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JAMES POOLEY (CA SBN 58041) KIMBERLY N. VAN VOORHIS (CA SBN 197486) DIANA LUO (CA SBN 233712) KATHERINE NOLAN-STEVAUX (CA SBN 244950) MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 755 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, California 94304-1018 Telephone: 650.813.5600 Facsimile: 650.494.0792 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for Plaintiff OPTOVUE CORPORATION and Counterdefendants OPTOVUE CORPORATION, JAY WEI and YONGHUA ZHAO DONALD L. BARTELS #65142 BRUCE E. COPELAND #124888 GREGORY E. SCHOPF #122826 NIXON PEABODY LLP One Embarcadero Center, 18th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111-3600 Telephone: (415) 984-8200 Facsimile: (415) 984-8300 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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OPTOVUE CORPORATION, a California Corporation, Plaintiff, v. CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., a New York Corporation, Defendant. AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS.

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C 07-03010 CW

STIPULATION TO FURTHER EXTEND TIME FOR PRE-TRIAL DEADLINES AND ORDER THEREON The Honorable Claudia Wilken

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties herein, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Optovue Corporation, Jay Wei, and Yonghua Zhao, by and through their attorneys of records, and subject to the Order of the court, as follows:

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The parties attended a mediation with Mark D. Petersen on April 22, 2008.

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As part of that mediation, in a effort to further explore the possibility of informally resolving this matter, the parties, on Mr. Petersen's recommendation, have agreed to conduct focused discovery pertaining to specific source code issues and, once that discovery is completed, to participate in a follow up mediation session with Mr. Petersen on June 4, 2008, based on the findings of this limited discovery.

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To facilitate this further mediation and to avoid the expense of unnecessary discovery and pre-trial preparation, the parties, on Mr. Petersen's recommendation, have agreed to extend pre-trial deadlines for approximately (60) days as follows:

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The last day to disclose expert witnesses and reports, currently set at June 2, 2008, shall now be August 1, 2008.

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The last day for rebuttal disclosure of identities and reports of expert witnesses, currently set at July 2, 2008, shall now be September 3, 2008.

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The expert discovery cut-off, currently set at July 16, 2008 shall be September 17, 2008.

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The last day for completion of fact discovery, currently set at July 16, 2008, shall 2

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now be September 17, 2008.

The last day for all case-dispositive motions to be heard, currently set at September 18, 2008, shall now be November 13, 2008.

The final pre-trial conference, currently scheduled for November 18, 2008, shall now be January 13, 2009 or as soon thereafter as is convenient for the Court.

The trial, currently scheduled for December 1, 2008, shall now be February 18, 2009 or as soon thereafter as is convenient for the Court.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: April 24, 2008 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

Dated: April 24, 2008 NIXON PEABODY LLP

By_/s/DIANA LUO____________________ JAMES POOLEY KIMBERLY N. VAN VOORHIS DIANA LUO KATHERINE NOLAN-STEVAUX Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterdefendants OPTOVUE CORPORATION, JAY WEI, AND YONGHUA ZHAO

By__/s/ GREGORY E. SCHOPF_________ DONALD L. BARTELS BRUCE E. COPELAND GREGORY E. SCHOPF GREGG A. RUBENSTEIN Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.

Dated: April 24, 2008 FARELLA BRAUN & MARTEL LLP

By_/s/ MARK D. PETERSEN________ Mark D. Petersen Mediator 3

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: ____________________________

By: ____________________________________ DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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ATTESTATION I, DIANA LUO, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this STIPULATION TO FURTHER EXTEND TIME FOR PRE-TRIAL DEADLINES AND ORDER THEREON. In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that GREGORY E. SCHOPF and MARK D. PETERSEN have concurred in this filing. Dated: April 24, 2008 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

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/s/ DIANA LUO Diana Luo Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendants OPTOVUE CORPORATION, JAY WEI, AND YONGHUA ZHAO

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