Kavcic

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALEKSANDAR KAVCIC, Case No. 20-cv-01246-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE SUMMARY JUDGMENT

v. AND TRIAL SETTING

BROADCOM INC., et al., Defendants.

12 This is a long-running fight between plaintiff Dr. Aleksandar Kavcic and defendant Broadcom, Inc., about Broadcom’s objection to Kavcic acting as a consultant and witness for a party adverse to it in a separate patent infringement case pending before the Court. See Carnegie Mellon University v. LSI Corp. et al., No. 18-cv-04571-JD. Kavcic had a prior expert consulting engagement with Broadcom about a different patent suit between Broadcom and the University of Minnesota (UMN) that was the subject of a consulting agreement (the Agreement). Kavcic has asked for summary judgment on his claim for declaratory relief about the scope of the Agreement, and on Broadcom’s counterclaims for breach of contract and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Dkt. No. 137. Broadcom opposes summary…