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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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ORDER REGARDING TRIAL PROCEDURES

C-00-20905; C-05-00334; C-06-00244 RMW

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E-filed: 1/30/2008 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INC., HYNIX

SEMICONDUCTOR AMERICA INC.,

HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR U.K. LTD., and

HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR

DEUTSCHLAND GmbH,

Plaintiffs,

v.

RAMBUS INC.,

Defendant.

No. CV-00-20905 RMW

ORDER REGARDING TRIAL

PROCEDURES

[Re Docket No. 3086]

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 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

[Re Docket No. 1117]

RAMBUS INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC., and

MICRON SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTS,

INC.

Defendants.

No. C-06-00244 RMW

[Re Docket No. 738]

The court hereby confirms and supplements its orders regarding trial procedures.

A. Voir Dire Procedure

The court will follow the jury selection procedure outlined in its Standing Order Regarding

Pretrial Preparation. Each side will have 15 minutes to supplement the examination of the

prospective jurors. Three peremptory challenges will be allowed for each side. Any challenge for

cause should be made at side bar or otherwise outside the presence of the other prospective jurors.

B. Trial Time

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1 For purposes of this order, the court collectively refers to the Hynix, Micron, and Nanya

entities as "the Manufacturers."

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The Manufacturers1 will be allowed 48 hours and Rambus 45 hours for presentation of their

respective cases. Time is allocated to a side whenever that side is making a statement or examining

a witness. The 48 and 45 hour limitations do not include jury selection or closing arguments, but do

include opening statements. Closing argument will be separately limited. Any scheduled jury time

used by the parties to raise issues outside the jury's presence will be allocated between the parties as

the court deems appropriate.

The Manufacturers may divide their 48 hours by agreement or, if requested before the

commencement of trial, the court will divide the time among them.

Each side may use up to 1 hour of its allocated time for interim transition statements. These

may be made before or after a witness testifies.

C. Witness Photographs

The parties are to arrange for a photograph of each testifying witness to be taken

immediately before the witness testifies and for a copy of that photograph to be given to each juror

at the time the witness is called. The witness photographs will be hole-punched for inclusion in the

jurors' notebooks.

D. Disclosure of Witness-Specific Documents

Exhibits to be used in connection with the examination of a witness must be identified with

the witness 2 business days prior to calling the witness. However, for any adverse witness, the side

calling the witness may withhold the identification of any document that it, in good faith, believes

would cause it prejudice if disclosed. For any such document, the court must be notified at least the

day before the witness is going to be called if the calling party anticipates an objection to the use of

the document. The court will then determine how the potential objection will be handled.

E. Notice to Third Party Witnesses

The parties will make good faith efforts to give third party witnesses 5 calendar days advance

notice of the date on which they are to appear but, in no event absent good cause shown, less than 3

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days notice.

F. Rambus's Request to Modify Subpoena for Geoff Tate

Rambus's request that the Manufacturers be required to modify their subpoena of Mr.

Tate so that he may testify before his scheduled trip on February 20 is granted on the following

conditions: (1) in lieu of calling Mr. Tate as a live witness, the Manufacturers may elect to take a

video deposition of Mr. Tate at Rambus's expense at a reasonable time before the 20th and use the

deposition whenever they want during the presentation of their case; (2) Rambus's crossexamination is limited to the scope of the Manufacturers' examination; and (3) Rambus may not call

Mr. Tate as a live witness in its own case. If Rambus is unwilling to agree to these conditions, the

motion to modify the subpoena is denied.

G. Juror Notebooks

Juror notebooks will be provided to each juror and will contain the preliminary instructions,

the court-approved glossary and charts showing the relevant patent claims and each Manufacturer's

products assumed to infringe, and note paper.

H. Exchange of Trial Exhibits, Quotations From Depositions or Other

Demonstrative Exhibits to be Used in Opening Statements

Trial Exhibits, quotations from depositions or other demonstrative exhibits to be used in

opening statements are to be exchanged no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 1. Objections, if

any, to the use of such items will be heard Monday, February 4, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. with notice to

the court of a need for such hearing given by 8:00 a.m. on the 4th.

DATED: 1/30/2008 

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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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: 1/30/08 TSF

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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