Electronic Scripting Products Inc v. HTC America Inc

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON

AT SEATTLE

ELECTRONIC SCRIPTING PRODUCTS,

8 INC., No. 2:21-CV-1045-BJR 9 Plaintiff, ORDER TRANSFERRING VALVE v. CORPORATION’S MOTION TO

QUASH SUBPOENA TO NORTHERN

HTC AMERICA, INC., DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

12 Defendant.

Before the Court is a motion by Valve Corporation (“Valve”) to quash a third-party 15 subpoena issued by Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. (“ESPI”). Dkt. No. 1. The subpoena was 16 issued in Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. v. HTC America, Inc., No. 3:17-cv-05806-RS (N.D. 17 Cal.), a patent infringement case pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 18 California. 19 ESPI requests that the Court transfer this motion to the Northern District of California pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45(f), which provides that “[w]hen the court where compliance is required did not issue the subpoena, it may transfer a motion under this rule to the 23 issuing court if . . . the court finds exceptional circumstances.” The term…