Opinion
CASE NO. 3:12-CV-04498-EMC
03-12-2013
ASETEK HOLDINGS, INC. and ASETEK A/S, Plaintiffs, v. COOLIT SYSTEMS INC., Defendant.
BLANK ROME LLP Dennis P. McCooe Attorneys for Defendant CoolIT Systems Inc. FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER, LLP Robert F. McCauley Attorneys for Plaintiffs Asetek A/S and Asetek Holdings, Inc.
COOLEY LLP
HEIDI L. KEEFE (178960)
(hkeefe@cooley.com)
DANIEL J. KNAUSS (267414)
(dknauss@cooley.com)
Five Palo Alto Square
3000 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2155
Telephone: (650) 843-5000
Facsimile: (650) 849-7400
DENNIS McCOOE
(mccooe@blankrome.com)
(admitted Pro Hac Vice)
KATHERINE BARECCHIA
(barecchia@blankrome.com)
(admitted Pro Hac Vice)
JOEL DION (dion-j@blankrome.com)
(admitted Pro Hac Vice)
BLANK ROME LLP
One Logan Square
130 North 18th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Telephone: (215) 569-5580
Facsimile: (215) 832-5580
Attorneys for Defendant
CoolIT Sysytems, Inc.
ROBERT F. McCAULEY (162056)
(robert.mccauley@finnegan.com)
TINA E. HULSE (232936)
(tina.hulse@finnegan.com)
FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,
GARRETT & DUNNER LLP
3300 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Telephone: (650) 849-6600
Facsimile: (650) 849-6666
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
ASETEK HOLDINGS, INC. and
ASETEK A/S
STIPULATED REQUEST FOR ORDER
AMENDING CASE MANAGEMENT
ORDER
[PROPOSED] ORDER
(as modified)
On January 17, 2013, the Court held an Initial Case Management Conference. At the Initial Case Management Conference, the Court adopted the parties' proposed Case Management Order through the completion of claim construction discovery and set a further case management conference for May 23, 2013 at 10:30 am. On February 26, 2013, CoolIT filed its amended answer to Asetek's amended complaint and amended counterclaims. CoolIT's amended counterclaims included a claim for infringement of CoolIT's U.S. Pat. No. 8,382,456, which issued on February 26, 2013. The parties are preparing to exchange the contentions required by the Patent Local Rules in connection with CoolIT's patent. The parties agree that, in view of CoolIT's new counterclaim, coordination of dates for claim construction proceedings for Asetek's patents-in-suit and CoolIT's patent-in-suit would be efficient.
Accordingly, the parties submit that good cause exists to amend the Case Management Order in view of the desirability of coordinating claim construction for all patents now involved in this case.
The parties propose the following amended schedule:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦EVENT ¦PROPOSED SCHEDULE ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------¦ ¦Last Day for CoolIT to Serve Disclosure of Asserted ¦ ¦ ¦Claims and Infringement Contentions (and accompanying ¦March 19, 2013 ¦ ¦document production) ¦ ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------¦ ¦Last Day for Asetek to Serve Preliminary Invalidity ¦May 3, 2013 ¦ ¦Contentions (and accompanying document production) ¦ ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------¦ ¦Last Day for Parties to Exchange List of "Proposed Terms ¦May 17, 2013 ¦ ¦and Claim Elements for Construction" ¦ ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------¦ ¦Case Management Conference ¦May 23, 2013 at ¦ ¦ ¦10:30 am ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------¦ ¦Meet and confer to identify 10 terms ¦May 24, 2013 ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------¦ ¦Exchange of Preliminary Claim Constructions and Extrinsic¦June 7, 2013 ¦ ¦Evidence ¦ ¦ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦EVENT ¦PROPOSED SCHEDULE ¦ +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------¦ ¦Meet and confer re Joint Claim ¦ ¦ ¦Construction and Prehearing ¦June 14, 2013 ¦ ¦Statement ¦ ¦ +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------¦ ¦Joint Claim Construction and ¦July 2, 2013 ¦ ¦Prehearing Statement ¦ ¦ +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------¦ ¦Complete claim construction ¦July 16, 2013 ¦ ¦discovery ¦ ¦ +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------¦ ¦Opening claim construction ¦July 30, 2013 ¦ ¦briefs ¦ ¦ +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------¦ ¦Responsive Briefs ¦August 13, 2013 ¦ +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------¦ ¦Reply Briefs ¦August 20, 2013 ¦ +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------¦ ¦Tutorial - Oct. 21, 2013 at ¦ ¦ ¦10:00 a.m. Claim Construction ¦September 3, 2013, or at the earliest next ¦ ¦Hearing - Nov. 4 & 5 at ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦available date of the Court ¦ ¦2:30 p.m. ¦ ¦ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
By his signature below, counsel for Defendant attests that counsel for Plaintiffs concurs in the filing of this stipulation.
Respectfully submitted,
BLANK ROME LLP
By: ___________
Dennis P. McCooe
Attorneys for Defendant
CoolIT Systems Inc.
Respectfully submitted,
FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,
GARRETT & DUNNER, LLP
By: ___________
Robert F. McCauley
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
Asetek A/S and Asetek Holdings, Inc.
[PROPOSED] ORDER
PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.
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The Honorable Edward M. Chen
United States District Judge
ATTESTATION PER GENERAL ORDER 45
I, Daniel J. Knauss, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this Stipulated Request for Order Amending Case Management Order. In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that the counsel listed above have concurred with this filing.
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DANIEL J. KNAUSS
Attorneys for Defendant
CoolIT Systems, Inc.