CALJ Denies Motion To Supplement Expert Reports

In Certain Integrated Circuits with Voltage Regulators and Products Containing Same; Inv. No. 337-TA-1024, Chief ALJ Bullock recently denied a motion by Complainant R2 Semiconductor, Inc. to take additional discovery and supplement its expert reports based on the CALJ's claim construction ruling.

By way of background, on July 7, 2017, the CALJ issued Order No. 36, which construed the terms of the asserted claims of the patent at issue. For one of these terms—"dissipative element" —the CALJ adopted a construction that was not proposed by either R2, Respondents, or Staff. Accordingly, the CALJ noted: "Because this construction was not proposed by any of the parties, the undersigned recognizes that the parties may require additional discovery (and time) to address this construction."