By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Vehicle IP, LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al., Civil Action No. 09-1007-LPS (D.Del. October 20, 2016), the Court granted, in part, the motion of Defendants Telenav Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC ("the Telenav Defendants") to sever Plaintiff Vehicle IP's claims against the Telenav Defendants from the claims against Defendants Telecommunications Systems, Inc., Networks in Motion, Inc., and Cellco Partnership ("the TCS Defendants"). Specifically, the Court granted Defendants' motion to sever with respect to the patent infringement claims and damages after finding that the six-factor test set forth in In Re EMC Corp., 677 F.3d 1351 (Fed. Cir. 2012) favored severance. Id. at *5. The Court denied Defendants' motion to sever with respect to invalidity after noting that all defendants (the Telenav Defendants and the TCS Defendants) retained the same invalidity expert and relied on identical invalidity arguments and finding that it was in the interest of judicial economy to consolidate the invalidity trial. Id.
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