Filed: Feb. 14, 2017
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Summary: ORDER PHILIP A. BRIMMER , District Judge . This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff Crocs, Inc.'s Request to File Short Surreply in Support of Crocs's Responsive Claim Construction Brief [Docket No. 413]. On November 22, 2016, Defendants U.S.A. Dawgs, Inc. and Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd. (collectively "Dawgs") filed their opening claim construction brief. Docket No. 312. On December 13, 2016, Crocs, Inc. ("Crocs") filed its responsive claim construction brief. Docket No. 343. On
Summary: ORDER PHILIP A. BRIMMER , District Judge . This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff Crocs, Inc.'s Request to File Short Surreply in Support of Crocs's Responsive Claim Construction Brief [Docket No. 413]. On November 22, 2016, Defendants U.S.A. Dawgs, Inc. and Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd. (collectively "Dawgs") filed their opening claim construction brief. Docket No. 312. On December 13, 2016, Crocs, Inc. ("Crocs") filed its responsive claim construction brief. Docket No. 343. On J..
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ORDER
PHILIP A. BRIMMER, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff Crocs, Inc.'s Request to File Short Surreply in Support of Crocs's Responsive Claim Construction Brief [Docket No. 413].
On November 22, 2016, Defendants U.S.A. Dawgs, Inc. and Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd. (collectively "Dawgs") filed their opening claim construction brief. Docket No. 312. On December 13, 2016, Crocs, Inc. ("Crocs") filed its responsive claim construction brief. Docket No. 343. On January 9, 2017, Dawgs filed its reply brief. Docket No. 401. Crocs requests leave to file a short surreply. Docket No. 413.
Crocs argues that a surreply is necessary because Dawgs' reply brief cites to previously undisclosed evidence. Id. Crocs first complains about Dawgs' citation to the "Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of 26 March 2010" of the European Union Intellectual Property Office, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit B to its reply. Docket Nos. 413-3 at 2; 401 at 10. Crocs argues that Dawgs did not disclose this authority in the parties' joint claim construction statement or discuss it in its opening brief. Docket No. 413 at 1. The citation to the decision of the Third Board of Appeal is a citation to legal authority in response to an argument raised by Crocs. See Docket No. 401 at 10. Dawgs does not claim that the decision has any binding effect on Crocs. Id. The Court finds that Dawgs' citation to this decision does not justify the submission of a surreply.
Crocs further objects to Dawgs' "material misrepresentations" regarding "new evidence." Docket No. 413 at 1. Apparently Crocs is referring to Dawgs' discussion of the testimony of Crocs' expert, Ian Whatley. See Docket No. 413-3 at 4-6. Crocs fails to describe how references to the deposition of Crocs' expert constitutes improper new evidence1 or would provide justification for leave to file a surreply. Accordingly it is
ORDERED that Plaintiff Crocs, Inc.'s Request to File Short Surreply in Support of Crocs's Responsive Claim Construction Brief [Docket No. 413] is denied.
