The data on the attached chart strongly suggest that these cases should be managed jointly. Plaintiff asserts four of the same patents in three different cases, and three of the same patents in one additional case.

The Court has not decided how to adjudicate these cases efficiently. Perhaps the Court should consolidate them for pretrial discovery, pretrial conference, and/or trial, or construe common patents in joint claim construction hearings. Perhaps the Court should take additional or different steps. What is clear, however, is that allowing the cases to proceed separately, and conducting separate claim construction hearings on each of these cases seriatim, would lead to the needless expenditure of the parties’ resources and the Court’s time.

The Court adopts the schedule proposed by the parties in their joint case management schedule at ECF No. 78, page 13, with the following additions and amendments: 

Parties’ joint proposal regarding the number of terms to be construed by the Court: May 4, 2017 Tutorial: September 25, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. Claim construction hearing: October 10, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.