Representative Infringement Contentions Stricken Without Leave to Amend For Failure to Show Common Characteristics​

The court granted plaintiff's motion to strike defendants' infringement contentions based on representative accused products as insufficient. "[T]he patent owners have not adequately shown that their purportedly representative claims in fact share the same critical characteristics as other accused products. . . . [T]he patent owners will be strictly limited to accusing products that truly fit the theories described in their infringement contentions. The patent owners do not have leave to amend to add explanations about how the charted accused products are representative of other accused products. Nor do they have leave to amend to chart additional 'representative' products."

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. OpenTV, Inc. et al, 3-16-cv-06180 (CAND June 19, 2017, Order) (Alsup, USDJ)