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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

MARSHALL DIVISION

COLLISION COMMUNICATIONS, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v. 

LENOVO GROUP LIMITED,

Defendant.

Case No. 2:23-cv-00594 

JURY TRIAL DEMANDED

[PROPOSED] DOCKET CONTROL ORDER FOR PATENT CASES

In accordance with the scheduling conference held in this case, it is hereby ORDERED

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

January 5, 2026 *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.

10 days before Jury 

Selection

Plaintiff to disclose final election of Asserted Claims.

December 8, 2025 * 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.1

December 82, 2025 *Pretrial Conference - 9:00 a.m. in Marshall, Texas before Judge 

Rodney Gilstrap

November 24, 2025 *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.

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

of Voir Dire. 2 The Parties respectfully request that, to alleviate pre-planned holiday scheduled, the Court consider holding 

the Pretrial Conference a month prior trial on December 8, 2025, as opposed to December 1, 2025.

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November 24, 2025 *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 17, 2025 *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 10, 2025 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.

November 10, 2025 Serve Objections to Rebuttal Pretrial Disclosures

November 3, 2025 Serve Objections to Pretrial Disclosures; and Serve Rebuttal Pretrial 

Disclosures

October 20, 2025 Serve Pretrial Disclosures (Witness List, Deposition Designations, and 

Exhibit List) by the Party with the Burden of Proof

October 14, 2025 *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.3 Motions for Summary Judgment shall comply 

with Local Rule CV-56.

September 29, 2025 *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.

September 29, 2025 *File Dispositive Motions

No dispositive motion may be filed after this date without leave of 

3 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.

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the Court.

Motions shall comply with Local Rule CV-56 and Local Rule CV-7. 

Motions to extend Rage limits will only be granted in exceptional 

circumstances. Exceptional circumstances require more than agreement 

among the parties.

September 22, 2025 Deadline to Complete Expert Discovery

September 8, 2025 Serve Disclosures for Rebuttal Expert Witnesses

August 13, 2025 Serve Disclosures for Expert Witnesses by the Party with the Burden 

of Proof

August 5, 2025 Deadline to Complete Fact Discovery and File Motions to Compel 

Discovery

July 29, 2025 Comply with P.R. 3-7 (Opinion of Counsel Defenses)

2 weeks After Court’s 

Issuance of Claim 

Construction Order

Submit Joint Notice Indicating Whether the Case Should Be Referred 

For Mediation 

July 15, 2025 *Claim Construction Hearing- 9:00 a.m. in Marshall, Texas before 

Judge Rodney Gilstrap

July 1, 2025 *Comply with P.R. 4-5(d) (Joint Claim Construction Chart)

June 24, 2025 *Comply with P.R. 4-5(c) (Reply Claim Construction Brief)

June 17, 2025 Comply with P.R. 4-5(b) (Responsive Claim Construction Brief)

June 3, 2025 Comply with P.R. 4-5(a) (Opening Claim Construction Brief) and 

Submit Technical Tutorials (if any)

Good cause must be shown to submit technical tutorials after the 

deadline to comply with P.R. 4-5(a).

June 3, 2025 Deadline to Substantially Complete Document Production and 

Exchange Privilege Logs

Counsel are expected to make good faith efforts to produce all 

required documents as soon as they are available and not wait until 

the substantial completion deadline.

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May 20, 2025 Comply with P.R. 4-4 (Deadline to Complete Claim Construction 

Discovery)

May 13, 2025 File Response to Amended Pleadings

April 29, 2025 *File Amended Pleadings

It is not necessary to seek leave of Court to amend pleadings prior to 

this deadline unless the amendment seeks to assert additional patents.

April 22, 2025 Comply with P.R. 4-3 (Joint Claim Construction Statement)

April 1, 2025 Comply with P.R. 4-2 (Exchange Preliminary Claim Constructions)

March 11, 2025 Comply with P.R. 4-1 (Exchange Proposed Claim Terms)

September 19, 2024 Comply with Standing Order Regarding Subject-Matter Eligibility 

Contentions.4

September 19, 2024 Comply with P.R. 3-3 & 3-4 (Invalidity Contentions)

August 8, 2024 *File Proposed Protective Order and Comply with Paragraphs 1 & 3 

of the Discovery Order (Initial and Additional Disclosures)

The Proposed Protective Order shall be filed as a separate motion 

with the caption indicating whether or not the proposed order is 

opposed in any part.

August 1, 2024 *File Proposed Docket Control Order and Proposed Discovery Order

The Proposed Docket Control Order and Proposed Discovery Order 

shall be filed asseparate motions with the caption indicating whether 

or not the proposed order is opposed in any part.

July 25, 2024 Join Additional Parties

July 12, 2024 Comply with P.R. 3-1 & 3-2 (Infringement Contentions)

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

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Good cause is not shown merely by indicating 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.

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.

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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.

Proposed DCO: The Parties’ Proposed DCO should also follow the format

described above under "Amendments to the Docket Control Order (‘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 allegesinfringement, 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.

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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