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