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

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Case No. C06-02252 SBA 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE DEFENDANTS' AMENDED

ANSWER AND COUNTERCLAIM AND PLAINTIFF'S RESPONSE

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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 

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE 

DEFENDANTS' AMENDED ANSWER 

AND COUNTERCLAIM AND 

PLAINTIFF'S RESPONSE THERETO 

Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong 

United States District Judge 

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIM

 

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STIPULATION

WHEREAS THE PARTIES HAVE AGREED through their counsel that 

defendants NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, LTD. and NOVA MEASURING 

INSTRUMENTS, INC., (collectively “Nova”) shall have through and including June 8, 2006 to 

file an Amended Answer and Counterclaim, and that plaintiff NANOMETRICS 

INCORPORATED (“Nanometrics”) shall have 20 days from the date of Nova's filing of an 

amended Answer and Counterclaim to Answer or otherwise respond to Nova's Counterclaim; 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED THAT Nova shall have through and including June 

8, 2006 to file an Amended Answer and Counterclaim in this action, and that Nanometrics shall 

have through and including 20 days from the date of Nova's filing of an amended Answer and 

Counterclaim to Answer or otherwise respond to Nova's Counterclaim. 

Respectfully submitted: 

DATED: June 5, 2006 

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

By /s/David Schnapf 

 NEIL A. SMITH 

DAVID SCHNAPF 

Attorneys for NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, 

LTD. and NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, INC. 

MOUNT & STOELKER, P.C. 

By /s/Jeremy M. Duggan 

 DANIEL S. MOUNT 

RON C. FINLEY 

JEREMY M. DUGGAN 

Attorneys for NANOMETRICS INCORPORATED 

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SIGNATURE ATTESTATION

As the attorney e-filing this document, I hereby attest that opposing counsel (Mount 

& Stoelker) has concurred in this filing. 

Respectfully submitted: 

DATED: June 5, 2006 

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

By /s/David Schnapf 

 NEIL A. SMITH 

DAVID SCHNAPF 

Attorneys for NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, 

LTD. and NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, 

INC. 

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ORDER

In accordance with the above Stipulation of the parties which is incorporated herein 

by reference, and with good cause appearing therefor, the Court orders as follows: 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT defendants NOVA MEASURING 

INSTRUMENTS, LTD. and NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, INC. (collectively “Nova”) 

shall have through and including June 8, 2006 to file an Amended Answer and Counterclaim in 

this action, and that plaintiff NANOMETRICS INCORPORATED shall have through and 

including 20 days from the date of Nova's filing of an Amended Answer and Counterclaim to 

Answer or otherwise respond to Nova's Counterclaim. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

6/12/06___________________ 

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Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong 

United States District Judge 

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