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

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SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

A Limited Liability Partnership

Including Professional Corporations

NEIL A. SMITH, Cal. Bar No. 63777

DAVID SCHNAPF, Cal. Bar No. 100199

Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111-4106

Telephone: 415-434-9100

Facsimile: 415-434-3947

Electronic mail: nsmith@sheppardmullin.com

dschnapf@sheppardmullin.com

M. Norman Goldberger (pro hac vice)

Laura E. Krabill (pro hac vice)

WOLF, BLOCK, SCHORR & SOLIS-COHEN LLP

1650 Arch Street, 22nd Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Telephone: (215) 977-2000

Facsimile: (215) 977-2740

Attorneys for NOVA MEASURING

INSTRUMENTS LTD.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS

LTD.,

Plaintiff,

v.

NANOMETRICS INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. C05 00986 MMC (BZ)

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER REGARDING ACCESS BY

MARINA F. CUNNINGHAM TO

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS AND

AMENDING PROTECTIVE ORDER

Honorable Bernard Zimmerman

United States Magistrate Judge

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STIPULATION

WHEREAS, the Honorable Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman has granted

Marina Cunningham admission Pro Hac Vice in an order dated April 5, 2006, but has reserved

judgment regarding Marina Cunninghams access to materials designated HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL  ATTORNEYSEYES ONLY;

WHEREAS, the parties now wish to settle all outstanding issues regarding Marina

F. Cunningham' access to materials designated by Nanometrics as "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY";

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, BY AND BETWEEN THE

PARTIES, THROUGH THEIR COUNSEL OF RECORD, THAT Marina F. Cunningham, who

has previously been admitted to participate as counsel in this action Pro Hac Vice, shall have full

access to documents designated Highly Confidential  AttorneysEyes Only subject to entry of

the following amendment of the Protective Order, and provided that Marina F. Cunningham shall

not be eligible to receive materials designated by Nanometrics as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

ATTORNEYSEYES ONLY under any authority outside of section 7.3(a) of the protective

order.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED THAT paragraph 7.3(a) of the Protective Order in

this action shall be amended to provide the following: "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, but not to Outside Counsel or their employees who

currently directly or indirectly participate in, direct, supervise or provide advice with respect to

any patent prosecution activity involving metrology systems, or methods for process control, for

the semiconductor manufacturing industry that can either be integrated into process equipment

tools or used as standalone metrology systems, and related software (collectively semiconductor

metrology) and further provided that Outside Counsel of record and their employees who have

access to "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only" materials will not directly or indirectly

participate in, direct, supervise or provide advice with respect to any patent prosecution activity

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involving semiconductor metrology during the pendency of this litigation and for one year after

the full and final conclusion of this litigation, including all appeals. Furthermore, Outside Counsel

of record and their employees who have access to HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL  ATTORNEYS

EYES ONLY materials will not directly or indirectly participate in, direct, supervise, or provide

advice with respect to any patent prosecution activity involving semiconductor metrology at any

time with respect to any patent prosecution activity involving semiconductor metrology in which

the application or patent claims priority in whole or in part from a date prior to the date that

discovery closes in this case."

SO STIPULATED.

Respectfully submitted:

DATED: April 7, 2006

SHEPPARD MULLIN RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

By /s/David Schnapf

NEIL A. SMITH

DAVID SCHNAPF

Attorneys for NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS

LTD.

Respectfully submitted:

DATED: April 7, 2006

MOUNT & STOELKER, P.C.

By /s/Jeremy Duggan

DANIEL S. MOUNT

RON FINLEY

JUSTIN T. BECK

DANIEL H. FINGERMAN

JEREMY M. DUGGAN

Attorneys for NANOMETRICS, INC.

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ORDER

In accordance with the above Stipulation of the parties which is incorporated herein

by reference, and with good cause appearing therefor, the Court orders as follows:

1. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT Marina F. Cunningham, who has

previously been admitted to participate as counsel in this action Pro Hac Vice, shall have full

access to documents designated Highly Confidential  AttorneysEyes Only.

2. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT the Protective Order in this action is,

by this Order, amended such that paragraph 7.3(a) shall now provide the following: "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, but not to Outside

Counsel or their employees who currently directly or indirectly participate in, direct, supervise or

provide advice with respect to any patent prosecution activity involving metrology systems, or

methods for process control, for the semiconductor manufacturing industry that can either be

integrated into process equipment tools or used as standalone metrology systems, and related

software (collectively semiconductor metrology), and further provided that Outside Counsel of

record and their employees who have access to "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only"

materials will not directly or indirectly participate in, direct, supervise or provide advice with

respect to any patent prosecution activity involving semiconductor metrology during the pendency

of this litigation and for one year after the full and final conclusion of this litigation, including all

appeals. Furthermore, Outside Counsel of record and their employees who have access to

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL  ATTORNEYSEYES ONLY materials will not directly or

indirectly participate in, direct, supervise, or provide advice with respect to any patent prosecution

activity involving semiconductor metrology at any time in which the application or patent claims

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priority in whole or in part from a date prior to the date that discovery closes in this case." In all

other respects, the Protective Order remains as previously entered.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: ____________________ ___________________________________________

The Honorable Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman

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April 10, 2006 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Bernard Zimmerman

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