Edelbrock, LLC v. Whipple Industries, Inc.

I. INTRODUCTION

20 Plaintiff Edelbrock, LLC (“Edelbrock”) filed this action against Defendant Whipple 21 Industries, Inc. doing business as Whipple Superchargers (“Whipple”) alleging infringement of 22 United States Patent No. 9,683,481 (the “‘481 Patent”), pursuant to the United States Patent Act, 23 35 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. (ECF No. 1.) This matter is before the Court on the parties’ competing briefs regarding claim construction of five terms in the ‘481 Patent. (ECF No. 40.) The parties filed their principal claim construction briefs on September 11, 2020, and their responsive claim construction briefs on October 1, 2020. (ECF Nos. 44-45, 47-38.) The Court held a claim construction hearing on relevant documents, as well as the parties’ arguments at the hearing, and recommends construing the disputed claims as set forth below.

II. BACKGROUND

3 The ‘481 Patent is titled “Dual Pass Intercooled Supercharger.” (ECF No. 44-2 at 2.) Chad 4 Magana and Robert Simons are the inventors and Edelbrock is the applicant and assignee. (Id.) 5 Edelbrock filed its patent application on March 22, 2016, and the ‘481 Patent was issued on June 6 20, 2017. (Id.; ECF No.…