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

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JOINT STIPULATION REQUESTING BRIEF EXTENSION

OF DEADLINE FOR DEFENDANTS TO COMPLETE

PRODUCTION OF EMAILS

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David K. Callahan, P.C. (IL 620227)

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP

200 East Randolph

Chicago, Illinois 60601

Telephone: (312) 861-2000

Facsimile: (312) 861-2200

Attorney for Plaintiffs and Counter-defendants

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION,

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. and

BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA

Maureen K. Toohey (SBN 196401)

TOOHEY LAW GROUP

225 Franklin Street, 16th Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02110

Telephone: (617) 748-5511

Facsimile: (617) 748-5555

Attorney for Plaintiff and Counter-defendant

DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

Juanita R. Brooks (SBN 75934)

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

12390 El Camino Real

San Diego, CA 92130

Telephone: (858) 678-5070

Facsimile: (858) 678-5099

Attorney for Defendants and Counter-claimants

FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS,

INC. and FRESENIUS USA, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

BAXTER HEALTHCARE

CORPORATION,

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.,

BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA, and DEKA

PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP,

Plaintiffs and Counter-defendants,

vs.

FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE

HOLDINGS, INC. d/b/a FRESENIUS

MEDICAL CARE NORTH AMERICA and

FRESENIUS USA, INC.,

Defendants and Counter-claimants.

Case No. C 07-01359 PJH (JL)

“DISCOVERY MATTER”

JOINT STIPULATION REQUESTING

BRIEF EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR

DEFENDANTS TO COMPLETE

PRODUCTION OF EMAILS

Date: n/a

Time: n/a

Place: Courtroom F, 15th Floor

Judge: Hon. James Larson

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Plaintiffs Baxter Healthcare Corp., ,Baxter International Inc., and Baxter Healthcare S.A.,

(collectively “Baxter”) and DEKA Products Limited Partnership (“DEKA”) and Defendants

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. d/b/a Fresenius Medical Care North America and Fresenius

USA, Inc. (collectively “Fresenius”) hereby respectfully submit their joint stipulation requesting a

brief extension of the deadline by which Fresenius must complete production of its archived

emails due to the enormous volume of emails retrieved from Fresenius’ archives.

The parties agreed to begin producing emails in late November pursuant to an agreement

regarding electronically stored information. On November 30, 2007, the Court ordered Fresenius

to complete production of archived emails from ten key employees by January 4, 2008, and to do

so on a rolling basis. Fresenius retrieved emails dating back to the agreed-upon search date of

January 1, 2001, and these emails totaled more than 100 gigabytes of data. Even after Fresenius

applied the key search terms supplied by Plaintiffs, more than 43 gigabytes of data remained,

comprising more than 225,000 discrete documents (emails and associated attachments), many of

which are quite lengthy.

In order to comply with the Court’s Order, Fresenius enlisted more than 20 attorneys and

numerous staff members from seven of Fish & Richardson’s eleven offices, many of whom do not

ordinarily work on this matter but are nevertheless participating in the review because of its size

and urgency. These attorneys and staff members have been and will continue to be reviewing

documents every single day from now until January 4—including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,

New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day—in order to complete the review in a timely manner. In

short, Fresenius is making every possible effort to comply with this Court’s Order. Fresenius has

already begun producing responsive, non-privileged emails and attachments on a rolling basis.

However, the sheer size and complexity of the review have made it impossible for

Fresenius to complete production of all of its responsive emails by January 4. Accordingly,

Plaintiffs have agreed to extend the deadline for Fresenius’ production by 14 days, to January 18.

In turn, Fresenius has committed to Plaintiffs to do everything in its power to review half of its

archived emails and produce everything arising from that review by January 4. Fresenius will

continue to produce documents on a rolling basis, including within the next several days, on

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January 4, and, hopefully, at some point in-between, depending on the availability of Fresenius’

document production vendor.

Accordingly, the parties respectfully request that the Court extend the deadline for

Fresenius’ production of its archived emails until January 18, 2008.

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Respectfully submitted,

December 28, 2007

By: /s David K. Callahan s/____________

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP

David K. Callahan, P.C. (IL 620227)

Garret Leach (pro hac vice)

Mary Zaug (pro hac vice)

200 East Randolph

Chicago, Illinois, 60601

Telephone: (312) 861-2000

Facsimile: (312) 861-2200

Robert G. Krupka (SBN 196625)

777 South Figueroa Street

Los Angeles, California 90017

Telephone: (213) 680-8400

Facsimile: (213) 680-8500

Kenneth Bridges (SBN 243541)

555 California Street

San Francisco, California, 94104

Telephone: (415) 439-1400

Facsimile: (415) 439-1500

Attorneys For Plaintiffs and Counterdefendants

BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION,

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC, and

BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA

December 28, 2007

By: /s Maureen K. Toohey_s/___________

Maureen K. Toohey (SBN 196401)

TOOHEY LAW GROUP

225 Franklin Street, 16th Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02110

Telephone: (617) 748-5511

Howard A. Slavitt (SBN 172840)

Rachel G. Cohen (SBN 218929)

COBLENTZ, PATCH, DUFFY & BASS LLP

One Ferry Building, Suite 200

San Francisco, California 94111-4213

Telephone: (415) 391-4800

Facsimile: (415) 989-1663

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counter-defendant

DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

December 28, 2007

By: /s Juanita R. Brooks s/_____________

Juanita R. Brooks (SBN 75934)

Todd G. Miller (SBN 163200)

Michael M. Rosen (SBN 230964)

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

12390 El Camino Real

San Diego, CA 92130

Telephone: (858) 678-5070

Facsimile: (858) 678-5099

Mathias W. Samuel (pro hac vice)

Michael E. Florey (pro hac vice)

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

60 South Sixth Street, Suite 3300

Minneapolis, MN 55402

Telephone: (612) 335-5070

Facsimile: (612) 288-9696

Limin Zheng (SBN 226875)

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

500 Arguello Street, Suite 400

Redwood City, CA 94053

Telephone: (650) 839-5070

Facsimile: (650) 839-5071

Attorneys for Defendants and Counterclaimants FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE

HOLDINGS, INC. and FRESENIUS USA, INC.

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED, for the reasons set forth in the

JOINT STIPULATION REQUESTING BRIEF EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR

DEFENDANTS TO COMPLETE PRODUCTION OF EMAILS that Defendants now have until

January 18, 2008, to complete the rolling production of email previously ordered complete by

January 4, 2008 in this Court’s November 30, 2007 Order Granting in Part Motion to Compel

Production of E-Mail (Dkt#122).

DATED: December ____, 2007

_ _ James Larson

Chief Magistrate Judge

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January 8, 2008

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge James Larson

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