Judge Robinson: Motion to Consolidate Cases and Lift Stay DENIED

In Ricoh Company, Ltd. v. Oki Data Corporation, Civ. No. 09-695-SLR (D. Del. Jun. 9, 2011), Judge Robinson denied the plaintiffs’ request to consolidate cases and lift stay.

The plaintiffs had represented that the asserted patents were “clearly related” to asserted patents in an earlier suit between the parties. In response, Judge Robinson noted that, even if the court were to assume that the plaintiffs’ representations were correct, the court could not accommodate the plaintiffs’ request to have additional time for discovery in the court’s present 2012 trial calendar. Id. at 1. Judge Robinson also noted that consolidating cases would have turned a six-patent case into an eight-patent case, which would have required even more trial time. Id.

Judge Robinson then denied the plaintiffs’ request to lift stay because the “plaintiffs intend to pursue its appeal of the ITC’s adverse ruling to the Federal Circuit absent consolidation.” Id. at 1-2.

Ricoh Company, Ltd. v. Oki Data Corporation, Civ. No. 09-695-SLR (D. Del. Jun. 9, 2011)

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