Preliminary

Disclosure of Infringement Contentions Within 56 days after the filing of the answer, the plaintiff must serve on the defendant and any defendant-intervenors a Preliminary Disclosure of Infringement Contentions that includes the following information: (a) the claim in each product, process, or method of each patent at issue that is allegedly infringed by each opposing party; (b) for each asserted claim, each product, process, or method that allegedly infringes the identified claim. This identification must include the name and model number, if known, of the accused product, process, or method; (c) a chart identifying where each element of each asserted claim is found within each accused product, process, or method, including the name and model number, if known; (d) whether each element of each identified claim is alleged to be literally present or present under the doctrine of equivalents in the accused product, process, or method; and (e) for each patent that claims priority to an earlier application, the priority date to which each asserted claim allegedly is entitled and whether the patentee is relying on the filing date or an earlier conception date as the priority date.