In a suit filed by SightSound Technologies, a General Electric affiliate, alleging patent infringement by Apple, a federal judge in the Western District of Pennsylvania clamped down on what evidence Apple would be able to add to support its noninfringement and invalidity defenses after the deadline for entering exhibits passed.

U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose of the Western District of Pennsylvania let some of Apple’s evidence trickle in after the deadline, but enforced the deadline on exhibits that the computer giant tried to add months after it had passed.