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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 15:1126 Patent Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

E.DIGITAL CORPORATION,

Plaintiff,

v.

ISMART ALARM, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-05793-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

Plaintiff's Disclosure of Asserted Claims and Infringement

Contentions August 17, 2016

Defendant’s Preliminary Invalidity Contentions September 30, 2016

Exchange of Proposed Terms for Construction October 14, 2016

Exchange of Preliminary Claim Constructions and Identification

of Extrinsic Evidence November 4, 2016

Joint Claim Construction and Prehearing Statement November 29, 2016

Claim construction discovery cut-off December 29, 2016

Claim construction opening brief January 13, 2017

Claim construction responsive brief January 27, 2017

Claim construction reply brief February 3, 2017 

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Event Deadline

Claim construction hearing February 28, 2017 at 

1:30 p.m.

Deadline to File Motion to Amend Pleadings and/or Add Parties

30 days after 

issuance of the 

Court’s claim 

construction order

Ordinarily, the Court would also set a tutorial, but has not done so here at the parties’ 

request. ECF No. 58 at 14 (“Because this Court is familiar with the patent family of the Asserted 

Patents, the Parties do not believe a tutorial is necessary.”); see also Patent L.R. 2-1(b)(4). 

Following the issuance of its claim construction order, the Court will set a case 

management conference at which it will set the remaining case deadlines. 

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 shall meet and confer regarding the format, scope, and content of the claim 

construction hearing, including but not limited to the permissible subjects of discussion, whether 

experts will testify, and what audio-visual equipment, if any, will be needed by the parties. They

also shall exchange copies of any audio-visual material at least ten court days before they intend 

to use it in court, and shall bring any disputes regarding the format, scope, or content of any 

hearing to the Court’s attention at least five court days before the hearing. The Court will deem 

as waived any objection raised less than five court days before the hearing. The parties shall lodge 

hard copies of their presentation materials with the Court on the day of the claim construction 

hearing.

At claim construction, the Court will construe only the terms the parties identify in their 

Joint Claim Construction and Prehearing Statement as “most significant to the resolution of the 

case up to a maximum of 10.” Patent Local Rule 4-3(c). The Court will reserve no more than on 

two-and-one-half hours its calendar for the claim construction hearing, including a brief recess. 

The Court prefers that the parties proceed term-by-term, with each party providing its views on 

each term before moving on to the next. The Court’s use of time limits means that the parties may 

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not have the opportunity to present oral argument on every term they have submitted for 

construction, and the parties should prioritize their presentations accordingly.

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 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. 

The case management conference scheduled for August 3, 2016 is vacated. 

Dated: July 28, 2016

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JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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