Legal Opinion
New Star Lasers, Inc. v. Regents of the University of California
District Court, E.D. California
Decided August 27, 1999No. Civ. S99-428WBS/PANPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SHUBB, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs seek a legal judgment that patent no. 5,814,040, owned by the Regents of the University of California, is invalid. Plaintiffs also assert multiple state-law causes of action. The Regents, raising the Eleventh Amendment, move to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1). See Doe v. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 131 F.3d 836, 838 (9th Cir.1997) (Regents are an arm of the State).
The Regents own the patent to the disputed Dynamic Cooling Device (DCD) technology. This technology is useful in *1242conjunction with a laser skin…
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