Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Adobe Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 6 DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CASE NO. 18-cv-01553-YGR
CORPORATION, ET AL.,
7 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING 8 IN PART MOTIONS TO STRIKE OR EXCLUDE vs. EXPERT TESTIMONY 9 ADOBE INC., Re: Dkt. Nos. 159, 162 10 Defendant. 11
12 The parties in this action have each filed a motion to exclude or strike testimony offered by 13 the opposing party’s experts. Specifically, Dolby seeks to strike certain testimony offered by 14 Adobe experts Steven Kursh, Schuyler Quackenbush, and Christian Tregillis, while Adobe seeks 15 to strike certain testimony offered by Dolby experts John Strawn, Paul Meyer, and Lorin Hitt. 16 (Dkt. Nos. 159, 162.) The Court heard oral argument on October 23, 2019.1 17 Federal Rule of Evidence 702 controls expert witness testimony. The admissibility of an 18 expert opinion requires a three-step analysis: 19 The admissibility of expert testimony, Rule 702, requires that the trial court make several…