Firstface Co., Ltd. v. Apple, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 FIRSTFACE CO., LTD., Case No. 3:18-cv-02245-JD
Plaintiff,
CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER
v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 61 APPLE, INC., Defendant.
12 The parties in this patent infringement action seek construction of eight phrases from the asserted claims in U.S. Patent No. 9,633,373 (the ’373 patent) and U.S. Patent No. 9,779,419 (the ’419 patent). The Court received full briefing from the parties and held a technology tutorial. During the technology tutorial, defendant Apple made a comment to the effect that plaintiff Firstface had asserted inconsistent construction positions before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The Court invited each side to file a ten-page supplemental brief on the issue. Dkt. No. 118. Apple chose to file almost 900 pages of materials that ranged far beyond PTAB proceedings. Dkt. No. 123. The Court ordered this improper and massively oversized filing to be stricken from the docket, and allowed the parties to file the ten-page submissions as originally…