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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 GRANTING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO SHORTEN TIME REGARDING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO DISMISSAND

DENYING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO DISMISS — C-05-00334 RMW; C-05-02298 RMW

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E-filed: 9/5/2008 

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 GRANTING SAMSUNG'S MOTION

TO SHORTEN TIME AND DENYING

SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO DISMISS

[Re Docket No. 2119, 2121]

RAMBUS INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA,

INC., SAMSUNG SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.,

SAMSUNG AUSTIN SEMICONDUCTOR,

L.P.,

Defendants.

No. C-05-02298 RMW

[Re Docket No. 1068, 1070]

Case 5:05-cv-02298-RMW Document 1082 Filed 09/05/08 Page 1 of 4
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ORDER GRANTING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO SHORTEN TIME REGARDING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO DISMISSAND

DENYING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO DISMISS — C-05-00334 RMW; C-05-02298 RMW

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On September 2, 2008, Samsung moved pursuant to Civil Local Rule 6-3 to shorten time on

its motion to voluntarily dismiss certain claims and defenses scheduled to be tried on September 22. 

Prior to the court ruling on the motion to shorten time, Rambus filed its opposition to the underlying

motion to dismiss. The court therefore grants Samsung's motion to shorten time.

The court has reviewed the moving and opposing papers with regard to the motion to

dismiss. The court deems the matter appropriate for submission on the papers. See Civ. L.R. 7-1(b).

Samsung moves to voluntarily dismiss some of its claims and defenses pursuant to Rule

41(a)(2). "As its title, 'Dismissal of Actions,' suggests, Rule 41, or at least Rule 41(a), governs

dismissals of entire actions, not of individual claims." Hells Canyon Preservation Council v. U.S.

Forest Service, 403 F.3d 683, 687 (9th Cir. 2005) (emphasis in original). "[T]he Rule does not

allow for piecemeal dismissals." Id. Where a plaintiff wishes to withdraw individual claims, it must

do so pursuant to Rule 15. Id. 

In determining whether to permit a plaintiff leave to amend under Rule 15, "[p]rejudice to

the opposing party is the most important factor." Jackson v. Bank of Hawaii, 902 F.2d 1385, 1387

(9th Cir. 1990). Such prejudice exists here. Samsung's motion comes with less than a month until

trial. It is enormously prejudicial to Rambus to allow Samsung to dismiss its claims now and permit

it to move this trial to state court and without the existing record already developed in the almost

eight weeks of trial that occurred before this court in January. This will impose both an undue delay

and substantial additional costs on Rambus. Accord AmerisourceBergen Corp. v. Dialysist West,

Inc., 465 F.3d 946, 951 (9th Cir. 2006). Because the ample prejudice to Rambus justifies denying

Samsung's motion to amend its complaint, the court does not reach the close questions of whether

Samsung's motion is made in bad faith or with dilatory motive, which would provide separate

grounds for denying a motion to amend a complaint. See, e.g., Moore v. Kayport Package Exp.,

Inc., 885 F.2d 531, 538 (9th Cir. 1989).

DATED: 9/5/2008

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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ORDER GRANTING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO SHORTEN TIME REGARDING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO DISMISSAND

DENYING SAMSUNG'S MOTION TO DISMISS — C-05-00334 RMW; C-05-02298 RMW

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Notice of this document has been electronically sent to counsel in: C-05-00334 and C-05-02298:

Counsel for Rambus Inc., all actions Counsel for Hynix entities, C-00-20905 and C-05-00334

Burton Alexander

Gross

Burton.Gross@mto.com Allen Ruby ruby@allenrubylaw.com

Carolyn Hoecker

Luedtke

carolyn.luedtke@mto.com Belinda Martinez Vega bvega@omm.com

Catherine Rajwani crajwani@sidley.com Daniel J. Furniss djfurniss@townsend.com

Craig N. Tolliver ctolliver@mckoolsmith.com Geoffrey Hurndall Yost gyost@thelenreid.com

David C. Yang david.yang@mto.com Jordan Trent Jones jtjones@townsend.com

Douglas A. Cawley dcawley@mckoolsmith.com Joseph A. Greco jagreco@townsend.com

Erin C. Dougherty erin.dougherty@mto.com Kenneth Lee Nissly kennissly@thelenreid.com

Gregory P. Stone gregory.stone@mto.com Kenneth Ryan

O'Rourke 

korourke@omm.com

Jennifer Lynn Polse jen.polse@mto.com Patrick Lynch plynch@omm.com

Keith Rhoderic Dhu

Hamilton, II

keith.hamilton@mto.com Susan Gregory

VanKeulen 

svankeulen@thelenreid.com

Kelly Max Klaus kelly.klaus@mto.com Theodore G. Brown, III tgbrown@townsend.com

Miriam Kim Miriam.Kim@mto.com Tomomi Katherine

Harkey 

tharkey@thelen.com

Peter A. Detre detrepa@mto.com Counsel for Micron entities, C-06-00244

Pierre J. Hubert phubert@mckoolsmith.com Aaron Bennett Craig aaroncraig@quinnemanuel.com

Rosemarie Theresa

Ring

rose.ring@mto.com David J. Ruderman davidruderman@quinnemanuel.com

Scott L Cole scole@mckoolsmith.com Harold Avrum Barza halbarza@quinnemanuel.com

Scott W. Hejny shejny@sidley.com Jared Bobrow jared.bobrow@weil.com

Sean Eskovitz sean.eskovitz@mto.com John D Beynon john.beynon@weil.com

Steven McCall

Perry 

steven.perry@mto.com Leeron Kalay leeron.kalay@weil.com

Thomas N Tarnay ttarnay@sidley.com Linda Jane Brewer lindabrewer@quinnemanuel.com

William Hans

Baumgartner, Jr

wbaumgartner@sidley.com Rachael Lynn Ballard

McCracken

rachaelmccracken@quinnemanuel.c

om

Robert Jason Becher robertbecher@quinnemanuel.com

Yonaton M

Rosenzweig 

yonirosenzweig@quinnemanuel.co

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Counsel for Nanya entities, C-05-00334 Counsel for Samsung entities, C-05-00334 and C-05-

02298

Chester Wren-Ming Day cday@orrick.com Ana Elena Kadala anita.kadala@weil.com

Craig R. Kaufman ckaufman@orrick.co

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Claire Elise Goldstein claire.goldstein@weil.com

Glenn Michael Levy glevy@orrick.com David J. Healey david.healey@weil.com

Jan Ellen Ellard jellard@orrick.com Edward Robert Reines Edward.Reines@weil.com

Jason Sheffield Angell jangell@orrick.com Matthew D. Powers matthew.powers@weil.com

Kaiwen Tseng ktseng@orrick.com 

Mark Shean mshean@orrick.com

Robert E. Freitas rfreitas@orrick.com

Vickie L. Feeman vfeeman@orrick.com

Counsel for intervenor, Texas Instruments, Inc., C-05-00334

Kelli A. Crouch kcrouch@jonesday.com

Counsel for intervenor, United States Department of Justice, C-00-20905

Eugene S. Litvinoff eugene.litvinoff@usdoj.gov

May Lee Heye may.heye@usdoj.gov

Nathanael M. Cousins nat.cousins@usdoj.gov

Niall Edmund Lynch Niall.Lynch@USDOJ.GOV

Counsel for intervenor, Elpida Memory, Inc., C-00-20905 and C-05-00334

Eric R. Lamison elamison@kirkland.com

John J. Feldhaus jfeldhaus@foley.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 in each action.

Dated: 9/5/2008 TSF 

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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