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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`HOUSTON DIVISION
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`09-CV-1827
`Houston, Texas
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`12:11 p.m.
`July 24, 2012
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`WESTERNGECO LLC
`VS.
`ION GEOPHYSICAL
`CORPORATION, FUGRO
`GEOTEAM, INC., ET AL
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`JURY TRIAL
`Volume 2
`Afternoon Session
`BEFORE THE HONORABLE KEITH P. ELLISON
`UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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`APPEARANCES:
`FOR THE PLAINTIFF:
`Lee L. Kaplan
`SMYSER, KAPLAN & VESELKA, LLP
`700 Louisiana, Suite 2300
`Houston, Texas 77002
`713.221.2300
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`Gregg F. LoCascio
`KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
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`Washington, DC 20005
`202.879.5290
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`Sarah Tsou
`Timothy K. Gilman
`KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
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`FOR ION GEOPHYSICAL CORPORATION:
`David L. Burgert
`Susan Kopecky Hellinger
`Jonathan M. Pierce
`Jonna N. Stallings
`Ray T. Torgerson
`Eric D. Wade
`PORTER & HEDGES LLP
`Reliant Energy Plaza
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`Houston, Texas 77002
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`FOR FUGRO GEOTEAM, INC.:
`Gordon T. Arnold
`Jason A. Saunders
`Anthony Hong
`ARNOLD KNOBLOCH LLP
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`James M. Thompson
`ROYSTON RAYZOR VICKERY & WILLIAMS LLP
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`Court Reporter:
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`THOMAS SCOULIOS
`CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. THOMPSON..............
`REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. LOCASCIO...........
`SIMON BITTLESTON
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`making solid streamers and things like that. So we looked
`at the number of different areas. This was one of them.
`And I think you told Mr. Gilman that others before
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`you had looked at ways to move streamers laterally; is
`that right?
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`Of course, because the streamers are moved laterally
`by monowings, They existed before. In fact, the first
`time people started to move cables sideways like this was
`the second world war for minesweepers. So you know, the
`history of devices that pull cables sideways is a very
`long history.
`So any statement that you invented lateral steering
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`is just wrong?
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`Yes. I am not the inventor of laterally steering.
`I'm an inventor of a global control system.
`And the global control system is software in a
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`computer, isn't it?
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`It's rather more than that. There's many components
`of what I call an overall control system. It's the
`methods by which you're going to do it. It's the
`measurements you're going to need to do it and the other
`devices. But it depends on your terminology, I think, and
`how you -- what you encompass in that statement.
`All right. Well, one of the -- and the reason I
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