Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC v. Forest River Inc

Filing 82

MOTION for Extension of Time to File Opposition to Expert by Defendant Forest River Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Exhibit E, # 6 Exhibit F, # 7 Exhibit G, # 8 Exhibit H, # 9 Exhibit I, # 10 Exhibit J, # 11 Exhibit K, # 12 Exhibit L, # 13 Exhibit M, # 14 Exhibit N, # 15 Exhibit O, # 16 Exhibit P)(Fountain, Ryan)

Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC v. Forest River Inc

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206 Q Okay. When you met with the Barnes & Thornburg attorneys at the time that you were in the process of having this provisional patent application prepared, did they explain to you what your obligations were in terms of disclosing information to the patent office? A No. Q Had you ever filed a patent application before? A No. Q Did you have any understanding of the rules of patent office procedure before that point in time? A No. Q After you filed the provisional and when it came time to convert it into a utility application, did anybody at Barnes & Thornburg explain to you what your obligations were in terms of disclosing information to the patent office? A Not that I recall. Q After you changed attorneys and had Baker-Daniels represent you in the prosecution of the patent applications, at any time did one of those 207 attorneys explain to you what your obligations were in terms of disclosing information to the patent office? A No. Q Okay. Similarly, at any time with regard to the provisional or the patent application that eventually became the patent in this lawsuit or any other patent application in connection with that, did either the attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg or Baker-Daniels explain to you what relevant prior art was in connection with your invention? A No. Q Did they ask you for information about the level of ordinary skill in the art? A No. Q Did they explain to you what it means to be an inventor? A No. Q Did they explain to you what was being claimed in

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21 the patent applications? 22 A I guess my understanding is that we were telling 23 them what was being claimed in the patent 24 application. So, I don't know that they ever 25 explained any further than that. 208 1 Q Okay. At any time during the process of 2 provisional or pending application or 3 continuation applications, did either the 4 attorneys at Baker-Daniels or Barnes & Thornburg 5 explain to you anything about the communications 6 with the patent office that they were going 7 through? 8 A No.