United States Federal Circuit

The district court's order denying defendants' joint motion to stay plaintiff's patent infringement lawsuit against defendants pending post-grant review of the validity of plaintiff's asserted claims under the Transitional Program for Covered Business Method Patents (CBM program), is reversed, where: 1) three of the four factors weigh heavily in favor of a stay in this case: simplification of the issues and streamlining of the trial, whether discovery is complete and a trial date has been set, and reduction of the burden of litigation on the parties and the court; 2) the undue prejudice factor, at best, weighs slightly in favor of denying a stay; and 3) on this record, we conclude that the district court abused its discretion when it denied the stay.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2014
• Published 07/10/2014

Judges

• MOORE

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

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