Finjan LLC v. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 FINJAN LLC, Case No. 3:14-cv-04908-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE MOTION TO STRIKE

v.

PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC., Defendant.

10 Defendant Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PAN) asks to strike portions of plaintiff Finjan’s expert reports that are said to rely on undisclosed infringement theories. Dkt. No. 230. The request is granted in part. Pursuant to the scheduling order, the parties exchanged expert reports in January 2023. See Dkt. No. 194. PAN says that that three of Finjan’s experts, namely Dr. Min, Dr. Jakobsson, and Dr. Keromytis, offered infringement opinions based on the “CTD engine,” “single pass scanning,” and “single pass architecture,” that were not disclosed in Finjan’s infringement contentions. As the Federal Circuit has rightly observed, our District’s patent local rules require plaintiffs and defendants “to provide early notice of their infringement and invalidity contentions, and to proceed with diligence in amending those contentions when new…