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October 4, 2006
BY E-FILING AND HAND DELIVERY _‘
The Honorable Kent A. Jordan
United States District Court
844 North King Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Re: Novozymes A/S v. Genencor Internationczl, Inc. et al.
C.A. No. 05-160 gKAJ)
Dear Judge Jordan:
We write pursuant to Local Rule 7.1 .2(c) to call to the Court’s attention a recently issued
decision relevant to Novozymes’s pending motion for permanent injunction (D.I. 169). Late last
week, the United States District Court for the Westem District of Tennessee issued a permanent
injunction in a case similar to the captioned matter. See Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Synthes
(USA.), No. 02-2873 (W.D. Tenn. Sept. 28, 2006) (attached as Exhibit A).
Evaluating the four equitable factors recently reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in eBay
[nc. v. MercExchange LLC, the district court found that "[e]ven if [defendant] were to tenninate
its sales of the infringing products voluntarily, it would be free to return to its offending conduct,
thereby further imposing monetary and intangible losses on [plaintiff]? Id. slip op. at 9.
Emphasizing that the "entire purpose of an injunction is to take away defendant’s discretion not
to obey the law," the district court issued a permanent injunction. Id. (citation omitted).
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