Free Motion to Dismiss Case - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

Louis J. Hoffman (Ariz. State Bar #009722) 14614 N. Kierland Blvd., Ste. 300 Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 Tel.: (480) 948-3295 Fax: (480) 948-3387 Victoria Gruver Curtin (Ariz. State Bar #010897) 14614 N. Kierland Blvd., Ste. 300 Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 Tel.: (480) 998-3547 Fax: (480) 948-3387 Attorneys for Plaintiff IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, Limited Partnership, Plaintiff, vs. Emerson Electric Co., et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. CIV 00-0660 PHX (HRH)

MOTION TO DISMISS

The Federal Circuit has determined that all claims of certain patents-in-suit are unenforceable in Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, Limited Partnership, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 04-1451. Plaintiff therefore seeks to dismiss all claims based on the following patents with prejudice pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(2): United States Patents Nos. 4,338,626, 4,511,918, 4,969,038, 4,979,029, 4,984,073, 5,023,714, 5,067,012, 5,119,190, 5,119,205, 5,128,753, 5,144,421, 5,249,045, 5,283,641, and 5,351,078 ("the Lemelson Machine Vision/Auto ID patents").
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Lemelson has, in addition to the Lemelson Machine Vision/Auto ID patents, asserted against IXYS Corporation and VIA Technologies, Inc. infringement of other patents that remain at issue in this case, namely U.S. Patents 4,390,586, 5,039,836, 5,170,032, and 5,231,259. As to those two defendants, Lemelson seeks dismissal only of claims based on the Lemelson Machine Vision/Auto ID patents. defendants, Lemelson seeks dismissal of the action in its entirety. Lemelson notes that certain of the defendants as to whom complete dismissal is sought have filed counterclaims; however, most, if not all, of these counterclaims appear moot based on the decisions in the Symbol case. Absent any indication in response to this motion that any such defendant intends to pursue any counterclaim believed to survive these decisions, the Court should completely dismiss such defendants from the action. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 22nd day of December, 2005. VICTORIA GRUVER CURTIN, P.L.C. By: Victoria Curtin Victoria Curtin 14614 North Kierland Blvd., Suite 300 Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 Telephone: (480) 948-3295 Facsimile: (480) 948-3387 Attorneys for Plaintiff As to all other

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(b), I certify that on December 22, 2005, I personally caused to be served electronically and first class mail, of the attached document to:

Richard A. Halloran Murton Marks LEWIS & ROCA, LLP 40 North Central Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4429 Attorneys for PB Electronics, Inc., SCGHoldings, Danaher Corporation, L-3 Communications Holdings David R. Jordan TITUS, BRUECKNER & BERRY, P.C. Scottsdale Centre, Suite B-252 7373 North Scottsdale Road Scottsdale, AZ 85253-3527 Attorneys for Innovex, Inc. Douglas W. Seitz Barry C. Toone Michael K. Kelly Sid Leach SNELL & WILMER LLP One Arizona Center 400 E. van Buren Phoenix, AZ 85004-2202 Attorneys for Photronics, MA Laboratories, Inc., MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. Reptron Electronics, Inc., Kent Electronics Corporation, Creative Labs, Inc., IXYS Corporation, Via Technologies, Inc. and Polycom Inc., Radica Games Limited

Richard E. Fee, Esq. GANTHER & FEE Bank of America Plaza Suite 1030 101 E. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, Florida 33602 Attorneys for Paradyne Networks, Inc. Brett L. Dunkelman OSBORN MALEDON, PA 2929 North Central Avenue, Suite 2100 Phoenix, Arizona 85012-2794 Attorneys for Unigen Corporation, Kingston Technology Company, Viking Components Read-Rite Jeffrey Weiss WEISS & MOY, P.C. 4204 N. Brown Avenue Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 Attorneys for Supertex, Inc. Mark A. Nadeau Donald A. Wall J. Christopher Gooch SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY Two Renaissance Square 40 North Central Avenue, Suite 2700 Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4498 Attorneys for Thermo Electron Corp, Benchmark Electronics, Inc, Micro Electronics, Odetics, Inc. and Telco
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John E. DeWulf Darlene M. Wauro Randall H. Warner ROSHKA HEYMAN & DEWULF, PLC Two Arizona Center 400 North 5th Street, Suite 1000 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Attorneys for Plexus Corp. Alan H. Blankenheimer Jonathan M. James Jay T. Stewart BROWN & BAIN, P.A. 2901 North Central Avenue P O Box 400 Phoenix, Arizona 85001-8516 Attorneys for Analogic Corporation, Beckman Coulter, Inc., Bose Corporation. Scott R. Miller RIORDAN & McKINZIE 300 South Grand Avenue, 29th floor Los Angeles, California 90017 Attorneys for ViewSonic Corporation Peter L. Berger LEVISOHN, LERNER, BERGER & LANGSAM 757 Third Avenue, Suite 2400 New York, New York 10017 Attorneys for Recoton Corporation

Lee F. Grossman Jennifer P. Goetsch MARSHALL, O'TOOLE, GERSTEIN MURRAY & BORUN 233 South Wacker Drive, Suite 6300 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Attorney for CTS Corporation, Techdyne, Inc. Theresa Moore, Esq. William J. Heller, Esq. McCarter & English, LLP Four Gateway Center 100 Mulberry Street Newark, New Jersey 07102 Attorney for PNY Technologies Stuart Lubitz, Esq. Hogan & Hartson, LLP 500 South Grand Avenue, Suite 1900 Los Angeles, California 90071-2611 Attorneys for IMP Michael A. Sileo MICROSEMI CORPORATION 8131 LBJ Freeway, Suite 800 Dallas, Texas 75251-1333 Attorneys for Microsemi Jeffrey C. Whitley, Esq. WEINBERG LEGAL GROUP 2390 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 250 Phoenix, Arizona 85016 Attorneys for Conair

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Mark T. Palin, Esq. Todd J. Eastman Arter & Hadden LLP 550 West C Street, 16th Floor San Diego, California 92101 Attorneys for Tatung Company Peter K. Sommer, Esq. PHILLIPS, LYTLE, HITCHCOCK, BLAINE & HUBER LLP 3400 HSBC Center Buffalo, New York 14203-2887 Attorneys for Moog Inc. Bruce W. Slayden II BAKER BOTTS, L.L.P. One Shell Plaza, 910 Louisiana Houston, Texas 77002 Attorneys for Alcatel Networks David P. Berten COMPETITION LAW GROUP LLC 120 South State Street Suite 300 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Attorneys for Esco Electronics Chien Wei Chou OPPENHEIMER WOLFF & DONNELLEY 1400 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 Attorneys for Giga-Byte and Mitac Bruce Piontkowski ROPERS, MAJESKI, KOHN & BENTLEY, PC 80 North 1st Street San Jose, California 95113 Attorneys for Read-Rite

Brian C. Riopelle MCGUIRE WOODS LLP One James Center 901 East Care Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-1000 Attorneys for Zentrum Robert C. Colwell TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND 379 Lytton Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301 Attorneys for Intergraph Ken Wilton SMALL LARKIN, LLP 18th Floor, 10940 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90024 Attorney for Microtek Teruo Hiruma, President Jamamatsu Photonics KK 325-6 Sunayama-cho Hamamatsu City Shizuoke Prefecture 430 Japan

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A complete, duplicate of this document has been forwarded directly to : The Honorable Judge H. Russel Holland United States District Court 222 West 7th Avenue ­ No 54 Anchorage, AK 99513

/s/ Laura Keller Laura Keller

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