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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 15:1126 Patent Infringement

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FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI LLP SUSMAN GODFREY L.L.P. 

ROBERT M. DAWSON (81790) 555 South Flower Street, 

Forty-First Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Telephone: (213) 892-9200 

Facsimile: (213) 892-9494 

robert.dawson@nortonrosefulbright.com 

MARC B. COLLIER (pro hac vice) 

GILBERT A. GREENE (pro hac vice) 98 San Jacinto Boulevard, Suite 1100 

Austin, Texas 78701 

Telephone: (512) 474-5201 

Facsimile: (512) 536-4598 

bert.greene@ nortonrosefulbright.com 

marc.collier@ nortonrosefulbright.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

SILICON LABORATORIES INC.

BRYAN J.E. CAFORIO (261265) 1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 950 

Los Angeles, CA 90067 

Phone: (310) 789-3100 

Fax: (310) 789-3150 

bcaforio@susmangodfrey.com 

PARKER C. FOLSE, III (pro hac vice) 

GENEVIEVE VOSE WALLACE (pro hac vice) 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3800 

Seattle, WA 98101 

Phone: (206) 516-3880 

Fax: (206) 516-3883 

pfolse@susmangodfrey.com 

gwallace@susmangodfrey.com 

Attorneys for Defendant

CRESTA TECHNOLOGY CORP.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

SILICON LABORATORIES INC., a 

Delaware Corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

CRESTA TECHNOLOGY 

CORPORATION, a Delaware 

Corporation, 

 Defendant. 

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Judge: Honorable Paul S. Grewal 

 

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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, 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 13.4, 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 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 

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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. 

2.6 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 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. 

2.7 “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. 

2.8 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” Information or 

Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” representing 

computer code and associated comments and revision histories, formulas, 

engineering specifications, or schematics that define or otherwise describe in detail 

the algorithms or structure of software or hardware designs, 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 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. 

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

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.11 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 

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which has appeared on behalf of that party. 

2.12 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). 

2.13 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.14 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. 

2.15 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 

2.16 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party. 

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 

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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 

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 

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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,” 

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

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the 

specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend 

(“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”) to each page that 

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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.” 

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a 

deposition, hearing or other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the 

other parties can ensure that only authorized individuals who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A) are present at those 

proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition shall not in any 

way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

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

CODE.” 

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on 

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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. 

(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,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 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, 

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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 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 Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain 

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. Failure by the 

Designating Party to make such a motion, including the required declaration, within 

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21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the confidentiality 

designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may 

file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good 

cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition 

transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision 

must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed by the preceding 

paragraph. 

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

Designating Party. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality 

designation by failing to file a motion to retain 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 14 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. 

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 

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“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 and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit 

A; 

(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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (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 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation 

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit 

A); 

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

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement 

to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or 

ordered by the Court. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to 

depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

(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” and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” Information or 

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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” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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 and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit 

A; 

(b) Experts of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth 

in paragraph 7.4(a), below, have been followed; 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation 

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit 

A); and 

(e) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 

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

7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” Information or Items to Experts. 

(a) 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” or “HIGHLY 

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make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the general 

categories of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” information that the Receiving 

Party seeks permission to disclose to the Expert, (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 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,1

 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. 

(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 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 the Expert may file a motion 

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

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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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describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons why the 

disclosure to 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. 

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. 

8. SOURCE CODE 

(a) To the extent production of source code becomes necessary in this 

case, a Producing Party may designate source code as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

- SOURCE CODE” if it comprises or includes confidential, proprietary or trade 

secret source code. 

(b) Protected Material designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

SOURCE CODE” shall be subject to all of the protections afforded to “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information, and may be 

disclosed only to the individuals to whom “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information may be disclosed, as set forth in 

Paragraphs 7.3 and 7.4.

(c) Any source code produced in discovery shall be made available for 

inspection, in a format allowing it to be reasonably reviewed and searched, during 

normal business hours or at other mutually agreeable times, at an office of the 

Producing Party’s counsel or another mutually agreed upon location. The source 

code shall be made available for inspection on a secured computer in a secured 

room without Internet access or network access to other computers, and the 

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Receiving Party shall not copy, remove, or otherwise transfer any portion of the 

source code onto any recordable media or recordable device. The Producing Party 

may visually monitor the activities of the Receiving Party’s representatives during 

any source code review, but only to ensure that there is no unauthorized recording, 

copying, or transmission of the source code. 

(d) The Receiving Party may request paper copies of limited portions of 

source code that are reasonably necessary for the preparation of court filings, 

pleadings, expert reports, or other papers, or for deposition or trial, but shall not 

request paper copies for the purposes of reviewing the source code other than 

electronically as set forth in paragraph (c) in the first instance. The Producing Party 

shall provide all such source code in paper form including bates numbers and the 

label “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE.” The Producing Party may 

challenge the amount of source code requested in hard copy form pursuant to the 

dispute resolution procedure and timeframes set forth in Paragraph 6 whereby the 

Producing Party is the “Challenging Party” and the Receiving Party is the 

“Designating Party” for purposes of dispute resolution. 

(e) The Receiving Party shall maintain a record of any individual who has 

inspected any portion of the source code in electronic or paper form. The Receiving 

Party shall maintain all paper copies of any printed portions of the source code in a 

secured, locked area. The Receiving Party shall not create any electronic or other 

images of the paper copies and shall not convert any of the information contained in 

the paper copies into any electronic format. The Receiving Party shall only make 

additional paper copies if such additional copies are (1) necessary to prepare court 

filings, pleadings, or other papers (including a testifying expert’s expert report), (2) 

necessary for deposition, or (3) otherwise necessary for the preparation of its case. 

Any paper copies used during a deposition shall be retrieved by the Producing Party 

at the end of each day and must not be given to or left with a court reporter or any 

other unauthorized individual. 

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9. 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,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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 

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

by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.2

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,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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. 

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opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the 

subpoena or order issued. 

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(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a 

Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 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 NonParty 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 NonParty 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 possession or control that 

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determination by the Court.3 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. 

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 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. 

12. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL 

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 

inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other 

protection, the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify 

whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for 

production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 

502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure 

of a communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work 

product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated 

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13. MISCELLANEOUS 

13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

13.2 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. 

13.3 Export Control. Disclosure of Protected Material shall be subject to all 

applicable laws and regulations relating to the export of technical data contained in 

such Protected Material, including the release of such technical data to foreign 

persons or nationals in the United States or elsewhere. The Producing Party shall be 

responsible for identifying any such controlled technical data, and the Receiving 

Party shall take measures necessary to ensure compliance. 

13.4 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(e) 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)(2) unless 

otherwise instructed by the Court. 

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14. 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 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, 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. Any such archival copies that contain or 

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

Section 4 (DURATION). 

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ATTESTATION CLAUSE 

 I, Marc B. Collier, am the ECF User whose identification and password are 

being used to file this document. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I 

hereby attest under penalty of perjury that Genevieve Vose Wallace of Susman 

Godfrey L.L.P. has concurred in the filing of this document

Date: January 16, 2015 /s/ Marc B. Collier 

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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 of Silicon Laboratories Inc. v. Cresta Technology 

Corporation, Civil Action No. 14-cv-03227-PSG. 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: __________________________________ 

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