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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`WACO DIVISION
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`ANCORA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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`VS.
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`LG ELECTRONICS, INC., ET AL
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`January 26, 2021
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` CIVIL ACTION NO. AU-20-CV-34
`SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD, *
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`BEFORE THE HONORABLE ALAN D ALBRIGHT, JUDGE PRESIDING
`DISCOVERY HEARING (via Zoom)
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`For Defendant LG:
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`For Defendant Samsung:
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`Charles L. Ainsworth, Esq.
`Parker, Bunt & Ainsworth, P.C.
`100 East Ferguson, Suite 418
`Tyler, TX 75702
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`Andres Healy, Esq.
`Nicholas S. Crown, Esq.
`Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
`1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3800
`Seattle, WA 98101
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`Elizabeth M. Chiaviello, Esq.
`Winstol D. Carter, Jr., Esq.
`Thomas R Davis, Esq.
`Morgan Lewis and Bockius LLP
`1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 4000
`Houston, TX 77002
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`Collin W. Park, Esq.
`Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP
`1111 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
`Washington, DC 20004-2541
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`Robert T. Haslam, Esq.
`Covington & Burling LLP
`3000 El Camino Real
`5 Palo Alto Square, 10th Floor
`Palo Alto, CA 94306
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`KRISTIE M. DAVIS, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
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`U.S. DISTRICT COURT, WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (WACO)
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`Eric T. O'Brien, Esq.
`Covington & Burling LLP
`850 Tenth Street, NW, One City Center
`Washington, DC 20001-4956
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`Melissa Richards Smith, Esq.
`Gillam & Smith, LLP
`303 South Washington Avenue
`Marshall, TX 75670
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`Andrew Thompson Gorham, Esq.
`Gillam & Smith LLP
`102 N. College, Suite 800
`Tyler, TX 75702
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`Jared Frisch, Esq.
`Covington & Burling LLP
`One CityCenter, 850 Tenth Street, NW
`Washington, DC 20001-4956
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`Kristie M. Davis
`United States District Court
`PO Box 20994
`Waco, Texas 76702-0994
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`KRISTIE M. DAVIS, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
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`(January 26, 2021, 2:35 p.m.)
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`DEPUTY CLERK: Discovery hearing in Civil Action
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`1:20-CV-34, styled Ancora Technologies, Incorporated versus
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`LG Electronics, Incorporated, and others.
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`THE COURT: If I could have announcements from counsel
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`MR. HEALY: Thank you. This is Mr. Healy on behalf of
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: Good afternoon, Your Honor. You also
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`have Elizabeth Chiaviello from Morgan Lewis on behalf of LG.
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`With me I have Winn Carter, Collin Park, Tom Davis, and
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`observing from Morgan Lewis is Melissa Navin.
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`THE COURT: And who will be speaking today?
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: Today you actually have me, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Well, what an honor. That's great. I -- it
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`So we have a couple of issues to take up. The first one
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`we need to take up is defendant is seeking relief with respect
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`to the OTA update. I'm happy to hear from LG on that.
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`MR. HEALY: And, Your Honor, it's actually plaintiff
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`that's seeking relief, but I'm happy to go in whatever order
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`THE COURT: Plaintiff's seeking relief and defendant is
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`opposing. I'm sorry. I got that backwards.
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`Happy to hear -- let me hear then from the plaintiff as to
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`what it is that you want, and I'll hear from the defendant as
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`to why you should not get it.
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`MR. HEALY: Yes, Your Honor. Thank you.
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`And I know we have limited time so I'll try and be very
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`Your Honor knows that we've raised the issue of the
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`download statistics several times with the Court. We've been
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`appreciative of the help that the Court has given us, including
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`most recently ordering LG to produce some ESI and also make
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`some certain witnesses available. And I say that only because
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`at the most recent hearing Your Honor told us, look, go depose
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`the witnesses. Find out if there is statistics to be had, if
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`there are and LG won't give those to you, you know, come back
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`to me and we'll talk about it.
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`And, frankly, that's the situation we're now in, Your
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`Honor. We deposed a number of LG witnesses. Two in particular
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`testified that LG retains OTA statistics of the kind that we're
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`looking for for at least two years. These are sort of detailed
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`OTA statistics.
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`And so they had those for at least two years.
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`And we also in the course of the ESI have located various
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`documents that show, you know, they're called take-rate reports
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`that were being sent by LG to various U.S. carriers that
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`include similar information.
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`So we said to LG, "Look, your own witnesses, your own
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`documents show that you have this data for at least two years.
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`Please produce that data at least to us."
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`LG said, "Well, why is it relevant, you know. If we go
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`back two years from today, you know, we're outside of the
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`infringement period," and we said, "Fair enough."
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`You know, again, our understanding is that LG is going to
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`argue in this case, you know, that we have an obligation to
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`show some -- provide information, you know, evidence with
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`installed or not installed. And so we said, "Look, you know,
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`your position is you don't have any of this information, you
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`going to make this argument, you know, we'd like whatever
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`information you have so that our expert can look at it. He can
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`compare it to the -- you know, the few examples of within
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`infringing time period evidence we have and see if he can do
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`some sort of analysis to come up with a historical take rate or
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`historical OTA update rate."
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`their expert's been relying on. So he just wanted to compare,
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`you know, that general information with whatever specific
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`information we could get and see if we can, you know, come up
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`with the best evidence we can under the circumstances, you
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`know, again accepting LG's representations at face value.
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`We also told LG: If you're not intending to make this
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`argument, fine. Just tell us that and we'll drop the issue.
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`You know, we don't need to fight about something where it's not
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`going to be an issue.
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`LG's response was that it isn't going to -- it is going to
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`make that argument and no, it won't produce the data.
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`So that's the basis for our first request, Your Honor. We
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`just want whatever information they have. We'll take it in
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`that format, and then our expert can look at it, you know, and
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`The other just side issue, you know, we have sort of
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`three, and the e-mail we sent unfortunately has three sort of
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`requests. The other two are largely the same issue. Basically
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`what we said is: Let's just accept everything LG has said at
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`face value, take it as the gospel. You know, they have two
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`years worth of data. After two years they delete the data, and
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`I'm sure you're going to hear today, you know, it's our fault.
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`We took too long to file the case and so they deleted the data.
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`You know, that's an issue for a different day, but we
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`filed this case in June of 2019. We served LG four days later.
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`years worth of data and that's it. They should still have,
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`when we filed the case, 16 months worth of the data within the
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`infringing time period. And so our question has been
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`consistently, you know, again, we're taking everything you're
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`saying as true, where's the 16 months worth of data that you --
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`your own witnesses say you had, or should have had, and where
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`You know, and if it's a matter of it wasn't preserved, I
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`think we're entitled to know that information because if LG,
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`reason we don't have this information is because LG didn't take
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`And so those are our two requests, Your Honor, on the
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`first issue. Again I want to be brief. I know Your Honor has
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`THE COURT: And let me -- thank you, and you were brief
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`Let me hear from counsel for LG, and I am very sympathetic
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`to LG's position. They've gone through two rounds and they've
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`don't want to be put upon; but I am also concerned about
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`allowing LG to make any argument at trial that could be
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`rebutted if I were to allow this discovery, if that makes
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`So let me hear from LG.
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: And, Your Honor -- sorry, Your Honor. I
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`THE COURT: No.
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: I think the answer to Your Honor's
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`LG is not saying that it won't produce this information.
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`We have routinely said: We can't produce this information.
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`We don't have it. The only place that it exists is in
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`this ESI, and we told this to Ancora multiple times, multiple
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`hearings, multiple meet and confers; and which is why Your
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`Honor did end up ordering two rounds of ESI.
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`Specifically this latest round of ESI was targeted to this
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`types of -- this type of data.
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`Ancora picked its witnesses that it wanted and the
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`custodians that it wanted the ESI search. It chose ten search
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`terms targeting this type of data.
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`We went through over a million documents from this latest
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`round of ESI and produced, at Ancora's self-imposed cap -- I
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`This round of ESI included hundreds of take-rate reports.
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`I'd like to clarify that these take reports are only
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`The last point of distinction that I would like to make is
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`LGE is permitted to see the uploads -- I mean -- hopefully
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`number of uploads for the updates. It cannot distinguish
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`between models. There's no way for LGE to ascertain if the
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`That is all in the possession of third parties, which
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`Ancora is aware of these third parties. They sought
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`third-party discovery, and I know we have some third-party
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`LGE is not in possession of this information.
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`THE COURT: Okay. Mr. Healy, I'm going to take LG's
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`counsel at their word that they don't have any more information
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`If you think that at trial they're making an argument that
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`during discovery, you can take it up at that time and I'll fix
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`So the other issue we have is --
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`MR. HEALY: I think it's the third-party discovery, Your
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`THE COURT: For third-party discovery. Okay.
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`the plaintiff's request for relief, but let me hear from
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`counsel for LG why I shouldn't.
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: Thank you, Your Honor.
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`With respect to Nokia, I'm not sure if this issue is still
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`believe Ancora provided to Your Honor's law clerk. But our
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`Our -- my understanding of Ancora's proposal is that they
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`want to be able to supplement with any third party received up
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`until pretrial, and it's our position that being able to do --
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`supplement that late in the game is going to be prejudicial to
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`THE COURT: I got it.
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`THE COURT: Tell me when the expert depositions start.
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: Opening reports were last Friday, Your
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`Honor, and I believe rebuttal reports are February 28th. It
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`THE COURT: Mr. Healy?
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`MR. HEALY: Yes, Your Honor.
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`So the Nokia issue is moot. With respect to Limelight,
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`Obviously Limelight's not been a very good citizen.
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`We have been told and they have been ordered to produce
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`all document discovery by Thursday, two days from today. We
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`have been told that they are intending to comply with that.
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`You know, if you've read that order, you can understand why.
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`And then they -- we have been told that they will make a
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`deponent available by the end of next week. So we don't have
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`THE COURT: So is this one largely resolved?
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`MR. HEALY: I'm sorry, Your Honor?
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`THE COURT: It sounds like it's resolved to me that you
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`MR. HEALY: If the deadline is February 5th, then no, Your
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`THE COURT: Anything else from LG about that?
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: Not about that, Your Honor. Thank you.
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`THE COURT: Is there anything else?
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: I believe Your Honor's law clerk e-mailed
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`KRISTIE M. DAVIS, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
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`THE COURT: Do we not have a trial setting?
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`MS. CHIAVIELLO: Well, there's multiple issues with that.
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`LG and Ancora have a pending notice in to enter an amended
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`I understand that setting's different from Ancora -- from
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`THE COURT: Well, I'll tell you what, since I was unaware
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`Why don't you all do what you can to work it out with my
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`MR. HEALY: Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Yes, sir.
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`MR. HEALY: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Is this -- and this is a Waco case? I think?
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`MR. HEALY: Yes. So just briefly, Your Honor, so there is
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`a pending stipulation as far as the schedule. So we -- the
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`party, at least LG and plaintiff have agreed to a schedule
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`The Samsung schedule is set. We are currently set for
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`trial I believe on April 12th. We forwarded your clerk's
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`e-mail to Samsung, and Mr. Haslam was on the call here, and we
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`THE COURT: Well, and so here's -- and that case is an
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`MR. HEALY: Yes, Your Honor.
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`MR. HASLAM: Yes.
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`THE COURT: So here's the reality -- and I'll hear from
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`Mr. Haslam in a second. But here's the reality, is I would bet
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`If the plaintiff wants to move forward with the trial date
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`MR. HASLAM: Let me first state my appearance. I don't
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`KRISTIE M. DAVIS, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
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`U.S. DISTRICT COURT, WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (WACO)
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`filed. But just as Mr. Healy said, the agreement to transfer
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`THE COURT: Well, as opposed to being transferred where?
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`THE COURT: And so -- because I want you to be able to
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`MR. HASLAM: No. I understand, Your Honor.
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`THE COURT: Does it make you feel better if I tell you I
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`KRISTIE M. DAVIS
`Official Court Reporter
`800 Franklin Avenue
`Waco, Texas 76701
`(254) 340-6114
`kmdaviscsr@yahoo.com
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`KRISTIE M. DAVIS, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
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`U.S. DISTRICT COURT, WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (WACO)
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`SAMSUNG EX. 1016 - 20/20
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