Entangled Media, LLC v. Dropbox, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ENTANGLED MEDIA, LLC, Case No. 23-cv-03264-PCP
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO STAY
v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 76 DROPBOX INC., Defendant.
Plaintiff Entangled Media, LLC alleges that defendant Dropbox Inc. infringes two patents related to cloud-based file systems. After this Court heard arguments on Dropbox’s motion to dismiss, Dropbox filed petitions to institute inter partes review of both patents before the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in December 2023. Dropbox now moves to stay proceedings in this lawsuit pending resolution of the petitions. For the reasons that follow, the Court denies the motion to stay without prejudice to filing a renewed motion to stay if the PTAB decides to institute inter partes review of the patents at issue. BACKGROUND I. Procedural Background Entangled Media commenced this patent-infringement action against Dropbox on December 16, 2022 in the Western…