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PATRICIA A. Wmnoss
July 10, 2006
BY CM/ECF
The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet
United States District Court
844 King Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Re: Telcordia Techs. Inc. v. Lucent Techs.. Inc., C.A. No. 04-875-GMS
Dear Judge Sleet:
Lucent writes to inform the Court that Lucent will not request a stay of Civil Action 04-875
under Section 28 U.S.C. § 1659 in light of Telcordia filing an action before the International Trade
Commission (“ITC") on May 15, 2006. The district court action has been pending before the Court
since July 2004. Both the Court and Lucent have invested a significant amount of time and
resources in this action, including completing fact discovery, conducting a Markman hearing and
issuing of a claim construction order. Completion of expert discovery and the beginning of the
summary judgment process are less than a month away. Given the advanced stage of this action, the
investment by the Court and the parties in resolving this action and the fact that only this Court can
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resolve all the issues between the parties, Lucent chooses to go forward with this action.
In evaluating whether to stay this action, Lucent asked if Telcordia would maintain its claim
based on the ’306 patent in the ITC given Telcordia’s admission that it cannot establish infiingement
l Lucent is aware that, in a separate action pending before the Court, Alcatel plans to exercise
its right to stay. Given Telcordia’s decision, at this late date, to initiate a separate action
involving the same patents before the ITC, Lucent understands Alcatel’s reasons for not
wanting to incur the expense of defending against two actions in two different venues at the
same time. Alcatel is also in a different position than Lucent and Cisco because Telcordia is
not asserting the ’763 patent against Alcatel. Telcordia’s decision to file in the ITC has put
each ofthe Defendants in a difficult position — stay the proceedings in this Court or incur the
increased expense of litigating in two fora.
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The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet
July l0, 2006
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under this Court’s Markman order.2 See /lttac/zment 1. Telcordia, however, refused to provide a
response, instead stating that Telcordia would wait for Lucent’s decision regarding a stay in this
action before determining whether to proceed in the ITC. See Attachment 2. Telcordia’s position
has it backwards — it is Telcordia’s claim in the ITC that creates Lucent’s statutory right to stay this
action, and Telcordia’s failure to answer as to what claims will be pending in the ITC frustrates the
process.
Telcordia’s refusal to identify whether it will go forward with the ’306 patent before the ITC
as well as the timing of its filing of the ITC action (shortly after this Court’s Markman hearing)
suggests that Telcordia tiled the parallel ITC action purely for tactical reasons. Telcordia cannot
obtain any relief from the ITC that this Court cannot provide and this Court has scheduled trial dates
for spring of next year. The ITC cannot provide monetary damages and the only relief it can
provide, an exclusion order, may well be mooted as to the ’306 and ’763 patents because those
patents will expire before or shortly after the ITC might issue such an order. The only explanation
for Telcordia’s actions are that it seeks to ratchet up Defendants’ costs by commencing a parallel
action and that it seeks to collaterally attack this Court’s Markman order in another forum.
For the reasons set forth above, Lucent chooses to go forward with this action and does not
request a stay,
Respectfully submitted,
ohn W. Shaw (rn No. 3362)
JWS/prt
cc: Clerk of the Court (by hand delivery and CM/ECE)
Steven J. Balick, Esquire (by CM/ECE)
Don O. Burley, Esquire (by e—mail)
Steven C. Cherny, Esquire (by e-mail)
2 Following the Court’s Markman order, Telcordia stated that it "cannot prove infringement of
any ofthe accused products of Lucent" under the ’306 patent, and Telcordia did not serve an
expert report on the ’306 patent.
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