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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`MARSHALL DIVISION
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`ORDER
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`Case No. 2:15-CV-00037-RWS-RSP
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`ELBIT SYSTEMS LAND AND C4I LTD.,
`ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA, LLC,
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`HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC,
`BLUETIDE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.,
`COUNTRY HOME INVESTMENTS, INC.,
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`Plaintiffs,
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`Defendants.
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`The Court enters this separate Order memorializing the Orders on nondispositive motions
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`in the Combined Order and Report and Recommendation. See Dkt. 388. For the reasons previously
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`explained, id., IT IS ORDERED as follows:
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`Plaintiffs’ Motion to Strike Expert Opinions Regarding Stricken Prior Art References And
`Undisclosed Invalidity Theories (Dkt. 275) (“Elbit’s Motion to Strike Invalidity
`Opinions”) is GRANTED-IN-PART and DENIED-IN-PART.
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`Defendant Hughes Network Systems, LLC’s Motion to Strike Elbit’s ’874 Patent
`Infringement Contentions (Dkt. 276) (“Hughes’ Motion to Strike Infringement
`Contentions”) is DENIED.
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` Defendant Hughes’s Motion to Exclude Elbit’s New Priority Date Contentions for the
`’073 Patent (Dkt. 277) (“Hughes’ Priority Date Motion”) is GRANTED.
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`Plaintiffs’ Motion to Exclude the Testimony of Dr. Stephen B. Wicker (Dkt. 312) (“Elbit’s
`Infringement Expert Motion”) is DENIED.
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`Defendant Hughes Network Systems, LLC’s Motion to Exclude Expert Testimony of
`Stephen G. Kunin (Dkt. 313) (“Hughes’ Motion to Exclude Patent Office Expert
`Testimony”) is GRANTED.
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`Defendants’ Daubert Motion to Exclude the Opinions Offered by Christopher Martinez
`(Dkt. 314) (“Defendants’ Motion to Exclude Damages Expert Testimony”) is DENIED.
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`Case 2:15-cv-00037-RWS Document 389 Filed 06/20/17 Page 2 of 2 PageID #: 23915
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`Plaintiffs’ Motion to Strike Defendants’ Experts Opinions Regarding Previously-
`Undisclosed Non-Infringing Alternatives (Dkt. 315) (“Plaintiffs’ Motion to Strike Non-
`Infringing Alternatives”) is GRANTED.
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`Hughes’ Motion to Strike Portions of Elbit’s Expert Reports that Rely on Previously-
`Unidentified Infringement Theories (Dkt. 316) (“Hughes’ Motion to Strike Infringement
`Opinions”) is DENIED.
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`Plaintiffs’ Motion to Exclude Certain Opinions of Defendants’ Damages Expert, Mr. W.
`Christopher Bakewell (Dkt. 319) (“Elbit’s Motion to Exclude Damages Expert
`Testimony”) is DENIED.
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`(10) Defendants Hughes Network Systems, LLC And BlueTide Communications, Inc.’s Motion
`to Transfer Under 28 U.S.C. § 1406 (Dkt. 372) (“Defendants’ Motion to Transfer”) is
`DENIED.
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`(11) Defendants Hughes Network Systems, LLC And BlueTide Communications, Inc.’s Motion
`to Stay Proceedings Pending Resolution of Proper Venue (Dkt. 373) (“Defendants’ Motion
`to Stay”) is DENIED AS MOOT as to Defendants’ request to stay pending resolution of
`motion to transfer under § 1406 and DENIED as to Defendants’ request to stay pending
`resolution of motion to transfer under § 1404.
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