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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

For the Northern District of California

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1 "Nanya" collectively refers to all of the Nanya entities sued in these cases, namely Nanya

Technology Corporation and Nanya Technology Corporation U.S.A.

ORDER OVERRULING NANYA'S OBJECTIONS AND REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION OF JUDGE AMBLER'S DECEMBER

13, 2007, ORDER REGARDING DEPOSITION OF DR. JIH LIEN—C-05-00334 RMW

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

E-filed: 2/3/2008 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

RAMBUS INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INC., HYNIX

SEMICONDUCTOR AMERICA INC.,

HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR

MANUFACTURING AMERICA INC., 

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA,

INC., SAMSUNG SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.,

SAMSUNG AUSTIN SEMICONDUCTOR,

L.P., 

NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION,

NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

U.S.A.,

Defendants.

No. C-05-00334 RMW

ORDER OVERRULING NANYA'S

OBJECTIONS AND REQUEST FOR

MODIFICATION OF JUDGE AMBLER'S

DECEMBER 13, 2007, ORDER REGARDING

DEPOSITION OF DR. JIH LIEN

[Re Docket No. 943]

Nanya1

 objects to a Special Master's order imposing discovery sanctions for Nanya's failure

to produce Dr. Jih Lien for a deposition, namely, that Dr. Jih Lien may not be called as a witness at

trial in any capacity. Rambus opposes the objection. The court has reviewed the papers and

considered the arguments of counsel. The court overrules Nanya's objections to the discovery

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ORDER OVERRULING NANYA'S OBJECTIONS AND REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION OF JUDGE AMBLER'S DECEMBER

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sanction.

Under the Joint Case Management Order, the court reviews the Special Master's orders as it

would review a magistrate judge's order and will modify them "only if clearly erroneous or contrary

to law." See Docket No. 174, C-05-00334, ¶ 2(c) (N.D. Cal. Apr. 24, 2007). Nanya does not

address the standard of review in its papers, but suggests that Judge Ambler's imposition of

discovery sanctions was "not justified."

Preventing a witness from testifying is an appropriate sanction for failure to produce him for

a deposition. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(b)(2)(B); Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(b)(2)(A)(ii). Judge Ambler's order

is therefore not "contrary to law." After reviewing the facts underlying Judge Ambler's order and

the difficulties that occurred in producing Dr. Lien for his deposition, the court does not find that

Judge Ambler's order was "clearly erroneous."

Accordingly, Nanya's objections and request for modification are overruled.

DATED: 2/3/2008 

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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ORDER OVERRULING NANYA'S OBJECTIONS AND REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION OF JUDGE AMBLER'S DECEMBER

13, 2007, ORDER REGARDING DEPOSITION OF DR. JIH LIEN—C-05-00334 RMW

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Notice of this document has been electronically sent to:

Counsel for Plaintiff(s):

Craig N. Tolliver ctolliver@mckoolsmith.com 

Pierre J. Hubert phubert@mckoolsmith.com 

Brian K. Erickson berickson@dbllp.com, 

David C. Vondle dvondle@akingump.com 

Gregory P. Stone gregory.stone@mto.com 

Carolyn Hoecker Luedtke luedtkech@mto.com 

Peter A. Detre detrepa@mto.com 

Burton Alexander Gross burton.gross@mto.com, 

Steven McCall Perry steven.perry@mto.com

Jeannine Y. Sano sanoj@howrey.com 

Counsel for Defendant(s):

Matthew D. Powers matthew.powers@weil.com 

David J. Healey david.healey@weil.com 

Edward R. Reines Edward.Reines@weil.com

John D Beynon john.beynon@weil.com

Jared Bobrow jared.bobrow@weil.com

Leeron Kalay leeron.kalay@weil.com

Theodore G. Brown, III tgbrown@townsend.com

Daniel J. Furniss djfurniss@townsend.com

Jordan Trent Jones jtjones@townsend.com

Kenneth L. Nissly kennissly@thelenreid.com 

Geoffrey H. Yost gyost@thelenreid.com 

Susan Gregory van Keulen svankeulen@thelenreid.com

Patrick Lynch plynch@omm.com 

Jason Sheffield Angell jangell@orrick.com

Vickie L. Feeman vfeeman@orrick.com

Mark Shean mshean@orrick.com 

Kai Tseng hlee@orrick.com

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not

registered for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

Dated: 2/3/2008 TSF

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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