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[Desert dweller]

Frank, thanks for the information regarding your phone call. Much appreciated. You are probably bored at this time of year, isn't this your slow time LOL. Only a little more than 3 weeks of busy season left for you, good luck.

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Don't expect any ITC news on Monday

I spoke to Janet Point this morning and asked her if IDCC was planning on making any announcement regarding the ITC staff report. She told me that the staff report would be given to the lawyers on Monday and that it was confidential. I asked her if it was for the lawyers only, not the client, and she said yes. She said the report is disclosed at the trial. Janet said that they were investigating how disclosure was handled in other ITC cases.

This is my interpretation of what she told me, and I may have misunderstood her meaning, so don't quote her or the company based on this. If you want clarification call Janet Point and 1-800-no wires. While I did not follow up at the time, in looking at my notes it seems odd that the clients would not have access to the reports from the lawyers as it would seem to be an impetus to settlement. Maybe she was saying only the lawyers got the report directly and did not mean to convey that IDCC would not know the results.

Based on our conversation, I am expecting NO NEWS on Monday and probably not in March. If anyone can find other ITC cases that have an early disclosure I'd suggest bringing them to Janet's attention to give her a precedent for getting the info our sooner. From the amazing Olddog's post from earlier today, 3 weeks looks like a possiblity.

Okay, back to taxes.

Frank

[JimLur]

Cont olddog posted this. There's was about 19 days difference between the confidential version and the public version.

For those interested in seeing what a staff pre-hearing report looks like here is a public version from a recent case (Renesas v. Samsung). Although the report was 76 pages long, the staff"s conclusions were summarized in the one paragraph introductory statements and final conclusion. The original (confidential) report was issued on 11/1/2007, and the public version on 11/20/2007.

http://edisweb.usitc.gov/edismirror/337-595/Violation/286879/338001/463/8ed6e3.pdf

[spencer]

On the CC, it sounded like IDCC would get the staff report pretty soon. Merritt said that it would be up to Steve Stricker to decide on whether it would be material or not to release an 8-K.