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3 Pursuant to the Court’s Standing Order Re: Pretrial Preparation, the Manufacturers
4 submit this list of “joint” witnesses. Joint witnesses are witnesses that more than one
5 Manufacturer expect to call live, or may call live to testify in their case in chief during the
6 January 2009 Patent Trial in the above captioned cases. This list does not include (1) rebuttal
7 witnesses, (2) witnesses to be called during any trial on willfulness, or (3) witnesses that may be
8 called only by playing or reading prior sworn testimony. The following witness list was drafted
9 based on the Manufacturers’ current expectations, and the Manufacturers reserve the right to call
10 or not to call any of these witnesses based on Rambus’s witness list, time allocations, resolution
11 of pretrial motions, or other change of circumstance. The Manufacturers expressly reserve the
12 right to play testimony from any listed witness that is unavailable pursuant to Federal Rule of
13 Civil Procedure 32(a)(4). The Manufacturers also reserve the right to use prior testimony in
15 with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 32 and any other applicable Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
16 or Federal Rule of Evidence. The Manufacturers currently expect to authenticate and/or establish
17 the admissibility of documents through live testimony of certain Rambus witnesses. Live
18 testimony from many of these witnesses may be avoided with appropriate stipulations from
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Intend to call to establish admissibility of May call to establish admissibility of documents:
11 documents:2 Richard Barth
Craig Hampel Bruce Dunlevie
12 Desi Rhoden Charles Furnweger
Frederick Ware Harlan Lau
13 Michael McGowan
14 Kit Sang Tam
David Tuckerman
15 Steven Woo
Foreign language translators
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Witnesses designated with a “*” will be called only if infringement is tried during the liability
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25 Live testimony from many of the witnesses designated for document admissibility purposes may
be avoided with appropriate stipulations from Rambus regarding admissibility of documents. In
26 the event these witnesses are called live, the Manufacturers reserve the right to elicit testimony on
subject matter beyond the admissibility of exhibits.
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Mr. Weinstein will be called as a witness for Micron and Hynix only.
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Expert Witnesses
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12 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Allan is expected to testify as to JEDEC history and procedures,
13 DRAM industry background, the design and operation of DRAMs, patent exhaustion, the impact
14 of patent exhaustion on alleged damages, and other matters disclosed by Mr. Allan during expert
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18 patent claims by the Manufacturers’ accused products, rebuttal of Robert Murphy’s Infringement
19 Report and Supplemental Infringement Reports, and other matters disclosed by Mr. Hoffman
23 of Rambus’s patent claims, prior art, the state of the art, alternatives to the accused features and
24 their relative utility, the nature of Rambus’s inventions, the materiality of prior art references that
25 were withheld from the Patent Office, and other matters disclosed by Mr. McAlexander during
26 expert discovery, in his Supplemental Expert Report, and in his Second Supplemental Expert
27 Report. Mr. McAlexander also will rebut Mr. Murphy’s Validity Report and Supplemental
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1 Validity Report (to the extent Mr. Murphy is allowed to testify concerning his Supplemental
2 Validity Report).
4 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Weinstein is expected to testify as to patent exhaustion, the impact
5 of patent exhaustion on alleged damages, and other matters disclosed by Mr. Weinstein during
6 expert discovery.
7 Fact Witnesses
8 Paul Anderson – In addition to the subjects discussed during his previous
9 testimony in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Anderson may testify as to the prosecution of the
10 patents in suit, Rambus’s efforts to amend patents to cover JEDEC standards, prior art,
11 knowledge of prior art, and disclosure of prior art to the Patent Office.
13 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Barth may testify as to Rambus’s efforts to amend patent claims to
14 cover JEDEC standards, Rambus’s awareness of JEDEC standards, and auto precharge.
16 testimony in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Bechtolsheim may testify as to the value of Rambus’s
20 amendment of its patent claims, Rambus’s continuation and divisional practice, Rambus’s
25 licensing practices and agreements and Rambus’s license negotiations, the determination of
26 royalty rates, the fees and royalties Rambus has received under its license agreements, and the
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2 testimony in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Davidow may testify as to the founding of Rambus,
3 Rambus’s business plan, Rambus’s licensing practices and agreements, and Rambus’s license
4 negotiations.
7 patent prosecution, Rambus’s original patent application, efforts to amend patent claims to cover
8 JEDEC standards, prior art, knowledge of prior art, and disclosure of prior art to the Patent
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11 in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Dunlevie may testify as to the founding of Rambus, Rambus’s
12 business plan, Rambus’s licensing practices and agreements, and Rambus’s license negotiations.
15 obligation to MIPS, his work at Faster Than Light (“FTL”), MIPS, and the University of Illinois,
16 the R6000 and related projects at MIPS, including their confidentiality, Rambus’s founding,
17 Rambus’s general business background, Rambus’s business plans, Rambus’s alleged inventions
18 and technology, what he regarded as Rambus’s inventions, drafting and filing of the original
19 patent application, Rambus’s strategy of filing patents to cover industry standards, dissemination
21 secondary considerations of obviousness, prior art, including SCI, knowledge of prior art, and
24 testimony in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Fernweger may testify as to certain NEC documents
25 and documents found in possession of NEC and/or Elpida, NEC’s participation at JEDEC, and
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5 in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Gustavson is expected to testify as to prior art, including SCI
6 prior art, SCI standardization, SCI publications and papers, distribution of SCI publications and
9 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Hampel is expected to testify as to Rambus’s efforts to cover the
10 JEDEC specification.
12 Rambus-related matters, Mrs. Holt is expected to testify as to Rambus’s licenses and licensing
13 practices, the DRAM market and industry, secondary indicia of obviousness in rebuttal, and the
16 in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Horowitz is expected to testify as to MIPS and his consulting for
17 MIPS, Rambus’s founding, Rambus’s general business background, Rambus’s business plans,
18 Rambus’s alleged inventions and technology, what he regarded as Rambus’s inventions, drafting
19 and filing of the original patent application, Rambus’s strategy of filing patents to cover industry
21 Rambus’s licensing practices, the determination of royalty rates, the fees and royalties Rambus
22 has received under its license agreements, the performance of RDRAM, secondary considerations
23 of obviousness, prior art, including SCI, knowledge of prior art, and disclosure of prior art to the
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27 licensing, licensing practices and negotiations, the determination of royalty rates, the fees and
28 royalties Rambus has received under its license agreements, and the DRAM industry.
2 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Johnson may testify as to Rambus’s business, Rambus’s founding,
5 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Karp may testify as to Rambus’s business, Rambus’s licensing
6 practices and agreements, Rambus’s license negotiations, Rambus’s efforts to amend claims to
7 cover JEDEC standards, the determination of royalty rates, Mr. Karp’s relationship with
8 Samsung, Samsung’s JEDEC activities in the mid-90’s, the Samsung-TI litigation, prior art,
9 knowledge of prior art, and disclosure of prior art to the Patent Office.
14 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Lau may testify as to Rambus technology and Rambus’s documents
17 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Macri may testify as to JEDEC standards and the standardization
18 process, prior art from JEDEC meetings, and secondary indicia of obviousness, including whether
21 testimony in Rambus-related matters, Mr. McGowan may testify as to prior art, including the
22 Intel iAPX prior art references, the iAPX prior art product, and sales and marketing of the iAPX
26 licensing practices, licenses, and agreements, Rambus’s licensing negotiations, the determination
27 of royalty rates, dissemination of information regarding Rambus’s technology, the alleged value
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1 of Rambus’s inventions, the fees and royalties Rambus has received under its license agreements,
4 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Moniz may testify as to the prosecution of the patents in suit,
5 Rambus’s efforts to amend patents to cover JEDEC standards, prior art, knowledge of prior art,
9 including SCI prior art, publications, and presentations, his work and publications related to
10 memory interfaces on DRAMs, his work and that of others at MIPS and MicroUnity, MIPS’s and
11 MicroUnity’s business, technology, products, and development projects, the R6000 and related
12 projects, the confidentiality of the R6000 and related projects, and employee obligations to assign
15 in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Powell may testify as to memory system bandwidth, solutions to
16 memory system bandwidth problems, and his publications regarding memory system bandwidth.
18 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Rhoden is expected to testify as to JEDEC standards, the JEDEC
19 standardization process, the evolutionary nature of technology development at JEDEC, prior art
20 from JEDEC meetings (including Unisys presentations on C-DRAM), and secondary indicia of
21 obviousness.
23 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Roberts may testify as to MIPS, the R6000 and related projects, the
26 in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Russell may testify as to prior art, including the SCI prior art
28 participants and industry reaction thereto, alleged knowledge of Rambus’s intellectual property
2 potential scope of patent coverage of Rambus’s inventions, Rambus’s patents and technology,
6 licensing practices and agreements, Rambus’s licensing negotiations, the determination of royalty
7 rates, the fees and royalties Rambus has received under its license agreements, prosecution of
8 Rambus’s patents, efforts to amend Rambus’s patents to cover JEDEC standards, prior art,
9 knowledge of prior art, disclosure of prior art to the Patent Office, and Mr. Steinberg’s
12 in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Sussman is expected to testify as to JEDEC standards, prior art
13 from JEDEC meetings (including Unisys presentations on C-DRAM), his work on SDRAM, and
15 Kit Sang Tam – In addition to subjects discussed during his previous testimony in
16 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Tam may testify as to MoSys documents and DRAM technology,
20 inventions, Rambus’s strategy and efforts to obtain patents on industry standards, Rambus’s
21 business plans, Rambus’s business, Rambus’s licensing practices, licenses and agreements,
22 license negotiations, the determination of royalty rates, the fees and royalties Rambus has
23 received under its license agreements, the DRAM market and industry, auto precharge, the value
24 of Rambus’s alleged inventions prior art, knowledge of prior art, and disclosure of prior art to the
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27 testimony in Rambus-related matters, Mr. Tuckerman may testify as to prior art, including the
3 patent claims and Rambus’s efforts to amend its patents to cover JEDEC standards.
6 standards, Rambus’s efforts to amend its patents to cover JEDEC standards, auto precharge, and
9 Rambus-related matters, Mr. Wiggers may testify as to prior art, including the SCI prior art, SCI
10 standardization, SCI publications and papers, distribution of SCI publications and papers, SCI
15 To the extent Rambus does not stipulate to the authenticity of the following
16 translated documents, and the Court deems necessary, the Manufacturers may call witnesses to
18 By: /s/
DANIEL J. FURNISS (Bar No. 73531)
19 Email: difurniss@townsend.com
20 THEODORE G. BROWN, III (Bar No. 114672)
Email: tgbrown@townsend.com
21 JULIE H. HAN (Bar No. 215279)
Email: jjhan@townsend.com
22 TOWNSEND and TOWNSEND and CREW LLP
379 Lytton Avenue
23 Palo Alto, CA 94301
24 Telephone: (650) 326-2400
Facsimile: (650) 326-2422
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KENNETH L NISSLY (Bar No. 77589)
26 Email: knissly@omm.com
SUSAN van KEULEN (Bar No. 136060)
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Email: svankeulen@omm.com
28 SUSAN D. ROEDER (Bar No. 160897)
Email: sroeder@omm.com
1 O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP
2 2765 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
3 Telephone: (650) 473-2600
Facsimile: (650) 473-2601
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KENNETH R. O’ROURKE (Bar No. 120144)
5 Email: korourke@omm.com
6 WALLACE A. ALLAN (Bar No. 102054)
Email: tallan@omm.com
7 O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP
400 South Hope Street, Suite 1060
8 Los Angeles, CA 90071-2899
Telephone: (213) 430-6000
9 Facsimile: (213) 430-6407
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11 Attorneys for
HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INC., HYNIX
12 SEMICONDUCTOR AMERICA INC., HYNIX
SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING
13 AMERICA INC., HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR
U.K. LTD., and HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR
14 DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
15 By: /s/
Vickie L. Feeman
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ROBERT E. FREITAS (Bar No. 80948)
17 Email: rfreitas@orrick.com
CRAIG R. KAUFMAN (Bar No. 159458)
18 Email: ckaufman@orrick.com
VICKIE L. FEEMAN (Bar No. 177487)
19 Email: vfeeman@orrick.com
ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP
20 1000 Marsh Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
21 Telephone: (650) 614-7400
Facsimile: (650) 614-7401
22 Attorneys for Defendants
NANYA TECHNOLOGY
23 CORPORATION, and NANYA
TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION U.S.A.
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Anne Cappella
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MATTHEW D. POWERS
1 Email: matthew.powers @weil.com
STEVEN S. CHERENSKY
2 Email: steven.cherensky @weil.com
WEIL GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
3 201 Redwood Shores Parkway
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
4 Telephone: (650) 802-3034
Facsimile: (650) 802-3100
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ROBERT S. BEREZIN
6 Email: robert.berezin@weil.com
WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
7 New York Office
767 Fifth Avenue
8 New York, NY 10153
Telephone: (212) 310-8000
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10 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC.,
11 SAMSUNG SEMICONDUCTOR, INC., and
SAMSUNG AUSTIN SEMICONDUCTOR, L.P.
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