Free Scheduling Order - District Court of Delaware - Delaware

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
MEDTRONIC, INC., )
Plaintiff; g
v. g C.A. No. 07-823-SLR-LPS
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, g JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
GUIDANT CORPORATION and MIROWSKI )
FAMILY VENTURES, L.L.C., )
Defendants. g
SCHEDULING ORDER
At Wilmington this _<_?j_'Ij_*‘_ day of % z , 2008, the parties
having satisfied their obligations under Fed. R. Ci . P. 26(t), and the court having conducted a
pretrial scheduling conference pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 16 and D. Del. LR 16.2(a) and (b).
IT IS ORDERED that:
1. Pre-Discovery Disclosures. The parties have exchanged the infomation
required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(1) and D. Del. LR 16.2.
2. Discovery.
(a) Discovery will be needed on the following subjects:
Generally, Plaintiff Medtronic will need discovery regarding its claims that the accused
Medtronic devices do not infringe the asserted ’1 19 Reissue Patent claims 15, 19, 20 and 26, and
the asserted ’897 Reissue Patent claims 120, 162, 172, 184, 201, 211, 217, 225, 233, 248, 273,
‘ 282, 288, 294, 303, 308, 309, 314, 315, 320 and 324-328, and that the asserted ’119 Reissue
Patent claims and the asserted ’897 Reissue Patent claims are invalid pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §§
101,102,103, 112,132, 251.

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f Generally, Defendants will need discovery regarding Medtronic’s assertions as to non-
' infringement and invalidity and its assertions as to distribution of the escrow account set forth in
defendant MFV’s counterclaim.
U (b) All fact discovery shall be commenced in time to be completed by
March 16, 2009 .
(1) Document production by the parties shall be completed on
or before October 31, 2008 .
(2) Maximum of _2_;_ interrogatories by each party to any
other party.
(3) In the absence of agreement among the parties, contention
interrogatories, if filed, shall first be addressed by the party with the burden of proof no later than
i the date established for the completion of document production, with the responsive answers due
within thirty (30) days thereof. The adequacy of all such interrogatory answers shall be judged
by the level of detail each party provides; i.e., the more detail a patty provides, the more detail a
party shall receive.
= (4) Maximum of ;5_0__ requests for admission by each party
to any other party.
(5) In the absence of agreement among the parties or by order
of the court, no deposition (other than those noticed under Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6)) shall be
scheduled prior to the completion of document production.
(6) Maximum of L fact depositions by plaintiff and _L2
by defendant(s). Each fact deposition [other than of depositions involving a foreign langgage

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E and translator ] limited to a maximum of _j__ hours unless extended by agreement of the
parties.
(c) Expert discovery shall be commenced in time to be completed by
June 8, 2009 .
L (1) Expert reports on issues for which the parties have the
burden of proof due March 31, 2009 . Rebuttal expert reports due May 1 1, 2009 .
(2) Expert depositions to be limited to a maximum of
L hours unless extended by agreement of the parties.
(3) All Qgrg motions shall be tiled on or before July 1,
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(d) Supplementations wider Rule 26(e) due as provided in the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure.
(e) Fact Witnesses to be Called at Trial. Within one (1) month
following the close of expert diswvery, each party shall serve on the other parties a list of each
fact witness (including any expert witness who is also expected to give fact testimony), who has
previously been disclosed during discovery and that it intends to call at trial. Within one (1)
month of receipt of such fact witness list, each party shall serve a list of each rebuttal fact
witness that it intends to call at trial. The parties shall have the right to depose any such fact
witnesses who have not previously been deposed in this case. Such deposition shall be held
within one (1) month after service of the list of rebuttal fact witnesses and shall be limited to
twenty (20) hours per side in the aggregate unless extended by agreement of the parties or upon
order of the court upon good cause shown.

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n 3. Joinder of other Parties and Amendment of Pleadings. All motions to
join other parties and amend the pleadings shall be filed on or before February 27, 2009 .
4. _ Contentions. V
a. Contention interrogatories shall first be addressed by the party with
- the burden of proof no later than November 28, 2008 , with the responsive answers due no
later than December 31, 2008 . The adequacy of all such interrogatory answers shall be
judged by the level of detail each party provides; i.e., the more detail a party provides, the more
detail a party shall receive.
b. With respect to new claims asserted by defendants in their
responsive answers provided pursuant to Section 4(a), Medtronic shall have until January 3l,
` _2Q_Q9m to amend its defenses regarding both invalidity and noninfringement.
l 5. Claim Construction Issue Identification. If the court does not find that
an earlier claim construction would be helpful in resolving the case, the parties shall exchange
lists of those claim terms that they believe need construction and their proposed claim
2 construction of those terms on February l5, 2009. This document will not be tiled with the
court. Subsequent to exchanging such lists, the parties will meet and confer to prepare a Joint
Claim Construction Statement.
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