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Addendum

Areas of Law:

Intellectual Property Counseling, Strategic Patent Prosecution, Intellectual Property Agreements and
Due Diligence Investigation

Legal Authorship:

"Viewpoint: Patent Disclosure Policy and Willful Infringement Doctrine," Patent Strategy & Management,
July 2003;
"Patent Litigation Insurance," Patent Strategy & Management, January 2001;
"An Introduction to the Copyright Protection of the Chinese Regulations for Computer Software," China
Patents & Trademarks Quarterly, January 1993.

Reported Cases:

Optical Products Development Corp. v. Dimensional Media Associates, Inc., 134 F.Supp.2d 320
(S.D.N.Y. 2001);
Digital Equipment Corp. v. Intel Corp., No. 4:97 Civ. 40080 (D.Mass. 1997);
Avid Technology, Inc. v. Data Translations, No. 1:95 Civ. 11193 (D.Mass. 1995);
Tektronix, Inc. v. LeCroy Corp., No. 3:92 Civ. 1440 (D.Oregon 1992).

Publicly Reportable Transactions:

Synopsys, Inc. $735 million acquisition of Avanti Corporation, approved June 2002. Intellectual
property due diligence as counsel for Synopsys, Inc.

Lecturer:

"Patent Infringement and Validity Insurance," Patent Strategy & Management Conference, November
2-3, 2000, McLean, VA.
Instructor, Seminar in Integrated Circuit Design, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Summer 1990 and 1991.

Patented Inventions:

Awarded U.S. Patents #5,237,513, August 17, 1993, and #5,502,648, March 26, 1996, for "Data
       Processing Method of Generating Integrated Circuits Using Prime Implicants" on MIT
       Master's Thesis;
Awarded U.S. Patent #3,997,860, December 14, 1976, for "Miniature Memory Bit Holder" (while in
       Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY).

Technical Employment:

Symbolics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (an MIT spinoff company), Member of Technical Staff, software
       engineering of in-house integrated circuit design system, 1985-1987;
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Robotic Systems Research Group, Holmdel, NJ, designed an integrated
       circuit for robot vision and a silicon compiler, Summer 1982, Fall 1982 and Summer 1983;
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ultracomputer Supercomputer Project, New York
       University, locating of errors in supercomputing hardware, Summer 1980.

Technical Authorship:

"Pass and Restoring Logic Technology Mapping," MIT Master's Thesis, 1989;
"Architecture of a Message-Driven Processor," IEEE 14th International Computer Architecture
Conference, 1987.


Jonathan T. Kaplan Attorney at Law 10800 SE 17th Circle, Suite E66 Vancouver, WA 98664-6297 JonathanKaplan@alum.MIT.edu Tel. 917-674-5017 Fax 917-591-2977
Addendum Areas of Law: Intellectual Property Counseling, Strategic Patent Prosecution, Intellectual Property Agreements and Due Diligence Investigation Legal Authorship: "Viewpoint: Patent Disclosure Policy and Willful Infringement Doctrine," Patent Strategy & Management, July 2003; "Patent Litigation Insurance," Patent Strategy & Management, January 2001; "An Introduction to the Copyright Protection of the Chinese Regulations for Computer Software," China Patents & Trademarks Quarterly, January 1993. Reported Cases: Optical Products Development Corp. v. Dimensional Media Associates, Inc., 134 F.Supp.2d 320 (S.D.N.Y. 2001); Digital Equipment Corp. v. Intel Corp., No. 4:97 Civ. 40080 (D.Mass. 1997); Avid Technology, Inc. v. Data Translations, No. 1:95 Civ. 11193 (D.Mass. 1995); Tektronix, Inc. v. LeCroy Corp., No. 3:92 Civ. 1440 (D.Oregon 1992). Publicly Reportable Transactions: Synopsys, Inc. $735 million acquisition of Avanti Corporation, approved June 2002. Intellectual property due diligence as counsel for Synopsys, Inc. Lecturer: "Patent Infringement and Validity Insurance," Patent Strategy & Management Conference, November 2-3, 2000, McLean, VA. Instructor, Seminar in Integrated Circuit Design, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Summer 1990 and 1991. Patented Inventions: Awarded U.S. Patents #5,237,513, August 17, 1993, and #5,502,648, March 26, 1996, for "Data Processing Method of Generating Integrated Circuits Using Prime Implicants" on MIT Master's Thesis; Awarded U.S. Patent #3,997,860, December 14, 1976, for "Miniature Memory Bit Holder" (while in Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY). Technical Employment: Symbolics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (an MIT spinoff company), Member of Technical Staff, software engineering of in-house integrated circuit design system, 1985-1987; Bell Telephone Laboratories, Robotic Systems Research Group, Holmdel, NJ, designed an integrated circuit for robot vision and a silicon compiler, Summer 1982, Fall 1982 and Summer 1983; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ultracomputer Supercomputer Project, New York University, locating of errors in supercomputing hardware, Summer 1980. Technical Authorship: "Pass and Restoring Logic Technology Mapping," MIT Master's Thesis, 1989; "Architecture of a Message-Driven Processor," IEEE 14th International Computer Architecture Conference, 1987.