Fortinet, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc.

Filing 72

ORDER REQUIRING AMENDED JOINT CLAIMS CONSTRUCTION AND PREHEARING STATEMENT. Claims Construction Hearing set for 10/8/2013 01:30 PM. Tutorial Hearing set for 10/1/2013 01:30 PM in Courtroom 11, 19th Floor, San Francisco.. Signed by Judge Jeffrey S. White on 5/21/13. (jjoS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 5/21/2013)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 FORTINET, INC, 11 For the Northern District of California United States District Court 10 12 No. C 12-02540 JSW Plaintiff, v. ORDER REQUIRING AMENDED JOINT CLAIMS CONSTRUCTION AND PREHEARING STATEMENT SRI INTERNATIONAL, INC, 13 Defendant. / 14 15 CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 16 Plaintiff, 17 v. 18 SRI INTERNATIONAL, INC, 19 Defendant. / 20 21 22 The Court has reviewed the parties’ joint claims construction and prehearing statement 23 and finds that it does not comply with the requirements set forth by the Northern District Local 24 Patent Rules and this Court’s Standing Orders. The Local Patent Rules and the Court’s 25 Standing Order for Patent Cases limit the number of terms for construction to ten terms. 26 (Standing Order for Patent Cases, ¶ 1.) 27 28 In the parties joint claim construction statement, several of the terms actually include more than one term or phrase. For example, the terms 3, 4 and 6 actually include two separate 1 terms each. Therefore, the parties are seeking the construction of eleven terms. This is not 2 permissible. 3 Therefore, the Court HEREBY ORDERS that the parties shall file an amended joint by the Northern District Local Patent Rules and the Court’s Standing Order. The parties shall 6 filed their amended joint claims construction and prehearing statement by no later than June 18, 7 2013. SRI International, Inc. (“SRI”) shall file an amended opening claim construction brief by 8 no later than August 2, 2013. Plaintiffs Fortinet, Inc. and Check Point Software Technologies 9 Inc. shall file an amended responsive claim construction brief by no later than August 16, 2013. 10 SRI shall file an amended claim construction reply brief by no later than August 23, 2013. The 11 For the Northern District of California claims construction and prehearing statement that fully complies with the requirements set forth 5 United States District Court 4 tutorial and claims construction hearing are CONTINUED to October 1 and 8, 2013 at 1:30 12 p.m. 13 IT IS SO ORDERED. 14 15 Dated: May 21, 2013 JEFFREY S. WHITE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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