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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
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`AMKOR TECHNOLOGY, INC.,
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`COMPLAINT
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`Plaintiff Amkor Technology, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (“Amkor”), by its undersigned
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`attorneys, for its Complaint against Defendants Synaptics, Inc. (“Synaptics”) and Validity
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`Sensors, LLC (“Validity”), alleges as follows:
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`NATURE OF THE ACTION
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`1.
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`In this action, Amkor, one of the world’s leading suppliers of outsourced
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`semiconductor interconnect services, seeks redress against Defendants Synaptics and Validity for
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`violations of law and the norms of industry conduct. Over a period of years, through guile and
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`deception, Defendants have taken the intellectual property of Amkor, using misappropriated
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`Amkor sensor packaging designs to build a highly successful business. Defendants’ conduct has
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`been willful and malicious, and Amkor seeks damages, punitive damages, and injunctive relief to
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`stop the Defendants from profiting from their illegal conduct. Specifically, Amkor sues for
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`infringement of United States Patent No. 7,358,174 (the “’174 Patent”) (attached as Exhibit A)
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`entitled “Methods of Forming Solder Bumps on Exposed Metal Pads” (the “Patent-in-Suit”)
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`under the patent laws of the United States, 35 U.S.C. § 1, et seq., copyright infringement,
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`misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, unfair competition, tortious interference
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`C.A. No.
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`JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
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`Plaintiff,
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`SYNAPTICS, INC. and VALIDITY
`SENSORS, LLC,
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`Defendants.
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`IPR2016-00863
`Exhibit 2006-001
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`with contract, civil conspiracy, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and violation of
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`the Delaware Misuse of Computer System Information Act.
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`2.
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`Amkor collaborates with other businesses to create sophisticated electronic
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`devices such as biosensors that, e.g., detect when a user’s fingerprint profile authorizes the user
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`to have access to a smartphone. Amkor creates the highly complex, technologically
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`sophisticated interconnections or “packaging” for these devices.
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`3.
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`This action seeks relief for multiple forms of wrongdoing by Defendants relating
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`to these biosensors, including but not limited to the following:
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`a.
`Defendants are actively inducing infringement of the ’174 Patent and,
`upon information and belief, have directly infringed the ’174 Patent.
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`b.
`its non-disclosure agreement,
`in violation of
`Defendant Validity,
`misappropriated Amkor’s confidential and proprietary Wafer Level Fan Out (“WLFO”)
`technology. Validity wrongfully submitted Amkor’s ideas and even its confidential
`diagrams to the United States Patent Office, falsely claiming them as its own and causing
`Amkor’s valuable, confidential information to be placed into the public domain without
`Amkor’s knowledge or consent. In addition, upon information and belief, Validity and
`Synaptics have been using Amkor’s confidential information as part of a plan to
`commercialize this WLFO technology.
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`c.
`Defendants Validity and Synaptics, again in violation of a non-disclosure
`agreement, misappropriated Amkor’s confidential and proprietary design files for “flip
`chip chip scale package” technology. Defendants sent to Amkor’s primary competitor,
`third-party Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (“ASE”), design files that were
`copied, in whole or substantial part, from the Amkor design files. Upon information and
`belief, Synaptics, Validity and ASE together have collaborated on, and have been
`successfully selling, a product based on those files.
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`THE PARTIES
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`4.
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`Plaintiff Amkor is a Delaware Corporation with its principal place of business in
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`Tempe, Arizona. Amkor is one of the world’s largest providers of semiconductor packaging and
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`test services.
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`IPR2016-00863
`Exhibit 2006-002
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`5.
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`Upon information and belief, Defendant Synaptics is a Delaware corporation with
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`its principal place of business in California, and is a developer and supplier of, among other
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`things, touch-based semiconductor products.
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`6.
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`Upon information and belief, Defendant Validity is a Delaware limited liability
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`company with its principal place of business in California, and is also a developer and supplier of
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`touch-based semiconductor products.
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`7.
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`Upon information and belief, Defendant Synaptics acquired Validity Sensors, Inc.
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`on or about November 7, 2013 and formed Validity Sensors LLC, which is the successor-in-
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`interest to Validity Sensors, Inc.’s assets and liabilities.
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`JURISDICTION
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`8.
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`This Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this dispute under 28 U.S.C.
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`§§ 1331, 1338(a) and § 1367.
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`AMKOR’S BUSINESS
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`9.
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`Since its founding in 1968, Amkor has pioneered the development and
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`outsourcing of semiconductor packaging and test services. Amkor is a strategic manufacturing
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`partner for more than 300 of the world’s leading semiconductor companies, foundries and
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`electronics original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”).
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`10.
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`Through a significant investment of time, capital, and people, Amkor has built a
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`leading position in the semiconductor industry by designing innovative packaging for
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`semiconductor chips to be used in electronic devices. For example, Amkor’s cutting-edge
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`semiconductor packaging allows sensor integration into the phone to sense whether the user’s
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`fingerprint profile authorizes the user to have access to the phone. Fingerprint identification on
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`mobile phones is an ever-growing and important worldwide line of business.
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`IPR2016-00863
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`11.
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`In recent years, Amkor has invested hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-
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`the-art facilities and equipment to provide services for the industry’s most complex devices.
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`12. With approximately 400 employees engaged in research and development
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`focusing on the design and development of new semiconductor packaging and test technologies,
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`Amkor has achieved technology leadership in areas such as advanced flip chip and wafer-level
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`semiconductor processing and packaging. The industry in which Amkor competes is highly
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`fragmented, and Amkor’s renowned technology leadership sets Amkor apart from its
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`competition in capturing the most valuable business opportunities as customers and leading
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`electronics manufacturers strive for smaller device geometries, higher levels of speed and
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`performance, and lower power consumption. Protection of its technology and trade secrets is
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`absolutely critical to Amkor’s core strategy and business model.
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`WAFER LEVEL FAN OUT TECHNOLOGY
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`Amkor Enters into A Non-Disclosure Agreement with Validity in 2008
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`13.
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`On or about September 30, 2008, Amkor and Validity entered into a Mutual Non-
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`Disclosure Agreement (“2008 NDA”) to allow Validity access to Amkor’s confidential
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`information. The 2008 NDA defines “Confidential Information” as all information relating to,
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`among other things, “business plans, technology, product plans, products, developments,
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`inventions, processes, designs, [and] drawings[.]” 2008 NDA § 1.2. The 2008 NDA was drafted
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`for the express purpose of strictly protecting the confidentiality of Amkor’s “Advanced
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`Packaging” technology which was to be shared with Validity. See id. App’x A (“Permitted
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`Purpose”).
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`14.
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`The parties to the 2008 NDA agreed that the recipient of Confidential Information
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`“shall disclose Confidential Information only to those of its employees, agents and independent
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`contractors who have a need to know such information for the Permitted Purpose[,]” id. § 2.3,
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`Exhibit 2006-004
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`and further agreed not to reproduce or copy any Confidential Information without the discloser’s
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`prior written consent, id. § 2.4, or remove any “proprietary rights legend” from “materials
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`disclosing or embodying Confidential Information.” Id. § 2.5.
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`15.
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`Importantly, except for permitted uses expressly contemplated in the agreement,
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`the 2008 NDA “grants no license … under any copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or
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`other proprietary rights to use or reproduce Confidential Information.” Id. § 2.7.
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`16. Moreover, “[i]n the event that Confidential Information is or becomes the subject
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`of a patent application, patent, copyright, or other proprietary right, Recipient agrees and
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`understands that Discloser will have all the rights and remedies available to it under the law as a
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`result of said patent application, patent, copyright or other proprietary right.” Id.
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`17.
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`The 2008 NDA remains in full force “for a period of three (3) years from the
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`Effective Date” of September 30, 2008, and the “obligations regarding confidentiality shall
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`continue for a period of five (5) years from disclosure of Confidential Information or until such
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`time as the subject Confidential Information of a Discloser disclosed under this Agreement
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`becomes publicly known or made generally available through no action by the Recipient.” Id.
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`§ 3.
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`Pursuant to the NDA, Amkor Shares Confidential and
`Proprietary Wafer Level Fan Out Technology With Validity
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`18.
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`In or around March 2010, Amkor approached Validity about designing a package
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`for a new fingerprint biosensor, which could be used, inter alia, to provide access to a smart
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`phone, using a new technology called Wafer Level Fan Out (“WLFO”).
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`19.
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`For more than two years, Amkor engaged in intensive research and development
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`efforts, both in the United States and Korea, to develop semiconductor packaging suitable for the
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`WLFO project. A dedicated team of more than twenty employees was diverted from other
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`projects to work on WLFO development. Amkor spent approximately $7 million dollars on
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`equipment alone for this project, which it purchased specifically for this project.
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`20.
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`In various documents and meetings in 2010 and 2011, Amkor provided its
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`confidential and proprietary ideas, designs, product plans, and other confidential information
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`regarding WLFO to Validity, pursuant to the 2008 NDA. In particular, pursuant to the 2008
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`NDA, Amkor provided three critical diagrams in documents and presentation materials to
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`Validity.
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`21.
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`The diagrams, specifically those on slide 2 of Amkor’s confidential presentation
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`dated March 2010 and on slides 8 and 7 of Amkor’s confidential presentation dated September
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`2010 (redacted versions of which are reproduced here as Figures 1a, 1b, and 1c, respectively,
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`below) were marked as “Amkor Proprietary Business Information.” They demonstrate essential
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`design information for the WLFO technology and the design process, which is a major
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`technological step forward with significant commercial value belonging to Amkor.
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`22.
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`Nonetheless, Validity copied substantial portions of each of those diagrams into
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`patent applications that Validity then passed off as its own and filed with the Patent and
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`Trademark Office. The copied materials are substantially similar to, and in many respects
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`virtually identical to, the Amkor source materials. In addition, Validity incorporated into the
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`patent applications substantial additional confidential know-how and information acquired in
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`confidence from Amkor corresponding to the diagrams that they copied.
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`23.
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`24.
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`Validity’s non-provisional patent application is currently pending.
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`Figures 2a, 2b, and 2c on the pages below are diagrams included in Validity’s
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`provisional patent application and correspond respectively to Amkor Figures 1a, 1b, and 1c.
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`Figures 3a, 3b, and 3c are diagrams included in Validity’s patent application and, again,
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`correspond respectively to Amkor Figures 1a, 1b, and 1c. The striking similarity of the
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`corresponding diagrams is evident.
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`Figure 1a: Amkor’s Wafer Level Fan Out
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`Figure 2a: Validity Provisional Patent Application Figure 13 Copies Amkor’s
`Presentation
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`Exhibit 2006-007
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`Figure 3a: Validity Patent Application Figure 13 Copies Amkor’s Presentation
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`Figure 1b: Amkor’s Wafer Level Fan Out Device Structure
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`Figure 2b: Validity Provisional Patent Application Figure 4 Copies Amkor’s Presentation
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`Figure 3b: Validity Patent Application Figure 4 Copies Amkor’s Presentation
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`Figure 1c: Amkor’s Wafer Level Fan Out Device Process Flow
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`Figure 2c: Validity Provisional Patent Application Figure 5 Copies Amkor’s Presentation
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`Figure 3c: Validity Patent Application Figure 5 Copies Amkor’s Presentation
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`IPR2016-00863
`Exhibit 2006-012
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`25.
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`The WLFO technology shown in the figures above is a method to produce
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`semiconductor chip packages that has technical advantages over other manufacturing processes
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`including, inter alia, a resulting lower manufacturing error rate because the circuitry provided
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`from a manufacturing partner is tested before being incorporated into the semiconductor
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`packaging.
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`26.
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`Amkor took reasonable precautions to maintain the secrecy of its WLFO
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`technology by, for example, requiring the use of non-disclosure agreements.
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`Validity Violates the NDA By Submitting Amkor’s Confidential
`and Proprietary Diagrams to the U.S. Patent Office
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`27.
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`On March 16, 2011, Validity filed U.S. provisional patent application No.
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`61/453,460 (the “’460 Application”). On March 14, 2012, Validity filed U.S. Patent Application
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`No. 13/420,188, “Packaging for Fingerprint Sensors and Methods of Manufacture” (the “’188
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`Application”).
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`28.
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`Unbeknownst to Amkor and without its express or implied permission, Validity
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`utilized and disclosed Amkor’s Confidential Information in both the ‘460 and the ’188
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`Application.
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`29.
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`In particular, as an essential part of the ’460 Application, Validity submitted three
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`diagrams, shown above as Figures 2a, 2b, and 2c that copy both the content and expression of
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`Amkor’s proprietary and confidential information.
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`30.
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`In particular, as an essential part of the ’188 Application, Validity submitted three
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`diagrams, shown above as Figures 3a, 3b, and 3c that copy both the content and expression of
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`Amkor’s proprietary and confidential information.
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`31.
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`Validity’s publication of the ’188 Application fails to list Amkor or any of its
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`employees as inventors and does not include Amkor’s proprietary rights legend as required by
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`the 2008 NDA.
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`32.
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`Upon information and belief, Validity and/or Synaptics has used or intends to use
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`Amkor’s proprietary WLFO technology to make biosensors for commercial distribution, which
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`upon information and belief, will result in annual revenue exceeding tens of millions of dollars.
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`FLIP CHIP BIOSENSORS
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`Amkor Enters Into A Subsequent Non-Disclosure Agreement With Validity in 2012
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`33.
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`On or about July 2012, Validity and Amkor began discussing utilizing another
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`form of technology for a biosensor called a “flip chip.”
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`34.
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`Flip chip technology is an improvement over some other forms of semiconductor
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`packages because it allows a higher number of sensor connections, using Amkor’s fine pitch
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`bump technology. Flip chip technology also enables smaller chips and thinner, smaller form
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`factors (or physical package dimensions).
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`35.
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`On or about August 9, 2012, Amkor and Synaptics entered into a Mutual Non-
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`Disclosure Agreement (“2012 Synaptics NDA”) in order to exchange confidential information.
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`36.
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`On or about August 14, 2012, Amkor and Validity entered into a subsequent
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`Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement (“2012 Validity NDA”) in order to exchange confidential
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`information relating to flip chip packaging.
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`37.
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`As with the 2008 NDA, the 2012 Validity NDA defines “Confidential
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`Information” as all information relating, inter alia, to “business plans, technology, product plans,
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`products, developments, inventions, processes, designs, [and] drawings[.]” 2012 Validity NDA
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`§ 1.2.
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`38.
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`The 2012 Validity NDA was drafted for the purpose of, inter alia, “evaluat[ing]
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`possible business relationship(s) of mutual interest to the Parties related to semiconductor
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`assembly[” and “to engage in such relationship(s) (if any) undertaken by the Parties.” See id.
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`App’x A (“Permitted Purpose”).
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`39.
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`The parties to the 2012 Validity NDA agreed that the recipient of Confidential
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`Information “shall not disclose Confidential Information to third parties, and shall prevent the
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`disclosure of such information to third parties . . . .” Id. § 2.2.
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`Amkor Provides Confidential and Proprietary
`“Flip Chip” Design Files to Validity Pursuant to the 2012 Validity NDA
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`40.
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`Pursuant to the 2012 Validity NDA, Amkor and Validity agreed to cooperate in
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`building a flip chip semiconductor package. Intensive research and design work on the flip chip
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`took place in late 2012 and into 2013. More than twenty Amkor employees worked on the
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`development effort, which became one of Amkor’s top priorities company-wide.
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`41.
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`On September 6, 2012, Amkor agreed to provide Validity with Amkor’s highly
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`confidential design rules for the flip chip chip scale package (“FCCSP”). Amkor developed
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`these valuable rules as a result of years of research and testing. Amkor expressly reminded
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`Validity that the design rules are proprietary and that Amkor was disclosing them only pursuant
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`to the NDA. Design rules are important and confidential specifications relating to how to build
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`the chip, which would be of significant value to a competitor.
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`42.
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`On October 10, 2012, Joe Johnson of Amkor sent the first design file for the
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`project, which by then had been given the code name Raptor, to Validity. Mr. Johnson had
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`developed this file as an implementation of FCCSP technology that Amkor had developed and
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`refined over years of research and testing. This technology remained the heart of the substrate
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`design throughout the Raptor project’s various iterations.
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`Synaptics Acquires Validity, and Validity Employees
`Begin to Request More Confidential Information from Amkor
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`43.
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`44.
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`On or about November 8, 2013, Synaptics bought Validity for $255 million.
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`Upon information and belief, prior to purchasing Validity, Synaptics was a
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`company that specialized in human interfaces with technology, but lacked fingerprint
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`identification technology. Upon information and belief, Synaptics had long sought access to the
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`highly lucrative biometrics market. The purchase of Validity gave Synaptics prime access to that
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`market via fingerprint identification technology, on which Amkor and Validity were working
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`together, using Amkor’s proprietary information.
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`45.
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`Upon information and belief, Synaptics had a pre-existing relationship with ASE,
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`a competitor of Amkor, prior to Synaptics’ acquisition of Validity.
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`46.
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`During the time frame of Synaptics’ acquisition of Validity, employees from
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`Validity starting asking many questions about Amkor’s design work and process, coming to the
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`plant for visits, and asking questions that they had not asked before. The questions were detailed
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`inquiries about the technology, in one highly unusual instance asking even for Amkor’s complete
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`specifications.
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`47.
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`Amkor accommodated Validity’s requests in most respects, continuing to develop
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`and send Raptor design files to Validity into early 2014. Amkor then successfully completed its
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`R&D and production on this technology, enabling Validity to incorporate that technology into its
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`product and sell tens of millions of dollars of product.
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`48.
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`However, Validity nonetheless insisted that Amkor cut its pricing drastically.
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`Amkor refused, and Validity unceremoniously dumped Amkor. Subsequently, Amkor learned
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`that Validity had begun working with Amkor arch rival ASE instead.
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`49.
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`Upon information and belief, Validity’s questioning of Amkor about Amkor’s
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`design work and process was at the behest of Synaptics, for the purpose of misappropriating
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`Amkor’s confidential and proprietary information, transferring it to ASE, and cutting Amkor out
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`of the picture. Upon information and belief, Synaptics and Validity subsequently carried out this
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`plan, thus enabling ASE to create the same product at much lower costs, because ASE had not
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`incurred any of the substantial development costs and time that Amkor had expended.
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`Validity and Synaptics Misappropriate Amkor’s Confidential and
`Proprietary “Flip Chip” Design Files and Send them to Amkor’s Primary Competitor
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`50.
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`On January 14, 2014, Amkor learned that Validity, in violation of the 2012
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`Validity NDA and without Amkor’s knowledge or consent, had sent Amkor’s confidential
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`Raptor files to ASE.
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`51.
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`Specifically, on January 14, 2014, Richard Quinn of Validity sent the following
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`email to Fernando Roa of Amkor: “Hi Fernando, can you get this .mcm saved in V16.5?
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`Thanks, Rich.” He attached a file “AR_SYN_003.R2.zip”. The file is of a type used to prepare
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`circuit designs.
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`52. When opening the AR_SYN_003.R2.zip file, Amkor was shocked to discover
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`that the file was not an original Amkor design file, but a file created by ASE. Even more
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`troubling, the file contained an exact copy of the design submitted by Amkor to Validity solely
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`for purposes of Amkor and Validity’s work together, except that Amkor’s name, confidentiality
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`legend, and copyright notice were removed and the name “ASE Group” was prominently added.
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`Furthermore, the design rules for the FCCSP technology accessible from a menu in the design
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`file were an exact copy of Amkor’s FCCSP design rules.
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`53. With these documents, Mr. Quinn mistakenly forwarded a long email chain
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`spanning several weeks among Validity, Synaptics and ASE, demonstrating that Validity had
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`been feeding Amkor design information to ASE. The unintentional forwarding of the chain,
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`which was never meant for Amkor’s eyes, blew open the scheme and demonstrated that Validity
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`and Synaptics had willfully stolen Amkor’s confidential information and turned it over to a
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`competitor.
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`54.
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`Validity and Synaptics had been asking Amkor to provide its confidential and
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`proprietary information pursuant to the 2012 Validity NDA, and then Validity and Synaptics
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`passed the information to Amkor’s primary competitor, ASE. Validity and Synaptics carried out
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`this scheme in substantial part using Brett Dunlap, a former Amkor employee now employed by
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`Validity and/or Synaptics, who made the requests for information to his former colleagues.
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`55.
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`Thereafter, upon information and belief, Validity and Synaptics produced product
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`based on these misappropriated designs and sold tens of millions of dollars of product as a result.
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`56.
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`Amkor took reasonable precautions to maintain the secrecy of its flip chip
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`technology, for example by requiring the use of non-disclosure agreements. Through Validity
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`and Synaptics’s willful disregard of Amkor’s rights, Amkor has suffered and will continue to
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`suffer the loss of its highly valuable confidential information, resulting in the loss of important
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`business opportunities in a highly dynamic and lucrative market.
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`Amkor Registers Diagrams from its Confidential and
`Presentations with the United States Copyright Office
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`57.
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`Amkor applied to the U.S. Copyright Office for a Certificate of Registration for a
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`work titled “Presentation of March 2010 Slide 2 Figure,” a copy of the deposit for which appears
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`below as Figure 4a. The Copyright Office granted Amkor's application and assigned registration
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`number VAu001221551 to it, as shown on the page from the Copyright Office’s Copyright
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`Catalog attached hereto as Exhibit B.
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`18
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`IPR2016-00863
`Exhibit 2006-018
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`

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`Case 1:15-cv-00910-GMS Document 1 Filed 10/09/15 Page 19 of 29 PageID #: 19
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`Figure 4a: Amkor’s Copyrighted Work, “Presentation of September 2010 Slide 2 Figure”
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`Amkor applied to the U.S. Copyright Office for a Certificate of Registration for a
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`58.
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`work titled “Presentation of September 2010 Slide 8 Figure,” a copy of the deposit for which
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`appears below as Figure 4b. The Copyright Office granted Amkor's application and assigned
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`registration number VAu001221552 to it, as shown on the page from the Copyright Office’s
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`Copyright Catalog attached hereto as Exhibit C.
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`Figure 4b: Amkor’s Copyrighted Work, “Presentation of September 2010 Slide 8 Figure”
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`19
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`IPR2016-00863
`Exhibit 2006-019
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`

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`Case 1:15-cv-00910-GMS Document 1 Filed 10/09/15 Page 20 of 29 PageID #: 20
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`COUNT I
`Infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7,358,174
`(Against Validity and Synaptics)
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`59.
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`Amkor incorporates by reference the allegations contained in the preceding
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`paragraphs as if fully set forth herein.
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`60.
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`61.
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`Amkor is the assignee of all right, title and interest in and to the ’174 Patent.
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`Defendants actively, knowingly, and intentionally induce infringement of the ’174
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`Patent in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) by actively, knowingly, and intentionally inducing
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`Defendants’ customers to make, use, offer for sale, import, and sell, in the United States,
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`fingerprint sensors that are made by one or more processes claimed by the ’174 Patent and are
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`incorporated into smartphones, thus directly infringing the ’174 Patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271(g).
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`Defendants’ inducement of infringement under § 271(b) occurs with Defendants’ knowledge, at
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`least as of the date of this suit, of the ’174 Patent and its claims; with Defendants’ knowledge
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`that its customers directly infringe the claimed methods of the ’174 Patent under 35 U.S.C. §
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`271(g); and with Defendants’ knowledge and specific intent to encourage and facilitate that
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`direct infringement.
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`62.
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`Upon information and belief, Defendants are also liable for direct infringement
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`under 35 U.S.C. § 271(g), on account of their using, offering for sale, importation, and sale, in
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`the United States, of fingerprint sensors that are made by one or more processes claimed by the
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`’174 Patent.
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`63.
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`Defendants have had knowledge of and actual notice of the ’174 Patent and their
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`infringement since at least, and through, the filing and service of the Complaint, and despite this
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`knowledge will, upon information and belief, continue to infringe the ’174 Patent.
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`20
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`IPR2016-00863
`Exhibit 2006-020
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`

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`Case 1:15-cv-00910-GMS Document 1 Filed 10/09/15 Page 21 of 29 PageID #: 21
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`64.
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`Defendants’ infringement has caused and is continuing to cause damage and
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`irreparable injury to Amkor, and Amkor will continue to suffer such injury unless and until
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`infringement is enjoined by this Court.
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`65.
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`Amkor is entitled to injunctive relief and damages pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §§ 271,
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`281, 283 and 284.
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`COUNT II
`Copyright Infringement—Wafer Level Fan Out
`(Against Validity and Synaptics)
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`66.
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`Amkor incorporates by reference the allegations contained in the preceding
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`paragraphs as if fully set forth herein.
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`67.
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`Amkor is the author of its confidential and proprietary presentations of March
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`2010 and September 2010 and of each figure contained therein, including but not limited to those
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`figures it registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
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`68.
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`Amkor is the owner of the copyright registrations for the works “Presentation of
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`March 2010 Slide 2 Figure” and “Presentation of September 2010 Slide 8 Figure” (hereinafter
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`“Amkor’s Copyrighted Figures”).
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`69.
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`Defendants had access to Amkor’s original works of authorship now registered as
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`Amkor’s Copyrighted Figures.
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`70.
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`In violation of 17 U.S.C. § 106(2), Defendants created derivative works from
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`Amkor’s original works of authorship, Amkor’s Copyrighted Figures, for use in the ’460 and
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`’188 Applications, without authorization.
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`71.
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`In violation of 17 U.S.C. § 106(1), Defendants copied Amkor’s original works of
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`authorship, Amkor’s Copyrighted Figures, into the ’460 and ’188 Applications without
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`authorization.
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`21
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`IPR2016-00863
`Exhibit 2006-021
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`

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`Case 1:15-cv-00910-GMS Document 1 Filed 10/09/15 Page 22 of 29 PageID #: 22
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`72.
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`In violation of 17 U.S.C. § 106(5), Defendants distributed to the public, via the
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`applications to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Amkor’s original works of authorship, i.e.,
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`Amkor’s Copyrighted Figures, without authorization.
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`73.
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`Amkor has been damaged by Defendants’ unauthorized creation of derivative
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`works from Amkor’s Copyrighted Figures, unauthorized copying of Amkor’s Copyrighted
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`Figures, and unauthorized distribution of Amkor’s Copyrighted Figures.
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`74.
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`As a result of the foregoing copyright infringement, Amkor is entitled to damages
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`in an amount to be proven at trial.
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`COUNT III
`Misappropriation of Trade Secrets—Wafer Level Fan Out
`(Against Validity and Synaptics)
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`Amkor incorporates by reference the allegations contained in the preceding
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`75.
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`paragraphs as if fully set forth herein.
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`76.
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`Pursuant to the 2008 NDA, Validity had and has, among other things, the duty to
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`not disclose Amkor’s confidential and proprietary information to third parties.
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`77.
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`Validity and Synaptics have misused and/or publicly disclosed information, which
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`constitutes the trade secrets of Amkor, and which conduct constitutes misappropriation of trade
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`secrets.
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`78.
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`As a result of Validity’s misconduct, Amkor is entitled to damages and an
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`injunction against further use of Amkor information.
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`COUNT IV
`Breach of Contract—Wafer Level Fan Out
`(Against Validity)
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`79.
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`Amkor incorporates by reference the allegations contained in the preceding
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`paragraphs as if fully set forth herein.
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`22
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`IPR2016-00863
`Exhibit 2006-022
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`

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`Case 1:15-cv-00910-GMS Document 1 Filed 10/09/15 Page 23 of 29 PageID #: 23
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`80.
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`Pursuant to the 2008 NDA, Validity had the duty, among other things, not to
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`disclose Amkor’s confidential information to third parties or use it for a purpose other than the
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`parties’ work together.
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`81.
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`In violation of the terms of the 2008 NDA, Validity has publicly disclosed certain
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`of Amkor’s confidential information and disclosed to Amkor’s competitor additional Amkor
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`confidential information.
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`82.
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`As a result of Validity’s breach of the 2008 NDA, Amkor is entitled to damages
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`and an injunction against further use of Amkor’s information.
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`COUNT V
`Unfair Competition—Wafer Level Fan Out
`(Against Validity and Synaptics)
`
`83.
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`Amkor incorporates by reference the allegations contained in the preceding
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`paragraphs as if fully set forth herein.
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`84.
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`Amkor had a reasonable expectation of business relationships based on the
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`technology it developed, including but not limited to the development of WLFO packaging with
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`Validity, which has been interfered with through Validity’s claimed ownership of the
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`technology.
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`85.
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`As a result of Validity’s misconduct, Amkor is entitled to da

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