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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 28:1338 Patent Infringement

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PRE-TRIAL ORDER FOR

TRIAL ON OWNERSHIP ISSUES

Case No. C04-03923 MMC (JCS)

GEORGE A. RILEY (S.B. #118304) – griley@omm.com

MARK E. MILLER (S.B. #130200) – markmiller@omm.com

PETER OBSTLER (S.B. #171623) – pobstler@omm.com

CHRISTOPHER D. CATALANO (S.B. #208606) – ccatalano@omm.com

LUANN L. SIMMONS (S.B. #203526) – lsimmons@omm.com

NORA M. PUCKETT (pro hac vice) – npuckett@omm.com

O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP

Embarcadero Center West

275 Battery Street

San Francisco, CA 94111-3305

Telephone: (415) 984-8700

Facsimile: (415) 984-8701

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

SYNOPSYS, INC., a Delaware Corporation,

Plaintiff and CounterDefendant,

v.

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC., 

a Delaware Corporation

Defendant and 

Counterclaimant.

Case No. C04-03923 MMC (JCS)

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER FOR TRIAL ON OWNERSHIP 

ISSUES AND PRETRIAL SCHEDULE

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS.

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TRIAL ON OWNERSHIP ISSUES

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WHEREAS, resolution of the issue of ownership of United States Patents Nos. 6,453,446 

(the “‘446 Patent”), 6,725,438 (the “‘438 Patent”), and 6,378,114 (the “‘114 Patent”) 

(collectively, the "Patents") may be conducive to further streamlining some or all of the 

remaining proceedings or issues that may need to be tried in this Action, and;

WHEREAS, by order dated February 23, 2006, the Court vacated the hearing on Magma’s 

motion to bifurcate, stating that “the Court’s rulings with respect to the pending motions for 

summary judgment on patent ownership and Synopsys’s state law claims may bear on the 

determination of the instant motion to bifurcate”;

WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Counterclaim-defendant Synopsys, Inc. (“Synopsys”) and 

Defendant and Counterclaim-plaintiff Magma Design Automation, Inc. (“Magma”) thus desire to 

have the Court bifurcate the proceedings by trying first the issue of ownership of the Patents 

(hereinafter the “Ownership Trial”);

WHEREAS, the parties believe they need additional time for preparation of the pretrial 

conference statement and other pretrial materials;

WHEREAS, the parties wish to defer expert depositions and other discovery on nonownership issues until after the Ownership Trial;

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Synopsys and 

Magma to request the Court bifurcate the trial of the issues to be adjudicated as follows:

1. The Ownership Trial will determine the ownership of the Patents, and the 

ownership of any continuations or foreign counterparts to the Patents, to the extent that these

issues have not been determined by orders on motion before the Ownership Trial.

2. The Ownership Trial will resolve whether Magma is estopped from asserting joint

ownership or precluded from asserting any ownership interests in the Patents, to the extent that

these issues have not been determined by orders on motion before the Ownership Trial.

3. The Ownership Trial will encompass (a) Synopsys’s claim of ownership of the 

Patents and any continuations or foreign counterparts to the Patents, (b) Magma’s Second, Fourth, 

Sixth, and Tenth Counterclaims, and (c) Magma’s Second, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Fifteenth and 

Twenty-Second Affirmative Defenses. Synopsys’s state law claims and infringement claims, and 

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Magma’s remaining affirmative defenses and counterclaims, shall not be the subject of the 

Ownership Trial, but rather will be separately adjudicated by motion or trial after ownership of 

the Patents has been determined through the Ownership Trial.

4. The parties specifically agree that nothing in this Stipulation will preclude Magma 

from asserting its Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth, Twenty-Seventh, and Twenty-Eighth

Affirmative Defenses by motion or trial after ownership of the Patents has been determined 

through the Ownership Trial.

5. All issues to be decided in the Ownership Trial will be tried to the Court, the right 

to a jury on such issues (if any), being expressly waived.

6. Magma shall dismiss its pending appeal to the Federal Circuit.

7. March 27, 2006, shall be the last day for lead trial counsel to meet and confer 

pursuant to Civil L.R. 16-10(b)(5).

8. April 11, 2006, shall be the last day to (a) file joint pretrial statement (including 

written narrative statements), (b) serve and lodge findings of fact and conclusions of law, (c) 

serve proposed exhibits, charts, schedules, summaries, diagrams and other documentary materials 

to be used in its case in chief at trial, together with a complete list of all such proposed exhibits, 

and (d) file motions in limine.

9. April 14, 2006, shall be the last day to file oppositions to motions in limine.

10. April 17, 2006, shall be the last day to file (a) list of all exhibits admitted by 

stipulation, (b) list of all exhibits as to which objections have been made, with a brief notation 

indicating which party objects and for what reason, and (c) objections to other evidence.

11. The pretrial conference shall take place on April 18, 2006, at 3:00 p.m.

12. The parties agree to defer expert depositions and any other remaining discovery on 

non-ownership issues until after the Ownership Trial is resolved, except to the extent that such 

discovery is relevant to the issues to be tried at the Ownership Trial. After the Ownership Trial, 

the parties will meet and confer as to a schedule for those depositions and other discovery.

14. After the conclusion of the Ownership Trial, the Court will set a further status 

conference to identify and discuss the remaining issues to be tried and the schedule of any further 

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proceedings. The parties will submit to the Court, ten court days before such further status 

conference, a joint statement addressing the foregoing subjects.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: March 10, 2006 O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP

By: /s/ George A. Riley

 George A. Riley

Attorneys for Defendant and 

Counterclaimant MAGMA DESIGN 

AUTOMATION, INC.

Dated: March 10, 2006 DECHERT LLP

By: /s/ Chris Scott Graham

Chris Scott Graham

Attorneys for Plaintiff and CounterclaimDefendant SYNOPSYS, INC.

I attest under penalty of perjury that concurrence in the filing of this document has been 

obtained from counsel of record for Synopsys.

Dated: March 10, 2006 O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP

By: /s/ George A. Riley

 George A. Riley

Attorneys for Defendant and 

Counterclaimant MAGMA DESIGN 

AUTOMATION, INC.

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

Honorable Maxine M. Chesney

United States District Court Judge

SF1:620525.3

March 13, 2006

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