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Nature of Suit Code: 380
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Property Damage
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARC OPPERMAN, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

PATH, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 13-cv-00453-JST 

CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER

Having considered the parties’ most recent Joint Case Management Statement, ECF No. 

598, as well as the arguments of counsel at the Case Management Conference held on January 5, 

2016, the Court now orders as follows:

1. The parties are ordered to meet and confer regarding their outstanding discovery 

disputes, and thereafter to submit a joint letter brief comprehensively describing the same. The 

letter brief shall be no more than ten, single-spaced pages and must be filed by January 13, 2016. 

As discussed at the hearing, the Court is likely to submit the parties’ discovery disputes to a 

Magistrate Judge for resolution. 

2. Plaintiffs may refile their motion for class certification as against Defendants Path, 

Inc. and Apple Inc. Briefing and hearing on that motion will proceed as follows: 

Event Deadline

Motion for Class Certification January 8, 2016

Opposition Brief March 3, 2016

Reply Brief March 24, 2016

Hearing April 12, 2016 at 

2:00 p.m.

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3. The Court will provide further rulings on the remaining likely motions for class 

certification and motions for summary judgment, and will set a further Case Management 

Conference, after it has reviewed the parties’ joint discovery letter. 

4. The Court will adopt the Northern District of California Model Protective Order for 

Litigation Involving Patents, Highly Sensitive Confidential Information and/or Trade Secrets as its 

order in this case. By January 12, 2016, Apple Inc. is directed to submit that order, conformed to

this action and approved as to form by all parties, for the Court’s signature. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 6, 2016

______________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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