Free Declination to Proceed Before a U.S. Magistrate Judge - District Court of California - California

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HAROLD J. MCELHINNY (CA SBN 66781) [email protected] MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 425 Market Street San Francisco, California 94105-2482 Telephone: 415.268.7000 Facsimile: 415.268.7522 MARC DAVID PETERS (CA SBN 211725) [email protected] DAVID M. ALBAN (CA SBN 238955) [email protected] MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 755 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304-1018 Telephone: 650-813-5600 Facsimile: 650-494-0792 Attorneys for Defendant ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

13 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 14 SAN JOSE DIVISION 15 16 APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., 17 Plaintiff, 18 v. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
DECLINATION TO PROCEED BEFORE A MAGISTRATE JUDGE AND REQUEST FOR REASSIGNMENT TO A UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE CASE NO. C07 05248 PVT pa-1204895

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C07 05248 PVT

ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT, INC., ASIA, GERALD Z. YIN, AIHUA CHEN, RYOJI TODAKA, and LEE LUO, Defendants.

DECLINATION TO PROCEED BEFORE A MAGISTRATE JUDGE AND REQUEST FOR REASSIGNMENT TO A UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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The undersigned party respectfully declines to consent to the assignment of this case to a United States Magistrate Judge for trial and disposition and respectfully requests the reassignment of this case to a United States District Judge. Dated: October 29, 2007 HAROLD J. MCELHINNY MARC DAVID PETERS DAVID M. ALBAN MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

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/s/ Harold J. McElhinny Harold J. McElhinny Attorneys for Defendant ADVANCED MICROFABRICATION EQUIPMENT (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.

DECLINATION TO PROCEED BEFORE A MAGISTRATE JUDGE AND REQUEST FOR REASSIGNMENT TO A UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE CASE NO. C07 05248 PVT pa-1204895

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Greg H. Gardella Fish and Richardson PC 60 South Sixth Street 3300 Dain Rauscher Plaza Minneapolis, MN 55402

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I declare that I am employed with the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP, whose address is 425 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105-2482. I am not a party to the within cause, and I am over the age of eighteen years. I further declare that on October 29, 2007, I electronically filed the foregoing document with the Clerk of the Court for the Northern District of California using the CM/ECF System which will send notification of such filing to the following: Thomas F. Fitzpatrick ([email protected]) and a true and correct copy of the foregoing document was served via first class mail upon: John C. Englander Douglas C Doskocil Michael Strapp Goodwin Procter LLP 53 State Street Boston, MA 02109

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed at San Francisco, California, this 29th day of October, 2007.

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/s/ Harold J. McElhinny Harold J. McElhinny

DECLINATION TO PROCEED BEFORE A MAGISTRATE JUDGE AND REQUEST FOR REASSIGNMENT TO A UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE CASE NO. C07 05248 PVT pa-1204895

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