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N.D. Cal. Patent L.R. 3-2
Document Production Accompanying Disclosure
With the “Disclosure of Asserted Claims and Infringement Contentions,” the party claiming
patent infringement shall produce to each opposing party or make available for inspection and
copying:
(a) Documents (e.g., contracts, purchase orders, invoices, advertisements, marketing
materials, offer letters, beta site testing agreements, and third party or joint development
agreements) sufficient to evidence each discussion with, disclosure to, or other manner of
providing to a third party, or sale of or offer to sell, or any public use of, the claimed
invention prior to the date of application for the patent in suit. A party’s production of a
document as required herein shall not constitute an admission that such document
evidences or is prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102;
(b) All documents evidencing the conception, reduction to practice, design, and development
of each claimed invention, which were created on or before the date of application for the
patent in suit or the priority date identified pursuant to Patent L.R. 3-1(f), whichever is
earlier;
(c) A copy of the file history for each patent in suit;
(d) All documents evidencing ownership of the patent rights by the party asserting patent
infringement;
(e) If a party identifies instrumentalities pursuant to Patent L.R. 3-1(g), documents sufficient
to show the operation of any aspects or elements of such instrumentalities the patent
claimant relies upon as embodying any asserted claims;
(f) All agreements, including licenses, transferring an interest in any patent-in-suit;
(g) All agreements that may be related to the accused instrumentality or may be comparable
to a license that would result from a hypothetical reasonable royalty negotiation;
(h) All agreements that otherwise may be used to support the party asserting infringement’s
damages case;
(i) If a party identifies instrumentalities pursuant to Patent L.R. 3-1(g), documents sufficient
to show marking of such embodying accused instrumentalities and if it wants to preserve
the right to recover lost profits based on such products, sales, revenues, costs and profits
of such embodying accused instrumentalities; and
(j) All documents comprising or reflecting a F/RAND commitment or agreement with
respect to the asserted patent(s).
The producing party shall separately identify by production number which documents
correspond to each category.
Provenance
- Source
- cand.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-18
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