Soilworks LLC v Midwest Industrial Supply Inc

Filing 153

MOTION to Supplement to Add Exhibit and Witness to Final Pretrial Order by Soilworks LLC. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1: Report of Analysis, # 2 Exhibit 2: Midwest's Infringement Claim Timeline, # 3 Exhibit 3: Pretrial Hearing Transcript of 10/9/08, # 4 Exhibit 4: Hawkins Deposition Transcript, # 5 Exhibit 5: Vitale 30(b)(6) Deposition Transcript, # 6 Exhibit 6: Detloff Deposition Transcript)(Dosek, E)

"At least some of the claims" Midwest's outside counsel sent a letter to counsel for Soilworks asserting, among other things, that Midwest "fe[lt] that at least some of the claims in [our] two patent applications cited above could potentially affect your client's ability to make, use and sell Durasoil in the future . . . " [SOF ¶ 4]

EXHIBIT 2 Midwest's Infringement Claim Obfuscation Timeline
cccc Soilworks Counsel makes 3rd request for claims chart. "On information and belief, Plaintiff is infringing one or more claims of the Midwest Patents" and "Plaintiff's publicly available information" supports infringement. (see Midwest's Settlement Conference Memorandum dated December 30, 2008.)
"This is a very uncertain patent trial. We're going into this trial not even knowing what claims are at issue." Judge Campbell, Pre-trial Hearing, October 9, 2008.

Midwest counterclaims for patent infringement. No claims identified.

Midwest's 30(b)(6) admits no basis for patent infringement claim other than publicly available information.

Defendant's patent infringement claim is identified as "the evidence will demonstrate that Soilworks' infringes one or more of the claims" of the Midwest patents. (Joint Final Pretrial, dated 9/19/08).

June 8, 2006

July 18, 2006

July 27, 2006

Aug. 8, 2006

March 26, /2007

Dec. 31, 2007

Feb. 20, 2008

April 21, 2008

Aug. 19, 2008

Oct. 9, 2008

Sept. 19, 2008

Jan. 9, 2009

NO TESTS PERFORMED Midwest had not performed any tests to determine whether the Durasoil product infringed the Midwest Patents prior to its June 8th Letter. To the extent Midwest did perform any tests, Midwest drew no conclusions from those tests.

Claims Chart Requested. Soilworks Counsel requests claims chart citing View Eng., Inc. v. Robotic Vision Systems, 208 F.3d 981 (Fed. Cir. 2000)

Counsel for Soilworks makes 2nd request for claims chart

Prior to filing its counterclaim for patent infringement, Midwest's counsel based its infringement claim on "The publicly available information." (see Midwest's Settlement Conference Memorandum dated December 30, 2008.)

Midwest responds to patent infringement discovery requests stating Durasoil "Is included within the elements of at least one independent claim" of the 266 and 270 patent based upon "publicly available information."

Midwest, for the first time, asserts the claims allegedly infringed by Soilworks: (a) claims 1, 7, 8, and 9 of U.S. Patent No. 7,074,266 ("The `266 Patent") and (b) claims 1 and 3 of U.S. Patent No. 7,081,270 ("The `270 Patent"). See Midwest's Jan. 9, 2009 Brief.

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