Sectra Communications AB v. Absolute Software Inc et al, No. 2:2022cv00353 - Document 127 (W.D. Wash. 2022)
Court Description: ORDER granting Parties' 126 Stipulated MOTION Regarding Case Deadlines. 5-day Jury Trial is set for 1/22/2024. Opening Claim Construction Reports due 2/27/2023, Rebuttal Claim Construction Reports due 3/27/2023, Markman Hearing set for 6/9/2023 at 9:00 AM, Expert Witness Disclosure/Reports under FRCP 26(a)(2) due by 7/11/2023, Rebuttal Expert Disclosure/Reports due by 8/15/2023, Dispositive motions due by 9/29/2023, Attorney settlement conference to be held by 11/17/2023, CR 39.1 m ediation to be completed by 11/28/2023, Motions in Limine due by 12/1/2023, Agreed Pretrial Order due by 12/20/2023, Trial briefs, proposed voir dire questions, and jury instructions due by 1/9/2024. Signed by Judge Ricardo S. Martinez. (SB)
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Sectra Communications AB v. Absolute Software Inc et al Doc. 127 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 1 of 10 1 THE HONORABLE RICARDO S. MARTINEZ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 10 AT SEATTLE 11 12 SECTRA COMMUNICATIONS AB, Plaintiff, 13 14 15 16 v. ABSOLUTE SOFTWARE, INC. and NETMOTION SOFTWARE, INC., Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES NOTE ON MOTION CALENDAR: DECEMBER 2, 2022 Defendants. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Dockets.Justia.com Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 2 of 10 The parties to the above-captioned action (the “Parties”), hereby jointly move the Court to 1 2 modify the following dates from the case schedule, see Dkt. No. 92, for good cause: 3 4 Event Current Date (Dkt. No. 92) Joint Proposed Date Preliminary Infringement Contentions 12/8/2022 12/22/2022 Preliminary Invalidity Contentions 12/28/2022 1/23/2023 Exchange Terms for Construction 1/17/2023 1/31/2023 Exchange Proposed Constructions and 1/31/2023 Extrinsic Evidence 2/14/2023 Opening Claim Construction Reports 2/13/2023 2/27/2023 Preliminary Claim Chart 3/9/2023 3/23/2023 Rebuttal Claim Construction Reports 3/13/2023 3/27/2023 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Joint Claim Chart and Prehearing Statement 4/7/2023 4/21/2023 Joinder of Parties 2/9/2023 2/9/2023 (unchanged) Amended Pleadings 2/21/2023 2/21/2023 (unchanged) Opening claim construction briefs 4/21/2023 5/5/2023 Responsive claim construction briefs 5/5/2023 5/19/2023 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 2 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 3 of 10 1 Event Current Date (Dkt. No. 92) Markman hearing 5/26/2023 at 9am 6/9/2023 at 9am or thereafter at the Court’s convenience Expert disclosures/reports 6/15/2023 7/11/2023 Discovery motions due 7/13/2023 7/13/2023 (unchanged) Rebuttal expert disclosures/reports 7/14/2023 8/15/2023 Fact Discovery completed 8/14/2023 8/18/2023 Expert Discovery completed 8/14/2023 9/8/2023 Dispositive motions and Daubert motions 9/8/2023 9/29/2023 Attorney settlement conference deadline 11/3/2023 11/17/2023 CR 39.1 mediation deadline 11/13/2023 11/28/2023 Motions in limine due 11/13/2023 12/1/2023 Agreed pretrial order due 11/29/2023 12/20/2023 2 3 4 Joint Proposed Date 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Trial briefs, proposed voir dire questions, 12/6/2023 and jury instructions due 1/9/2024 23 24 Pretrial conference To be scheduled To be scheduled by the Court by the Court 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 3 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 4 of 10 1 Event Current Date (Dkt. No. 92) Joint Proposed Date Jury trial (5 days) 12/11/2023 1/22/2024 or thereafter at the Court’s convenience 2 3 4 5 The parties have met and conferred and agree that, in light of immovable conflicts by team 6 7 members on both parties—including counsel at trial in the first half of December 2022, other 8 counsel at trials in early February 2023, in the second half of March 2023, and in mid-April 2023, 9 as well as other counsel on parental leave—and the upcoming holidays and court closures, the 10 dates for the exchange of infringement and invalidity contentions should be extended to December 11 12 22, 2022 and January 23, 2023, respectively (instead of December 8, 2022 and December 28, 2022). In order to allow sufficient time for the Parties to review and analyze the infringement and 13 14 15 invalidity contentions, the Parties further agree that the dates for claim construction exchanges and briefing should likewise be extended as noted on page 2 above. 16 Additionally, the Parties recognize that the new proposed date for the close of claim 17 construction briefing falls only one week before the currently scheduled Markman hearing. The 18 Parties have jointly proposed the above revised case schedule dates for the Markman hearing and 19 beyond in the greyed-out rows on page 3-4 above in order to allow the Court additional time to 20 review the claim construction briefs before the Markman hearing if desired. In order to allow time 21 22 to incorporate the Court’s claim construction order into expert reports, the Parties have also jointly 23 proposed further modifications to the expert report and subsequent deadlines to accommodate an 24 extension of the date for the Markman hearing. The modifications also allow the Court additional 25 time to consider the trial briefs, proposed voir dire questions, and jury questions before holding 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 4 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 5 of 10 1 the pretrial conference, and to start the jury trial in a time period that is uninterrupted by end of 2 year holidays and the Court’s closures around and observance of the holiday season. The Parties’ 3 jointly proposed case schedule modifications are modest, comport with the Local Civil Rules, and 4 in total only move the trial date by slightly more than a month. 5 6 Therefore, the Parties jointly request that the Court enter the above modifications to the case schedule for good cause. 7 8 DATED this 2nd day of December, 2022 Respectfully submitted, 9 10 COOLEY LLP 11 /s/ Christopher B. Durbin Christopher B. Durbin (WSBA #41159) COOLEY LLP 1700 Seventh Avenue Suite 1900 Seattle, WA 98101-1355 Tel:(206) 452-8700 Fax:(206) 452-8800 Email: cdurbin@cooley.com 12 13 14 15 Heidi L. Keefe (pro hac vice pending) Reuben H. Chen (pro hac vice pending) Alexandra Leeper( pro hac vice pending) 3175 Hanover St. Palo Alto, CA 94304-1130 Tel: (650) 843-5000 Fax: (650) 849-7400 Email: hkeefe@cooley.com Email: rchen@cooley.com Email: aleeper@cooley.com 16 17 18 19 20 21 Attorneys for Defendants ABSOLUTE SOFTWARE, INC. and NETMOTION SOFTWARE, INC., 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 5 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 6 of 10 CORR CRONIN LLP 1 /s/ William R. Squires III William R. Squires III, WSBA No. 4976 1015 Second Avenue, Floor 10 Seattle, Washington 98104-1001 Telephone: (206) 625-8600 Fax: (206) 625-0900 Email: rsquires@corrcronin.com 2 3 4 5 6 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY Stephen M. Hash (pro hac vice) Kevin J. Meek (pro hac vice) Syed K. Fareed (pro hac vice) Samoneh Schickel (pro hac vice) 303 Colorado Avenue, Suite 2200 Austin, TX 78701-4076 Tel.: (512) 726-2600 Fax: (512) 532-0002 Email: shash@mwe.com Email: kmeek@mwe.com Email: sfareed@mwe.com Email: sschickel@mwe.com 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Jiaxiao Zhang (pro hac vice) 18565 Jamboree Road, Suite 250 Irvine, CA 92612-2565 Tel.: (949) 757-6398 Fax: (949) 851-9348 Email: jiazhang@mwe.com 15 16 17 18 Attorneys for Plaintiff SECTRA COMMUNICATIONS AB 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 6 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 7 of 10 1 THE HONORABLE RICARDO S. MARTINEZ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 10 AT SEATTLE 11 12 SECTRA COMMUNICATIONS AB, 13 Plaintiff, 14 15 16 Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM v. [PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING JOINT MOTION REGARDING CASE DEADLINES ABSOLUTE SOFTWARE, INC. and NETMOTION SOFTWARE, INC., Defendants. 17 18 This matter comes before the Court on the Parties’ joint motion regarding case deadlines. 19 The Court, having reviewed the Motion, GRANTS the Motion. The case schedule is modified as 20 follows: 21 Event Current Date (Dkt. No. 92) Joint Proposed Date Preliminary Infringement Contentions 12/8/2022 12/22/2022 Preliminary Invalidity Contentions 12/28/2022 1/23/2023 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 1 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 8 of 10 1 Event Current Date (Dkt. No. 92) Joint Proposed Date Exchange Terms for Construction 1/17/2023 1/31/2023 Exchange Proposed Constructions and 1/31/2023 Extrinsic Evidence 2/14/2023 Opening Claim Construction Reports 2/13/2023 2/27/2023 Preliminary Claim Chart 3/9/2023 3/23/2023 Rebuttal Claim Construction Reports 3/13/2023 3/27/2023 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Joint Claim Chart and Prehearing Statement 4/7/2023 4/21/2023 Joinder of Parties 2/9/2023 2/9/2023 (unchanged) Amended Pleadings 2/21/2023 2/21/2023 (unchanged) Opening claim construction briefs 4/21/2023 5/5/2023 Responsive claim construction briefs 5/5/2023 5/19/2023 Markman hearing 5/26/2023 at 9am 6/9/2023 at 9am or thereafter at the Court’s convenience Expert disclosures/reports 6/15/2023 7/11/2023 Discovery motions due 7/13/2023 7/13/2023 (unchanged) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 2 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 9 of 10 1 Event Current Date (Dkt. No. 92) Joint Proposed Date Rebuttal expert disclosures/reports 7/14/2023 8/15/2023 Fact Discovery completed 8/14/2023 8/18/2023 Expert Discovery completed 8/14/2023 9/8/2023 Dispositive motions and Daubert motions 9/8/2023 9/29/2023 Attorney settlement conference deadline 11/3/2023 11/17/2023 CR 39.1 mediation deadline 11/13/2023 11/28/2023 Motions in limine due 11/13/2023 12/1/2023 Agreed pretrial order due 11/29/2023 12/20/2023 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Trial briefs, proposed voir dire questions, 12/6/2023 and jury instructions due 1/9/2024 18 Pretrial conference To be scheduled To be scheduled by the Court by the Court Jury trial (5 days) 12/11/2023 19 20 21 1/22/2024 or thereafter at the Court’s convenience 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 3 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700 Case 2:22-cv-00353-RSM Document 127 Filed 12/07/22 Page 10 of 10 1 2 IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED this 7th day of December, 2022. 3 A 4 RICARDO S. MARTINEZ UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 JOINT MOTION AND PROPOSED ORDER REGARDING CASE DEADLINES Case No. 2:22-cv-0353-RSM 4 COOLEY LLP 1700 SEVENTH AVENUE SUITE 1900 SEATTLE, WA 98101-1355 (206) 452-8700
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