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

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. C 07 00823 MHP 

[See signature page for counsel]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.; 

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC.; 

ALTERA CORPORATION AND MENTOR 

GRAPHICS CORPORATION, 

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

NARPAT BHANDARI AND VANGUARD 

SYSTEMS, INC., 

 Defendants. 

Case No. C 07 00823 MHP 

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure 

and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted. 

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated 

Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all 

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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, as set forth in Section 12, below, (FILING 

PROTECTED MATERIAL) that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file 

confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets 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. 

2. DEFINITIONS

 2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

 2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium 

or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, or 

tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this 

matter. 

 2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated, 

stored or maintained) or tangible things that the designating party believes in good faith to have 

competitive value, which is not generally known to others, and that the designating party would not 

normally reveal to third parties except in confidence, or has undertaken with others to maintain in 

confidence. Information may also be designated “Confidential” if the designating party believes in 

good faith that the information falls within the right to privacy guaranteed by the laws of the United 

States and/or California. 

 2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: extremely 

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or nonparty would 

create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 

 2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

 2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material 

in this action. 

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 2.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

 2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

 2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to 

represent or advise a Party in this action. 

 2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

 2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs). 

 2.12 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 

the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 

consultant in this action and who is not a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of a Party 

and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a 

competitor of a Party. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation. 

 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, 

storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

 2.14 Plaintiff or Co-Plaintiff: any Party to this action having the posture of Plaintiff or CoPlaintiff, including Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Magma Design Automation, Inc. Altera 

Corporation, and Mentor Graphics Corporation, and including all officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel of the Party (and their support staff). 

 2.15 Defendant or Co-Defendant: any Party to this action having the posture of Defendant 

or Co-Defendant, including Narpat Bhandari and vanguard Systems, Inc., and including all officers, 

directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel of the Party (and their 

support staff). 

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3. SCOPE

 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as 

defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION

 The obligations created by this Stipulated Protective Order shall survive the termination of 

this lawsuit unless otherwise modified by the Court. The Court shall retain jurisdiction, even after 

termination of this lawsuit, to enforce this Protective Order and to make such amendments and 

modifications to this Order as may be appropriate. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

 5.1 Designation in General. A Producing Party, at the time of producing Discovery 

Material or within a reasonable period thereafter, in good faith may designate any Discovery 

Material as Protected Material. The Protected Material shall be marked “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

 5.2 Good Faith Requirement. A Producing Party may designate information 

CONFIDENTIAL if it believes in good faith that the information is CONFIDENTIAL information, 

not prepared or intended to be made publicly available. A Producing Party may designate 

information HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY if it believes in good faith 

that the information is HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY information, not 

prepared or intended to be made publicly available. CONFIDENTIAL and HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY information is Protected Material that may only 

be disclosed in accordance with Section 8 below. 

 5.3 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order 

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.3(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material 

that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is 

disclosed or produced. 

 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

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 (a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of depositions or 

other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” on each page that contains protected 

material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 

Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 

markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted 

(either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

 A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for 

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which 

material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of 

the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants 

copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, 

qualify for protection under this Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the 

Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) on each page that contains Protected Material. 

If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party 

also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the 

margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that 

the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close of 

the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions 

of the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, 

and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or 

non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the 

deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions 

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of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being 

asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 

days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

 Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the Party or nonparty offering 

or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony. 

 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary, and for any 

other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the 

container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the information 

or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected 

portions, specifying whether they qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

 5.4 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to 

secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” after the 

material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must 

make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 

Order. 

 5.5 Post-Production Designation. If the Producing Party designates Discovery Material 

as Protected Material after production, the Producing Party shall notify the opposing Counsel, and 

such opposing Counsel shall mark the designated Discovery Material “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Thereafter, opposing Counsel shall 

treat the designated Discovery Material as Protected Material, and shall take reasonable and 

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appropriate steps to immediately reclaim possession of any such designated Discovery Material that 

may have reached the possession of any persons not authorized under this Protective Order to 

receive Protected Material and to obtain agreement from the person to whom the disclosure was 

made to be bound by this Protective Order. If such efforts are unsuccessful, the Receiving Party 

shall notify the Producing Party of the disclosure and the identity of the person or entity to whom the 

disclosure was made. 

6. PRIVILEGED MATERIAL

 Nothing in this Protective Order shall be deemed to waive any applicable privilege or 

immunity, or to limit the relief available to a Party claiming that it inadvertently disclosed 

information subject to any privilege or immunity. Nothing in this Protective Order shall require 

disclosure of information that is protected by the attorney-client privilege, work product immunity, 

or other privilege or immunity. 

 If any Party claims that it has inadvertently disclosed information subject to the attorneyclient privilege, work product immunity, a legal prohibition against disclosure, or other privilege or 

immunity, such disclosure shall not constitute a waiver of the applicable privilege legal prohibition 

against disclosure if the Producing Party provides written notice of the inadvertent disclosure to each 

Receiving Party upon becoming aware of the inadvertent disclosure. The Parties reserve all rights to 

seek the return or destruction of all such information and anything relating to such information 

(including without limitation notes or work product), and to preclude the further use or disclosure 

thereof. 

 If written notice of inadvertent disclosure is provided by the Party becoming aware of the 

relevant inadvertent disclosure, then: (a) upon receipt of such notice of inadvertent disclosure, each 

Receiving Party shall immediately return or destroy all copies of any documents and things that the 

Producing Party claims it inadvertently disclosed, and, if requested in writing to do so, certify in 

writing to the Producing party that it has done so, and (b) until any issue of how to treat such 

information is resolved (for example, by court order or agreement of the parties), such information 

shall be treated as though it is subject to the claimed privilege or immunity, and shall not be further 

used or disseminated by the Receiving Party. If any Receiving Party disputes that any such 

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information is subject to such privilege or immunity, or otherwise disagrees about the return, 

disclosure (e.g., if the Receiving Party disputes whether the disclosure was inadvertent), or use of 

any such information, then that Party and the Party claiming inadvertent disclosure shall meet and 

confer in good faith to attempt to resolve their disagreement. If those Parties cannot resolve their 

disagreement within ten (10) days after receipt of such notice, then any of those Parties may 

thereafter petition the court to resolve the matter. The Party seeking to designate the information as 

subject to privilege or immunity shall have the burden of proving that the information is subject to 

privilege or immunity and, if relying on the rule against inadvertent waiver under this Protective 

Order, that the disclosure was inadvertent and that written notice was provided within the required 

10 days. 

7. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

 7.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive 

its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly 

after the original designation is disclosed. 

 7.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring 

directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel 

for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief 

that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an 

opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in 

designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging Party may 

proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer 

process first. 

 7.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality 

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a 

motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) that 

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identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such 

motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has complied 

with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with 

specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating 

Party in the meet and confer dialogue. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding 

shall be on the Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to 

afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing 

Party’s designation. 

8. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

 8.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or 

produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 

defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 

been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13, below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION). 

 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a 

secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order. 

 8.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered 

by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any 

information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation; 

 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the 

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

 (c) experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

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Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

 (d) the Court and its personnel; 

 (e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

 (f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

Exhibit A); and 

 (g) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

 8.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the 

Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to: 

 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation; 

 (b) for information or items produced by any Defendant, House Counsel of a 

Receiving Party (1) who has no involvement in competitive decision-making or in patent 

prosecutions involving Electronic Design Automation or Computer Aided Design, (2) to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (3) who has signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

 (c) for information or items produced by any Plaintiff, any House Counsel of a 

Defendant Receiving Party, (1) who has no involvement in competitive decision-making or in patent 

prosecutions involving Electronic Design Automation or Computer Aided Design, (2) to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (3) who has signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), it being further provided that no Plaintiff Receiving Party 

may disclose to their own officers, directors, or employees, including House Counsel, information or 

items designated by any Co-Plaintiff as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY”; 

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 (d) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 8.4, below, have been 

followed; 

 (e) the Court and its personnel; 

 (f) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

 (g) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

 8.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts”. 

 (a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the Designating 

Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined in this Order) any information or item 

that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” first must 

make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the 

city and state of his or her primary residence, (2) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (3) 

identifies the Expert’s current employer(s) and consulting engagements, (4) identifies each and every 

former position, employer, and consulting agreement of the Expert relating to the fields of Electronic 

Design Automation and/or Computer-Aided Design, (5) identifies each person or entity from whom 

the Expert has received compensation for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert 

has provided professional services at any time during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by 

name and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert has provided any 

professional services during the preceding five years. 

 (b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the 

preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, 

within five calendar days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the 

Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based. 

 (c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with the 

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Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by agreement. 

If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion 

as provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) 

seeking permission from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with 

specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably 

necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and suggest any additional means 

that might be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by 

agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets forth the 

reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. Until such 

motion is resolved through agreement by the parties or by the Court in response to the motion filed 

by the Party seeking to make the disclosure, no information or item that has been designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” may be disclosed to the Expert. 

 In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the 

burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards 

proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert. 

9. SPECIAL HANDLING OF SOURCE CODE

 Documents or other things that contain, embody, or otherwise reflect a party’s source code 

shall be provided the following further protections: 

 (a) A Producing Party may produce source code for inspection at either the 

Producing Party’s secure facilities or, in the alternative at the request of the Receiving Party, at one 

of the offices of outside counsel to be its source code custodian (“Source Code Custodian”). 

Available inspection hours shall be the normal open business hours of each office. 

 (b) Any hard (non-electronic) copies of such source code shall be stored and 

viewed at: (i) the Producing Party’s facilities; (ii) a single designated office of the Source Code 

Custodian; (iii) the site where any deposition relating to the source code is taken; (iv) the Court; or 

(v) any intermediate location reasonably necessary to transport the information (e.g., a hotel prior to 

a deposition). Any and all such copies shall be maintained in a secured, locked area. For each and 

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every non-electronic copy of any source code, or any portion of any source code, the Source Code 

Custodian shall maintain a log detailing the location of the copy. The parties shall negotiate 

reasonable limitations on the amount of source code that is released by a party at any given time. 

 (c) Any source code produced in electronic form shall be stored and viewed only 

at either (i) the Producing Party’s facilities, or (ii) a single designated office of the Source Code 

Custodian and shall be maintained in a secured, locked area. No electronic copies of such source 

code shall be made. Any such source code shall only be viewed or analyzed on a stand-alone 

computer (a computer that is not connected to any internal or external computer or computer 

network) located at the Producing Party’s facilities or within the single designated office of the 

Source Code Custodian. The Source Code Custodian shall maintain a Source Code Access Log 

identifying, for each and every time any source code is viewed, accessed or analyzed: (1) the name 

of each person who accessed the code; (2) the date and time of access; (3) the length of time of 

access; and (4) whether any hard copies of any portion of the code were printed and shall retain 

copies of any portions of the code printed. The Source Code Custodian may use electronic means to 

monitor access to the code. The entire code or an unnecessarily large portion of the code shall not be 

printed. The parties shall negotiate reasonable limitations on the amount of source code that is 

released by a party at any given time. 

10. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

LITIGATION

 If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that 

would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” the 

Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by email and fax, if possible) 

immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such 

notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

 The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the 

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the 

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must 

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deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the party in the other action that 

caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

 The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of this 

Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to protect its 

confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The Designating 

Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of its confidential 

material – and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a 

Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 

11. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 

Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective Order, 

the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized 

disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the 

person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and 

(d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

12. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

 Without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured after 

appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this action 

any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply 

with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

 Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty days after 

the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 

Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy 

some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the Protected Material is 

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returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party 

(and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the sixty day deadline that 

identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed 

and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, 

motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney work product, even if such 

materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected 

Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above. 

14. MISCELLANEOUS

 14.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek 

its modification by the Court in the future. 

 14.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order 

no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any 

information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no 

Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by 

this Protective Order. 

 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

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Dated: May _____, 2007 Respectfully submitted, 

By: /s/ Robert G. Krupka 

Robert G. Krupka, P.C. (CA Bar No. 196625) 

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

777 South Figueroa Street 

Los Angeles, California 90017 

Telephone: (213) 680-8400 

Facsimile: (213) 680-8500 

Email: bkrupka@kirkland.com 

Adam R. Alper (CA Bar No. 196834) 

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

555 California Street 

San Francisco, California 94104-1501 

Telephone: (415) 439-1400 

Facsimile: (415) 439-1500 

Email: aalper@kirkland.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION 

By: /s/ Michael R. Headley

Frank Scherkenbach (CA Bar No. 142549) 

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 

225 Franklin Street 

Boston, MA 02110-2804 

Telephone: (617) 542-5050 

Facsimile: (617) 542-8906 

Email: scherkenback@fr.com 

Howard G. Pollack (CA Bar No. 162897) 

Michael R. Headley (CA Bar No. 220834) 

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 

500 Arguello Street, Suite 500 

Redwood City, CA 94063 

Telephone: (650) 839-5070 

Facsimile: (650) 839-5071 

Email: pollack@fr.com 

 headley@fr.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC. 

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By: /s/ George A. Riley

George A. Riley (CA Bar No. 118304) 

Mark E. Miller (CA Bar No. 130200) 

Luann L. Simmons (CA Bar No. 203526) 

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street 

San Francisco, California 94111-3305 

Telephone: (415) 984-8700 

Facsimile: (415) 984-8701 

Email: griley@omm.com 

 markmiller@omm.com 

 lsimmons@omm.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC. 

By: /s/ Karl J. Kramer

Karl J. Kramer (CA Bar No. 136433) 

Christopher F. Jeu (CA Bar No. 247865) 

MORRISON & FOERSTER 

755 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1018 

Telephone: (650) 813-5600 

Facsimile: (650) 494-0792 

Email: kkramer@mofo.com 

 cjeu@mofo.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ALTERA CORPORATION 

By: /s/ Michael E. Dergosits

Michael E. Dergosits (CA Bar No. 118206) 

Teddy K. Joe (CA Bar No. 242589) 

Dergosits & Noah LLP 

Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 1450 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 705-6377 

Facsimile: (415) 705-6383 

Email: mdergosits@gergnoah.com 

tjoe@gergnoah.com

Attorneys for Defendants 

Narpat Bhandari and Vanguard Systems, Inc. 

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 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ________________________ _____________________________________ 

 JUDGE PATEL 

 United States District Judge 

May 25, 2007 SUBJECT TO ATTACHED SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER.

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print or 

type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the 

Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Northern 

District of California on [date] in the case captioned Cadence Design Systems, Inc., et al. v. Narpat 

Bhandari, et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of California Case No. C 07 

00823 (MHP). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective 

Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and 

punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any 

information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except 

in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order. I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of 

the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing 

the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after 

termination of this action. 

I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of 

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as 

my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related 

to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

[printed name] 

Signature: __________________________________ 

[signature] 

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