Speir Technologies Ltd. v. Apple Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 SPEIR TECHNOLOGIES LTD, Case No. 5:23-cv-00095-EJD
Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
STAY PENDING INTER PARTES
v. REVIEW
APPLE, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 81 Defendant.
Before the Court is Defendant Apple, Inc.’s (“Apple”) Motion to Stay Pending Inter Partes Review (“Motion”), filed on February 9, 2023. ECF No. 81 (“Mot.”). Apple has sequentially filed petitions for inter partes review (“IPR”) on all asserted patents-in-suit to the Patent and Trademark Office’s (“PTO”) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”), with the most recent one filed eight days before the instant Motion. Mot. 3. The Court heard oral arguments on March 30, 2023. Based on the parties’ briefs and arguments raised in the hearing, the Court GRANTS Apple’s Motion to Stay this case pending IPR before the PTAB. I. BACKGROUND A. Procedural History On January 20, 2022, Plaintiff Speir Technologies, Ltd.…