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Gregory P. Stone (State Bar No. 078329) Steven M. Perry (State Bar No. 106154) Sean Eskovitz (State Bar No. 241877) MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP 355 South Grand Avenue, 35th Floor Los Angeles, California 90071-1560 Telephone: (213) 683-9100 Facsimile: (213) 687-3702 Email:
[email protected];
[email protected];
[email protected]
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Peter A. Detre (State Bar No. 182619) Carolyn Hoecker Luedtke (State Bar No. 207976) Jennifer L. Polse (State Bar No. 219202) MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP 560 Mission Street, 27th Floor San Francisco, California 94105 Telephone: (415) 512-4000 Facsimile: (415) 512-4077 Email:
[email protected];
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Attorneys for RAMBUS INC.
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Rollin A. Ransom (State Bar No. 196126) SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 555 West Fifth Street, Suite 4000 Los Angeles, California 900131010 Telephone: (213) 896-6000 Facsimile: (213) 896-6600 Email:
[email protected] Pierre J. Hubert (Pro Hac Vice) Craig N. Tolliver (Pro Hac Vice) McKOOL SMITH PC 300 West 6th Street, Suite 1700 Austin, Texas 78701 Telephone: (512) 692-8700 Facsimile: (512) 692-8744 Email:
[email protected];
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RAMBUS INC., Plaintiff,
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CASE NO.: C 05-00334 RMW
v. HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INC., et al., Defendants.
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Date: Time: Location: Judge:
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RAMBUS INC.,
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DECLARATION OF KEITH R. D. HAMILTON IN SUPPORT OF RAMBUS INC.’S SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF ON THE COURT’S SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 TENTATIVE ORDER
September 24, 2008 2:30 p.m. Courtroom 6 Hon. Ronald M. Whyte
CASE NO.: C 05-02298 RMW Plaintiff,
v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., et al., Defendants 5960401.1 HAMILTON DECL. I/S/O RAMBUS’S SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF ON THE COURT’S SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 TENTATIVE ORDER; CASE NOS. 05-00334-RMW, 05-02298-RMW, C 06-00244-RMW
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CASE NO.: C 06-00244 RMW Plaintiff,
v. MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC., et al., Defendants.
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DECLARATION OF KEITH R. D. HAMILTON
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I, Keith R. D. Hamilton, do hereby declare and say:
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I am an attorney with the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, counsel of
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record for Rambus Inc. (“Rambus”) in this case, and am admitted to practice before this Court. I
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submit this declaration in support of Rambus’s Supplemental Brief on the Court’s September 5,
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2008 Tentative Order. I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein and could and
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would testify competently to each of them.
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2.
Attached as Exhibit A hereto is a true and correct copy of a publication from the
Institute For Progress entitled Examining Inter Partes Reexam (2008). The document is available from www.instituteforprogress.com.
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3.
Attached as Exhibit B hereto is a true and correct copy of Andrew S. Baluch &
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Stephen B. Maebius, The Surprising Efficacy of Inter Partes Rexaminations (2008), available at
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http://www.foley.com/files/tbl_s31Publications/FileUpload137/5234/InterPartesReexam.pdf.
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4.
Attached as Exhibit C hereto is a true and correct copy of Stuart Weinberg,
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Worried About That Infringement Case? Ask For A Reexam, Dow Jones Newswires, May 30,
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2008.
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Attached as Exhibit D hereto is a true and correct copy of Robert Greene Sterne et
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al., Reexamination Practice With Concurrent District Court Patent Litigation, The Sedona
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Conference Journal, Vol. 9, at 53 (2008).
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Attached as Exhibit E hereto are true and correct copies of the transactional
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histories of Reexamination No. 95/000,006 (Patent No. 6,357,595); Reexamination No.
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95/000,009 (Patent No. 6,399,670); and Reexamination No. 95/000,030 (Patent No. 6,508,393).
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These histories were taken from the PTO web site at http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair.
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Also attached hereto are the true and correct copies of the related decisions of the Board of Patent
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Appeals and Interferences: NEC Corp. et al. v. Entegris, Inc., 2007 WL 952194 (Bd. Pat. App. &
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Interf. Mar. 26, 2007) (Patent No. 6,357,595); Lobo v. Congoleum Corp., 2007 WL 988649 (Bd.
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Pat. App. & Interf. Mar. 30, 2007) (Patent No. 6,399,670); and Watson & Chalin Manufacturing,
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Inc. v. Hendrickson U.S.A., 2008 WL 345059 (Bd. Pat. App. & Interf. Feb. 6, 2008) (Patent No.
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6,508,393).
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Attached as Exhibit F hereto are true and correct copies of the transactional
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histories of Reexamination No. 95/000, 178 (Patent No. 6,324,120); Reexamination No.
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95/001,026 (Patent No. 6,378,020); and Reexamination No. 95/000,250 (Patent No. 6,452, 863);
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Reexamination No. 95/000,166 (Patent No. 6,426,916); and Reexamination No. 95/000,183
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(Patent No. 6,182,184). These histories were taken from the PTO web site at
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http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair.
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Attached as Exhibit G is a true and correct copy of Netapp, Inc.’s Opp’n to Def.
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.’s Mot. For Partial Stay, Network Appliance, Inc. v. Sun Microsystems,
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Inc., No. C-07-06053 EDL (Apr. 29, 2008).
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Attached as Exhibit H hereto is a true and correct copy of excerpts from United
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States Patent and Trademark Office, Performance And Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2007
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(2007), available at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/annual/2007/2007annualreport.pdf.
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I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 19th day of September, 2008 at San Jose, California.
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________/s/ Keith R.D. Hamilton________ Keith R. D. Hamilton
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