Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Apple Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
UNILOC USA, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, No. C 18-00358 WHA
v.
APPLE, INC., ORDER GRANTING WRITTEN
DISCOVERY
Defendant.
15 In this flurry of patent infringement suits, plaintiffs’ web of entities and patent transfer agreements raise the constant question: who gets to sue? Here, Uniloc USA, Inc. and related entities may have defaulted on a revenue sharing agreement and may have given an entity called Fortress too great an interest in the asserted patents when this suit was filed. This and Uniloc’s post filing conduct continues to raise the question: who owns the asserted patents? A December 16 order (Dkt. No. 126) directed Uniloc to produce all jurisdictional discovery on this issue taken in related cases, see, e.g., Uniloc USA, Inc., et al. v. Apple Inc., No. C 18-00360 WHA, and gave Apple the opportunity to respond (if it wished) and specify what information was still needed. Uniloc produced a single document and now…