Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha v. Rorze Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI Case No. 22-cv-04947-PCP

KAISHA,

8 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO STRIKE IN PART AND DENYING IN v. PART 10 RORZE CORPORATION, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 177 11 Defendants.

12 Pursuant to Patent Local Rule 3-3, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26 and 37, and the Court’s inherent authority, plaintiff Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (“Kawasaki”) has moved for an order striking certain portions of the Opening Expert Report Regarding Invalidity submitted by Dr. Richard Hooper, who has been disclosed as an expert witness for defendants Rorze Corporation and Rorze Automation, Inc. (collectively, “Rorze”). Kawasaki moves to strike those portions on the grounds that Dr. Hooper’s report asserts theories of invalidity that were not disclosed in Rorze’s Amended Invalidity Contentions and theories of invalidity that exceed the numerical limit agreed to by the parties and ordered by the Court in the Joint Stipulation…