite’s lawsuit concerns claims that were or could have been raised in its Nevada lawsuit, and because no exception to claim 23 preclusion applies, the court grants Parsons’ motion to dismiss. 24 I. BACKGROUND Composite owns three related patents: Nos. 7,842,067 (the ’067 patent), 7,892,253 (the °253 patent), and 8,888,807 (the ’807 patent). See Compl.…