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

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W02-WEST:6NB1\400066567.1 [PROPOSED] ORDER RE NANOMETRICS' MOTION TO STRIKE 

PORTIONS OF NOVA'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER/COUNTERCLAIM

Case No. C06-02252 SBA

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SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

A Limited Liability Partnership 

Including Professional Corporations 

NEIL A. SMITH, Cal. Bar No. 63777 

DAVID SCHNAPF, Cal. Bar No. 100199 

Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111-4106 

Telephone: 415-434-9100 

Facsimile: 415-434-3947 

Electronic mail: nsmith@sheppardmullin.com 

 dschnapf@sheppardmullin.com 

Attorneys for NOVA MEASURING 

INSTRUMENTS, LTD. and NOVA MEASURING 

INSTRUMENTS, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

NANOMETRICS INCORPORATED, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, 

LTD. and NOVA MEASURING 

INSTRUMENTS, INC., 

Defendants. 

 Case No. C06-02252 SBA 

 ORDER RE NANOMETRICS' MOTION 

TO STRIKE DEFENSES, 

ALLEGATIONS, AND PRAYERS FOR 

RELIEF FROM NOVA'S FIRST 

AMENDED ANSWER AND 

COUNTERCLAIM 

Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong 

United States District Judge

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIM 

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The Court having considered Nanometrics Incorporated's "MOTION TO STRIKE 

DEFENSES, ALLEGATIONS, AND PRAYERS FOR RELIEF FROM NOVA'S FIRST 

AMENDED ANSWER AND COUNTERCLAIM," including all papers and arguments submitted 

in connection therewith, Orders as follows: 

1. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT Nanometrics Incorporated's Motion to 

Strike Defenses, Allegations, and Prayers for Relief from Nova's First Amended Answer and 

Counterclaim IS DENIED, because: 1) Nova's invalidity allegations provide fair notice to 

Nanometrics of their basis, and any further detail must be obtained through the mechanisms set 

forth in the Patent Local Rules; and 2) Nova's inequitable conduct allegations have been pled with 

the requisite particularity. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 9/14/06 ___________________________________________ 

Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong 

Respectfully submitted: 

DATED: August 29, 2006 

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

By /s/David Schnapf 

 DAVID SCHNAPF 

Attorneys for NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, 

LTD. and NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, 

INC. 

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