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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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Case No. 09-1303-JF (HRL)

ORDER REQUESTING SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING

(JFEX1)

**E-Filed 3/16/10**

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

C&C JEWELRY MFG., INC.,

 Plaintiff,

 v.

TRENT WEST,

 Defendant.

Case No. 09-1303-JF (HRL)

ORDER REQUESTING FURTHER

BRIEFING

[re: document no. 52]

And Related Counter Claims

In anticipation of the claim construction hearing in the instant case, the Court hereby

requests supplemental briefing with respect to whether a “to provide clause”, such as that found

in claim 10 of the ‘314 patent and claim 11 of the ‘974 patent, should be construed as a “whereby

clause” under Hoffer v. Microsoft Corp., 405 F.3d 1326 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (finding that “a whereby

clause in a method claim is not given weight when it simply expresses the intended result of a

process step positively recited”, except “when the ‘whereby’ clause states a condition that is

material to patentability”) (internal citation and quotation marks omitted). The parties’

supplemental briefs, which shall not exceed five (5) pages in length, shall be filed on or before

March 24, 2010. 

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Case No. 09-1303-JF (HRL)

ORDER REQUESTING SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING

(JFEX1)

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 3/16/ 2010

 

JEREMY FOGEL

United States District Judge

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