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Entries for tag: Remote Testimony

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Last week I posted about an order in Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Quectel Wireless Solutions Co. Ltd., C.A. No. 20-1707-CFC-CJB (D. Del.) where, after the Court had specifically warned the parties to make their experts available for Markman, a party then attempted to reschedule the Markman hearing because its expert was unavailable. It did not go well for them.

Shortly after the Court denied the plaintiff's request to move the hearing, the plaintiff filed an unopposed motion to present its expert testimony remotely, so that the expert could attend his trial and also provide testimony at the Markman hearing set for the same day.

The plaintiff pointed out that only the …

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Last month, we wrote about the Mavexar-related witness who spent about $44,400 and counting just to avoid a trip to Delaware. Our post was prompted by the Federal Circuit affirming Judge Connolly's order imposing sanctions for her failure to appear in-person (even though, oddly, she agreed to appear remotely) for questioning by the Court related to potential misbehavior by her LLC, its attorneys, and Mavexar/IP Edge.

Well, yesterday the Court set a new hearing date, once again ordering the witness to appear for an in-person examination by the Court:

At Wilmington on this Twenty-third day of August in 2024, having received the Federal …