Handheld Group AB v. Agile Systems, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 HANDHELD GROUP AB, Case No. 20-cv-01274-BAS-DEB
Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING JOINT v. STIPULATION AND ENTERING
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
AGILE SYSTEMS, INC.,
[ECF No. 6] 14 Defendant. 15 Before the Court is the parties’ Joint Stipulation and Request for Order Entering Injunction. (ECF No. 6.) Plaintiff Handheld Group AB (“Handheld”) and Defendant Agile Systems, Inc. (“Agile”) have stipulated to allow the entry and enforcement of a preliminary injunction to safeguard any Handheld property in Agile’s possession. (Id. ¶ 2.) A stipulated preliminary injunction “is essentially a proposed injunction that reflects a temporary settlement.” Fed. Trade Comm’n v. Enforma Nat. Prod., Inc., 362 F.3d 1204, 1218 (9th Cir. 2004) (finding a stipulated preliminary injunction analogous to a consent decree, which “is no more than a settlement that contains an injunction”). As such, a court “is empowered to enter and enforce stipulated 26 …