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Y OUNG C ONAWAY S TARGATT & T AYLOR , LLP
KAREN L. PASCALE DIRECT D IAL: (302) 571-5001 DIRECT FAX: (302) 576-3516 [email protected] THE BRANDYWINE BUILDING 1000 WEST STREET, 17TH FLOOR WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 19801 P.O. BOX 391 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 19899-0391 (302) 571-6600 (302) 571-1253 FAX (800) 253-2234 (DE ONLY) www.youngconaway.com

April 10, 2007 BY E-FILING The Honorable Mary Pat Thynge United States District Court 844 King Street Wilmington, DE 19801 Re: Honeywell International Inc., et al v. Apple Computer Inc., et al. C.A. Nos. 04-1337, -1338, and -1536-*** Dear Judge Thynge: I write on behalf of Optrex America, Inc. ("Optrex") to seek an order compelling testimony from Honeywell International, Inc. and Honeywell Intellectual Properties, Inc. (collectively "Honeywell") specifically directed to Honeywell's assertion that its infringement investigation resulted in a 50 % tear-down "hit rate." In a hearing before Judge Jordan on September 9, 2005, Honeywell's in-house counsel David Brafman stated: Your Honor, this is David Brafman from Honeywell. I'd just like to add one further point which is our tear-down rate, on average it's about 50 percent hit rate under our belief of infringement across all these products. So it's not a wild fishing expedition as it is made to sound. It is that we found products, a large percentage of them do hit and we just don't have access to the models that change every six months. 9/9/05 Tr. (Ex. 1) at 22-23; emphasis added. By presenting its tear-down hit rate in open court to argue for broad discovery, Honeywell waived any alleged attorney-client privilege or work product protection that might have previously existed with respect to the tear-down hit rate. See Helman v. Murry's Steaks, Inc., 728 F. Supp. 1099, 1103 (D. Del. 1990) ("The general rule is that voluntary disclosure of privileged attorney/client communication constitutes waiver of the privilege as to all other such communications on the same subject."). Similarly, disclosures of conclusions and summaries waive privilege. See, e.g., Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. v. General Scanning, Inc., 175 F.R.D. 539, 543-44 (N.D. Cal. 1997); United States ex rel Martin Marietta Corp., 886 F. Supp. 1243 (D. Md. 1995). REDACTED ­ PUBLIC VERSION

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Karen L. Pascale, hereby certify that on April 17, 2007, I caused to be electronically filed a true and correct copy of the foregoing document with the Clerk of Court using CM/ECF which will send notification of such filing to the following counsel of record: John R. Alison Parker H. Bagley Robert J. Benson Robert Karl Beste, III Elizabeth L. Brann Christopher E. Chalsen Hua Chen Arthur G. Connolly, III Frederick L. Cottrell, III Francis DiGiovanni Thomas M. Dunham Kevin C. Ecker Amy Elizabeth Evans York M. Faulkner Christopher J. Gaspar Alexander E. Gasser Anne Shea Gaza Maria Granovsky Alan M. Grimaldi Thomas C. Grimm [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected], [email protected]; [email protected] [email protected] [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Thomas Lee Halkowski Angie Hankins Richard L. Horwitz

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Dan C. Hu John T. Johnson Robert J. Katzenstein Nelson M. Kee Richard D. Kelly Stephen S. Korniczky Gary William Lipkin Hamilton Loeb Robert L. Maier David J. Margules David Ellis Moore Carolyn E. Morris Arthur I. Neustadt Elizabeth A. Niemeyer Andrew M. Ollis Adam Wyatt Poff Leslie A. Polizoti John F. Presper Alana A. Prills Steven J Rizzi

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Lawrence Rosenthal Avelyn M. Ross Philip A. Rovner Diana M. Sangalli Robert C. Scheinfeld Carl E. Schlier Chad Michael Shandler John W. Shaw Matthew W. Siegal Neil P. Sirota Monte Terrell Squire William J. Wade Roderick B. Williams Edward R. Yoches Steven J. Balick

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William F. Taylor, Jr. John G. Day

Barry M. Graham Darren M. Jiron William J. Marsden, Jr. Matt Neiderman

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I further certify that on April 17, 2007, I caused a copy of the foregoing document to be served by e-mail on the below-listed counsel: Thomas C. Grimm [[email protected]] Leslie A. Polizoti [lpolizoti@ mnat.com] MORRIS, NICHOLS, ARSHT & TUNNELL LLP 1201 North Market Street Wilmington, DE 19899-1347 Attorneys for Honeywell International Inc. and Honeywell Intellectual Properties Inc. Steven J. Balick [[email protected]] John G. Day [[email protected]] ASHBY & GEDDES 222 Delaware Avenue P.O. Box 1150 Wilmington, DE 19899 Attorneys for Honeywell International Inc. and Honeywell Intellectual Properties Inc. Martin R. Lueck [[email protected]] Matthew L. Woods [[email protected]] Jacob S. Zimmerman [[email protected]] Marta M. Chou [[email protected]] ROBINS, KAPLAN, MILLER & CIRESI LLP 2800 LaSalle Plaza 800 LaSalle Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55402-2015 Attorneys for Honeywell International Inc. and Honeywell Intellectual Properties Inc. Alan E. McKenna [[email protected]] Anthony A. Froio [[email protected]] Jeremy C. McDiarmid [[email protected]] ROBINS, KAPLAN, MILLER & CIRESI LLP 111 Huntington Avenue, Suite 1300 Boston, MA 02199-7610 Attorneys for Honeywell International Inc. and Honeywell Intellectual Properties Inc. William J. Wade [[email protected]] RICHARDS, LAYTON & FINGER One Rodney Square P.O. Box 551 Wilmington, DE 19899 Attorneys for Arima Display Corporation

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Philip A. Rovner [[email protected]] POTTER, ANDERSON & CORROON 6th Floor, Hercules Plaza 1313 N. Market Street Wilmington, DE 19801 Attorneys for Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. and Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. Richard L. Horwitz [[email protected]] David E. Moore [[email protected]] POTTER ANDERSON & CORROON 6th Floor, Hercules Plaza 1313 N. Market Street P.O. Box. 951 Wilmington, DE 19801 Attorneys for Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Samsung SDI America, Inc., and Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Wintek Corp., Wintek Electro-Optics Corporation Gary W. Lipkin [[email protected]] DUANE MORRIS LLP 1100 North Market Street, Suite 1200 Wilmington, DE 19801-1246 Attorneys for InnoLux Display Corporation Robert J. Katzenstein [[email protected]] Robert K. Beste, III [[email protected]] SMITH, KATZENSTEIN & FURLOW 800 Delaware Avenue P.O. Box 410 Wilmington, DE 19899 Attorneys for Seiko Epson Corporation and Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices Corporation David J. Margules [[email protected]] John M. Seaman [[email protected]] BOUCHARD MARGULES & FRIEDLANDER, P.A. 222 Delaware Avenue, Suite 1400 Wilmington, DE 19801 Attorneys for Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., and Citizen Displays Co., Ltd.

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YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR, LLP

April 17, 2007

/s/ Karen L. Pascale Karen L. Pascale (#2903) [[email protected]] The Brandywine Building 1000 West Street, 17th Floor Wilmington, DE 19801 (302) 571-6600 Attorneys for Optrex America, Inc.

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