Omnitracs, LLC v. Platform Science, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 OMNITRACS, LLC AND XRS Case No.: 20-cv-958-CAB-DDL
CORPORATION,
ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION
Plaintiffs, FOR IPR ESTOPPEL [Doc. No. 383] v.
PLATFORM SCIENCE, INC.,
15 Defendant.
17 Plaintiffs Omnitracs LLC and XRS Corporation (jointly “Omnitracs”) allege 18 defendant Platform Science, Inc. infringes U.S. Patent No. 6,925,308 (‘308 patent). 19 Platform Science petitioned for Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) of the ‘308 patent. The 20 challenged claims of the ‘308 patent were not found unpatentable. 21 Omnitracs now moves for an order estopping Platform Science from contending in 22 these District Court proceedings any invalidity ground Platform Science raised or 23 reasonably could have raised during the IPR. See U.S.C. § 315(e)(2); see also 24 California Inst. of Tech. v. Broadcom Ltd., 25 F.4th 976, 991 (Fed. Cir. 2022) (estoppel 25 applies to all grounds that “reasonably could have been asserted against the claims included 26 in the petition”).…