Longitude Licensing Ltd. et al v. Apple Inc.

Filing 46

ORDER Following Case Management Conference by Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte. (shyS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/10/2015)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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LONGITUDE LICENSING LTD., et al.,

Case No. 14-cv-04275-EDL

Plaintiffs,
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United States District Court
Northern District of California

v.

ORDER FOLLOWING CASE
MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

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APPLE INC.,
Defendant.

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The Court held a case management conference on March 10, 2015 during which it made
the following orders:
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If the parties are unable to resolve their disputes about a protective order, they may

file a joint letter of no more than ten pages no later than March 16, 2015.
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Initially, discovery should focus primarily on ownership and standing, as well as

discovery directed to narrowing the asserted claims.
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Pursuant to the parties’ agreement, there is a limit of 200 hours of fact depositions

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per side. Each side may allocate those hours as it sees fit between party and non-party

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depositions, subject to the general limitations imposed by the federal rules such as proportionality.

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Expert depositions shall be limited to one seven-hour deposition for each expert witness for each

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expert report submitted by the expert.

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4.

Defendant shall serve its invalidity contentions in accordance with Patent Local

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Rule 3-3 no later than April 13, 2015. All subsequent deadlines in the Patent Local Rules are

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temporarily stayed.

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Plaintiff shall serve a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) deposition notice

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regarding source code on Defendant. No later than two weeks after the deposition takes place, the

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parties shall meet and confer to agree on and provide to the Court a proposed schedule for this

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case at least through claim construction.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: March 10, 2015
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Elizabeth D. Laporte
United States Magistrate Judge

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United States District Court
Northern District of California

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