Yufa
Yufa v. Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALEKSANDR L. YUFA, Case No. 09-cv-00968-TSH
Plaintiff,
SUA SPONTE ORDER DISMISSING
v. COMPLAINT
LIGHTHOUSE WORLDWIDE
SOLUTIONS INC.,
11 Defendant. 12 Plaintiff Alexandr Yufa, proceeding pro se, filed this case on March 5, 2009, alleging Defendant Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, Inc. infringed upon his patent for particle detectors and reference voltage comparators, Patent No. 6,346,983. The case has been stayed since January 9, 2015 pending resolution of four of Yufa’s other cases involving the ‘983 Patent. ECF No. 136. However, on September 12, 2019, Yufa filed a Notice of Change of Ownership of Patent at Issue, stating that he filed the assignment of the ‘983 Patent in compliance with Magistrate Judge Kandis Westmore’s order in Yufa v. TSI Incorp., C-09-1315, and therefore “doesn’t own anymore the patent at issue.” ECF No. 137. A complaint for patent infringement requires that the plaintiff owns the patent. K-Tech …