Free Motion to Strike - District Court of California - California

Case 5:07-cv-05248-JW

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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

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NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO STRIKE DECLARATION OF THOMAS F. FITZPATRICK CASE NO. C07 05248 PVT pa-1204647

Case No. C07 05248 PVT AMEC-SHANGHAI'S NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO STRIKE DECLARATION OF THOMAS F. FITZPATRICK IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO SHORTEN TIME FOR HEARING Date: November 6, 2007 Time: 10:00 a.m. Ctrm: 5

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

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NOTICE AND MOTION TO STRIKE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on November 6, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in the Courtroom

of the Honorable Patricia V. Trumbull, located at 280 South 1st Street, San Jose, California, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ("AMEC-Shanghai") will and hereby does bring this Motion to Strike the Declaration of Thomas F. Fitzpatrick offered in support of plaintiff's motion to shorten time for hearing. II. THE FITZPATRICK DECLARATION SHOULD BE STRICKEN BECAUSE IT LACKS FOUNDATION The testimony in the Fitzpatrick Declaration lacks foundation and is not based on Mr. Fitzpatrick's personal knowledge. Fed. R. Evid. 403, 702(a). The bare statement of Mr. Fitzpatrick's position with the law firm of Goodwin and Proctor is insufficient to support that he has personal knowledge of any of the facts in his declaration regarding AMEC-Shanghai or his client, Applied Materials. For example, Mr. Fitzpatrick has shown no basis for personal knowledge or foundation for his conclusory statements concerning what information is or is not in AMEC-Shanghai's possession, the alleged harm caused to Applied Materials, and the likelihood (or lack thereof) that AMEC-Shanghai is unfairly competing in the marketplace. Fitzpatrick Decl. ¶¶ 3-5. Because the testimony in the Fitzpatrick Declaration lacks foundation, the Court should strike the declaration. 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., ET AL.

NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO STRIKE DECLARATION OF THOMAS F. FITZPATRICK CASE NO. C07 05248 PVT pa-1204647

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