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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`HOUSTON DIVISION
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`WESTERNGECO LLC, . 4:09-CV-01827
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`PLAINTIFF, .
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` vs. .
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`ION GEOPHYSICAL .
`CORPORATION, FUGRO GEOTEAM, .
`INC., ET AL, . VOLUME 11
` . AFTERNOON SESSION
`DEFENDANTS . AUGUST 7, 2012
`. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:30 P.M.
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`TRANSCRIPT OF JURY TRIAL
`BEFORE THE HONORABLE KEITH P. ELLISON
`UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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`FOR THE PLAINTIFF:
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`Lee K. Kaplan
`SMYSER KAPLAN & VESELKA LLP
`Bank of America Center
`700 Louisiana, Suite 2300
`Houston, Texas 77002
`Gregg F. LoCascio
`KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
`655 Fifteenth Street Northwest
`Washington, DC 20005
`Sarah Tsou
`Timothy K. Gilman
`KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
`Citigroup Center
`153 East 53rd Street
`New York, New York 10022
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`Mayra Malone, CSR, RMR, CRR
`mayramalone@comcast.net
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`That's the same thing as the APS system you were talking
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`about earlier?
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`Yes. Those terms are used interchangeably.
`Q
`You see the third bullet point, cable steering, there?
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`Yes.
`Q
`That refers to lateral steering of the streamers, correct?
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`That's correct.
`Q
`We see further down towards the bottom, the presentation
`states that PGS positioning system requirements were driven by
`Q system features, right?
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`PGS wanted a competitive solution to the Q system, yes.
`Q
`Q-Marine was already out in the market with a steerable
`streamer system at this time?
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`I believe that is the case, yes.
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`And your customer came to you and said, We want a competing
`system for Q Marine?
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`Yes. We were seen as the positioning system experts. We
`were in the best position to develop a competing offering.
`Q
`If we turn back to the page 14 in this exhibit, 934, here
`is another slide on the next-generation positioning system.
`And then there's a project description, there is a question of
`why, and the answer is: Answer to Q positioning system, right?
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`Yes. That was, you know, a competitive offering to Q, yes.
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`We see some of the benefits that we all agree on come from
`streamer steering?
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`Mayra Malone, CSR, RMR, CRR
`mayramalone@comcast.net
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`Yes. And those are the exact same benefits that we
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`identified early on in the '90s, yes.
`Q
`And this next-generation positioning system was a concerted
`effort by ION to match the features that WesternGeco had with
`Q?
`It was to develop a competitive offering. The Q-Marine
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`system had several features that were not intended to be
`offered in our system. Cable steering was one of them, and we
`felt like we had an approach that was better than what was
`incorporated in the Q-Marine system.
`Q
`You wanted to be able to offer your customers something
`that would compete with Q's streamer steering?
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`Our customers were asking us for that and that was our
`business, to provide positioning devices and controllers to
`control streamers. So we usually did what our customers asked
`us to do.
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`And ION did not have streamer steering capabilities at the
`time?
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`We did not have a commercialized offering at the time.
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`I would like to take a look at how our customers were
`viewing the Q streamer steering system at the time. I will
`show you an email you received in 2004, which is ION
`Exhibit 303.
`We see at the top this is an email from Dave
`Ridyard to yourself in 2004?
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`Mayra Malone, CSR, RMR, CRR
`mayramalone@comcast.net
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