Key ED Texas Patent Decisions & Federal Circuit Trends

1. 16th Annual Eastern District of Texas Bench Bar Conference October 24-26, 2012 – Plano, Texas Key ED Texas Patent Decisions & Federal Circuit Trends Hon. Roy S. Payne, Marshall, Texas Jennifer Ainsworth, Tyler, Texas Peter Corcoran, Houston, Texas Michael C. Smith, Marshall, Texas The 1901 Harrison County Courthouse (restored 2009) Marshall, Texas J. Riely Gordon, architect

2. Review of… • Leading ED Texas patent decisions from 2011-2012. • Trends in Federal Circuit.

3. Eastern District of Texas cases • Extensions (to answer/in general) • Severance / consolidation • Amending contentions • Discovery • Lead defendant • Cost shifting • Settlement negotiations • Limiting claims/prior art references • Motions to stay due to pending cases. • Court costs • Willful infringement

4. Extensions To Answer/ Extensions in General

5. Extensions (to answer) • Tallgrass Prairie Management, LLC v. Microsoft, et al., 2:11cv411 (7/27/12) (Schneider, J.) • Phoenix v. GEICO, 2:12cv214 (7/19/12) (Payne, J.)

6. Extensions (in general) • Docket control / discovery orders • Protective orders • Notice of mediator • E-discovery order

7. Severance/consolidation

8. Severance/consolidation • Norman IP Holdings, LLC v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc., 6:11cv495 (8/10/12) (Davis, J.) • Rotatable Technologies v. Apple, et al., 2:12cv292 (8/17/12) (Gilstrap, J.) • Swipe Innovations v. Elavon, 9:12cv40 (8/14/12) (Clark, J.) • Oasis v. Carbonite, et al, 4:10cv435 (8/15/12) (Mazzant, J.) • TQP v. Aflac, 2:11cv397 (8/16/12) (Craven, J.)

9. Amending Contentions

10. Amending Contentions • EON Corp. v. T-Mobile USA, et al, 6:10cv379 (1/24/12) (Love, J.) • Lake Cherokee v. Bass Computers, et al., 2:10cv216 (7/2/12) (Gilstrap, J.)

11. Discovery

12. Discovery - "lead defendant" • Geotag v. Circle K Stores, Inc., et al., 2:11cv405 (8/14/12) (Schneider, J.)

13. Discovery – cost shifting • MicroUnity v. Apple, et al., 2:10cv91 (6/19/12) (Payne, J.) (citing FRCP 37(a)(5)(A))

14. Discovery - settlement negotiations • Hill v. Abt, 2:09cv313 (E.D. Tex. 4/4/12) (Gilstrap, J.) (citing Clear with Computers LLC v. Bergdorf Goodman, Inc., 753 F. Supp. 2d 662 (E.D. Tex. 2010) (Davis, C.J.))

15. Limiting number of terms/claims/prior art references

16. Limiting number of terms/claims/prior art references • Unified Messaging Solutions v. Facebook/Google, 6:11cv120/464 7/12/12) (Davis, C.J.) (reduce claims to 20; reduce invalidity contentions to 4 “distinct bases of invalidity” for each claim) • Eon v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 6:10-cv-00379, (9/10/12) (Love, J.) (reduce to 4 “distinct bases for invalidity, including obviousness combinations”) • Wi-LAN, Inc. v. Acer, Inc., 2:07-cv-00473, (7/29/12) (Ward, J.) (limiting to 12 “anticipation or obvious charts total” for all claims) • Mosaid v. Freescale, 6:11cv173 (8/28/12) (Davis, J.) (4 total references per claim) • Hearing Components, Inc. v. Shure, Inc., 2008 WL 2485426 at *1 (6/13/08) (Clark, J.) (limit to ten terms and three claims) • DDR v. Digital River, 2:06cv42 (Gilstrap, J.) (request for 4 prior art references limit denied). • MicroUnity v. Apple, 2:10cv091 (6/7/12) (Payne, J.) (motion to limit claims denied).

17. Motion to Stay Due to Prior Pending Litigation

18. Motion to Stay Due to Prior Pending Litigation • Levine v. Casio America, Inc. et al., 2:11cv56 (5/2/12) (Schneider, J.)

19. Court Costs

20. Court Costs • Eolas Technologies v. Adobe Systems, et al., 6:09cv446 (E.D. Tex. 7/19/12) (Davis, C.J.)

21. Willful infringement

22. Willful infringement • SSL Services v. Citrix, 2:08cv158 (9/17/12) (Gilstrap, J.)

23. and speaking of the Federal Circuit…

24. Federal Circuit Trends • Bard • In re EMC • Laserdynamics • Retractable Technologies

25. Federal Circuit Trends for EDTX

26. ED Case Wins in Fed Cir by Party

27. The End Michael C. Smith Siebman, Burg, Phillips & Smith, LLP Marshall, Texas michaelsmith@siebman.com www.EDTexweblog.com