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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

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SYNOPSYS, INC.,

Plaintiff(s),

v.

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC.,

Defendant(s).

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No. C-04-3923 MMC (JCS)

ORDER RE MOTION TO ESTABLISH

SCOPE OF MAGMA’S PRIVILEGE

WAIVERS

Synopsys, Inc. has filed a Motion to Establish Scope of Magma’s Privilege Waivers (the

“Motion”). The Court notes that despite the fact that at least some of the disputes raised in the Motion

have been at issue between the parties since January of this year, Synopsys filed the Motion at the close of

non-expert discovery, seeking, inter alia, not only the production of documents, but also to re-depose

many witnesses. In addition, the parties have filed a stipulation and proposed order re motion to compel

deadline, seeking to move the deadline for the filing of motions to compel fact discovery to December 15,

2005. The stipulation and the motion come before this Court against a backdrop of the repeated inability

of counsel to reach agreement on many questions concerning the timing and scope of discovery. Many of

these matters should, in the Court’s view, have been resolved between counsel.

Accordingly, the Court enters the following ORDER:

1. In light of the delay in filing the Motion, and the Court’s calendar, the hearing date on the

Motion is continued to January 27, 2006, at 1:30 p.m. 

2. The Court has signed the Stipulation.

3. The Court reserves the right to deny any motion to compel on the basis that, notwithstanding

the stipulation, it was brought too late in the case. In addition, the Court reserves the right, if discovery

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motions are filed that, in the Court’s view, concern matters that should be worked out between counsel, to

appoint a special master for all remaining discovery issues in this case.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 29, 2005

 

JOSEPH C. SPERO

United States Magistrate Judge

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