On October 12, 2010, Judge Kinkeade denied RIM’s motion to switch mediators in RIM v. Eastman Kodak, a patent infringement case pending in the Northern District of Texas (pdf copy of order here). RIM sought to use retired Chief Judge Michel, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as opposed to the previously-agreed upon Antonio Piazza, as a mediator. (Apparently, Chief Judge Michel had recently conducted mediation between the parties in a related ITC action.) Judge Kinkeade denied the motion the same day RIM filed it.
RIM is represented by attorneys with Fish & Richardson, P.C., including Thomas Melsheimer, Thomas Reger II, and Ruffin Cordell; and attorneys with Haynes and Boone LLP, including George Bramblett, Jr., Phillip Philbin, and John Emerson.
Eastman Kodak is represented by attorneys with K&L Gates LLP, including John McDowell, Jr., Benjamin Setnick, Douglas Greenswag, Michael Abernathy, Sanjay Murthy, Brian Arnold, Christopher Hanba, Stephen Everett, Elaine Chow, Curt Holbreich, and Michael Bettinger; and attorneys with Crowell & Moring LLP, including Richard McMillian Jr., Mark Supko, and Kathryn Clune.