Free Objections - District Court of Delaware - Delaware

Case 1:04-cv-00901-JJF

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE AFFYMETRIX, INC., Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant v. ILLUMINA, INC., Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

C.A. No. 04-901-JJF

AFFYMETRIX'S OBJECTIONS TO DEFENDANTS' PROPOSED PRELIMINARY JURY INSTRUCTIONS On February 5, 2007, the parties submitted their joint proposal for preliminary jury instruction numbers 1.4, 1.5, 1.7 and 1.8. On March 2, 2007, Illumina submitted revised preliminary jury instructions to the Court for instruction numbers 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.6. Those revised constructions included "red-lined" changes against a draft of those instructions Affymetrix had sent to Illumina. Affymetrix objects to the additional (underlined) changes Illumina proposes to preliminary instruction numbers 1.1 and 1.2. Illumina's additions propose to tell the jury that it has raised validity and enforceability defenses in this case and to tell the jury about prior art. Given the Court's bifurcation of validity and enforceability from this case, Affymetrix objects to instructing to jury regarding other issues in the case. Such instructions are irrelevant and risk jury confusion.

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MORRIS, NICHOLS, ARSHT & TUNNELL LLP /s/ Maryellen Noreika (#3208) Jack B. Blumenfeld (#1014) Maryellen Noreika (#3208) Derek J. Fahnestock (#4705) 1201 N. Market Street P.O. Box 1347 Wilmington, DE 19899 (302) 658-9200 Attorneys for Plaintiff Affymetrix, Inc. OF COUNSEL: Michael J. Malecek Daniel R. Reed Andrea L. Gross Stephen C. Holmes AFFYMETRIX, INC. 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100 Emeryville, CA 94608 (510) 428-8500 March 4, 2007
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on March 4, 2007, I electronically filed the foregoing document using CM/ECF which will send notification of such filing(s) to the following: Richard K. Herrmann Morris James LLP I also certify that copies were caused to be served on March 4, 2007 upon the following in the manner indicated: BY EMAIL Richard K. Herrmann Morris James LLP 500 Delaware Avenue, Suite 1500 P.O. Box 2306 Wilmington, DE 19801-1494 Marcus E. Sernel Kirkland & Ellis LLP 200 East Randolph Drive Chicago, IL 60601

/s/ Maryellen Noreika (#3208) Maryellen Noreika (#3208) [email protected]