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August 21, 2007 VIA CM/ECF AND HAND DELIVERY The Honorable Sue L. Robinson United States District Court 844 North King Street Wilmington, DE 19801 Re: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. et al. v. DeKalb Genetics Corp., et al., C.A. No. 07-38-SLR

Dear Judge Robinson: Pursuant to Local Rule 7.1.2(c) and in connection with defendants' motion to transfer this action to the Eastern District of Missouri, plaintiffs submit the Missouri court's Memorandum and Order entered August 17, 2007, in DeKalb Genetics Corp. v. Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Case No. 4:06CV01191-ERW (attached as Ex. A), dismissing that case against the plaintiffs herein for lack of personal jurisdiction. Plaintiffs were among the defendants in the Missouri case brought by DeKalb on the same patent as involved here, but maintained all along that there was no personal jurisdiction over them in the Eastern District of Missouri. Accordingly, plaintiffs moved for dismissal of the case in Missouri and asserted that this Court should not transfer this action to Missouri because, inter alia, the Missouri court lacked personal jurisdiction over the plaintiffs. See Plaintiffs' Answering Brief Opposing Defendants' Motion to Transfer (D.I. 12), at 3, 10-11, 17-18 and 20; see also (D.I. 21). Plaintiffs' filed letter was in response to defendants' April 26, 2007 letter (D.I. 20) calling attention to a Missouri court decision finding DeKalb's complaint insufficient to establish personal jurisdiction over the present plaintiffs, but giving DeKalb the opportunity to amend its complaint. Defendants stated that "DEKALB intends to amend its complaint in the Missouri case to comply with the Missouri court's decision and, therefore, expects to establish personal jurisdiction over the Delaware DJ Plaintiffs in Missouri." Id. at 2. While DeKalb did amend its

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