Pop Top Corp v. Rakuten Kobo Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 POP TOP CORP, Case No. 20-cv-04482-DMR

Plaintiff, REQUEST FOR REASSIGNMENT;

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION

v. RE: DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR

CONTEMPT AND TO AMEND

RAKUTEN KOBO INC., JUDGMENT AND MOTION TO

ASSIGN PATENTS; ORDER ON

Defendant. SEALING MOTION Re: Dkt. Nos. 106, 107, 108

13 In March 2022, the court awarded Defendant Rakuten Kobo Inc. (“Kobo”) attorneys’ fees under the Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. § 285, and ordered Plaintiff Pop Top Corp. (“Pop Top”) to pay the amount awarded within 30 days. Pop Top did not do so. Kobo now moves to amend the judgment to add Pop Top’s principal, Rohit Chandra, as a judgment debtor and to hold Pop Top and Chandra in civil contempt for their failure to comply with the March 2022 Order. [Docket No. 107.] It filed an accompanying administrative motion to consider whether another party’s material should be sealed. …