Dror
Dror v. Kenu, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 IDAN DROR, Case No. 19-cv-03043-LB
12 Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
13 v. DENYING IN PART MOTION TO
DISMISS
14 KENU, INC., Re: ECF No. 26 15 Defendant. 16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 Plaintiff Idan Dror (under the brand name IDStore) sold a cellphone-holder mount for cars 19 (“IDStore Mount”) through the website Amazon. 20 In December 2017, Amazon told Mr. Dror it was removing the sales listings for the IDStore 21 Mount from its website because it received a notice from defendant Kenu, Inc. saying that the 22 IDStore Mount infringes patents that Kenu owns, namely, patent number 9,080,714 (“714 Patent”) 23 and/or patent number 9,718,412 (“412 Patent”). On January 8, 2018, Amazon sent Mr. Dror a 24 notice saying, “[T]he [IDStore Mount] was removed pursuant to a lawsuit settlement between 25 Kenu and Amazon. We will not relist these items without a retraction of the notice…