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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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ORDER REGARDING RIGHT TO FILE AN AMENDED ANSWER AND COUNTERCLAIM—No. C-05-0334 RMW

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

E-FILED on 6/19/07

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

RAMBUS INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INC., HYNIX

SEMICONDUCTOR AMERICA INC.,

HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR

MANUFACTURING AMERICA INC.,

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA,

INC., SAMSUNG SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.,

SAMSUNG AUSTIN SEMICONDUCTOR,

L.P.,

NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION,

NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

U.S.A.,

Defendants.

No. C-05-00334 RMW

ORDER REGARDING RIGHT TO FILE AN

AMENDED ANSWER AND

COUNTERCLAIM

[Re Docket No. 167]

Plaintiff Rambus Inc. ("Rambus") has filed a proposed order to dismiss with prejudice the

third counterclaim by defendants Nanya Technology Corporation and Nanya Technology

Corporation U.S.A. ("Nanya"). Nanya filed its answer and counterclaims in this action on July 18,

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2005. It has not filed any amendments to its pleadings and Rambus has not answered the

counterclaims. On June 15, 2006 the court stayed this case. 

The court previously heard oral argument on Rambus's motion to dismiss Nanya's third

counterclaim. Although a final order has not been issued, the court had tentatively ruled to grant

Rambus's motion without prejudice. Rambus submits that the counterclaim should be dismissed

with prejudice because Nanya has not yet amended its counterclaim. However, because a final order

has not yet issued, there is not yet a court ordered due date for an amended complaint. Moreover,

Nanya has a right to amend its counterclaims pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a) without leave of

court. The court notes that by letter dated May 29, 2007, Nanya has indicated that it intends to file

an amended answer and counterclaim in this action.

Accordingly, Rambus's proposed order dismissing Nanya's third counterclaim with prejudice

is denied. 

DATED: 6/18/07

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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Notice of this document has been electronically sent to:

Counsel for Plaintiff:

Jeannine Y. Sano sanoj@howrey.com

Brian K. Erickson berickson@dbllp.com

Burton Alexander Gross, Esq Burton.Gross@mto.com

Carolyn Hoecker Luedtke carolyn.luedtke@mto.com

Craig N. Tolliver ctolliver@mckoolsmith.com

David C. Vondle dvondle@akingump.com

Gregory P. Stone gregory.stone@mto.com

Peter A. Detre detrepa@mto.com

Pierre J. Hubert phubert@mckoolsmith.com

Steven McCall Perry steven.perry@mto.com

Counsel for Defendants:

Jason Sheffield Angell jangell@orrick.com

Theodore G. Brown, III tgbrown@townsend.com

Vickie L. Feeman vfeeman@orrick.com

Daniel J. Furniss djfurniss@townsend.com 

David J. Healey david.healey@weil.com 

Jordan Trent Jones jtjones@townsend.com

Ana Elena Kadala anita.kadala@weil.com

Patrick Lynch plynch@omm.com

Kenneth L. Nissly kennissly@thelenreid.com 

Kenneth R. O'Rourke korourke@omm.com

Matthew D. Powers matthew.powers@weil.com

Edward R. Reines Edward.Reines@weil.com

Mark Shean mshean@orrick.com

Kaiwen Tseng ktseng@orrick.com

Geoffrey H. Yost gyost@thelenreid.com

Susan Gregory van Keulen svankeulen@thelenreid.com

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not

registered for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

Dated: 6/19/07 SPT

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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