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

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SYNOPSYS, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

RICOH CO., LTD.,

Defendant.

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RICOH CO., LTD.,

Plaintiff,

v.

AEROFLEX, et al.,

Defendants.

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No. C-03-2289 MJJ (EMC)

No. C-03-4669 MJJ (EMC)

ORDER SETTING BRIEFING

SCHEDULE AND TELEPHONIC

HEARING ON SYNOPSIS AND

CUSTOMER DEFENDANTS'

EXPEDITED MOTION TO COMPEL

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

ALLEGEDLY COVERED BY THE

PROTECTIVE ORDER, OR IN THE

ALTERNATIVE, TO DE-DESIGNATE

ALLEGEDLY CONFIDENTIAL

INFORMATION AND ORDER

THEREON

(Docket No. 329 in No. C-03-2289; 

Docket No. 466 in No. C-03-4669)

Telephonic Hearing: June 14, 2006, 

11:00 a.m.

Plaintiff Synopsis, Inc. ("Synopsis") and Defendants Aeroflex Inc., Aeroflex Colorado

Springs, Inc., AMI Semiconductor, Inc., Matrox Electronic Systems, Ltd., Matrox Graphics Inc.,

Matrox International Corp., and Matrox Tech, Inc. (collectively, the "Customer Defendants") have

filed an expedited motion to compel access by their designated expert to information that Ricoh Co.

has designated as confidential. Synopsis and Customer Defendants have requested expedited

resolution of this matter because of the approaching June 19, 2006 deadline for opening expert

reports. Counsel for the moving parties, Denise DeMory, and counsel for Ricoh, Gary Hoffman,

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have communicated to the Court that the parties are willing to continue the deadline for expert

reports for a brief period of time, commensurate with a continuation of the deadline for rebuttal

expert reports, so as not to disturb the cutoff date for dispositive motions.

Ricoh shall file an opposition to Synopsis and Customer Defendants' expedited motion to

compel access to confidential information by noon, Pacific time, on June 9, 2006. The moving

parties shall file any reply brief by no later than 4 p.m. that day. The parties are reminded to provide

the Court with courtesy copies of any electronic filings, particularly if they are filed under seal, per

General Order 45.

The Court will conduct a telephonic hearing on the motion to compel access to confidential

information at 11 a.m., Pacific time, June 14, 2006. The Court will initiate the telephonic

conference call.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 6, 2006 EDWARD M. CHEN

United States Magistrate Judge

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