Cellulose Material Solutions, LLC v. SC Marketing Group, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 CELLULOSE MATERIAL SOLUTIONS, LLC, Case No. 22-cv-03141-LB
12 Plaintiff,
ORDER REGARDING THE
13 v. DEFENDANT’S SUMMARY-
JUDGMENT MOTION
14 SC MARKETING GROUP, INC., Re: ECF No. 141 15 Defendant. 16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 Plaintiff Cellulose Material Solutions claims that defendant SC Marketing Group (also known 19 as Thermal Shipping Solutions) infringes a patent for packaging insulation that keeps the package 20 contents — for example, meal kits with food items — cool and fresh without the need for 21 refrigerant packs. The patent is U.S. Patent No. 11,078,007 (the ’007 patent). The parties are 22 competitors.1 Cellulose’s insulation product is called InfinityCore, and Thermal Shipping’s product 23 is called Renewliner.2 Thermal Shipping moved for summary judgment of invalidity on two 24 grounds: that an offer by Cellulose to Thermal Shipping to sell a prototype of the invention, before 25