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Subject: Business pitch FTW!

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Heaves

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Date Posted: 04:00:23 12/14/12 Fri

Thanks, Joe. Spoken like a true up and coming shareholder. One more year!

There will definitely be tons of work next year. We are basically waiting to get the the green light from the business units that they will support our campaigns (to provide resources such as technical experts, reverse engineering, etc.) and that money will be allocated where it needs to be. Once that happens, I will be leading the march on 2 of what I think will be 4 investigations. Full speed ahead. It's simply impossible to get things moving this time of year. It's awesome!

As far as work, that is a little tricky. My division is basically pre-litigation and offensive litigation. And so any firm we use in one of my campaigns would have to be a firm we are prepared to use to go all the way with in a suit. We have a list of board approved firms we are permitted to use for litigation. If you aren't on the list, we would need to get the board to add you to the list. As far as I know, and to no slight to VK which is a very capable firm, this is a very selective list that includes only the top (or recognized as the top) litigation firms. Perceptions are everything I guess. I have only worked with Fish and Rich and Kirkland Ellis. That said, if there's a way to steer this work in your direction, I will. However, staying seated in your fancy center city office certainly doesn't help. To have a chance of being recognized, a business trip is needed. Wink wink.

Prosecution is much easier to get your hands on. But you would need take a business trip over here, put on a presentation on US patent law/procedure, make a presentation on your firm, and then make a business pitch/offer for the work. That's the gist anyways. But this is my baby and the reason I came over here. I just have to decide on which direction I want to go when I move back. If I make another go at VK, I would love to be the one to bring in the work (for obvious reasons). In fact, I probably don't see VK taking me unless I am able to bring some work in. If I go to a smaller firm or start my own, again, I'd like to have that as my work base. If I lateral to another in-house job, then I'd like to get you some of that work at the very least since I won't be needing it. We should put our heads together one of these days and come up with a plan. Hopefully over the next year things will become more clear.

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