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

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

E.DIGITAL CORPORATION,

Plaintiff,

v.

DROPCAM, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-04922-JST 

SCHEDULING ORDER

The Court hereby sets the following case deadlines pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 16 and Civil Local Rule 16-10:

Event Deadline

Deadline to amend the pleadings11/13/2016

Designation of expert witnesses (party with burden of proof) 4/15/2016

Fact discovery cut-off 4/30/2016

Supplemental designation of expert witnesses (party without 

burden of proof) 4/30/2016

Mediation deadline 5/6/2016

Opening expert reports 6/10/2016

Rebuttal expert reports 7/8/2016

Expert discovery cut-off 8/19/2016

 

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The Court has set this deadline to trigger the “good cause” standard under Fed. R. Civ. P. 16.

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Event Deadline

Deadline to file dispositive motions 9/9/2016

Pretrial conference statement due 12/6/2016

Pretrial conference 12/16/2016 at 2:00 

p.m.

Trial 1/9/2017 at 8:30 a.m.

Estimate of trial length (in days) 8

Counsel may not modify these dates without leave of court. The parties shall comply with 

the Court’s standing orders, which are available at cand.uscourts.gov/jstorders.

The parties must take all necessary steps to conduct discovery, compel discovery, hire 

counsel, retain experts, and manage their calendars so that they can complete discovery in a timely 

manner and appear at trial on the noticed and scheduled dates. All counsel must arrange their 

calendars to accommodate these dates, or arrange to substitute or associate in counsel who can. 

Trial dates set by this Court should be regarded as firm. Requests for continuance are 

disfavored. The Court will not consider any event subsequently scheduled by a party, partycontrolled witness, expert or attorney that conflicts with the above trial date as good cause to grant 

a continuance. The Court will not consider the pendency of settlement discussions as good cause 

to grant a continuance. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 6, 2016

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JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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