Trusted Knight Corporation v. International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TRUSTED KNIGHT CORPORATION, Case No. 19-cv-01206-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

v. MOTION TO STAY PENDING INTER

PARTES REVIEW

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (IBM), Docket No. 99 11 Defendant. 12 13 I. INTRODUCTION On July 17, 2020, Defendant International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) filed a motion to stay this litigation pending the final resolution of the Patent and Trademark Office’s inter partes review (“IPR”) of all the asserted claims of the patent-in-suit. Docket No. 99 (“Mot.”); see also Docket No. 99–2 (notice of institution of IPR proceedings regarding ʼ473 patent). For the reasons discussed below, the Court GRANTS IBM’s motion. II. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Trusted Knight Corporation (“Trusted Knight”) brought this action against IBM, accusing IBM of infringing Trusted Knight’s United States Patent No. 9,503,473 (“the ’473 Patent”), which…