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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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Janine D. Bloch, (SBN 148377) 

D. Lilah Blinder, (SBN 203594) 

PRESTON GATES & ELLIS LLP

55 Second Street, Suite 1700 

San Francisco, California 94105-3493 

Telephone: (415) 882-8200 

Facsimile: (415) 882-8220 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Socle Technology Corporation, a corporation 

organized and existing under the laws of Taiwan 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

Socle Technology Corporation, a corporation 

organized and existing under the laws of 

Taiwan,

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

Mai Logic, Inc., a California Corporation, 

 Defendant. 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

REGARDING CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION

Mai Logic, Inc. 

 Counterclaimant, 

 v. 

Socle Technology Corporation, 

 Counterdefendant. 

WHEREAS, it is desirable for Plaintiff Socle Technology Corporation (“Socle”) and 

Defendant Mai Logic, Inc. (“Mai Logic”) (collectively referred to herein as the “Parties”), and their 

respective counsel, to coordinate their efforts and to exchange information for purposes of this 

lawsuit, United States District Court, Northern District of California Case No. C 04 5498 EDL ARB 

(the “Litigation”); and 

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WHEREAS, information and documents which may be sought in connection with the 

Litigation are of a confidential nature including but not limited to financial and proprietary 

information of the Parties and/or third parties; 

 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 would 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 extends only to the limited information or 

items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. The Parties 

further acknowledge, as set forth below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement 

to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets 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. 

2. DEFINITIONS

 2.1 Party or Parties; any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff).

 2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material; all items or information, regardless of the 

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 

transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 

discovery in this matter. 

 2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items; information (regardless of how 

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards 

developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

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

a Producing Party. 

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 2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

 2.7. Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items 

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential.” 

 2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“Confidential.”

 2.9. Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are 

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

 2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party.

 2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as 

their support staffs).

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

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

witness or as a consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a 

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

a Party or a competitor of a Party's. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant 

retained in connection with this litigation. 

 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

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

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

subcontractors.

3. SCOPE

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

defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material.

4. DURATION

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Even after the termination 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. 

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.

 If it comes to a Party's or a non-party's attention that information or items that it 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Party or non-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 or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 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 (apart from transcripts of depositions 

or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” 

at the top of each page that contains protected material. 

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 “CONFIDENTIAL." After the inspecting Party has 

identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which 

documents, qualify for protection under this Order, then, before producing the specified documents, 

the Producing Party must affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” at the top of each page that contains 

Protected Material. 

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

that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the 

close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony.” When it is 

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

appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party 

that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may have 10 days from the date the transcript is 

received by the parties to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

sought. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within 

the 10 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" as instructed by 

the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony. 

 (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.” 

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

to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” does not, standing alone, waive the 

Designating Party's right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is 

appropriately designated as “Confidential” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving 

Party, on timely notification of the designation, 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. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party's 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later 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. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating 

Party's confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring 

with counsel for the Designating Party. 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 

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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.

 6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may 

file and serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if 

applicable) that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. 

Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets 

forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the 

Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge 

proceeding shall be on the Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, 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. 

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 11, 

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 CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

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 (a) the Receiving Party's Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached 

hereto as Exhibit A;

 (b) the officers, directors, employees (including House Counsel) and former 

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

who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (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 “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

 (d) the Court and its personnel; 

 (e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A). 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 and/or recipient of the document or the original source of the 

information. 

 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION.

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

would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if 

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possible) immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or 

order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order.

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the 

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the 

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must 

deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that 

caused the subpoena or order to issue.

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of this 

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. The Designating Party 

shall bear the burdens and the expenses 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. 

 9. 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 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. 

10. 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. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the 

Producing Party, within sixty days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party 

must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, "all Protected 

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Material" includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or 

capturing any of the Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the 

Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. 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 sixty day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material 

that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 

pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 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), 

above.

12 MISCELLANEOUS

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

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

 12.2 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. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: July 20, 2005 PRESTON GATES & ELLIS LLP

By_/s/____________________________ Janine D. Bloch 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Socle Technology Corporation 

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DATED: July 19, 2005 HALLISEY AND JOHNSON

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

By_/s/____________________________ John St. John 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Mai Logic Logic, Inc. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: July ___ , 2005 _________________________________________ 

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE 

United States Magistrate Judge

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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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 entirely 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 Socle Technology 

Corporation v. Mai Logic and counterclaim, United States District Court for the Northern District of 

California, Case No. C 04 5498 EDL. 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: 

 [signature] 

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