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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 28:1338 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LG ELECTRONICS, INC.,

Plaintiff and 

Counterclaim Defendant,

v.

BIZCOM ELECTRONICS, INC., COMPAL

ELECTRONICS, INC., and SCEPTRE

TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,

 /

EVEREX SYSTEMS, INC.,

___________________________________/

FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER, INC.

and FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER OF

AMERICA, INC.,

___________________________________/

Q-LITY COMPUTER, INC., QUANTA

COMPUTER, INC., and QUANTA COMPUTER

USA, INC.,

___________________________________/

Defendants and 

Counterclaimants.

No. C 01-01375 CW

 C 01-01594 CW

 C 01-02187 CW

 C 01-01552 CW

 

THIS DOCUMENT

RELATES TO ALL

CASES

ORDER SETTING

CASE MANAGEMENT

CONFERENCE AND

DENYING SUMMARY

ADJUDICATION OF

NON-INFRINGEMENT

OF THE ‘645

PATENT AND

DESIGNATING CASES

FOR ELECTRONIC

COURT FILING

On July 7, 2006, the Federal Circuit entered its judgment

affirming in part, reversing in part and vacating in part this

Court's claim construction and summary judgment orders. The

mandate was issued on September 8, 2006. 

As the appellate court noted, because the Court granted

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Defendants' motion for summary adjudication of non-infringement of

the '645 patent on the basis of the accused devices' failure to use

the claimed strobe signals, it did not reach Defendants'

alternative argument that they did not infringe as a matter of law

because the chipsets in the accused products did not include an

"end of access" signal as required by the asserted claims. Having

considered the papers filed by the parties on this issue, the Court

denies Defendants’ motion for summary adjudication of noninfringement of the ‘645 patent on this ground. LGE expert William

K. Hoffman opines that the accused products’ PCI bus with a FRAME#

signal satisfies the “end of access control signal” limitation in

claim 1 and the “end of access system bus control signal”

limitation in claim 12. Hoffman Decl. ¶ 48. Whether Mr. Hoffman’s

opinion is persuasive despite his failure personally to analyze the

internal operations of the accused chipsets is a disputed question

of material fact that the Court cannot resolve as a matter of law. 

The Court hereby sets a case management conference for

November 3, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. The parties shall submit a revised

joint case management statement within thirty days of the date of

this order. The case management statement should address the

issues remaining for trial as well as the expected length of the

trial. The parties should also prepare a claim construction chart

setting forth the relevant terms at issue, including the Court's

constructions that are still operative and the Federal Circuit's

revised constructions. The Court further orders the parties to

arrange for a private mediation session with the Honorable Edward

A. Infante of JAMS, or another mutually agreed-upon mediator,

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before the case management conference. 

These cases are hereby designated for the Court’s Electronic

Case Filing (ECF) Program. Pursuant to General Order 45, each

attorney of record is obligated to become an ECF user and be

assigned a user ID and password for access to the system. All

documents required to be filed with the Clerk shall be filed

electronically on the ECF website, except as provided otherwise in

section VII of General Order 45 or authorized otherwise by the

court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 9/28/06 

CLAUDIA WILKEN

United States District Judge

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