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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 28:1338 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SYNOPSYS, INC.,

Plaintiff,

 v.

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC.,

Defendant.

 /

No. C-04-3923 MMC

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

AND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

TO DEFENDANT MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION AND ITS COUNSEL OF

RECORD: 

You are hereby ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE, at 9:00 a.m. on October 28, 2005

why you, your officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and those in active concert

or participation with you or them, should not be restrained and enjoined, pending

determination of ownership of United States Patent Nos. 6,453,446 and 6,725,438 (the

“Patents”), from abandoning or dedicating to the public, or requesting reexamination of, the

Patents.

Pending hearing on the above Order to Show Cause, you, your officers, agents,

servants, employees, attorneys, and all those in active concert or participation with you or

them are hereby RESTRAINED AND ENJOINED from:

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1. Taking any steps with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to

abandon, suspend, or disclaim the Patents;

2. Failing or refusing to pay the maintenance fees for the Patents; or 

3. Seeking reexamination of the Patents; 

 The above Temporary Restraining Order is effective immediately. No undertaking is

required.

Any response or opposition to this Order to Show Cause must be filed no later than

September 30, 2005, as part of Magma’s opposition to Synopsys’s motion for preliminary

injunction.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 30, 2005 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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