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NOTICE by U.S. Bancorp, U.S. Bank, National Association, UBS Americas, Inc., BB&T Corporation, Branch Banking and Trust Company, Bancorpsouth, Inc., Bancorp South Bank, The Bank of New York, Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., The Frost National Bank, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., National City Corporation, National City Bank, Bank of New York Co., Inc., Unionbancal Corporation, Union Bank of California National Association, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, LTD, Comerica Incorporated, Comerica Bank & Trust, National Association, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Lasalle Bank Corporation, Lasalle Bank NA, M&T Bank Corporation, M&T Bank, The Clearing House Payments Company, LLC, First Data Corporation, Telecheck Services, Inc., Remitco, LLC of Decision Not to Sign Stipulation (Williams, E Danielle)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MARSHALL DIVISION

DATATREASURY CORPORATION, Plaintiff v. WELLS FARGO & COMPANY; WELLS FARGO & COMPANY; WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION; BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; U.S. BANCORP; U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; WACHOVIA CORPORATION; WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.; SUNTRUST BANK; BB&T CORPORATION; BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY; BANCORPSOUTH, INC.; BANCORPSOUTH BANK; COMPASS BANCSHARES, INC.; COMPASS BANK; CULLEN/FROST BANKERS, INC.; THE FROST NATIONAL BANK; FIRST HORIZON NATIONAL CORPORATION; FIRST TENNESSEE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; HSBC NORTH AMERICA HOLDINGS INC.; HSBC BANK USA, N.A.; HARRIS BANKCORP, INC.; HARRIS N.A.; NATIONAL CITY CORPORATION; NATIONAL CITY BANK; ZIONS BANCORPORATION; ZIONS FIRST NATIONAL BANK; BANK OF NEW YORK CO., INC.; THE BANK OF NEW YORK; UNIONBANCAL CORPORATION; UNION BANK OF CALIFORNIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.; CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
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CITY NATIONAL CORPORATION; CITY NATIONAL BANK; COMERICA INCORPORATED; COMERICA BANK & TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS; FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES, INC.; FIRST CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY; KEYCORP; KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; LASALLE BANK CORPORATION; LASALLE BANK NA; M&T BANK CORPORATION; M&T BANK; THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.; PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION UBS AMERICAS, INC.; SMALL VALUE PAYMENTS COMPANY, LLC; THE CLEARING HOUSE PAYMENTS COMPANY, LLC; MAGTEK, INC; FIRST DATA CORPORATION; TELECHECK SERVICES, INC., REMITCO, LLC; and ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS CORP. Defendants.

DEFENDANTS' NOTICE OF DECISION NOT TO SIGN STIPULATION Defendants, BB&T Corporation, Branch Banking and Trust Company, Comerica Inc., Comerica Bank & Trust National Association, M&T Bank Corporation, M&T Bank, Bank of New York Co., Inc., The Bank of New York, Unionbancal Corporation, Union Bank of California, N.A., First Data Corporation, Telecheck Services, Inc., Remitco, LLC, Lasalle Bank Corporation, Lasalle Bank N.A., Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Bank of TokyoMitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., UBS Americas, Inc., Cullen Frost Bankers, Inc., The Frost National Bank, The Clearinghouse Payments Co., L.L.C., HSBC Bank USA, N.A., National City Bank, National City Corporation, U.S. Bancorp, U.S. Bank, N.A., Viewpointe Archive Services LLC,

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Bancorpsouth, Inc., and Bancorpsouth Bank respectfully notify this Court of their decision not to execute the stipulation proposed in this Court's October 25, 2006 Order (Dkt. No. 326) on the pending Motions to Sever and Stay the Claims relating to the Ballard Patents. Respectfully submitted this 3rd day of November, 2006.

/s/ E. Danielle Thompson Williams___ William H. Boice Steven Gardner E. Danielle Thompson Williams Audra A. Dial KILPATRICK STOCKTON LLP Suite 2800 1100 Peachtree Street Atlanta, GA 30309-4530 Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone] West 4th Street Winston-Salem, NC 27104 Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Lance Lee YOUNG, PICKETT & LEE 4122 Texas Boulevard P. O. Box 1897 Texarkana, TX 75504 ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANTS BB&T CORPORATION, BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY, COMERICA INC., COMERICA BANK & TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, M&T BANK CORPORATION AND M&T BANK

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/s/ Jennifer Parker Ainsworth Jennifer Parker Ainsworth Texas Bar No. 00784720 WILSON, SHEEHY, KNOWLES, ROBERTSON & CORNELIUS, P.C. 909 ESE Loop 323 Suite 400 Tyler, Texas 75701 T: [phone] F: [phone] [e-mail] Richard Hogan Texas Bar No. 09802010 PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP 2 Houston Center 909 Fannin Street 22nd Floor Houston TX 77010 T: [phone] F: [phone] [e-mail]
Raymond L. Sweigart Scott J. Pivnick PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP 1650 Tysons Blvd. McLean, VA 22102-4859 T: [phone] F: [phone] [e-mail] [e-mail]

ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANTS BANK OF NEW YORK CO., INC., THE BANK OF NEW YORK, UNIONBANCAL CORPORATION, AND UNION BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N.A. /s/_Edward G. Poplawski EDWARD G. POPLAWSKI (Pro Hac Vice) E-Mail: [e-mail] JEFFREY A. FINN (Pro Hac Vice) E-Mail: [e-mail] 4
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CARISSA A. TENER (Pro Hac Vice) E-Mail: [e-mail] SIDLEY AUSTIN L.L.P. 555 West Fifth Street, Suite 4000 Los Angeles, California 90013 tel. [phone] fax [phone] LANCE LEE Texas Bar No. 240004762 YOUNG, PICKETT & LEE, L.L.P. 4122 Texas Blvd. P.O. Box 1897 Texarkana, Texas 75504 tel. [phone] fax [phone] E-Mail: [e-mail] ATTORNEYS FOR FIRST DATA CORPORATION, TELECHECK SERVICES, INC., REMITCO, LLC, LASALLE BANK CORPORATION, LASALLE BANK NA, DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, BANK OF TOKYOMITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.
/s/ Scott W. Breedlove William L. LaFuze Texas Bar No. 11792500 [e-mail] D. Ferguson McNiel, III Texas Bar No. 13830300 [e-mail] Vinson & Elkins LLP 2300 First City Tower 1001 Fannin Street Houston, TX 77002 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: 713.758.2346 Scott W. Breedlove Texas Bar No. 00790361 [e-mail] Vinson & Elkins LLP 3700 Trammell Crow Center 2001 Ross Avenue

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Dallas, TX 75201-2975 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: 214.220.7716 Harry Lee Gillam, Jr. Texas Bar No. 07921800 [e-mail] Melissa Richards Smith Texas Bar No. 24001351 [e-mail] Gillam & Smith LLP 110 South Bolivar, Suite 204 Marshall, TX 75670 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: 903.934.9257 ATTORNEYS FOR UBS AMERICAS, INC.

__/s/ Kurt M. Sauer__________ Kurt M. Sauer Texas Bar No. 17673700 DAFFER MCDANIEL, LLP 700 Lavaca Street, Suite 720 Austin, Texas 78701 Tel. [phone] Fax [phone] [e-mail] ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT CULLEN FROST BANKERS, INC. AND THE FROST NATIONAL BANK /s/_James H. Carter James H. Carter James T. Williams Jane Jaang Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 125 Broad Street New York, New York 10004-2498 212-558-4000 212-558-3588 (Fax) [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] 6
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Ronald Clayton Lawrence Scinto Stephen Belisle Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10112-3801 212-218-2246 212-218-2200 (Fax) [e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail] Preston McGee Flowers Davis 1021 ESE Loop 323 Suite 200 Tyler, TX 75701 903-534-8063 903-534-1650 (Fax) [e-mail] ATTORNEYS FOR THE CLEARINGHOUSE PAYMENTS CO., L.L.C. (also named herein as Small Value Payments Company, LLC) /s/_Glen Boudreaux Glen Boudreaux Tim Leonard Boudreaux Leonard Hammond & Curcio 2 Houston Center 909 Fannin St. Suite 2350 Houston, Texas 77010 713-757-0000 [e-mail] [e-mail] Roy Hardin Locke Liddell & Sapp 2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 2200 Dallas, TX 75201-6776 214-740-8556 [e-mail]

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Irah Donner WilmerHale 399 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 212-230-8887 [e-mail] ATTORNEYS FOR HSBC BANK USA, N.A. /s/_Anthony H. Son Anthony H. Son John Feldhaus Foley & Lardner 300 K. St. N.W. Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20007 202-672-5403 202-672-5399 (Fax) [e-mail] [e-mail] ATTORNEYS FOR NATIONAL CITY BANK, NATIONAL CITY CORPORATION, U.S. BANCORP, AND U.S. BANK, N.A. /s/_P. Anthony Sammi Phillip Philbin Russ Emerson Haynes & Boone 901 Main St., Suite 3100 Dallas, TX 75202 214-651-5684 214-200-0672 (Fax) Daniel A. DeVito P. Anthony Sammi Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 4 Times Square New York, NY 10036 212-735-3000 212-735-2000 (Fax) ATTORNEYS FOR VIEWPOINTE ARCHIVE SERVICES LLC 8
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/s/_John H. McDowell, Jr. John H. McDowell, Jr. Greg Perrone Hughes & Luce LLP 1717 Main Street, Suite 2800 Dallas, Texas 75201 214-939-5413 214-939-5849 (Fax) [e-mail] [e-mail] ATTORNEYS FOR BANCORPSOUTH, INC. BANCORPSOUTH BANK

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on this date I caused to be served the foregoing Defendants' Notice of Decision not to Sign Stipulation on Plaintiff's counsel of record by electronic mail via the Court's CM/ECF system, pursuant to Local Court Rule 5, addressed as follows:

Edward L. Hohn Harold Wayne Nix Nix Patterson & Roach, L.L.P. 205 Linda Drive Daingerfield, TX 75638 Louis Brady Paddock, Esq. Anthony Bruster, Esq. Richard B. King, Esq. Nix Patterson & Roach, L.L.P. 2900 St. Michael Dr., 5th Floor Texarkana, TX 75503 Rod A. Cooper, JD, MA The Cooper Law Firm 5215 N. O'Connor Blvd. Suite 1900 Irving, TX 75039 Eric M. Albritton Albritton Law Firm 109 W. Tyler Longview, TX 75601 Joe Kendall Karl Rupp Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. 3232 McKinney Avenue, Suite 700 Dallas, TX 75204 T. John Ward Jr. Law Office of T. John Ward, Jr. P.C. 109 W. Tyler Longview, TX 75601 Edward K. Chin, Esq. Nix Patterson & Roach, L.L.P. 5215 N. O'Connor Blvd. 10
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This 3rd day of November, 2006. s/ E. Danielle Thompson Williams E. Danielle Thompson Williams Attorney for Defendants BB&T Corporation, Branch Banking and Trust Company, Comerica Inc., Comerica Bank & Trust National Association, M&T Bank Corporation and M&T Bank

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