Verinata Health, Inc. et al v. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc et al

Filing 38

ORDER setting claim construction schedule re #36 . Signed by Judge Susan Illston on 2/27/13. (tfS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/28/2013) Modified on 3/1/2013 (ysS, COURT STAFF).

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1 WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP Edward R. Reines (135960) 2 (edward.reines@weil.com) Derek C. Walter (246322) 3 (derek.walter@weil.com) Michele A. Gauger (281769) 4 (michele.gauger@weil.com) Aaron Y. Huang (261903) 5 (aaron.huang@weil.com) IRELL & MANELLA LLP David I. Gindler (117824) (dgindler @irell.com) Andrei Iancu (184973) (aiancu@irell.com) Amir Naini (226627) (anaini@irell.com) 1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 900 Los Angeles, California 90067-4276 Telephone: (310) 277-1010 Facsimile: (310) 203-7199 Attorneys for Defendants ARIOSA DIAGNOSTICS, INC. and LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS 6 Silicon Valley Office 201 Redwood Shores Parkway 7 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Telephone: (650) 802-3000 8 Facsimile: (650) 802-3100 9 Attorneys for Plaintiffs VERINATA HEALTH, INC. 10 and THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE 11 LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 12 13 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 14 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION I us Judge S 24 25 A H ER LI RT 23 n an Illsto NO 22 ERED ORD T IS SO R NIA Defendants. 21 S DISTRICT TE C TA RT U O 19 ARIOSA DIAGNOSTICS, INC. and LABORATORY CORPORATION OF 20 AMERICA HOLDINGS, STIPULATED CLAIM CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE FO v. 18 Case No. 3:12-cv-05501-SI S Plaintiffs, 17 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) UNIT ED 15 VERINATA HEALTH, INC. and THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND 16 STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, N F D IS T IC T O R C 26 27 28 Stipulated Claim Construction Schedule 2775819 Case No. 12-CV-05501-SI Pursuant to the Court’s February 13, 2013 docket entry resetting the claim construction 1 2 hearing date and the Amended Civil Minutes ordering the submission of a patent schedule in this 3 case, Plaintiffs Verinata Health, Inc. (“Verinata”) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland 4 Stanford Junior University (“Stanford”), and Defendants Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. (“Ariosa”) and 5 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (“LabCorp”), jointly submit this statement and 6 stipulation regarding the claim construction schedule. 7 I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 8 The parties in this action have met and conferred, and have agreed to the claim 9 construction schedule presented below. The schedule is based upon the technology tutorial and 10 claim construction hearing dates set by the Court, and largely follows the Patent Local Rules for 11 the interim deadlines. 12 II. STIPULATED CLAIM CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE 13 Event Date 14 16 Invalidity Contentions and accompanying document production by accused infringer 17 Patent L.R. 3-3 & 3-4 18 Exchange of Proposed Terms and Claim Elements for Construction 15 19 March 22, 2013 April 5, 2013 Patent L.R. 4-1 20 21 Exchange of Preliminary Claim Constructions and Extrinsic Evidence 22 April 19, 2013 Patent L.R. 4-2 23 24 25 26 27 28 Stipulated Claim Construction Schedule 2775819 -2- Case No. 12-CV-05501-SI 1 Event Date 2 3 Filing of Joint Claim Construction and Pre-Hearing Statement 4 Patent L.R. 4-3 5 May 3, 2013 Status Conference - Discuss Tutorial Mechanics 6 7 May 24, 2013 at 3:00 p.m., subject to the Court’s availability1 - Discuss Markman Hearing Mechanics 8 Completion of Claim Construction Discovery 9 10 Patent L.R. 4-4 11 May 31, 2013 Opening Claim Construction Brief by Patentee 12 June 5, 2013 Patent L.R. 4-5(a) 13 14 Responsive Claim Construction Brief by Accused Infringer(s) 15 Patent L.R. 4-5(b) 16 Reply Claim Construction Brief by Patentee 17 July 3, 2013 July 17, 2013 Patent L.R. 4-5(c) 18 Technology Tutorial July 31, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. Claim Construction Hearing August 7, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. 19 20 21 Patent L.R. 4-6 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 // 1 The parties understand that the Court has ordered that the claim construction-related issued raised in the parties’ February 20 and 21, 2013 letters to the Court will be addressed at a Case Management Conference on April 19, 2013. Dkt. No. 35. The parties to the instant action respectfully propose a status conference to discuss tutorial and claim construction hearing mechanics following the filing of the joint claim construction and pre-hearing statement on May 3, 2013 in this action. Such conference may be, at the discretion of the Court, in lieu of or in addition to the April 19 conference. Of course, if the Court wishes to discuss tutorial and claim construction hearing mechanics on April 19 in light of the information available by that date, the parties will be prepared to do so. Stipulated Claim Construction Schedule 2775819 -3- Case No. 12-CV-05501-SI 1 Respectfully submitted, 2 Dated: February 27, 2013 IRELL & MANELLA LLP 3 By: 4 5 6 7 Dated: February 27, 2013 /s/ Andrei Iancu Andrei Iancu Attorneys for Defendants Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP 8 By: 9 10 11 /s/ Edward R. Reines Edward R. Reines Attorneys for Plaintiffs Verinata Health, Inc. and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University 12 CERTIFICATION 13 I, Andrei Iancu, am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used to file 14 15 this Stipulation. In compliance with General Order 45.X.B, I hereby attest that Edward R. Reines 16 has concurred in this filing. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Stipulated Claim Construction Schedule 2775819 -4- Case No. 12-CV-05501-SI

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