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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 28:1338 Patent Infringement

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William J. Robinson (SBN 83729)

Victor de Gyarfas (SBN 171950)

Grant E. Kinsel (SBN 172407)

FOLEY & LARDNER LLP

2029 Century Park East, 35

th

Floor

Los Angeles, California 90067-3021

Telephone: 310-277-2223

Facsimile: 310-557-8475

wrobinson@foley.com

vdegyarfas@foley.com

gkinsel@foley.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

FORMFACTOR, INC.

Juanita R. Brooks, CA SBN 75934,

brooks@fr.com

John E. Giust, CA SBN 196337,

giust@fr.com

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

12390 El Camino Real

San Diego, CA 92130

Telephone: 858-678-5070

Facsimile: 858-678-5090

Barry K. Shelton, CA SBN 199307,

shelton@fr.com

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

111 Congress Avenue, Suite 400

Austin, TX 78701-4143

Telephone: 512-472-5070

Facsimile: 512-320-8935

Tamara Fraizer, CA SBN 215942,

fraizer@fr.com

S. Kameron Parvin, CA SBN 232349,

parvin@fr.com

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

500 Arguello Street, Suite 500

Redwood City, CA 94063

Telephone: 650-839-5070

Facsimile: 650-839-5071

Attorneys for Defendants

MICRONICS JAPAN CO. LTD and MJC

ELECTRONICS CORP.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

(SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION)

FORMFACTOR, INC., a Delaware corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

MICRONICS JAPAN CO., LTD., a Japanese

corporation; and, MJC ELECTRONICS CORP., a

Delaware corporation,

Defendants.

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Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 6-2(a) and 6-1(b), Plaintiff FormFactor, Inc., and Defendants

Micronics Japan Co., Ltd., and MJC Electronics Corp. do hereby stipulate, in fairness to the parties

and to accommodate the provision by FormFactor of its Amended Preliminary Infringement

Contentions, to extend the time for various dependent pre-trial events whose timing, as outlined by

the Patent Local Rules, depends upon the provision of such contentions.

AMENDED

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By agreement, FormFactor will move, unopposed, for leave to amend its Preliminary

Infringement Contentions and will provide them on August 24, 2007. Defendants state that they

require additional time to prepare Preliminary Invalidity Contentions because Rule 3-3 of the Patent

Local Rules affords Defendants 45 days from the date of service of Preliminary Infringement

Contentions to provide their Preliminary Invalidity Contentions, the parties propose to extend the

date for service of Defendants’ Preliminary Invalidity Contentions by 35 days. Defendants state

that without this additional time period, Defendants would be prejudiced in their efforts to prepare

their invalidity arguments, for example, because they would be limited in their ability to search for

prior art that may be equivalent to the Accused Instrumentalities. Plaintiff disagrees that

Defendants require any additional time to provide Preliminary Invalidity Contentions because

Defendants have already been informed of the asserted claims, but in the spirit of cooperation,

Plaintiff would treat Defendants’ request as a request for an extension of time that Plaintiff would

not oppose.

The parties have further agreed to extend the dates for the subsequent pre-trial events that

trigger off of the dates for the parties’ contentions. Specifically, subject to the Court’s approval, the

parties propose to extend the dates for provision of their joint claim construction statement, for the

close of claim construction discovery, and for filing of their respective claim construction briefs, as

follows:

EVENT (Patent Local Rule) Old Date Proposed New Date

Preliminary Infringement Contentions

(3-1, 3-2)

Thursday, July 19, 2007 (Amendments to be Served)

Friday, August 24, 2007

Preliminary Invalidity Contentions (3-3) Monday, September 03, 2007 Monday, October 8, 2007

Exchange Claim Terms (4-1) Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Thursday, October 18, 2007

Meet and Confer re Claim Terms (4-1(b)) Thursday, September 27, 2007 Thursday, October 25, 2007

Exchange Claim Constructions (4-2) Tuesday, October 02, 2007 Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Meet and Confer re Claim Construction (4-2c) Monday, October 08, 2007 Wednesday, November 28,2007

Joint Claim Construction Statement (4-3) Thursday, October 25, 2007 Friday, December 7, 2007

Close Claim Construction Discovery (4-4) Friday, November 23, 2007 Monday, January 7, 2008

Patentee’s Claim Construction Brief (4-5a) Friday, December 14, 2007 Monday, January 21, 2008

Opposing Claim Construction Brief (4-5b) Friday, January 04, 2008 Monday, February 4, 2008

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Reply Claim Construction Brief (4-5c) Friday, January 11, 2008 Thursday, February 14, 2008

Tutorial Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Wednesday, March 12, 2008

(or as soon thereafter as is

convenient for the Court)

Claim Construction Hearing (4-5) Monday, February 20, 2008 Wednesday, March 19, 2008

(or as soon thereafter as is

convenient for the Court)

The parties further stipulate and request that the Court reschedule the dates of the tutorial

and claim construction hearing, both to accommodate the parties’ stipulated changes to the case

schedule and also because counsel for Defendants has a trial conflict with the currently scheduled

date for the parties’ claim construction hearing. Specifically, counsel for Defendants is scheduled

to be in trial from February 20, 2008 through March 11, 2008 and from March 24, 2008 through

April 4, 2008. The parties respectfully request that the tutorial and claim construction hearing

accordingly be rescheduled for about March 12 and 19, 2008, respectively, or as soon after April 4,

2008 as is convenient for the Court.

Granting the current stipulation to extend time would facilitate the progress of this case, as it

will permit the parties to better disclose their preliminary contentions and will accommodate

counsel’s trial schedule with no or only a minimal delay in the resolution of claim construction.

There has been one previous time modification in this case: the parties stipulated, on July 5, 2007,

for the convenience of counsel for FormFactor, to extend by two weeks the dates for provision of

the parties’ contentions with corresponding adjustments to the due dates for events relating to claim

construction but without any change in the dates for the tutorial and claim construction hearing.

Pursuant to Local Rule 6-2(a), this stipulated request to change the schedule is supported by

the accompanying declaration of Tamara Fraizer. This stipulation is made without prejudice to seek

additional orders from the Court, subject to the approval of this Honorable Court.

May 6, 

2008 at 

2:00 p.m.

May 13, 

2008 at 

2:00 p.m.

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Dated: August 24, 2007 /s/ Tamara Fraizer

Tamara Fraizer

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

Attorneys for Defendants

MICRONICS JAPAN CO., LTD., and MJC

ELECTRONICS CORP.

Dated: August 24, 2007 /s/ Victor de Gyarfas

Victor de Gyarfas

FOLEY & LARDNER LLP

Attorneys for Plaintiff

FORMFACTOR, INC.

Pursuant to General Order No. 45, Section X(B) regarding signatures, I attest under penalty

of perjury that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from Victor de Gyarfas.

Dated: August 24, 2007 /s/ Tamara Fraizer

Tamara Fraizer

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

Attorneys for Defendants

MICRONICS JAPAN CO., LTD., and MJC

ELECTRONICS CORP.

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 24, 2007

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The Honorable Jeffrey S. White

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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AMENDED August 28, 2007

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