Drone Labs, LLC v. Dedrone Holdings, Inc.

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 DRONE LABS, LLC, Case No. 19-cv-01281-EMC

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

9 v. MOTION TO DISMISS

10 DEDRONE HOLDINGS, INC., Docket No. 45 11 Defendant.

12 13 14 Plaintiff Drone Labs, LLC has sued Defendant Dedrone Holdings, Inc. for patent 15 infringement. The patent at issue is the ‘018 patent. Previously, the Court granted Dedrone’s 16 motion to dismiss the first amended complaint (“FAC”) but with leave to amend. Drone thereafter 17 filed its second amended complaint (“SAC”) and Dedrone now moves to dismiss the SAC. 18 According to Dedrone, Drone has failed to adequately plead direct patent infringement – i.e., 19 Drone has not pled that the accused products meet all of the limitations of the relevant claims. See 20 SAC ¶¶ 40-41 (alleging that Dedrone infringes on claim 1 of the ‘018 patent, the only independent 21 claim, as well as claims 2-10, which are all dependent claims). Dedrone further argues that 22 dismissal is warranted…