Joint Claim Construction Statement

Not later than 42 days after the parties exchange the list of claim terms requiring construction pursuant to D. Kan. Pat. Rule 4.1, the parties must complete and file a “Joint Claim Construction Statement,” which must contain the following information: (a) The construction of those terms on which the parties agree; 10 (b) (c) (d) (e) Each party’s proposed construction of each disputed term, together with an identification of all references from the specification or prosecution history that support that construction, and an identification of any extrinsic evidence known to the party on which it intends to rely either to support its proposed construction or to oppose any other party’s proposed construction, including, but not limited to, as permitted by law, dictionary definitions, citations to learned treatises and prior art, and testimony of percipient and expert witnesses; An identification of the terms whose construction will be most significant to the resolution of the case up to a maximum of 10. The parties must also identify any term among the 10 whose construction will be case or claim dispositive.

If the parties cannot agree on the 10 most significant terms, the parties must identify the ones that they do agree are most significant and then they may evenly divide the remainder with each party identifying what it believes are the remaining most significant terms. However, the total terms identified by all parties as most significant cannot exceed 10. For example, in a case involving two parties, if the parties agree upon the identification of five terms as most significant, each may only identify two additional terms as most significant; if the parties agree upon eight such terms, each party may only identify one additional term as most significant; The anticipated length of time necessary for any Claim Construction Hearing; and The proposed format of any Claim Construction Hearing, including whether any party proposes to call one or more witnesses, the identity of each such witness, the order of presentation of terms and argument, and the estimated length of any hearing.