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

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STIPULATED SUPPLEMENTAL PROTECTIVE ORDER - 1 - 

KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP 

David E. Sipiora (SBN 124951) 

Kristopher L. Reed (SBN 235518) 

Matthew C. Holohan (SBN 239040) 

1400 Wewatta St., Suite 600 

Denver, CO 80202 

Email: dsipiora@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Email: kschang@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Email: kreed@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Email: mholohan@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Telephone: (303) 571-4000 

Facsimile: (303) 571-4321 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP

(SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. and ASUS 

COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 3:15-CV-04525-JST

STIPULATED [PROPOSED] 

SUPPLEMENTAL PROTECTIVE 

ORDER FOR BROADCOM TECHNICAL 

DOCUMENTS AND SOURCE CODE 

WHEREAS, the Court entered a Protective Order to protect party and nonparty 

confidential business information in the above-referenced action on June 16, 2015 (ECF No. 33) 

(“Protective Order”); and 

WHEREAS, Broadcom Corporation (“Broadcom”), a nonparty to this action, has agreed to 

produce certain highly confidential technical information and make certain highly confidential 

source code available for review; 

WHEREAS Broadcom, Plaintiff Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., 

and Defendants ASUSTeK Computer Inc. and ASUS Computer International (each a “party” or, 

collectively, “parties”) have agreed to additional provisions to protect against misuse or disclosure 

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of such Broadcom confidential information; 

THEREFORE, The Parties HEREBY STIPULATE AND AGREE, and request a 

protective order in accordance with Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c), as follows: 

A. Relationship to Protective Order

This Order shall not diminish any existing restriction with respect to designated materials. 

The parties acknowledge and agree that this Stipulated Supplemental Order is a supplement to the 

Protective Order and that the Protective Order applies to all material designated pursuant to this 

Stipulated Supplemental Protective Order. To the extent that any provisions in this Stipulated 

Supplemental Protective Order and the Protective Order conflict or otherwise differ, however, the 

provisions providing the higher level of protection to documents and information shall govern. 

B. Scope 

This Order shall apply to all Broadcom technical documents or Source Code that are 

produced or provided for inspection in this action. The protections conferred by this Stipulated 

Supplemental Protective Order cover not only designated Broadcom materials, but also any 

information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 

compilations thereof. Any Party who extracts information from designated Broadcom material is 

required to appropriately designate any derivative materials created, to the extent that any 

derivatives are allowed pursuant to this Stipulated Supplemental Protective Order. 

C. Broadcom Technical Documents 

Any document that Broadcom designates as “OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY” may not 

be shared with any in-house counsel under Paragraph 5(c) of the Protective Order. Otherwise, such 

documents are to receive all the same protections as if they had been designated “RESTRICTED—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” under the Protective Order.

D. Broadcom Source Code 

1. Broadcom Source Code shall mean register transfer level code, firmware, and other 

source code of Broadcom that is made available for review under the terms of this Stipulated 

Supplemental Protective Order. Nothing in this Stipulated Supplemental Protective Order shall 

constitute an agreement to make any particular Source Code available for review, but the terms of 

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this Stipulated Supplemental Protective Order shall govern in the event that Broadcom Source Code 

is made available for review. 

2. Broadcom Source Code shall be made available for inspection electronically at 

Broadcom’s corporate headquarters at 5300 California Avenue, Irvine, California 92617, during 

regular business hours (usually 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT). The parties will work in good faith to select 

dates for the review. Broadcom shall make the Broadcom Source Code available for inspection on 

a stand-alone, non-networked personal computer running a reasonably current version of the 

Microsoft Windows operating system. If the parties wish to install any other software on the standalone computer for reviewing the Broadcom Source Code, the inspecting parties shall provide, at 

their own expense, copies of the requested software at least five (5) days in advance of the date on 

which they wish to have the software available for use on the stand-alone computer. Broadcom 

shall have an opportunity to review and object to said software for good cause. 

3. The standalone computer used for review of Broadcom Source Code shall be 

equipped to print copies of the Broadcom Source Code on watermarked pre-Bates numbered paper, 

which shall be provided by Broadcom. Under no circumstances are original printouts of the 

Broadcom Source Code to be made except for directly onto the watermarked and numbered sides of 

the paper provided by Broadcom. Wholesale printing of the Code is not permitted; the parties are 

presumptively limited to printing of no more than 400 pages of Broadcom Source Code in total, 

with no more than 75 consecutive pages from any section or file of the Source Code for any 

product. Broadcom agrees to negotiate these presumptive limits in good faith in the event the 

parties request leave to exceed the above limits. 

4. The reviewing party may not remove Broadcom Source Code printouts from the 

facility. Broadcom or its counsel will keep the original printouts, and, barring any objection to the 

printouts, shall provide five hard copies of such original printouts to each of counsel for Plaintiff 

and counsel for Defendants within five (5) business days from the day they were printed. 

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph 10(g) of the Protective Order, and 

except as provided in Paragraph 9 below, no additional hard copies or electronic copies of the 

Broadcom Source Code printouts shall be made by the receiving party in any circumstances. Hard 

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copies of Broadcom Source Code printouts may not be converted into an electronic document 

and/or scanned using optical character recognition (“OCR’) technology. All Broadcom Source 

Code printouts shall be logged by receiving party’s outside counsel of record as described in 

Paragraph D.12 below. 

6. Persons reviewing Broadcom Source Code shall not print source code that they have 

not reviewed at Broadcom’s facility in order to review it elsewhere in the first instance, as all 

parties acknowledge and agree that the purpose of the protections herein would be frustrated by 

such actions. 

7. Parties reviewing Broadcom Source Code are prohibited from bringing outside 

electronic devices, including but not limited to laptops, floppy drives, zip drives, or other hardware 

into the review room. Nor shall any cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), 

Blackberries, cameras, voice recorders, Dictaphones, external or portable telephone jacks, or other 

outside electronic devices be permitted inside the review room, except for medical devices, 

implants, or equipment reasonably necessary for any legitimate medical reason. 

8. If any authorized person reviewing Broadcom Source Code seeks to take notes, all 

such notes will be taken on bound (spiral or other type of permanently bound) notebooks. No loose 

paper or other paper that can be used in a printer may be brought into the secure room. All such 

notes must be marked as “CONFIDENTIAL BROADCOM SOURCE CODE – OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL EYES ONLY.” 

9. Where necessary or required by the Court, the receiving party may make copies of 

Broadcom Source Code printouts in the form required to be included in pleadings filed under seal, 

to be included as exhibits in expert reports, or to be used as exhibits in depositions or at trial, but 

only where: (a) no reasonable alternative (such as referencing the Broadcom Source Code by page 

and line number) exists to using Broadcom Source Code materials; (b) such pleadings, expert 

reports, and transcripts from such depositions or trial themselves are also designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL BROADCOM SOURCE CODE – OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY”; and 

(c) the party seeking to use Broadcom Source Code in this manner notifies Broadcom at least five 

business days in advance of doing so. In the event copies of Broadcom Source Code printouts are 

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used as exhibits at a deposition, the printouts shall not be provided to the court reporter at the 

conclusion of the deposition. In no circumstances shall electronic copies of Broadcom Source Code 

printouts be made for purpose of service of filings. 

10. In addition to other reasonable steps to maintain the security and confidentiality of 

Broadcom Source Code printouts, they must be maintained by the receiving party in a locked 

storage container at outside counsel of record’s offices or at the offices of an outside consultant or 

expert authorized to receive Broadcom Designated Materials pursuant to Section E when not being 

actively reviewed. Printouts or copies may not be transferred by U.S. mail or placed in checked 

luggage; they must be carried personally by an individual responsible for safe-guarding them. 

Printouts or copies may be transferred using a reliable courier service such as FedEx, UPS, and the 

like. 

11. The receiving party’s outside counsel of record shall keep detailed log(s) recording 

the identity of each individual beyond outside counsel of record to whom each hard copy of any 

Broadcom Source Code printout was provided or made available, when it was provided or made 

available to that person, and which pages were accessed. Broadcom may request in writing 

(including email) a copy of the log at any time after the issuance of a final, non-appealable decision 

resolving all issues in this case, and the log must be provided by the receiving party within fourteen 

(14) days of any such request. 

12. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by Broadcom, a 

receiving party may disclose any information, document, or thing designated “CONFIDENTIAL 

BROADCOM SOURCE CODE – OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY” only to those persons 

identified in Paragraphs 5(a), 5(b), 5(e) (as modified in Section E below), and 5(g) of the Protective 

Order. For clarity, an outside consultant’s or expert’s direct reports and supporting personnel may 

not be allowed access as contemplated by Footnote 2 on page 6 of the Protective Order unless they 

are separately disclosed to Broadcom pursuant to the requirements of Paragraph 5(e). Additionally, 

unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by Broadcom, which agreement shall not be 

unreasonably withheld, Broadcom Source Code printouts may not be disclosed to document 

vendors (such as third-party copy vendors) or mock jurors. 

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13. The Parties acknowledge that Broadcom Source Code printouts also may be subject 

to the US government export control and economic sanctions laws, including the Export 

Administration Regulations (“EAR”, 15 CFR 730 et seq., http://www.bis.doc.gov/) administered by 

the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Foreign Asset Control 

Regulations (31 CFR 500 et seq., http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/) administered by 

the Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). Receiving Parties and 

their Outside Consultants may not directly or indirectly export, re-export, transfer or release 

(collectively, “Export”) any Broadcom Source Code printout to any destination, person, or entity 

outside the United States. 

14. Any party intending to disclose or discuss Broadcom Source Code printouts at 

depositions must give at least five (5) days’ advance notice to Broadcom. In the event a deposition 

is scheduled with less than five (5) days’ advance notice, the party intending to disclose or discuss 

Broadcom Source Code printouts at that deposition will give as much advance notice to Broadcom 

as possible. 

E. Disclosure of Broadcom Designated Materials to Consultants and Experts 

Any party wishing to disclose materials designated by Broadcom as “CONFIDENTIAL 

BROADCOM SOURCE CODE – OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY” or “OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL EYES ONLY” to any outside consultant or expert may do so only after complying with 

the notice provisions of Paragraph 5(e) of the Protective Order (except that Broadcom shall have 

fourteen days from the date of the objection to file any motion seeking a protective order, if the 

parties are unable to negotiate a resolution without motion practice meanwhile) and providing 

Broadcom with an executed version of the Certification found in Exhibit 1 to this Stipulated 

Supplemental Protective Order for each such outside consultant or expert. 

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F. Notice Before Use at Hearing or Trial 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph 17 of the Protective Order, any party using any 

designated Broadcom information at any hearing or trial in this litigation must give Broadcom at 

least fourteen (14) days’ advance notice of their intent to do so. 

G. Prosecution, Development, and Patent Acquisition Consulting Bar 

1. Unless otherwise permitted in writing between Broadcom and any receiving party, 

any individual who personally receives any material designated “CONFIDENTIAL BROADCOM 

SOURCE CODE – OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY” or “OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES 

ONLY” shall not participate in amending or drafting patent specifications or claims before a Patent 

Office of any patent or patent application substantially related to the particular technology or 

information disclosed in the designated Broadcom materials, from the time of receipt of such 

material through until at least two years after the individual person(s) cease to have access to the 

designated materials (and any derivative materials). This provision shall not apply to post-grant 

adversarial proceedings, including reexamination or opposition proceedings filed in relation to the 

patents-in-suit or foreign counterparts. 

2. Unless otherwise permitted in writing between Broadcom and any receiving party, 

any Outside Consultant retained on behalf of any receiving party who is to be given access to 

material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL BROADCOM SOURCE CODE – OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL EYES ONLY” or “OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY” must agree in writing not to 

perform commercial product development work substantially related to the particular technology or 

information disclosed in the designated Broadcom materials from the time of first receipt of such 

material through until at least two years after the Outside Consultant ceases to have access to the 

designated material (and any derivative materials). 

3. Unless otherwise permitted in writing between Broadcom and any receiving party, 

any Outside Consultant retained on behalf of the receiving party and any Outside Counsel for the 

receiving party who is to be given access to material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL 

BROADCOM SOURCE CODE – OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY” or “OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL EYES ONLY” must agree in writing not to advise anyone regarding the purchase or 

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acquisition of patents for assertion against Broadcom from the time of first review of such material 

and through two years after their last access to the designated materials (and any derivative 

materials). 

H. Duration 

Even after the termination of this action, the confidentiality and other obligations imposed 

by this Stipulated Supplemental Protective Order shall remain in effect. 

I. Final Disposition 

The provisions of Paragraph 23 of the Protective Order shall apply to designated 

Broadcom materials except that, for clarity, all copies of all Broadcom Source Code printouts shall 

be returned to Broadcom within 30 days of the conclusion of this litigation. 

Dated: October 7, 2015 

Respectfully submitted, 

/s/Matthew C. Holohan 

Matthew C. Holohan 

KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP

1400 Wewatta Street 

Suite 600 

Denver, CO 80202 

Telephone: (303) 405-1477 

Facsimile: (303) 379-5676 

Email: MHolohan@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Counsel for Plaintiff Avago Technologies 

General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Respectfully submitted, 

/s/Michael J. Newton 

Michael J. Newton 

ALSTON & BIRD LLP 

2828 North Harwood Street 

18th Floor 

Dallas, TX 75201 

Telephone: (214) 922-3423 

Facsimile: (214) 922-3863 

Email: Mike.Newton@alston.com 

Counsel for Defendants ASUSTeK Computer, 

Inc. and ASUS Computer International

IT IS SO ORDERED 

DATED: 

UNITED STATES JUDGE 

10/19/15

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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EXHIBIT 1

CERTIFICATION OF CONSULTANT REGARDING STIPULATED SUPPLEMENTAL 

PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR BROADCOM CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS 

 I, ____________________________________, of _____________________________, 

am an employee of _______________________________. I am not an employee of the party 

who retained me in this action, nor am I an employee of a competitor of either Broadcom or any 

party to this action. I will not use any Broadcom confidential materials or any information derived 

from them for any purpose other than my work in this litigation, Avago Technologies General IP 

(Singapore) Pte. Ltd. v. ASUSTek Computer Inc. and ASUS Computer International, Case No. 

2:15-cv-239 (E.D. Tex.). I agree not to participate in amending or drafting patent specifications or 

claims before a Patent Office of any patent or patent application substantially related to the 

particular technology or information disclosed in any designated Broadcom materials, I agree not 

to perform commercial product development work relating to the technology or information 

disclosed in any designated Broadcom materials, and I agree not to advise anyone regarding the 

purchase or acquisition of patents for assertion against Broadcom having claims that read on 

Broadcom products from the time of my first review of such material and through until two years 

after I last access any Broadcom material designated “CONFIDENTIAL BROADCOM SOURCE 

CODE – OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY” or “OUTSIDE COUNSEL EYES ONLY” as well 

as any materials that contain or disclose Broadcom Material so designated. 

I state under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 

foregoing is true and correct. 

Executed On____________________________. 

__________________________________________ 

[Printed Name] 

__________________________________________ 

[Signature] 

67794257v1 

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