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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. 14-cv-03227-PSG

ORDER RE: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON EXPERT DISCOVERY AND REPORTS

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SILICON LABORATORIES, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

CRESTA TECHNOLOGY 

CORPORATION,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-03227-PSG

ORDER RE: REQUEST FOR 

GUIDANCE ON EXPERT DISCOVERY 

AND REPORTS

(Re: Docket Nos. 118, 122)

Plaintiff Silicon Laboratories, Inc. seeks the court’s guidance on issues related to 

upcoming depositions of Defendant Cresta Technology Corporation’s experts.1 Cresta Tech does 

not dispute that it bears the burden of proof on its affirmative defenses, including laches.2 Because 

Cresta Tech’s experts, Mihai Murgulescu and Matthew Lewis, failed to mention the issue in their 

opening reports, they should not have raised it in their rebuttal reports, and they may not testify to 

laches at trial. As for the documents that Cresta Tech allegedly produced for the first time as 

attachments to Lewis’ rebuttal report, it appears that Cresta Tech is now rectifying any fact 

discovery oversights. Silicon Labs should use the deposition to take any further discovery on the 

issues to which these documents pertain. After the deposition, if Silicon Labs believes it still is 

prejudiced by the late production, it may move for further relief as necessary. Finally, the court 

encourages the parties to reach an agreement on the number of hours of deposition testimony that 

each of them will take from opposing experts. If Cresta Tech makes Murgulescu available for

 

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separate depositions on infringement and validity, Silicon Labs should do the same for its 

technical expert.

SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 10, 2015

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PAUL S. GREWAL

United States Magistrate Judge

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