Muthle

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHAMPION DANIEL MUTHLE, Plaintiff, No. C 19-06124 WHA

v.

SAP.IO, et al., ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR Defendants.

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

15 INTRODUCTION Defendants move for summary judgment, asserting a settlement agreement from a prior suit between the parties bars the current claims. For the foregoing reasons, the motion is GRANTED. STATEMENT Prior orders detail the facts of the case (Dkt. No. 42). In brief, pro se plaintiff accuses defendants of infringing his intellectual property. In April 2017, plaintiff disclosed a pitch deck to solicit defendants’ investment in his business venture. Defendants released a product shortly after which, plaintiff alleges, was “a virtually identical, mirror-image” of his technology (ibid.). This suit is not the first dispute between the parties. In 2018, plaintiff or his counsel (at the time), sent several…