UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

MARSHALL DIVISION

HEADWATER RESEARCH LLC,

 Plaintiff,

v.

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, 

INC.

 Defendants.

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CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:23-CV-00103-JRG-RSP

SECOND AMENDED DOCKET CONTROL ORDER

In accordance with the Joint Motion (Dkt. 130), it is hereby ORDERED that the following 

schedule of deadlines is in effect until further order of this Court:

Original Date Amended Date Event

January 6, 2025 *Jury Selection – 9:00 a.m. in Marshall, Texas

7 days before Jury 

Selection

*Defendant to disclose final invalidity theories, 

final prior art references/combinations, and final 

equitable defenses.1

10 days before Jury 

Selection

*Plaintiff to disclose final election of Asserted 

Claims.2

1 The proposed DCO shall include this specific deadline. The deadline shall read, “7 days before 

Jury Selection,” and shall not include a specific date.

2 Given the Court’s past experiences with litigants dropping claims and defenses during or on the 

eve of trial, the Court is of the opinion that these additional deadlines are necessary. The proposed 

DCO shall include this specific deadline. The deadline shall read, “10 days before Jury Selection,” 

and shall not include a specific date.

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Original Date Amended Date Event

December 9, 2024

* If a juror questionnaire is to be used, an editable 

(in Microsoft Word format) questionnaire shall be 

jointly submitted to the Deputy Clerk in Charge by 

this date.3

December 2, 2024 *Pretrial Conference – 9:00 a.m. in Marshall, 

Texas before Judge Roy Payne

November 25, 2024

*Notify Court of Agreements Reached During 

Meet and Confer

The parties are ordered to meet and confer on any 

outstanding objections or motions in limine. The 

parties shall advise the Court of any agreements 

reached no later than 1:00 p.m. three (3) business 

days before the pretrial conference.

November 25, 2024

*File Joint Pretrial Order, Joint Proposed Jury 

Instructions, Joint Proposed Verdict Form, 

Responses to Motions in Limine, Updated Exhibit 

Lists, Updated Witness Lists, and Updated 

Deposition Designations

November 18, 2024

*File Notice of Request for Daily Transcript or 

Real Time Reporting.

If a daily transcript or real time reporting of court 

proceedings is requested for trial, the party or 

parties making said request shall file a notice with 

the Court and e-mail the Court Reporter, Shawn 

McRoberts, at

shawn_mcroberts@txed.uscourts.gov.

November 18, 2024

File Motions in Limine

The parties shall limit their motions in limine to 

issues that if improperly introduced at trial would 

be so prejudicial that the Court could not alleviate 

the prejudice by giving appropriate instructions to 

the jury.

3 The Parties are referred to the Court’s Standing Order Regarding Use of Juror Questionnaires in 

Advance of Voir Dire.

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Original Date Amended Date Event

November 18, 2024 Serve Objections to Rebuttal Pretrial Disclosures

November 13, 2024 Serve Objections to Pretrial Disclosures; and 

Serve Rebuttal Pretrial Disclosures

November 6, 2024

Serve Pretrial Disclosures (Witness List, 

Deposition Designations, and Exhibit List) by the 

Party with the Burden of Proof

November 4, 2024

*Response to Dispositive Motions (including 

Daubert Motions). Responses to dispositive 

motions that were filed prior to the dispositive 

motion deadline, including Daubert Motions, shall 

be due in accordance with Local Rule CV-7(e), not 

to exceed the deadline as set forth in this Docket 

Control Order.4 Motions for Summary Judgment 

shall comply with Local Rule CV-56.

October 25, 2024

*File Motions to Strike Expert Testimony 

(including Daubert Motions)

No motion to strike expert testimony (including a 

Daubert motion) may be filed after this date 

without leave of the Court.

October 25, 2024

*File Dispositive Motions

No dispositive motion may be filed after this date 

without leave of the Court.

Motions shall comply with Local Rule CV-56 and 

Local Rule CV-7. Motions to extend page limits

will only be granted in exceptional circumstances.

Exceptional circumstances require more than

agreement among the parties.

October 15, 2024 October 21, 2024 Deadline to Complete Expert Discovery

4 The parties are directed to Local Rule CV-7(d), which provides in part that “[a] party’s failure to 

oppose a motion in the manner prescribed herein creates a presumption that the party does not 

controvert the facts set out by movant and has no evidence to offer in opposition to the motion.” 

If the deadline under Local Rule CV 7(e) exceeds the deadline for Response to Dispositive 

Motions, the deadline for Response to Dispositive Motions controls.

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Original Date Amended Date Event

October 3, 2024 October 14, 2024 Serve Disclosures for Rebuttal Expert Witnesses

September 16, 2024 September 26, 2024 Serve Disclosures for Expert Witnesses by the 

Party with the Burden of Proof

September 10, 2024 September 20, 2024 Deadline to Complete Fact Discovery

September 10, 2024 File Motions to Compel Discovery

(*) indicates a deadline that cannot be changed without an acceptable showing of good 

cause. Good cause is not shown merely by indicating that the parties agree that the 

deadline should be changed.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Mediation: While certain cases may benefit from mediation, such may not be appropriate 

for every case. The Court finds that the Parties are best suited to evaluate whether mediation will 

benefit the case after the issuance of the Court’s claim construction order. Accordingly, the Court 

ORDERS the Parties to file a Joint Notice indicating whether the case should be referred for 

mediation within fourteen days of the issuance of the Court’s claim construction order. As a 

part of such Joint Notice, the Parties should indicate whether they have a mutually agreeable 

mediator for the Court to consider. If the Parties disagree about whether mediation is appropriate, 

the Parties should set forth a brief statement of their competing positions in the Joint Notice.

Summary Judgment Motions, Motions to Strike Expert Testimony, and Daubert

Motions: For each motion, the moving party shall provide the Court with two (2) hard copies of 

the completed briefing (opening motion, response, reply, and if applicable, sur-reply), excluding 

exhibits, in D-three-ring binders, appropriately tabbed. All documents shall be single-sided and 

must include the CM/ECF header. These copies shall be delivered to the Court within three (3) 

business days after briefing has completed. For expert-related motions, complete digital copies of 

the relevant expert report(s) and accompanying exhibits shall be submitted on a single flash drive 

to the Court. Complete digital copies of the expert report(s) shall be delivered to the Court no later 

than the dispositive motion deadline.

Indefiniteness: In lieu of early motions for summary judgment, the parties are directed to 

include any arguments related to the issue of indefiniteness in their Markman briefing, subject to 

the local rules’ normal page limits.

Lead Counsel: The Parties are directed to Local Rule CV-11(a)(1), which provides that 

“[o]n the first appearance through counsel, each party shall designate a lead attorney on the 

pleadings or otherwise.” Additionally, once designated, a party’s lead attorney may only be 

changed by the filing of a Motion to Change Lead Counsel and thereafter obtaining from the Court 

an Order granting leave to designate different lead counsel. The true lead counsel should be 

designated early and should not expect to parachute in as lead once the case has been largely 

developed.

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Motions for Continuance: The following will not warrant a continuance nor justify a 

failure to comply with the discovery deadline:

(a) The fact that there are motions for summary judgment or motions to dismiss pending;

(b) The fact that one or more of the attorneys is set for trial in another court on the same day,

unless the other setting was made prior to the date of this order or was made as a special

provision for the parties in the other case;

(c) The failure to complete discovery prior to trial, unless the parties can demonstrate that it

was impossible to complete discovery despite their good faith effort to do so.

Amendments to the Docket Control Order (“DCO”): Any motion to alter any date on

the DCO shall take the form of a motion to amend the DCO. The motion to amend the DCO 

shall include a proposed order that lists all of the remaining dates in one column (as above) 

and the proposed changes to each date in an additional adjacent column (if there is no change 

for a date the proposed date column should remain blank or indicate that it is unchanged). In 

other words, the DCO in the proposed order should be complete such that one can clearly see all 

the remaining deadlines and the changes, if any, to those deadlines, rather than needing to also 

refer to an earlier version of the DCO. 

Joint Pretrial Order: In the contentions of the Parties included in the Joint Pretrial 

Order, the Plaintiff shall specify all allegedly infringed claims that will be asserted at trial. The 

Plaintiff shall also specify the nature of each theory of infringement, including under which 

subsections of 35 U.S.C. § 271 it alleges infringement, and whether the Plaintiff alleges divided 

infringement or infringement under the doctrine of equivalents. Each Defendant shall indicate 

the nature of each theory of invalidity, including invalidity for anticipation, obviousness, 

subject-matter eligibility, written description, enablement, or any other basis for invalidity. The 

Defendant shall also specify each prior art reference or combination of references upon which 

the Defendant shall rely at trial, with respect to each theory of invalidity. The contentions of 

the Parties may not be amended, supplemented, or dropped without leave of the Court based 

upon a showing of good cause. The Parties in a case which has been consolidated for pre-trial 

purposes and which is moving towards a separate trial on the merits (subsequent to pre-trial) 

shall file, as an exhibit to the parties’ Joint Pretrial Order, a list identifying all docket entries 

from the lead case that relate to the applicable member case. 

Trial: All parties must appear in person at trial. All non-individual (including but 

not limited to corporate) parties must appear at trial through the presence in person of a 

designated representative. Once they have appeared, any representative of a non-individual party 

shall not be replaced or substituted without express leave of Court. 

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