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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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All Counsel Listed on Signature Page 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

ELANTECH DEVICES CORPORATION, a 

corporation existing under the laws of Taiwan, 

R.O.C., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SYNAPTICS, INC., a Delaware corporation; 

AVERATEC, INC., a California corporation; and 

PROSTAR COMPUTER, INC., a California 

corporation, 

Defendants. 

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS 

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WHEREAS, the parties believe that certain information that may be divulged in this 

litigation is likely to contain confidential research, development, or commercial information as 

contemplated by Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; 

WHEREAS, the parties believe that such information may be relevant to the subject 

matter involved in the pending action within the meaning of Rule 26(a),(b) of the Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure; 

WHEREAS, the parties believe that it would serve the interests of the parties to 

conduct discovery under a protective order pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of 

Civil Procedure; and 

WHEREAS, the parties acknowledge that the requested protective order does not 

confer blanket protections on all 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 that this 

Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Northern 

District Local Rules set 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. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between Elantech Devices 

Corporation (“Elantech”) and Synaptics, Inc. (“Synaptics”) and Averatec, Inc. (“Averatec”) 

through their respective counsel, that the following Stipulated Protective Order may be entered 

by the Court to give effect to the stipulations set forth below: 

1.0 Definitions. 

1.1 “Designating Party” means any party or any non-Party producing 

documents or information that is designated under this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

1.2 “Receiving Party” means any party receiving documents or information 

designated under this Stipulated Protective Order. 

1.3 “Confidential Information” means Document or information that has not 

been made public and that a Designating Party believes to be of a 

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proprietary business or technical nature, the disclosure of which is likely 

to have the effect of causing harm to the competitive position of the 

person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other organization from which 

the information was obtained. 

1.4 “Document” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Rule 34(a), Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure. 

1.5 “Employee(s)” means all permanent employees and those temporary 

personnel who are providing legal, secretarial, clerical and/or 

administrative services only. 

2.0 Designation of Confidential Information

2.1 Each Designating Party who produces or discloses any material that the 

Designating Party reasonably believes to comprise or contain 

Confidential Information may designate the same CONFIDENTIAL -- 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY. 

2.2 Documents may be designated as CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY by clearly marking the Documents, prior to providing 

copies thereof to a Receiving Party. 

2.3 A Designating party that inadvertently fails to mark information as 

CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY at the time of 

production shall be allowed to correct such failure at any time. In that 

event, the Designating Party shall provide notice in writing to all 

Receiving Parties, accompanied by appropriately marked substitute 

copies of such information. Upon receipt of such notice, a Receiving 

Party will take appropriate steps to assure that the previously unmarked 

Information is treated as Confidential from that time forward. 

2.4 An answer to a request for written discovery responses may be 

designated as Confidential Information by denoting the answer or a 

portion thereof CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY. 

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2.5 A deposition transcript or portion thereof may be designated as 

Confidential Information by making such designation on the record. 

Counsel attending a deposition who elects not to designate any portion 

of the transcript as CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 

on the record shall have ten (10) business days following the receipt of 

the transcript from the court reporter to make such designation. Notice 

thereof shall be made in writing to the reporter, with copies to all 

counsel, designating the portions of the transcript that contain 

Confidential Information and directing the reporter to mark that portion 

of the transcript accordingly. 

3.0 Disclosure of Confidential Information. 

3.1 In the absence of written permission from the providing party or an order 

from the Court, Confidential Information may only be disclosed to the 

following persons: 

3.1.1 outside counsel for any party to this litigation and all necessary 

secretarial, clerical and paralegal personnel assisting such 

counsel, except that such Confidential Information shall not be 

disclosed to any attorney involved in prosecuting patent 

applications relating in any way to touch pad technology. 

3.1.2 qualified persons transcribing or memorializing testimony 

involving Confidential Information and their Employees whose 

duties require access to Confidential Information; 

3.1.3 independent experts and/or consultants retained by counsel for a 

party to this litigation subject to Section 4.0 of this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

3.1.4 any deposition witness who (1) previously had access to the 

Confidential Information, (2) was employed by the Designating 

Party; (3) is, at the time of the deposition, employed by the 

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Designating Party, or (4) is an independent expert or consultant 

qualified to receive Confidential Information under Section 4.0 

of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

3.1.5 The Court and the Court’s staff. 

3.2 No persons specified in Section 3.1.1 or 3.1.3 shall have access to 

Confidential Information without having first read, acknowledged and 

agreed in writing (in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A) to be bound 

by this Stipulated Protective Order. A file of all such written 

acknowledgment shall be kept by the Party obtaining them. With 

respect to persons specified in Section 3.1.3, copies of such written 

acknowledgments shall be provided to all counsel of record as provided 

in Section 4.0 of this Stipulated Protective Order. Persons who are 

permitted access to Confidential Information under this Stipulated 

Protective Order solely for clerical or administrative purposes, and who 

do not retain copies or extracts thereof, are not required to execute 

written acknowledgments. 

4.0 Qualification of Independent Experts or Consultants. 

4.1 Notice of Proposed Disclosure: Not less than seven (7) business days 

prior to the initial disclosure of designated Confidential Information to 

any person falling under the provisions of Section 3.1.3 of this 

Stipulated Protective Order, the Party proposing to make such disclosure 

shall serve (by facsimile and mail) the name, address, present employer 

and title, and a signed acknowledgment in the form of Exhibit A of the 

proposed recipient, as well as a copy of a current resume and list of 

engagements for the past five years, on the Designating Party. 

4.2 Objection to Proposed Disclosure: Within the period before disclosure 

of the Confidential Information to the proposed recipient, the Party or 

non-Party whose Confidential Information is concerned may serve (by 

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facsimile and mail) a written objection to such disclosure. Such an 

objection shall stay disclosure to the proposed recipient. Failure to serve 

a written objection within seven (7) business days shall be deemed 

approval of a proposed recipient. 

4.3 Motion to Exclude Disclosure: If a written objection is served pursuant 

to Section 4.2 and the objection is not resolved by the parties by meeting 

and conferring within five (5) business days of service of the written 

notice of objection described in Section 4.2, the party objecting to 

disclosure shall file a motion, to be heard on the earliest date available, 

with respect to such objection within ten (10) business days after service 

of the notice of objection. Failure to file such a motion shall be deemed 

approval of a proposed recipient. The disclosure of Confidential 

Information to such proposed person shall be withheld pending the 

ruling of the Court on any such motion. 

5.0 Procedure for Challenging Designations. 

5.1 Information obtained during discovery and designated by the providing 

party as CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY under this 

Stipulated Protective Order shall be deemed to be CONFIDENTIAL -- 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY unless the Court rules that it is not. If, 

after meeting and conferring to discuss any dispute that arises due to any 

designation under this Order, the parties are unable to reach agreement, a 

party may move this Court for an Order that materials bearing a 

designation specified in Sections 2.1 through 2.5 hereof are improperly 

designated. In a motion, the party making the designation of 

Confidential Information shall have the burden of proving that the 

material in question is within the scope of protection contemplated by 

Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

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6.0 Procedure for Court Filings. 

6.1 When Confidential Information is filed with the Court, the party offering 

it must file the relevant materials under seal, and the documents shall 

bear the words, CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, and 

a statement substantially in the following form: 

CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 

SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 The statement shall also appear on the front page of any written material. 

6.2 Documents filed under seal pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order 

shall be filed according to Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

7.0 If Confidential Information is disclosed to any person other than in the manner 

authorized by this Stipulated Protective Order, the Party responsible for the 

disclosure must immediately inform the Designating Party of all pertinent facts 

relating to such disclosure and shall make every effort to prevent disclosure by 

each unauthorized person who received such information. 

8.0 This Stipulated Protective Order is intended to regulate the handling of 

Confidential Information during the pretrial period of this litigation, and is not 

intended to regulate the handling of Confidential Information at trial, which is 

expected to be the subject of a further Stipulated Protective Order and/or 

appropriate court orders. Nonetheless, this Stipulated Protective Order shall 

remain in force and effect until modified, superseded or terminated on the 

record by agreement of the parties hereto, by order of this Court, or pursuant to 

Section 9.0 of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

9.0 Within thirty (30) days of the final termination of this litigation, each Party that 

is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order shall destroy or return to the 

providing party all items designated CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY in accordance with Section 2.0 above, including all copies of such matter 

which may have been made, but not including pleadings or copies containing 

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notes or other attorney work product that may have been placed there by counsel 

for the Receiving Party. Outside counsel may retain all pretrial and trial records 

as are regularly maintained by outside counsel in the ordinary course of 

business, but such records shall be maintained confidential in accordance with 

this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Dated: August 8, 2006 KARL J. KRAMER 

ROBERT L. McKAGUE 

ERIKA L. LABIT 

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

By: s/Karl J. Kramer 

Karl J. Kramer 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SYNAPTICS, INC. 

Dated: August 8, 2006 YITAI HU 

SEAN P. DeBRUINE 

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

By: s/Sean P. DeBruine 

Sean P. DeBruine 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ELANTECH DEVICES CORPORATION 

Dated: August 8, 2006 KAREN H. BROMBERG 

COHEN & GRESSER LLP

By: s/Karen H. Bromberg 

Karen H. Bromberg 

Attorneys for Defendant 

AVERATEC, INC. 

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ORDER 

The Stipulated Protective Order is hereby adopted by the Court as a Case Management 

Order for the case and the parties are ordered to comply with this order. 

Dated: _____________________ ______________________________ 

 Charles R. Breyer 

 United States District Court 

August 8, 2006

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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