The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's infringement action for improper joinder and rejected defendant's argument that the defendants were competitors. "[Plaintiff] accuses [the moving defendant's] products that allegedly functionally integrate [the other defendants' chips] of infringement. Put simply, on this allegation, we are not talking about similar products as was the case in Motorola Mobility, we are talking about the same product — [the moving defendant's] accused product that functionally integrates [the other defendants' chips]. The Court finds that this allegation, taken as true, satisfies the 'same product' prong of the AIA joinder standard."
US Ethernet Innovations, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et. al., 6-12-cv-00398 (TXED February 6, 2013, Order) (Love, M.J.).
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