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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:145 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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ORDER DECLINING TELEPHONIC CONFERENCE AND DECLINING TO POSTPONE CLAIM CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED

DATES—No. C-07-06222 RMW

CCL

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

E-FILED on 3/1/10

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

HALO ELECTRONICS, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

BEL FUSE INC., ELEC & ELTEK (USA)

CORPORATION, WURTH ELECTRONICS

MIDCOM., INC., XFMRS, INC.

Defendants.

No. C-07-06222 RMW

ORDER DECLINING TELEPHONIC

CONFERENCE AND DECLINING TO

POSTPONE CLAIM CONSTRUCTION AND

RELATED DATES

[Re Docket No. 150]

The court has received correspondence written on behalf of all defendants in this action and

has also received plaintiff Halo Electronics, Inc. ("Halo")'s response. Defendants seek to postpone

all dates related to claim construction in this action, pending a claim construction order in another

litigation pending in Nevada. Halo objects to such postponement, pointing out that this case is

already more than two years old and that the litigation in Nevada is between Halo and an unrelated

defendant. Moreover, any claim construction order in the Nevada case would not have preclusive

effect in this case, absent a final judgment. The court therefore declines to postpone claim

construction and related deadlines in this action. Accordingly, a telephonic conference discussing

adjournment of dates relating to claim construction is not necessary. 

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The court notes that the letter from defendants states that Halo is asserting approximately

119 claims in this action. Although Halo has indicated that it is working to streamline the number of

asserted claims and believes its revised list will be less than 30 claims, even 30 claims seems

excessive to the court. Patent Local Rule 4-3(c) requires the parties to identify "the terms whose

construction will be most significant to the resolution of the case up to a maximum of 10." If the

number of asserted claims and disputed terms is not substantially narrowed by the Claim

Construction Prehearing Conference set for May 7, 2010, this will be the first issue to be addressed

by the court. 

DATED: 3/1/10

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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ORDER DECLINING TELEPHONIC CONFERENCE AND DECLINING TO POSTPONE CLAIM CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED

DATES—No. C-07-06222 RMW

CCL 3

Notice of this document has been electronically sent to:

Counsel for Plaintiff:

Juanita R. Brooks brooks@fr.com 

Limin Zheng zheng@fr.com 

John Cameron Adkisson jca@fr.com 

Michael J Kane kane@fr.com 

Michael J. Pape pape@fr.com 

Sarah Bray bray@fr.com 

William R. Woodford woodford@fr.com 

Counsel for Defendants:

Joshua L. Raskin JRaskin@wolfblock.com 

Andrew P. Nemiroff anemiroff@cozen.com 

Martin C. Fliesler mcf@fdml.com 

Martin G. Raskin mraskin@cozen.com 

Rex Hwang rhwang@fdml.com 

Kent Andrew Lambert klambert@bakerdonelson.com 

Michael Joseph Powell mpowell@bakerdonelson.com 

Samuel F Miller smiller@bakerdonelson.com 

Sarah Katherine Casey skcasey@bakerdonelson.com 

Terry John Mollica tjm@cmlawoffices.com 

A. Neal Seth nseth@bakerlaw.com 

Emily Rita Frank efrank@bakerlaw.com 

Harold C. Moore hcmoore@maginot.com 

Christopher Todd Norris todd.norris@bullivant.com 

David Moorman drmoorman@maginot.com 

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not

registered for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

Dated: 3/1/10 CCL

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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