Second Amended Complaint Case No. 5:11-Cv-00234-Ejd (Psg)
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Case5:11-cv-00234-EJD Document169 Filed05/02/12 Page1 of 17 1 ROBERT WHITMAN (NY Bar No. 2497147) (admitted via pro hac vice) [email protected] 2 SCOTT KOLASSA (NY Bar No. 4308409) (admitted via pro hac vice) [email protected] 3 BENJAMIN J. WARLICK (NY Bar No. 4502589) (admitted via pro hac vice) [email protected] 4 LOWELL D. JACOBSON (NY Bar No. 4585428) (admitted via pro hac vice) [email protected] 5 CHARLES D. LEE (GA Bar No. 325191) (admitted via pro hac vice) [email protected] 6 ERIK J. DYKEMA (NJ Bar No. 02165-2010) (admitted via pro hac vice) [email protected] 7 KING & SPALDING LLP 1185 Avenue of the Americas 8 New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 556-2310 9 Facsimile: (212) 556-2222 10 SANJEET DUTTA (State Bar No. 203463) [email protected] 11 KING & SPALDING LLP 333 Twin Dolphin Drive 12 Suite 400 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 13 Telephone: (650) 590-0700 Facsimile: (650) 590-1900 14 Attorneys for Plaintiff 15 LANTIQ DEUTSCHLAND GMBH 16 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 17 SAN JOSE DIVISION 18 LANTIQ DEUTSCHLAND GMBH Case No.: 5:11-CV-00234-EJD 19 Consolidated with 5:11-cv-01549-EJD Plaintiff, 20 v. SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT 21 RALINK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 22 (a California Corporation); RALINK Demand for Jury Trial TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 23 (a Taiwanese Corporation); MEDIATEK INC. (a Taiwanese Corporation); MEDIATEK USA 24 INC. (a Delaware Corporation), and MEDIATEK WIRELESS INC. (a 25 Massachusetts Corporation), 26 Defendants. 27 28 SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT CASE NO. 5:11-CV-00234-EJD (PSG) Case5:11-cv-00234-EJD Document169 Filed05/02/12 Page2 of 17 1 Plaintiff LANTIQ DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (“Lantiq”) hereby brings this complaint 2 against Defendants RALINK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, a California Corporation, 3 (“Ralink California”), RALINK TECHNOLOGY CORP., which refers to itself as “Ralink 4 Technology Corporation - A MediaTek Company,” a Taiwanese Corporation (“Ralink Taiwan”) 5 (collectively with Ralink California “Ralink”), MEDIATEK INC., a Taiwanese Corporation, 6 MEDIATEK USA INC. a Delaware Corporation (“MediaTek USA”), and MEDIATEK 7 WIRELESS, INC., a Massachusetts Corporation (“MediaTek Wireless”) (the MediaTek entities, 8 collectively “MediaTek”; collectively with Ralink, “Ralink/MediaTek”). Lantiq brings this 9 complaint against Ralink/Mediatek for the infringement of United States Patent Nos. 6,351,799 10 (“the ‘799 Patent” or “Födlmeier Patent”) and 7,061,904 (“the ‘904 Patent” or “Preiss Patent”). 11 In addition, Lantiq brings this complaint against Ralink Taiwan seeking a declaration that it has 12 not and does not infringe United States Patent No. 5,394,116 (“‘116 Patent”) and that the ‘116 13 Patent is invalid. 14 Copies of the Födlmeier and Preiss Patents are attached hereto as Exhibits A and B, 15 respectively. A copy of the ‘116 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit C. 16 PARTIES 17 1. Plaintiff Lantiq is a German corporation with its principal place of business at Am 18 Campeon 3, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany. Plaintiff Lantiq is owned and controlled directly by 19 Lantiq Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG, a German limited partnership. 20 2. On information and belief, Defendant Ralink Taiwan which is referred to by 21 Ralink Taiwan and MediaTek as “a MediaTek Company,” is a Taiwanese entity with its principal 22 place of business at 5F, No.5, Tai-Yuen 1st St., Jhubei City, HsinChu Hsien 30265, Taiwan, 23 R.O.C. 24 3. On information and belief, Defendant MediaTek is a Taiwanese corporation with 25 its principal place of business at No. 1, Dusing 1st Rd., Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu City 26 30078, Taiwan. 27 28 1 SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT CASE NO. 5:11-CV-00234-EJD (PSG) Case5:11-cv-00234-EJD Document169 Filed05/02/12 Page3 of 17 1 4. On information and belief, Ralink California is a California corporation. On 2 information and belief, on or about October 3, 2011, Ralink California merged into MediaTek 3 USA, which does business in California as “MediaTek USA Inc. (West).” On information and 4 belief, Defendant MediaTek USA is a Delaware corporation. On information and belief, 5 Defendants MediaTek USA and Ralink California (collectively “Ralink California/MediaTek 6 USA”) share a principal place of business at 2860 Junction Ave, San Jose, CA 95134, USA. 7 5. On information and belief, Defendant MediaTek Wireless, Inc. is a Massachusetts 8 corporation with its principal place of business at 120 Presidential Way, Woburn, MA, 01801. 9 JURISDICTION AND VENUE 10 6. This is an action arising under the patent laws of the United States, 35 U.S.C. §§ 1 11 et seq. and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202. This Court has 12 jurisdiction over the subject matter of this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1338(a) and 13 1400. 14 7. On information and belief, Ralink California, believed to have formerly been a 15 wholly-owned subsidiary of Ralink Taiwan and now believed to have merged with MediaTek 16 USA, is responsible for Ralink Taiwan’s U.S. business. On information and belief, Ralink 17 California/Mediatek USA have a principal place of business within this judicial district. On 18 information and belief, Ralink California/MediaTek USA sells, offers for sale, imports and uses 19 and/or has sold, offered for sale, imported or used networking, computing, integrated circuit (IC) 20 and semiconductor products, including, but not limited to, access point (AP), router, Ethernet, 21 network interface controller, universal serial bus (USB), peripheral component interconnect 22 (PCI), PCI express (PCIe), and/or 802.11x products; Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 23 products; Bluetooth products; WiFi products; mobile Wi-Fi products; bridge, router, gateway, 24 802.11x, and/or xDSL (digital subscriber line) products; IC cards; as well as mobile 25 communications products such as multimedia wireless handset system-on-chip products; digital 26 home products such as digital consumer DVD products and digital television products; 27 information technology products such as PC optical storage device products (including DVD- 28 2 SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT CASE NO. 5:11-CV-00234-EJD (PSG) Case5:11-cv-00234-EJD Document169 Filed05/02/12 Page4 of 17 1 ROM, DVD-RW and Blu-ray products); and wireless broadband connectivity products such as 2 mobile connectivity products (including WiFi, FM, GPS and Bluetooth products) in the United 3 States, including within the Northern District of California. For example, based on information 4 currently known to Lantiq, and without limitation, Ralink California/MediaTek USA (i) used and 5 continues to use, has sold and continues to sell, has offered and offers for sale, has imported 6 and/or continues to import products, including system on chip products and/or (ii) has directed 7 and/or continues to direct third-party products containing such MediaTek/Ralink products into 8 the domestic stream of commerce, including by way of example, but not limitation, parts 9 designated by RT2561, RT2561S, RT2571W, RT2661, RT2760, RT2770, RT2790, RT2860, 10 RT2870, RT2880, RT2890, RT3050, RT3052, RT3062, RT3070, RT3071, RT3072, RT3090, 11 RT3092, RT3180, RT3290, RT3290LE, RT3350, RT3352, RT3370, RT3390, RT3562, RT3572, 12 RT3592, RT3592BC8, RT3593, RT3662, RT3680, RT3883, RT5350, RT5370, RT5390, RT5572, 13 RT5592, RT63095, RT65168, RT8180, TC2206, TC3162, TC3162P2M, TC3162U, TC3162L2F, 14 TC3162L2M, TC3162LEM, TC3162L2H, TC3162LEH, TC3162P2H, TC3162L2M, 15 TC3162LEM, and MT5921, MT6188, MT3326, MT3328, MT3329, MT6601, MT6611, 16 MT6612, MT6616, MT6223, MT6225, MT6226, MT6226M, MT6227, MT6228, MT6229, 17 MT6230, MT6235, MT6236, MT6238, MT6239, MT6252, MT6253, MT6268, MT6516, 18 MT6573, MT1369, MT1389/K, MT1389/KP, MT1389/L, MT1389/LP, MT1389/M, MT13891R, 19 MT1389/S, MT8520, MT8555, MT5135, MT5301, MT5362, MT5363, MT5366, MT5382, 20 MT5388, MT5395, MT5112, MT5133, MT8222, MT8223, MT1308/9, MT1339, MT1805, 21 MT1807, MT1868/9 and MT1879 (collectively, “the Accused Products”). The identification of 22 parts herein is for example only; on information and belief, all products with similar 23 functionality and/or architecture, whether discontinued, current or planned future parts, similarly 24 infringe the respective Patents-in-Suit. 25 8. On information and belief, Ralink Taiwan conducts business in this judicial 26 district, and is subject to personal jurisdiction in this Court. On information and belief, Ralink 27 Taiwan has made, offered for sale, sold, imported and/or used and continues to make, offer for 28 3 SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT CASE NO. 5:11-CV-00234-EJD (PSG) Case5:11-cv-00234-EJD Document169 Filed05/02/12 Page5 of 17 1 sale, sell, import and/or use networking, computing, integrated circuit (IC) and semiconductor 2 products, including, but not limited to, the Accused Products in the United States, including 3 within the Northern District of California. For example, and without limitation, based on 4 information currently known to Lantiq, Ralink Taiwan has made, makes, has used, uses, has sold, 5 sells, has and continues to offer for sale, has imported and/or continues to import the Accused 6 Products. 7 9. On information and belief, MediaTek Inc. entered into a merger agreement with 8 Ralink on or about March 16, 2011, completed the merger in October of 2011, and is subject to 9 personal jurisdiction in this Court. On information and belief, MediaTek USA Inc. and MediaTek 10 Wireless, Inc. are believed to be wholly owned subsidiaries of MediaTek Inc. 11 10. Defendant Ralink Taiwan filed an action in the Western District of Wisconsin 12 alleging that Lantiq infringes the ‘116 Patent. On March 31, 2011, the Western District of 13 Wisconsin transferred that action to this District (see Ralink Technology Corp. v. Lantiq 14 Deutschland GmbH, Civil Action No. 5:11-cv-01549-EJD) (“Transferred Action”). On May 4, 15 2011, this Court related the Transferred Action to this action.