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Parties Involved:
STMicroelectronics NV
Defendant
STMicroelectronics, Inc.
Defendant
Sandisk Corporation
Plaintiff

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 This disposition is not designated for publication and may not be cited.

Case No. C 05-05021

ORDER RE LETTER OF FEBRUARY 3, 2006

(JFLC1)

**E-Filed 2/7/06**

NOT FOR CITATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

SANDISK CORPORATION,

 Plaintiff,

 v.

STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. et al.,

 Defendants.

Case Number C 05-05021

ORDER1 RE LETTER OF

FEBRUARY 3, 2006

On January 26, 2006, this Court stayed the proceedings in the instant case. On February

3, 2006, counsel for Plaintiff SanDisk Corporation (“SanDisk”) filed a letter requesting that the

Court clarify whether the stay applies only to Defendant STMicroelectronics, Inc. (“ST”), a

Delaware corporation, or also to STMicroelectronics NV (“ST NV”), a Dutch corporation that

has yet to be served with process, and whether the period for service of process on ST NV is

tolled by the stay. 

The Court clarifies that the stay applies to the entire action, and thus applies to both ST

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and ST NV. However, without a response from Defendants, the Court is not in a position to

make an express determination as to whether the period for service of process on ST NV should

be tolled. Accordingly, the Court requests that ST respond to the issues raised in SanDisk’s letter

of February 3, 2006 on or before February 14, 2006.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: February 7, 2006

 

JEREMY FOGEL

United States District Judge

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Case No. C 05-05021

ORDER RE LETTER OF FEBRUARY 3, 2006

(JFLC1)

This Order has been served upon the following persons:

Julie M. Holloway jholloway@wsgr.com

Russell L. Johnson rljohnson@sidley.com, sheila.brown@sidley.com

Michael A. Ladra mladra@wsgr.com

Matthew Laurence McCarthy MLMcCarthy@sidley.com, kburke@sidley.com

James C. Yoon jyoon@wsgr.com, abaranski@wsgr.com;

nfurino@wsgr.com 

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