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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:44 Trademark Infringement

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Case No. 14-cv-04853-PSG

ORDER GRANTING-IN-PART MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NOVADAQ TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

KARL STORZ GMBH & CO. K.G., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-04853-PSG

ORDER GRANTING-IN-PART

MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION

(Re: Docket No. 285)

Plaintiff Novadaq Technologies, Inc. has filed several motions to exclude the testimony of 

expert witnesses put forth by Defendant Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG and its American 

counterpart Defendant Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc.1 Karl Storz moves for clarification, 

objecting that these separately filed motions violate the court’s previous order that the parties each 

should submit a single, twenty-five-page brief containing all of their motions in limine.2 Novadaq 

points out in opposition that the court regularly hears noticed motions raising Daubert challenges 

separately from other motions in limine, and Novadaq’s motions comport with that practice.

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On balance, the court agrees with Novadaq. The parties may file Daubert challenges—and 

only those challenges—as separate motions to exclude, subject to the notice and timing 

requirements of the Local Rules. All other motions in limine must comply with the restrictions the 

 

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See Docket Nos. 281, 283.

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See Docket No. 285; Docket No. 285-2 at 87:20-24.

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See Docket No. 287 at 2; see, e.g., Good Tech. Corp. v. AirWatch, LLC, Case No. 12-cv-5827, 

Docket Nos. 231, 233; Good Tech. Corp. v. MobileIron, Inc., Case No. 12-cv-5826, Docket Nos. 

293-4, 296, 358, 361.

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court issued earlier. The relief that Karl Storz seeks is DENIED.

SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 3, 2015

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PAUL S. GREWAL

United States Magistrate Judge

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