SKY , this is brief portion of proceeding.For further detail look at 'order relating to patent cases before judge john ward"
http://mcsmith.blogs.com/eastern_dis...
4-1. Exchange of Proposed Terms and Claim Elements for Construction.
(a) Not later than
140 days before the date set for the Claim Construction Hearing,
each party shall simultaneously exchange a list of claim terms, phrases, or clauses
which that party contends should be construed by the Court, and identify any claim
element which that party contends should be governed by 35 U.S.C. § 112(6).
4-3. Joint Claim Construction and Prehearing Statement.
Not later than
30 days after “Exchange of Preliminary Claim Constructions andExtrinsic Evidence” in compliance with P.R. 4.2, the parties shall complete and file
a Joint Claim Construction and Prehearing Statement, which shall contain the
following information:
Thus, the Court’s modifications will make the trigger of P.R. 4-1 through P.R. 4-5 the date
of the Claim Construction Hearing. For clarification, the Court notes that the “140 days” set forth
in P.R. 4-1 was not chosen to confuse the parties but was instead chosen so as to be evenly divisible
by 7. Thus, whatever the date of the Claim Construction Hearing, the deadline for complying with
P.R. 4-1 will always fall on a weekday. If that weekday is a Federal Holiday, the deadline for
complying with P.R. 4-1 is extended to the first day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other Federal
Holiday.
