Indect USA Corp. v. Park Assist, LLC

BACKGROUND

Indect and Park Assist are direct competitors that develop and sell technologies for 23 || camera-based parking guidance systems. These systems manage the occupancy of 24 || parking spaces within a parking lot or parking garage by detecting a space’s occupancy ||status with cameras and sensors. Park Assist owns United States Patent Number |}9,594,956 (“the ‘956 Patent”), which is the subject of this lawsuit. Park Assist is also involved in a related lawsuit pending before this Court. See 28 || Park Assist, LLC v. San Diego Cty. Reg'l Airport Auth., et al., Case No. 18-cv-2409-

3:18-cv-02409-BEN-DEB

|| BEN-DEB. In that case, Park Assist sued the San Diego County Regional Airport 2 || Authority (“SDCRAA”) for infringing the ‘956 Patent by using Indect’s UPSOLUT 3 || parking guidance system at the Terminal 2 parking garage of the San Diego International Airport. Park Assist alleges UPSOLUT practices each and every element of at least ||claim 1 of the ‘956 Patent. Shortly after Park Assist filed suit against the SDCRAA, Indect sued Park Assist 7 || seeking, inter alia, a declaratory judgment that UPSOLUT does…