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Parties Involved:
Guitar Apprentice, Inc.
Counter-claimant
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A.
Counter-defendant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT S.A.,

Plaintiff,

v.

GUITAR APPRENTICE, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-05202-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 Proposed Date

Last day for parties make Initial Disclosures March 4, 2015

Initial Case Management Conference March 18, 2015

Ubisoft’s Disclosure of Asserted Claims & 

Preliminary Infringement Contentions (with 

accompanying document production)

April 1, 2015

Propose Protective Order and Proposed ESI Order 

Due April 23, 2015

Deadline to conduct mediation using private ADR May 11, 2015

Guitar Apprentice’s Invalidity Contentions (and 

accompanying document production) May 18, 2015

Parties to exchange Proposed Terms & Claim 

Elements for Construction June 1, 2015

Parties to exchange Preliminary Claim 

Constructions June 22, 2015

Last day to amend pleadings July 1, 2015

Deadline to meet and confer to narrow the issues 

and Parties to file joint Claim Construction and 

Prehearing Statement 

July 17, 2015

Claim Construction Discovery Cut-Off August 17, 2015

Ubisoft to file Opening Brief on Claim 

Construction September 1, 2015

Guitar Apprentice to file Responsive Claim 

Construction Brief September 15, 2015

Ubisoft to file Reply Claim Construction Brief September 22, 2015

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

Patent Technology Tutorial October 13, 2015 at 1:30 P.M.

Claim Construction Hearing October 27, 2015 at 1:30 P.M. 

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. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 19, 2015

_______________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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