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`Selection,” and shall not include a specific date.
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`the Court is of the opinion that these additional deadlines are necessary. The proposed DCOshall includethis
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`4 The parties are directed to Local Rule CV-7(d), which providesin part that “[a] party’s failure to oppose a
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`motion in the mannerprescribed herein creates a presumption that the party does not controvert the facts set out
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`the pleadings or otherwise.” Additionally, once designated, a party’s lead attorney may only
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`be changed bythe filing of a Motion to Change Lead Counsel andthereafter obtaining from
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`the Court an Order granting leave to designate different lead counsel. The true lead counsel
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`should be designated early and should not expect to parachute in as lead once the case has been
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`Motions for Continuance: The following will not warrant a continuance norjustify a
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`failure to comply with the discovery deadline:
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`The fact that there are motions for summary judgment or motions to dismiss pending;
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`The fact that one or more ofthe attorneys is set for trial in another court on the same
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`day, unless the other setting was madepriorto the date of this order or was made as a
`special provision for the parties in the other case;
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`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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`”); Any motion to alter any date
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`on the DCOshall take the form of a motion to amend the DCO. The motion to amend the DCO
`shall include a proposedorderthatlists all of the remaining dates in one column(as above) and
`the proposed changesto 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 DCOin 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.
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`ProposedDCO:TheParties’ Proposed DCOshould also follow the format described
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`above under “Amendments to the Docket Control Order (“DCO’).”
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`; In the contentions of the Parties included in the Joint Pretrial
`Order, the Plaintiff shall specify all allegedly infringed claimsthat will be assertedattrial. 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 whetherthe Plaintiff alleges divided
`infringementor infringement underthe doctrine of equivalents. Each Defendantshall indicate
`the nature of each theory of invalidity, including invalidity for anticipation, obviousness,
`subject-mattereligibility, written description, enablement, or any otherbasis for invalidity. The
`Defendantshall also specify each prior art reference or combination of references upon which
`the Defendantshall 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.
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`Trial: All parties must appearin personattrial. All non-individual (including but not
`limited to corporate) parties must appearat trial through the presence in person ofa 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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`SIGNEDthis 15th day of January, 2023.
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`UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
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