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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 15:1126 Patent Infringement

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Case No. 5:14-cv-03227-PSG

ORDER RE: CLAIM CONSTRUCTION BRIEFING SCHEDULE DISPUTE

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION

SILICON LABORATORIES INC.,

 Plaintiff,

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CRESTA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION,

 Defendant. 

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Case No. 5:14-cv-03227-PSG

ORDER RE: CLAIM 

CONSTRUCTION BRIEFING 

SCHEDULE DISPUTE

(Re: Docket No. 102) 

Plaintiff Silicon Laboratories Inc. presents a dispute between the parties about the claim 

construction briefing schedule in place in this case. Silicon Labs takes the position that the patent 

local rules only provide for one set of claim construction briefing, and as the party claiming patent 

infringement, it is Silicon Labs—and Silicon Labs alone—that was entitled to file an opening claim 

construction brief on August 3, 2015. Defendant Cresta Technology Corporation disagrees, 

evidenced by the fact that it filed its own opening claim construction brief on August 3 as well. 

The patent local rules are clear: absent a stipulation by the parties or a court order allowing such a 

process, only a single set of claim construction briefing papers—that is one opening brief, one 

opposition brief and one reply brief—is permitted.1 

Cresta Tech’s opening claim construction brief2 is STRICKEN. Cresta Tech may re-file 

the same brief as an opposition or it may recast the brief to address Silicon Labs’s opening brief. 

 

1 See Pat. L.R. 4-5. 

2 See Docket No. 100. 

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