Free Declaration in Support - 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 KENNETH A. KUWAYTI (CA SBN 145384) [email protected] MARC DAVID PETERS (CA SBN 211725) [email protected] MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 755 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304-1018 Telephone: 650-813-5600 Facsimile: 650-494-0792 Attorneys for Defendants ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT, INC. CHINA, ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT, INC. ASIA, and ADVANCED MICROFABRICATION EQUIPMENT INC. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

14 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 15 SAN JOSE DIVISION 16 17 APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., 18 Plaintiff, 19 v. 20 21 22 23 Defendants. 24 25 26 27 28
DECLARATION OF KENNETH A. KUWAYTI IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS' OBJECTION TO SPECIAL MASTER DISCOVERY ORDER NO. 4 RE: TRADE SECRET LIST CASE NO. C07 05248 JW (PVT) pa-1256610

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C07 05248 JW (PVT)

ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT, INC. CHINA, ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT, INC. ASIA, ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT INC.,

DECLARATION OF KENNETH A. KUWAYTI IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS' OBJECTION TO SPECIAL MASTER DISCOVERY ORDER NO. 4 RE: TRADE SECRET LIST Date: Time: Courtroom:

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I, Kenneth A. Kuwayti, do declare as follows: 1. I am a partner in the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP. I am admitted to

practice in the Northern District of California and am counsel for Defendants. 2. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of Applied Materials, Inc.'s

Supplemental Identification of Trade Secrets, dated April 14, 2008. [submitted for filing under seal] 3. Attached hereto as Exhibit B is a true and correct copy of Applied Materials, Inc.'s

Identification of Trade Secrets, dated Dec. 18, 2007. [submitted for filing under seal] 4. Attached hereto as Exhibit C is a true and correct copy of Plaintiff's Third Request

for the Production and Inspection of Documents and Tangible Things to Defendants, dated Feb. 6, 2008. 5. Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of Plaintiff's Second

Request for the Production and Inspection of Documents and Tangible Things to Defendants, dated Dec. 18, 2007. 6. Attached hereto as Exhibit E is a true and correct copy of Plaintiff Applied

Materials, Inc.'s Responses to Defendant AMEC Inc.'s First Set of Interrogatories, dated Feb. 25, 2008. [submitted for filing under seal] 7. Attached hereto as Exhibit F is a true and correct copy of U.S. Patent 6,776,873,

Issued Aug. 17, 2004. 8. Attached hereto as Exhibit G is a true and correct copy of the Hearing Transcript

before Special Master Thomas Denver on May 6, 2008. [submitted for filing under seal]

DECLARATION OF KENNETH A. KUWAYTI IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS' OBJECTION TO SPECIAL MASTER DISCOVERY ORDER NO. 4 RE: TRADE SECRET LIST CASE NO. C07 05248 JW (PVT) pa-1256610

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Attached hereto as Exhibit H is a true and correct copy of Graves & Range,

Northwestern Journal of Technology Intellectual Property, Identification of Trade Secret Claims in Litigation: Solutions for a Ubiquitous Dispute. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that to the best of my knowledge the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on May 19, 2008, in Palo Alto, California.

/s/ Kenneth A. Kuwayti Kenneth A. Kuwayti

DECLARATION OF KENNETH A. KUWAYTI IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS' OBJECTION TO SPECIAL MASTER DISCOVERY ORDER NO. 4 RE: TRADE SECRET LIST CASE NO. C07 05248 JW (PVT) pa-1256610

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