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

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Frank E. Scherkenbach (CA #142549/ 

scherkenbach@fr.com) 

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 

225 Franklin Street 

Boston, Massachusetts 02110-2804 

Telephone: (617) 542-5070 

Facsimile: (617) 542-8906 

Howard G. Pollack (CA #162897/ 

pollack@fr.com) 

Michael R. Headley (CA #220834/ 

headley@fr.com) 

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 

500 Arguello Street, Suite 500 

Redwood City, California 94063 

Telephone: (650) 839-5070 

Facsimile: (650) 839-5071 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC. 

 

G. HOPKINS GUY, III (SBN 124811) 

 hopguy@orrick.com 

VICKIE FEEMAN (SBN 177487) 

 vfeeman@orrick.com 

BAS DE BLANK (SBN 191487) 

 basdeblank@orrick.com 

BRIAN H. VANDERZANDEN (SBN 233134) 

 bvanderzanden@orrick.com 

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

1000 Marsh Road 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

Telephone: +1-650-614-7400 

Facsimile: +1-650-614-7401 

Attorneys for Defendants 

FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR 

INTERNATIONAL, INC., FAIRCHILD 

SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION 

AND SYSTEM GENERAL CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

(SAN JOSE DIVISION) 

POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC., a Delaware 

corporation, 

Plaintiff(s), 

v. 

FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR 

INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware 

corporation, FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR 

CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, and 

SYSTEM GENERAL CORPORATION, a 

Taiwanese corporation, 

Defendant(s). 

Case No. C -09-5235 JW (PSG) 

STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR 

LITIGATION INVOLVING PATENTS, 

HIGHLY SENSITIVE CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION AND/OR TRADE 

SECRETS

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 may be warranted. Accordingly, 

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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 

disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and 

use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under 

the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, 

that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under 

seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that 

will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under 

seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order. 

2.2 "CONFIDENTIAL" Information or Items: information (regardless of how it 

is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule 

of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staff). 

2.4 INTENTIONALLY OMITTED 

2.5 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". 

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

medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, 

testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or 

responses to discovery in this matter. 

2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the litigation who (1) has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert 

witness or as a consultant in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee of a Party or of a 

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Party's competitor, and (3) at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a 

Party or of a Party's competitor. 

2.8 "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"

Information or Items: extremely sensitive "Confidential Information or Items," 

disclosure of which to another Party or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm 

that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 

2.9 INTENTIONALLY OMITTED 

2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. House 

Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 

2.11 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other 

legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.12 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to 

this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this 

action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that 

party. 

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

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 

2.14 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.15 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and 

organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and 

subcontractors. 

2.16 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated 

as "CONFIDENTIAL," or as "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." 

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

a Producing Party. 

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3. SCOPE

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

Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected 

Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any 

testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected 

Material. However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the 

following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a 

Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a 

result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public 

record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the 

disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the 

information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of 

Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. 

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed 

by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court 

order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all 

claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the 

completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each 

Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take 

care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. 

To the extent it is practical to do so, the Designating Party must designate for protection only those 

parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify so that other 

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portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted 

are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are 

shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to 

unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses 

and burdens on other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions. 

If it comes to a Designating Party's attention that information or items that it 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all or do not qualify for the level of 

protection initially asserted, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other parties that it is 

withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

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

Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 

Disclosure or Discovery 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: 

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party 

affix the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY" to 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. 

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, 

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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" to 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. 

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

Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being asserted. When it is 

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

appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Designating Party 

may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) a right 

to have up to 21 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of the testimony 

that are appropriately designated for protection within the 21 days shall be covered by the 

provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at the 

deposition or up to 21 days afterwards if that period is properly invoked, that the entire transcript 

shall be treated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY." 

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title 

page that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of 

all pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material 

and the level of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall 

inform the court reporter of these requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration 

of a 21-day period for designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated 

"HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" in its entirety unless otherwise 

agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as actually designated. 

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(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 a portion or portions of the information 

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

portion(s) and specify the level of protection being asserted. 

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

to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party's 

right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a 

designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated 

in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation 

of confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party's confidentiality 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 

burdens, or a 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. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for 

each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice 

must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific 

paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith 

and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of 

communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 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 

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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 or establishes that the Designating Party 

is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Challenging Party shall file and serve a motion to challenge confidentiality under 

Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) within 21 days of 

the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer 

process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied 

by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. However, frivolous challenges and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to 

harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging 

Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by 

failing to respond to a motion in an effort to challenge confidentiality as described above, 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 until the court rules on the challenge. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 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 15 

below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

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

and in a secure manner1

 that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this 

Order. 

 

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 It may be appropriate under certain circumstances to require the Receiving Party to store any 

electronic Protected Material in password-protected form. 

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7.2 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 Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation; 

(b) no more than two (2) officers, directors, or employees (including House 

Counsel) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and 

who have signed the "Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound" (Exhibit A) pursuant to 

paragraph 7.4, and only insofar as outside counsel of record believe that it is necessary to consult 

with said officers or employees for purpose of conducting this litigation; 

(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 "Acknowledgment and Agreement 

to Be Bound" (Exhibit A) pursuant to paragraph 7.4, with disclosure only to the extent necessary to 

perform such work; 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, stenographers. and their staff transcribing the testimony or 

argument at a hearing, trial or deposition in this action or any appeal therefrom to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(f) professional vendors (including photocopy, translators, document imaging and 

database services and consultants retained by counsel to set up, maintain and/or operate computer 

systems, litigation databases or to convert data for inclusion in such databases), graphics, design 

services, focus group, or jury or trial consultants retained by counsel, and to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the 

information or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

7.3 Disclosure of "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"

Information or Items. Documents designated as Highly Confidential shall be marked by 

conspicuously affixing a legend, which includes the words “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or 

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“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by 

the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may only disclose any information or item designated 

"HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" only to persons described in 

subparagraphs 7.2(a) and 7.2(c)-(g). Accordingly, either party or deponent shall have the right to 

exclude from a deposition any person other than the deponent, the deponent’s attorney, and persons 

described in subparagraphs 7.2(a) and 7.2(c)-(g) when produced documents designated Highly 

Confidential are the subject of examination. By agreeing to the inclusion of this paragraph, the 

parties are not agreeing to or waiving their rights to challenge the designation of the produced 

documents and testimony thereon as provided herein or to seek any other relief from the Court. 

7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of "HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" Information or Items to Designated House 

Counsel or Experts. 

No Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information shall be revealed or 

disclosed, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, to any individual described in subparagraphs 

7.2(b) or 7.2(c) until that individual has been given a copy of this Order and has duly completed and 

signed an undertaking in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, the original of which shall be 

retained, until the conclusion of this action including all appeals, by counsel for each party who 

intends to or does disclose to such individual any Confidential Information or Highly Confidential 

Information. 

(a)(1) Before individuals under subparagraph 7.2(b) may have access to 

Confidential Information, the Receiving Party must identify such individual and submit to the 

Producing Party the signed undertaking. 

(a)(2) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to 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" pursuant to paragraph 7.3(c) first must make a written request to the Designating Party that 

(1) includes the signed undertaking in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, (2) sets forth the full 

name of the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the 

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Expert's current resume, (4) identifies the Expert's current employer(s), (5) identifies each person or 

entity from whom the Expert has received compensation or funding for work in his or her areas of 

expertise or to whom the expert has provided professional services, including in connection with a 

litigation, at any time during the preceding five years,2 and (6) identifies (by name and number of 

the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert has 

offered expert testimony, including through a declaration, report, or testimony at a deposition or 

trial, during the preceding five years.3

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

paragraphs 7.4(a)(1)-(2) may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified individual 

unless, within 14 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 

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

within seven days of the written objection. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the 

disclosure to Designated House Counsel or 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 why the disclosure to Designated House Counsel or the Expert is reasonably necessary, 

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

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

declaration describing the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the 

content of the meet and confer discussions) and setting forth the reasons advanced by the 

Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. 

 

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 If the Expert believes any of this information is subject to a confidentiality obligation to a thirdparty, then the Expert should provide whatever information the Expert believes can be disclosed 

without violating any confidentiality agreements, and the Party seeking to disclose to the Expert 

shall be available to meet and confer with the Designating Party regarding any such 

engagement. 

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 It may be appropriate in certain circumstances to restrict the Expert from undertaking certain 

limited work prior to the termination of the litigation that could foreseeably result in an 

improper use of the Designating Party's "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY" information. 

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In any such proceeding, the Party opposing disclosure to Designated House Counsel 

or 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 Designated House Counsel or Expert. 

(d) Pursuant to subparagraph 7.4(a)(2), the disclosure of the identity of a 

consulting Expert will not be a waiver of any privilege that applies to communications or work 

product. Furthermore, the parties agree that by stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order, the 

parties do not intend to modify in any way the normal discovery rules applicable to consulting 

experts. 

8. INTENTIONALLY OMITTED 

9. INTENTIONALLY OMITTED 

0. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION

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

compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as "CONFIDENTIAL" or 

"HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" that Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include 

a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in 

the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to 

this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order and 

object to production pending resolution of issues regarding the protection afforded to the material; 

and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.4

 

 

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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. 

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If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the 

subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as 

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES. ONLY" before a 

determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained 

the Designating Party's permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense 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. 

1. A NON-PARTY'S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN 

THIS LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in 

this action and designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' 

EYES ONLY". Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is 

protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a 

Non-Party's confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with 

the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party's confidential information, then the Party shall: 

 1. promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that 

some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party; 

 2. promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective 

Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of 

the information requested; and 

 3. make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 

14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce 

the Non-Party's confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party 

timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its 

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possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 

determination by the court.5 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the 

burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 

12. 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 unauthorized 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. 

13. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

 The inadvertent production in discovery of any privileged or otherwise protected or 

exempted information, as well as the inadvertent production in discovery of information without an 

appropriate designation of confidentiality, shall not be deemed a waiver or impairment of any claim 

or privilege or protection including but not limited to the attorney- client privilege, the protection 

afforded to work-product materials or the subject matter thereof, or the confidential nature of any 

such information, provided that the Producing Party shall promptly notify the Receiving Party in 

writing when inadvertent production is discovered. Upon receiving written notice from the 

Producing Party that privileged information or work-product material has been inadvertently 

produced, all such information, and all copies thereof, shall be returned to counsel for the Producing 

Party and the Receiving Party shall not use such information for any purpose until further Order of 

the Court. 

 

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 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of confidentiality 

rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to protect its confidentiality 

interests in this court. 

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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. 

 14.3 INTENTIONALLY OMITTED 

 14.4 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. Protected Material may only be filed 

under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at 

issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing 

that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled 

to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal 

pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

Protected Material in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise 

instructed by the court. 

 15. FINAL DISPOSITION

 Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, 

each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such 

material. As used in this subdivision, "all Protected Material" includes all copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Whether the Protected Material is 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 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the 

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Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not 

retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or 

capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition and hearing transcripts, 

affidavits, affirmations, certifications, declarations, briefs, record on appeal, notice of motion, 

exhibit to a deposition or affidavit (or the like), exhibit at a hearing or trial, discovery request, 

stipulation, correspondence between counsel for the parties, written response to a discovery request 

or any other document filed with the Court and the court transcript, legal memoranda, 

correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant 

and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. The Receiving Party 

shall also be entitled to retain one copy, and outside counsel of record for each party shall be 

entitled to retain copies of any Opinion containing any Confidential Business Information of the 

Producing Party, which is not in the public docket file. Any such archival copies that contain or 

constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

(DURATION). 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: June 18, 2010 /s/ Michael R. Headley 

 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff Power Integrations 

DATED: June 18, 2010 /s/ Brian VanderZanden 

 ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

 Attorneys for Defendants Fairchild and System General 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: May 4, 2011 _________________________________________ 

 PAUL S. GREWAL

United States Magistrate Judge 

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

(SAN JOSE DIVISION) 

POWER INTEGRATIONS, INC., a Delaware 

corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR 

INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware 

corporation, FAIRCHILD 

SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, a 

Delaware Corporation, and SYSTEM 

GENERAL CORPORATION, a Taiwanese 

corporation, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. C-09-5235 JW (PVT) 

 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 in the above-captioned matter. 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. 

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 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 declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 

foregoing is true and correct. 

Date:_________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed:_____________________________ 

Printed name:_________________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature:____________________________________ 

 [signature] 

Title: 

Business Affiliation: 

Address: 

Telephone: 

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