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

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STIPULATION AND ORDER MODIFYING 

THE SCHEDULE SET FORTH IN THE CASE 

MANAGEMENT ORDER OF MARCH 1, 2007 

CASE NO. C06-3986 RMW (PVT) 

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Glenn E. Westreich (State Bar No. 100457) 

gwestreich@nixonpeabody.com

Patrick T. Michael (State Bar No. 169745) 

pmichael@nixonpeabody.com

Beth L. Mitchell (State Bar No. 187460) 

bmitchell@nixonpeabody.com

Laura K. Carter (State Bar. No. 244956) 

lcarter@nixonpeabody.com

NIXON PEABODY LLP 

Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 2700 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 984-8200 

Facsimile: (415) 984-8300 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

VERITY INSTRUMENTS, INC., 

Defendant. 

Case No. C06-3986 RMW (PVT) 

STIPULATION AND [] ORDER 

MODIFYING THE SCHEDULE SET FORTH 

IN THE CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER OF 

MARCH 1, 2007 

The parties hereto, hereby stipulate and agree, through their counsel of record, as follows: 

WHEREAS, pursuant to this Court’s March 1, 2007 Order Modifying the Schedule Set Forth 

in the Case Management Order of January 8, 2007 (“Modified Scheduling Order”), the Court has 

scheduled the last day for parties to exchange Preliminary Claim Construction and provide 

preliminary identification of extrinsic evidence as March 2, 2007 as well as certain disclosures under 

the Patent Local Rules; 

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MANAGEMENT ORDER OF MARCH 1, 2007 

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WHEREAS, the Court also has scheduled a Further Case Management Conference for April 

27, 2007; 

WHEREAS, Verity Instruments, Inc. (“Verity”) recently has retained new counsel to 

represent Verity in this matter; 

WHEREAS, Verity’s new counsel will be substituting into this case and has requested 

additional time to become familiar with the matter; 

WHEREAS, the parties are simultaneously proceeding in good faith with settlement 

discussions and believe that the extensions requested herein will facilitate ongoing settlement 

discussions; 

WHEREAS, the parties believe and have agreed that it is in the best interests of the parties to 

continue the upcoming dates set forth in the Modified Scheduling Order for six weeks; 

WHEREAS, a continuation of the dates set forth in the Modified Scheduling Order will not 

affect the current case schedule beyond the Further Case Management Conference as no other dates 

have been scheduled; 

WHEREAS the parties respectfully request that the Court adopt the proposed schedule set 

forth below: 

EVENT CURRENT SCHEDULE PROPOSED SCHEDULE 

Last day for parties to exchange 

Preliminary Claim 

Constructions and provide 

preliminary identification of 

extrinsic evidence 

Patent L.R. 4-2(a) 

March 2, 2007 

(Friday) 

April 13, 2007 

(Friday) 

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File Joint Claim Construction 

and Pre-hearing Statement 

Patent L.R. 4-3 

March 21, 2007 

(Wednesday) 

May 2, 2007 

(Wednesday) 

Complete all discovery relating 

to Claim Construction 

Patent L.R. 4-4 

April 20, 2007 

(Friday) 

June 1, 2007 

(Friday) 

Further Case Management 

Conference to set briefing 

schedule and hearing dates for 

Tutorial, Markman Hearing, 

and Summary Judgment 

Motions. 

April 27, 2007 

(Friday) 

June 8, 2007 

(Friday) 

In addition, the parties have agreed that Lam Research Corporation’s (“Lam”) responses to 

Verity’s Second Set of Interrogatories, which were due on March 5, 2007, are now due on April 16, 

2007, and Lam’s responses to Verity’s Second Set of Requests for Production of Documents and 

Things, which were due on March 8, 2007, are now due on April 19, 2007. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: March 2, 2007 DATED: March 2, 2007 

NIXON PEABODY LLP

By: /s/ Laura K. Carter f 

GLENN E. WESTREICH 

PATRICK T. MICHAEL 

BETH L. MITCHELL 

LAURA K. CARTER 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION 

HOWREY LLP 

By: /s/ Brian A. E. Smith g

 BRIAN A.E. SMITH 

 525 Market Street, Suite 3600 

 San Francisco, CA 94105 

 Telephone: (415) 848-4900 

 Facsimile: (415) 848-4999 

 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

VERITY INSTRUMENTS, INC. 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ___, 2007 _____________________________ 

 The Hon. Ronald M. Whyte 

April 23

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