On May 27, 2014, Judge Godbey granted defendant’s motion to stay pending inter partes review of the patent-in-suit in Employment Law Compliance v. Compli (decision available here). The patent-in-suit had previously been the subject of a petition for ex parte reexamination, which was granted in May 2014. The defendant in the instant suit filed a request for inter partes reexamination in April 2014. The PTO had not yet ruled on this petition.
Judge Godbey ultimately decided to grant the motion to stay. The Court found that a stay would not unduly prejudice the plaintiff, a stay would simplify the issues in the case, and that the case was in in the early stages of litigation.