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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

ELANTECH DEVICES CORPORATION, a 

corporation existing under the laws of Taiwan, 

R.O.C.,

Plaintiff,

v.

SYNAPTICS, INC., a Delaware corporation;

AVERATEC, INC., a California corporation; and

PROSTAR COMPUTER, INC., a California 

corporation,

Defendants. Case No. 3:06-CV-01839 CRB

STIPULATED AMENDED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS

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WHEREAS, the parties believe that certain information that may be divulged in this

litigation is likely to contain confidential research, development, or commercial information as 

contemplated by Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; 

WHEREAS, the parties believe that such information may be relevant to the subject 

matter involved in the pending action within the meaning of Rule 26(a),(b) of the Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure;

WHEREAS, the parties believe that it would serve the interests of the parties to 

conduct discovery under a protective order pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of 

Civil Procedure; 

WHEREAS, the parties acknowledge that the requested protective order does not 

confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection 

it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable 

legal principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge that this 

Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Northern 

District Local Rules set forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards 

that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal; 

and. WHEREAS, the parties agree that the August 11, 2006 Stipulated Protective Order in 

this case should be amended to provide for heightened confidentiality protections for certain 

computer code materials that may be highly valuable and easily reproduced.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, by and between Elantech Devices 

Corporation (“Elantech”) and Synaptics, Inc. (“Synaptics”) and Averatec, Inc. (“Averatec”) 

through their respective counsel, that the following Stipulated Amended Protective Order 

(“Stipulated Protective Order”) may be entered by the Court pursuant to Local Rule 7-12 to 

give effect to the stipulations set forth below:

1.0 Definitions. 1.1 “Designating Party” means any party or any non-Party producing documents or 

information that is designated under this Stipulated Protective Order.

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1.2 “Receiving Party” means any party receiving documents or information 

designated under this Stipulated Protective Order.

1.3 “Confidential Information” means Document or information that has not been 

made public and that a Designating Party believes to be of a proprietary 

business or technical nature, the disclosure of which is likely to have the effect 

of causing harm to the competitive position of the person, firm, partnership, 

corporation, or other organization from which the information was obtained.

1.4 “Highly Confidential Code” means a Document or information that qualifies as 

Confidential Information and constitutes or contains any electronic or computer 

code, including, but not limited to software, firmware, source code, object code, 

listing files generated by compilers or assemblers, intermediate files created 

during the build process, test programs and scripts, test results, and source or 

object code for associated tools (hereinafter “Code”).

1.5 “Document” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Rule 34(a), Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure.

1.6 “Employee(s)” means all permanent employees and those temporary personnel 

who are providing legal, secretarial, clerical and/or administrative services only.

2.0 Designation of Confidential and Highly Confidential Code

2.1 Each Designating Party who produces or discloses any material that the 

Designating Party reasonably believes to comprise or contain Confidential 

Information may designate the same CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL CODE. 2.2 Documents may be designated as CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL CODE by clearly marking the 

Documents, prior to providing copies thereof to a Receiving Party.

2.3 A Designating party that inadvertently fails to mark information as 

CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY or HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL CODE at the time of production shall be allowed to correct 

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such failure at any time. In that event, the Designating Party shall provide 

notice in writing to all Receiving Parties, accompanied by appropriately marked 

substitute copies of such information. Upon receipt of such notice, a Receiving 

Party will take appropriate steps to assure that the previously unmarked 

Information is treated as Confidential from that time forward. 2.4 An answer to a request for written discovery responses may be designated as 

Confidential Information by denoting the answer or a portion thereof 

CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY or HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL CODE. 2.5 A deposition transcript or portion thereof may be designated as Confidential 

Information by making such designation on the record. Counsel attending a 

deposition who elects not to designate any portion of the transcript as 

CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY or HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL CODE on the record shall have ten (10) business days 

following the receipt of the transcript from the court reporter to make such 

designation. Notice thereof shall be made in writing to the reporter, with copies 

to all counsel, designating the portions of the transcript that contain Confidential 

Information or Highly Confidential Code and directing the reporter to mark that 

portion of the transcript accordingly. 

3.0 Disclosure of Confidential or Highly Confidential Code. 3.1 In the absence of written permission from the providing party or an order from 

the Court, Confidential Information may only be disclosed to the following 

persons:

3.1.1 Outside counsel for any party to this litigation and all necessary 

secretarial, clerical and paralegal personnel assisting such counsel, 

except that such Confidential Information shall not be disclosed to any 

attorney involved in prosecuting patent applications relating in any way 

to touch pad technology.

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3.1.2 Qualified persons transcribing or memorializing testimony involving 

Confidential Information and their Employees whose duties require 

access to Confidential Information;

3.1.3 Independent experts and/or consultants retained by counsel for a party to 

this litigation subject to Section 4.0 of this Stipulated Protective Order.

3.1.4 Any deposition witness who (1) previously had access to the 

Confidential Information, (2) was employed by the Designating Party; 

(3) is, at the time of the deposition, employed by the Designating Party, 

or (4) is an independent expert or consultant qualified to receive 

Confidential Information under Section 4.0 of this Stipulated Protective

Order.

3.1.5 The Court and the Court’s staff.

3.2 No persons specified in Section 3.1.1 or 3.1.3 shall have access to Confidential 

Information without having first read, acknowledged and agreed in writing (in 

the form attached hereto as Exhibit A) to be bound by this Stipulated Protective

Order. A file of all such written acknowledgment shall be kept by the Party 

obtaining them. With respect to persons specified in Section 3.1.3, copies of 

such written acknowledgments shall be provided to all counsel of record as 

provided in Section 4.0 of this Stipulated Protective Order. Persons who are 

permitted access to Confidential Information under this Stipulated Protective 

Order solely for clerical or administrative purposes, and who do not retain 

copies or extracts thereof, are not required to execute written acknowledgments. 

3.3 In the absence of written permission from the providing party or an order from 

the Court, Highly Confidential Code may only be disclosed to the persons 

identified in paragraph 3.1 and 3.2 herein and may be disclosed only under the 

following conditions and circumstances: 

3.3.1 The parties have agreed after meeting and conferring further the parties 

will exchange current and exemplary versions of Code on CD. The 

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parties have also agreed to permit review of other Code at opposing 

counsel’s office or other mutually agreeable local. If during such 

review, a party selects other relevant code for production, such code will 

be designated as Highly Confidential Code and produced in either 

printed or electronic form under the restrictions of this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

3.3.2 Outside counsel for the party to whom Highly Confidential Code is 

produced may have at most two copies of each Code CD produced 

hereunder. One of the two CD’s held by outside counsel for the party to 

whom Highly Confidential Code is produced may be provided to an 

expert qualified under the provisions of paragraphs 3.1 and 3.2 herein for 

any one period not to exceed 21 days, after which the CD must be 

returned to such outside counsel. Code, whether stored on a CD or in 

printed form, shall be maintained in a secure, locked location that 

requires a key or combination access that only outside counsel or the 

expert referenced in this paragraph possess. 3.3.3 Code may be accessed only from CDs on a password-protected 

computer under the exclusive control of the expert or outside counsel. 

(Permitted access to such Code includes the necessary electronic 

copying of the Code incident to accessing it on a computer.) Such 

computer must have a time-out function to be activated after no more 

than ten minutes of inactivity. Such computer must be non-networked, 

that is, it must be detached from internet, intranet, Ethernet, WAN, LAN 

or other network of any kind. One-stand-alone printer may be attached 

to the non-networked computer subject to the limitations on printing the 

Code provided in subsection 3.3.4. Code may not be copied, 

transmitted, saved or electronically duplicated in any way except as 

provided herein. All such access to the Code CD shall be documented in 

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a log showing for each copy of Code, each person given possession of 

the copy and the dates of such possession. 

3.3.4 Printing of Code produced hereunder is permitted only with a 

contemporaneously generated or applied label indicating that the printed 

material is “Restricted and Highly Confidential Code Subject to 

Protective Order” on each page. The party printing the Code shall 

maintain a log of what specific Code is printed, how many printed copies 

are made, the purpose for making each copy, and in whose possession 

each printed copy is maintained. 

3.3.5 Unless otherwise provided herein, Code produced hereunder may be 

printed or otherwise copied only in connection with preparation or filing 

of motions or other papers filed with the Court or exchanged among the 

parties, used at deposition, or designated for use or used at hearing or 

trial, or otherwise required by the Court. Excerpts of Code produced 

hereunder may also be copied pursuant to this paragraph for the purpose 

of inclusion in or as exhibits to pleadings filed by or exchanged between 

the parties. A printed copy of excerpts of designated Code may be used

for annotation by an expert referred to in paragraph 3.3.2 above and such 

annotated copy shall be kept as provided in section 3.3.2. Any Code

filed with the Court shall be filed under seal; any Code used at 

deposition shall be treated in accordance with all other applicable 

sections of this Stipulated Protective Order. Any other printed copies 

generated but not used shall be immediately shredded. 

4.0 Qualification of Independent Experts or Consultants. 4.1 Notice of Proposed Disclosure: Not less than seven (7) business days prior to 

the initial disclosure of designated Confidential or Highly Confidential Code to 

any person falling under the provisions of Section 3.1.3 of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, the Party proposing to make such disclosure shall serve (by 

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facsimile and mail) the name, address, present employer and title, and a signed 

acknowledgment in the form of Exhibit A of the proposed recipient, as well as a 

copy of a current resume and list of engagements for the past five years, on the 

Designating Party.

4.2 Objection to Proposed Disclosure: Within the period before disclosure of the 

Confidential or Highly Confidential Code to the proposed recipient, the Party or 

non-Party whose Confidential or Highly Confidential Code is concerned may 

serve (by facsimile and mail) a written objection to such disclosure. Such an 

objection shall stay disclosure to the proposed recipient. Failure to serve a 

written objection within seven (7) business days shall be deemed approval of a 

proposed recipient.

4.3 Motion to Exclude Disclosure: If a written objection is served pursuant to 

Section 4.2 and the objection is not resolved by the parties by meeting and 

conferring within five (5) business days of service of the written notice of 

objection described in Section 4.2, the party objecting to disclosure shall file a 

motion, to be heard on the earliest date available, with respect to such objection 

within ten (10) business days after service of the notice of objection. Failure to 

file such a motion shall be deemed approval of a proposed recipient. The 

disclosure of Confidential or Highly Confidential Code to such proposed person 

shall be withheld pending the ruling of the Court on any such motion.

5.0 Procedure for Challenging Designations. 5.1 Information obtained during discovery and designated by the providing party as 

CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY or HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL CODE under this Stipulated Protective Order shall be 

deemed to be CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY or HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL CODE unless the Court rules that it is not. If, after meeting 

and conferring to discuss any dispute that arises due to any designation under 

this Order, the parties are unable to reach agreement, a party may move this 

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Court for an Order that materials bearing a designation specified in Sections 2.1 

through 2.5 hereof are improperly designated. In a motion, the party making the 

designation of Confidential Information shall have the burden of proving that 

the material in question is within the scope of protection contemplated by Rule 

26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Stipulated Protective Order.

6.0 Procedure for Court Filings. 6.1 When Confidential or Highly Confidential Code is filed with the Court, the 

party offering it must file the relevant materials under seal, and the documents 

shall bear the words, CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY or 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL CODE, and a statement substantially in the 

following form:

CONFIDENTIAL (OR HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL CODE)

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY

SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER

The statement shall also appear on the front page of any written material.

6.2 Documents filed under seal pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order shall be 

filed according to Civil Local Rule 79-5.

7.0 If Confidential or Highly Confidential Code is disclosed to any person other than in the 

manner authorized by this Stipulated Protective Order, the Party responsible for the 

disclosure must immediately inform the Designating Party of all pertinent facts relating 

to such disclosure and shall make every effort to prevent disclosure by each 

unauthorized person who received such information.

8.0 This Stipulated Protective Order is intended to regulate the handling of Confidential or 

Highly Confidential Code during the pretrial period of this litigation, and is not 

intended to regulate the handling of Confidential or Highly Confidential Code at trial, 

which is expected to be the subject of a further Stipulated Protective Order and/or 

appropriate court orders. Nonetheless, this Stipulated Protective Order shall remain in 

force and effect until modified, superseded or terminated on the record by agreement of 

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the parties hereto, by order of this Court, or pursuant to Section 9.0 of this Stipulated 

Protective Order.

9.0 Within thirty (30) days of the final termination of this litigation, each Party that is 

subject to this Stipulated Protective Order shall destroy or return to the providing party 

all items designated CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY in accordance 

with Section 2.0 above, including all copies of such matter which may have been made, 

but not including pleadings or copies containing notes or other attorney work product 

that may have been placed there by counsel for the Receiving Party. Outside counsel 

may retain all pretrial and trial records as are regularly maintained by outside counsel in 

the ordinary course of business, but such records shall be maintained confidential in 

accordance with this Stipulated Protective Order. Upon the conclusion of this Action, 

the Receiving Party shall return the attorney copies of Highly Confidential Code to the 

Producing Party within 72 hours and shall shred any printed copies of such Highly 

Confidential Code that the receiving party has in its possession.

Dated: September 22, 2006 KARL J. KRAMER

ERIKA L. LABIT

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

By: s/Karl J. Kramer

Karl J. Kramer

Attorneys for Defendant

SYNAPTICS, INC.

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Dated: September 22, 2006 YITAI HU

SEAN P. DeBRUINE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER 

& FELD LLP

By: s/Sean P. DeBruine

Sean P. DeBruine

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ELANTECH DEVICES 

CORPORATION

Dated: September 22, 2006 KAREN H. BROMBERG

COHEN & GRESSER LLP

By: s/Karen H. Bromberg

Karen H. Bromberg

Attorneys for Defendant

AVERATEC, INC.

I, Karl J. Kramer, am the ECF user whose ID and password are being used to file this.

STIPULATED AND AMENDED PROTECTTIVE ORDER. In compliance with General 

Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that SEAN P. DEBRUINE and KAREN H. BROMBERG have

concurred in this filing.

Dated: September 22, 2006 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

By: s/Karl J. Kramer_________________ Karl J. Kramer

Attorneys for Defendant

SYNAPTICS, INC.

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED

Dated: _____________________ ______________________________ The Honorable Charles R. Breyer

United States District Judge

September 25, 2006

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN D

T OF CALIFORN

I

A

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PROTECTIVE ORDER OBLIGATIONS

I __________________________________________, hereby acknowledge that I have 

read the Stipulated Amended Protective Order filed in the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California, in Case No. 3:06-CV-01839 CRB entitled Elantech Devices 

Corporation v. Synaptics, Inc., et al. and Related Counterclaims, and understand the terms 

thereof and agree to be bound thereby.

The undersigned further acknowledges and represents that I understand that materials 

documents and other information materials designated CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL CODE are deemed to be highly sensitive 

information by the party providing them. I will not disclose any such information except as 

authorized by the Stipulated Amended Protective Order and will not copy or use any such 

information except for the purposes of assisting counsel in the above-referenced litigation.

The undersigned further acknowledges that he/she is subject to the jurisdiction of said 

court for the purposes of enforcement of the Stipulated Amended Protective Order and may be 

adjudicated to be in contempt of court for violation of the Order.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct, and that this 

Agreement is executed this day of _____ day of __________________, 200_, at _________________________________________________

________________________________

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