Synthego Corporation v. Agilent Technologies, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 SYNTHEGO CORPORATION, Case No. 5:21-cv-07801-EJD

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

STAY PENDING INTER PARTES

v. REVIEW

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 82 Defendant.

Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant Synthego Corporation (“Synthego”) brings this motion to stay pending inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent Nos. 10,900,034 (“the ’034 patent”) and 10,337,0011 (“the ’001 patent”) (collectively, the “Asserted Patents”). See Plaintiff’s Motion to Stay, Dkt. No. 82. Defendant/Counter-Claimant Agilent Technologies Inc. (“Agilent”) opposes the motion. See Response to Motion to Stay, Dkt. No. 95. Having considered the parties’ briefing and for the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS the motion to stay.1 Both parties utilize “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” (“CRISPR”) technology to create gene editing tools. See Complaint, Dkt. No. 1 at 2;…