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Juanita R. Brooks (CA SBN 75934) brooks@fr.com

Roger A. Denning (CA SBN 228998) denning@fr.com

Frank J. Albert (CA SBN 247741) albert@fr.com

Megan A. Chacon (CA SBN 304912) chacon@fr.com

K. Nicole Williams (CA SBN 291900) nwilliams@fr.com

Oliver J. Richards (CA SBN 310972) ojr@fr.com

Jared A. Smith (CA SBN 306576) jasmith@fr.com 

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

12390 El Camino Real, Suite 100

San Diego, CA 92130

Telephone: (858) 678-5070 / Fax: (858) 678-5099

Aamir Kazi (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) kazi@fr.com

Alana C. Mannige (CA SBN 313341) mannige@fr.com

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

1180 Peachtree Street NE, 21st Floor

Atlanta, GA 30309

Telephone: (404) 892-5005 / Fax: (404) 892-5002

Attorneys for Plaintiff

FINJAN, INC.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

FINJAN, INC., a Delaware Corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., a California 

Corporation,

Defendant.

Case No. 5:17-cv-00072-BLF-SVK

PLAINTIFF FINJAN, INC.’S MOTION IN 

LIMINE NO. 4 TO PRECLUDE RELIANCE 

ON UNDISCLOSED NON-INFRINGEMENT 

THEORIES

Date: April 30, 2020

Time: 1:30 P.M.

Place: 3, 5th Floor

Before: Honorable Beth L. Freeman

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Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26 and 37, Finjan, Inc. (“Finjan”) respectfully 

requests the Court to preclude Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”) from relying at trial on new noninfringement arguments that Cisco did not timely disclose during fact discovery. During discovery, 

Finjan served Interrogatory No. 6 (“ROG 6”), seeking “all legal and factual bases” for Cisco’s noninfringement contentions, including “a substantive, particularized description of why you contend [any] 

element is not satisfied,” and a “citation to specific components and functionality.” See Exh.

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6 (Finjan’s 

2nd Set of ROGs to Cisco (Nos. 5-6)). Cisco responded to ROG 6, and Finjan proceeded accordingly. 

But then, after the close of fact discovery and in their rebuttal reports, Cisco’s experts presented new noninfringement theories that Cisco never disclosed during fact discovery and that are inconsistent with 

Cisco’s prior positions and the Court’s claim constructions. Cisco’s new positions are belied by direct 

evidence of how the product operates, as indicated in Finjan’s infringement contentions and expert 

reports. But Cisco’s unexcused late disclosure deprived Finjan of the opportunity to confront Cisco’s 

witnesses with the specific defenses Cisco’s experts now advance, or address them directly in Finjan’s 

opening reports on infringement. Allowing Cisco to advance these new arguments at this stage would 

prejudice Finjan as it did not have any way to foresee the arguments, much less preemptively rebut them. 

I. ARGUMENT

It is well established that a party may not use an expert report to introduce new non-infringement 

theories. See Asia Vital Components Co. v. Asetek Danmark A/S, 377 F. Supp. 3d 990, 1003-04 (N.D. 

Cal. 2019) (“A rule that an accused infringer may wait until its expert rebuttal report to set forth theories 

of non-infringement for the first time would forfeit the benefits of contention interrogatories.”). Cisco 

included several previously undisclosed non-infringement theories in the McDaniel 8/14/19 Reb. Report 

(“McDaniel Reb. Rep.”) for U.S. Patent No. 6,804,780 (“the ’780 Patent”), the Almeroth 8/14/19 Reb. 

Report (“Almeroth Reb. Rep.”) for U.S. Patent Nos. 6,154,844 (“the ’844 Patent”) and 8,141,154 (“the 

’154 Patent”), and the Prakash 8/14/19 Report (“Prakash Rep.”) for U.S. Patent No. 7,647,633 (“the ’633 

Patent”). The Court should preclude Cisco from relying on any of these new theories at trial.

 

1 All exhibits referenced herein are incorporated in the Omnibus Declaration of Megan Chacon in 

Support of Plaintiff Finjan, Inc.’s Motions in Limine.

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Dated: April 16, 2020

Respectfully submitted,

By: /s/ Aamir Kazi

Juanita R. Brooks (CA SBN 75934) brooks@fr.com

Roger A. Denning (CA SBN 228998) denning@fr.com

Frank J. Albert (CA SBN 247741) albert@fr.com

Megan A. Chacon (CA SBN 304912) chacon@fr.com

K. Nicole Williams (CA SBN 291900) nwilliams@fr.com

Oliver J. Richards (CA SBN 310972) ojr@fr.com

Jared A. Smith (CA SBN 306576) jasmith@fr.com

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

12390 El Camino Real, Suite 100

San Diego, CA 92130

Phone: (858) 678-5070 / Fax: (858) 678-5099

Aamir Kazi (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) kazi@fr.com

Alana Mannige (CA SBN 313341) mannige@fr.com

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

1180 Peachtree Street NE, 21st Floor

Atlanta, GA 30309

Phone: (404) 892-5005 / Fax: (404) 892-5002

Attorneys for Plaintiff FINJAN, INC.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned hereby certifies that a true and correct copy of the above and foregoing document 

has been served on April 16, 2020 to all counsel of record who are deemed to have consented to 

electronic service via the Court’s CM/ECF system. Any other counsel of record will be served by 

electronic mail and regular mail.

/s/Aamir Kazi

Aamir Kazi

kazi@fr.com

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