CONVOLVE, INC. v. COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP.

No. 00 Civ. 5141(GBD)(JCF).

643 F.Supp.2d 336 (2008)

CONVOLVE, INC. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plaintiffs, v. COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP. and Seagate Technology LLC, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 10, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom M. Fini, Debra Brown Steinberg, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York, NY, James H. Bowhay, James R. Figliulo, Figliulo & Silverman, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Convolve, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James T. Bailey, Kevin James McNamee, Tod Mathew Melgar, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York, NY, for Convolve, Inc.

Herbert F. Schwartz, Robert F. Bahrampour, Ropes & Gray, LLP, Diane C. Hertz, Richard S. Taffet, Bingham McCutchen LLP, New York, NY, Robert J. Goldman, Ropes & Gray, LLP, East Palo Alto, CA, Carolyn Frantz, Carrie A.

Jablonski, Christopher D. Landgraff, Mark E. Ferguson, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Chicago, IL, Mary B. Boyle, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for Compaq Computer Corp.

Andrew Bennett Kratenstein, Michael S. Sommer, Obiamaka P. Madubuko, Lisa Marie Ferri, Philip Charles Canelli, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP, Debra Brown Steinberg, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York, NY, Brian L. Baker, Will & Emery LLP, Daniel E. Alberti, Michele Eileen Moreland, Sabrina A. Chang, John Owen Gilmore, Vera M. Elson, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP, Terrence P. McMahon, McKermott, Will & Emery LLC, Palo Alto, CA, Eric W. Hagen, McDermott, Will & Emery L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, G. Hopkins Guy, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, David Henry Dolkas, William G. Gaede, III, McDermott Will and Emery LLP, Menlo Park, CA, Wei-Chen Chen, Blair Martin Jacobs, McDermott, Will & Emery, Washington, DC, for Seagate Technology LLC.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JAMES C. FRANCIS IV, United States Magistrate Judge.

There are several matters currently pending before the Court in this patent infringement case, all concerning a 1994 masters thesis written by William H. Ray titled "The Reduction of Acoustic Noise Emissions from a Hard Disk Drive" (the "Ray Thesis"). The defendants move for permission to amend their invalidity contentions to incorporate the Ray Thesis and they seek additional...

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