ROY S. PAYNE, District Judge.
Before the Court is Defendants' Lighting Science Group Corporation and Home Depot U.S.A. Inc.'s, Motion for Amendment to the Court's Memorandum and Order on Claim Construction (Dkt. No. 142, filed July 25, 2014). Defendants contend that they seek limited amendments to clarify two aspects of the Court's Memorandum Opinion and Order. (Dkt. No. 135, filed July 11, 2014) ("Markman Order"). After considering the arguments made by the parties (Dkt. Nos. 142 and 154), the Court finds Defendants' motion should be DENIED.
Defendants move the Court to strike its reference to Figure 17 of U.S. Patent No. 8,220,959 (the "'959 Patent") and U.S. Patent No. 6,951,418 (the "'418 Patent") in its analysis for the disputed phrase "symmetrical across the axis of light direction."
First, the claims of the '959 Patent and the '418 Patent are both directed to optic designs. Moreover, the '959 Patent and the '418 Patent share a common specification and common set of drawings, and the claims language recites common elements. For example, the disputed terms "light transformer," "redirecting/redirects," and "redistributing/redistributes" are found in the asserted claims of both the '959 Patent and '418 Patent. Thus, although every element of the claims of the '959 Patent may not be found in Figure 17, it does not mean that Figure 17 cannot illustrate elements common to the claims of the '959 Patent and the '418 Patent. Here, Figure 17 illustrates an optic that is round and provides intrinsic evidence that directly refutes Defendants' argument that the patentee clearly and unmistakably disclaimed round optics. Accordingly, the Court
The parties originally disputed the terms "second/third/fourth end," "second member," "second planar optical window," and "second opening."
Defendants now move the Court to "revise" its construction to add clarifying language. (Dkt. No. 142 at 3.) Defendants contend that the Court's reference to a "location" in its construction may introduce ambiguity such that two locations on a single window could be argued to be a first and second window. (Dkt. No. 142 at 3.) Thus, Defendants move the Court to change its construction to make clear that a single item cannot be double counted. (Dkt. No. 142 at 3-4.)
Defendants' motion is a rehash of the arguments made in the claim construction briefing and at the claim construction hearing. Indeed, the construction Defendants originally proposed and now their alternative proposed revisions would exclude round optics from the scope of the claims. The Court addressed and rejected this argument in the Markman Order and the Court's construction requires no further clarification. (Dkt. No. 135 at 29.) Accordingly, the Court
For the reasons stated above, Defendants' Lighting Science Group Corporation and Home Depot U.S.A. Inc.'s, Motion for Amendment to the Court's Memorandum and Order on Claim Construction (Dkt. No. 142) is