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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

TESSERA, INC., 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., et al.,

 Defendants. 

Case No. 05-4063 CW (EDL) 

[TESSERA’S PROPOSED] ORDER 

REGARDING THE PARTIES’ JOINT 

DISCOVERY PLAN 

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS 

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Kai Tseng (State Bar No. 193756) (ktseng@orrick.com) 

Michael F. Heafey (State Bar No. 153499) (mheafey@orrick.com) 

Rowena Young (State Bar No. 196317) (ryoung@orrick.com) 

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

1000 Marsh Road 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

Tel: (650) 614-7400 

Fax: (650) 614-7401 

Attorneys for Defendants

SILICONWARE PRECISION INDUSTRIES CO., LTD. and SILICONWARE USA, INC. 

Michael J. Bettinger (State Bar No. 122196) (mikeb@prestongates.com) 

Timothy P. Walker (State Bar No. 105001) (timothyw@prestongates.com) 

Elaine Y. Chow (State Bar No. 194063) (echow@prestongates.com) 

PRESTON GATES & ELLIS, LLP 

55 Second Street, Suite 1700 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Tel: (415) 882-8200 

Fax: (415) 882-8220 

Attorneys for Defendants

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., SPANSION INC., SPANSION TECHNOLOGY INC. 

and SPANSION LLC 

Francis J Torrence (State Bar No. 1546533) (ftorrence@seyfarth.com) 

SEYFARTH SHAW LLP 

560 Mission Street, Suite 3100

San Francisco, CA 94105

Tel: (415) 397-2823 

Fax: (415) 397-8549 

Alan L. Unikel (admitted pro hac vice) (aunikel@seyfarth.com) 

SEYFARTH SHAW LLP 

55 East Monroe Street, Suite 4200 

Chicago, IL 60603-5803

Tel: (312) 346-8000 

Fax: (312) 269-8869

Attorneys for Defendants 

CHIPMOS U.S.A., INC. and CHIPMOS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 

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Russell L. Johnson (State Bar No. 53833) (rljohnson@sidley.com) 

Edward V. Anderson (State Bar No. 83148 (evanderson@sidley.com) 

Teague I. Donahey (State Bar No. 197531) (tdonahey@sidley.com) 

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 

555 California Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Tel: (415) 772-1200 

Fax: (415) 772-7400 

Attorneys for Defendants 

STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. and STMICROELECTRONICS N.V. 

Matthew D. Powers (State Bar No. 104795) (matthew.powers@weil.com) 

WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP 

Silicon Valley Office 

201 Redwood Shores Parkway 

Redwood Shores, CA 94065 

Tel: (650) 802-3000 

Fax: (650) 802-3100 

Steven Rizzi (admitted pro hac vice) (steven.rizzi@weil.com) 

David J. Ball, Jr. (admitted pro hac vice) (david.ball@weil.com) 

Brett E. Cooper (admitted pro hac vice) (brett.cooper@weil.com) 

WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP 

767 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10153-0119

United States of America 

Telephone: (212) 310-8000

Fax: (212) 310-8007

Michael R. Franzinger (State Bar No. 222155) (michael.franzinger@weil.com) 

WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP 

1300 Eye Street, NW 

Washington, D.C. 20005

United States of America 

Telephone: (202) 682-7000

Fax: (202) 857-0940

Attorneys for Defendants

ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC., ASE (U.S.) INC., STATS 

CHIPPAC (BVI) LIMITED, STATS CHIPPAC, INC., and STATS CHIPPAC LTD.

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Morgan Chu (mchu@irell.com) (State Bar No. 70446) 

Jonathan Steinberg (jsteinberg@irell.com) (State Bar No. 98044) 

Benjamin Hattenbach (bhattenbach@irell.com) (State Bar No. 186455) 

IRELL & MANELLA LLP 

1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 900 

Los Angeles, CA 90067-4276

Phone: (310) 277-1010 

Fax: (310) 203-7199 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant TESSERA, INC. 

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The parties appeared before this Court on June 28, 2006 regarding a Discovery Plan for this 

action. Having considered the arguments and briefing of counsel, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

 Depositions:

1. Tessera shall take no more than 700 hours of depositions of fact witnesses. 

2. The defendants, as a group, shall take no more than 300 hours of depositions of party 

fact witnesses and no more than 200 hours of depositions of nonparty fact witnesses. Defendants are 

responsible for allocating this time amongst themselves. 

3. Unless otherwise stipulated by the parties or ordered by the Court, a deposition of a 

fact witness is limited to one day of seven hours. 

Interrogatories:

4. Tessera may propound no more than 210 interrogatories on defendants. A single 

interrogatory, which requires separate answers from defendants within the responding defendant 

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one defendant group shall each be counted separately. 

5. Each defendant group may propound no more than 20 interrogatories. A single 

interrogatory, which requires Tessera to provide separate answers to defendants within the 

propounding defendant group, shall be counted as a single interrogatory. 

Requests for Production:

6. At this time, the Court has not set limits on the number of Requests for Production 

any party may serve. However, Defendants shall coordinate any requests for production of 

documents served on Tessera after June 28, 2006. Defendants shall also coordinate any meet-andconfers that occur after June 28, 2006 regarding Tessera’s discovery responses.

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 The seven defendant groups are: (1) Spansion Inc., Spansion Technology Inc., and Spansion LLC (collectively, 

"Spansion"); (2) Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ("AMD"); (3) Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. and ASE 

(U.S.) Inc. (collectively "ASE"); (4) ChipMOS Technologies Inc. and ChipMOS U.S.A., Inc. (collectively "ChipMOS"); 

(5) Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. and Siliconware USA Inc. (collectively "SPIL"); (6) STMicroelectronics 

N.V. and STMicroelectronics, Inc. (collectively "STM"); and (7) STATS ChipPAC Ltd., STATS ChipPAC, Inc. and 

STATS ChipPAC (BVI) Limited (collectively "STATS"). 

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Requests for Admission:

7. Tessera may propound no more than 210 non-authenticating requests for admission 

on the defendants. A single request for admission, which requires separate answers from defendants 

within the responding defendant group, shall be counted as a single request for admission. Identical 

requests for admission propounded on more than one defendant group shall each be counted 

separately.

8. Each defendant group may propound no more than 20 non-authenticating requests for 

admission on Tessera. A single request for admission, which requires Tessera to provide separate 

answers to defendants within the propounding defendant group, counts as a single request for 

admission. 

Expert Reports and Depositions:

9. Unless otherwise stipulated by the parties or ordered by the Court, a deposition of an 

expert witness is limited to one day of seven hours. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Date: 

The Honorable Elizabeth D. Laporte 

United States Magistrate Judge 

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

August 22, 2006

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