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Stephen S. Korniczky has joined the San Diego/Del Mar office of
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's
Intellectual Property practice group. Korniczky will also co-chair the
firm's 70-attorney IP practice group with current co-chairs Daniel N.
Yannuzzi and Carlo F. Van den Bosch. Korniczky most recently practiced
at Paul Hastings in San Diego. He was a member of Paul Hastings'
Litigation Steering Committee and served as chair of its Global IP
Practice Group from 2005 to 2009, overseeing its growth from 25 to
over 100 IP attorneys.

Korniczky focuses his practice on patent litigation and strategic IP
counseling. He has litigated over 100 patent disputes in his 23 year
career and has a particular expertise handling large multi-patent
infringement actions throughout the United States. Korniczky's
representative litigation clients include Samsung, HTC Corporation,
Kyocera Wireless, SMIC, MediaTek and ESPN.

"Steve is an excellent fit for us. His practice, firmly entrenched in
the mobile communications, semiconductor, computer, consumer
electronics, and entertainment industries, dovetails well with the
firm's current client base and industry specialties, including
synergies with our Asia and entertainment practices," said Guy N.
Halgren, chairman of the firm.

"I am excited about joining Sheppard Mullin, a premier law firm that
represents large multi-national technology corporations, as well as
start-up, emerging growth and middle-tier companies," Korniczky
commented. "I am also impressed with the growth of the firm's IP
practice in recent years, its antitrust litigation capabilities, and
its collegial culture that embraces entrepreneurship. I look forward
to taking a significant role in helping to grow the practice even
further."

"Steve has a long history of success handling high-stakes patent
lawsuits," said Yannuzzi. "We have worked together over the years,
initially at our former law firm Lyon & Lyon. Later, when I was
general counsel for a multi-national semiconductor company, I retained
Steve to handle our most important 'bet-your-company' patent
litigation matters. I know from experience that Steve's commitment and
drive for success are unparalleled," said Yannuzzi.

Korniczky recently represented defendants, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. and
Samsung SDI America, Inc., in a patent infringement action filed by
Honeywell International, Inc., in the District of Delaware, against
the LCD industry. Eighty-five percent of the manufacturing industry
paid to license the patent-in-suit. Nonetheless, on the eve of trial,
Steve successfully invalidated the patent when the Honorable Joseph J.
Farnan granted Steve's motion for summary judgment of invalidity filed
on behalf of his clients.

Korniczky also successfully resolved a two-year patent infringement
action brought by his client, MediaTek, Inc., a Taiwan-based fabless
IC company, against a large Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer
in the Eastern District of Texas. The dispute, valued at several
hundred million dollars, involved three patents covering integrated
chipset solutions for compressing video and audio data in cameras,
DVDs and televisions. The dispute was resolved on the eve of trial.

Korniczky is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, and has significant experience monetizing patent
portfolios. He regularly counsels clients on business oriented IP
licensing and portfolio development strategies. For example, Korniczky
recently negotiated a license with Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.,
which involved analyzing over 40 patents involving Digital Subscriber
Line (DSL) technology, memory arrays, amplifiers, circuits for
electrostatic discharge protection, metal-oxide-semiconductor field
effect transistors (MOSFET), and processes of fabricating integrated
circuits. He has successfully designed and implemented value-added
strategies to raise venture capital, generate licensing revenue,
cross-license competing IP, and position technology companies for
acquisition.

Korniczky received a J.D. from the University at Buffalo Law School,
State University of New York in 1987 and his B.S. in engineering from
Polytechnic University in 1984. He is ranked by Chambers USA as a
leading patent attorney and recognized in the directory as a "strong
and versatile litigator."

Korniczky is the latest partner to join the firm's IP practice group.
In April, partner Russ Hill joined Sheppard Mullin's Intellectual
Property practice group in the Orange County office from Howrey. In
November, Paul Garrity joined the New York office of Sheppard Mullin
as an IP partner from Kelley Drye.

Additionally, today Kevin Puvalowski joined the New York office of
Sheppard Mullin as a partner in the Business Trial practice group,
where he will concentrate on white collar and civil fraud defense.
Puvalowski most recently served as Deputy Special Inspector General in
the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset
Relief Program ("SIGTARP"); before SIGTARP, he was a federal
prosecutor in Manhattan for more than seven years.

About Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLPSheppard Mullin is a full
service AmLaw 100 firm with 550 attorneys in 11 offices located in the
United States and Asia, 70 of those attorneys are based in the firm's
San Diego offices. Since 1927, companies have turned to Sheppard
Mullin to handle corporate and technology matters, high stakes
litigation and complex financial transactions. In the U.S., the firm's
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