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

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Case No. 06 CV 2138 CW (EDL) 

ORDER RE MOTION TO COMPEL ALLEGEDLY 

PRIVILEGED DOCUMENTS

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

ATMEL CORPORATION, a Delaware 

corporation; ATMEL SWITZERLAND, a 

corporation; ATMEL FRANCE, a corporation; 

and ATMEL SARL, a corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

AUTHENTEC, INC., a Delaware corporation, 

Defendant. 

 Case No. 06 CV 2138 CW (EDL) 

ORDER ON DEFENDANT AUTHENTEC’S 

MOTIONS TO COMPEL AND PLAINTIFF 

ATMEL’S MOTION TO EXTEND CASE 

SCHEDULE 

This matter comes before the Court on the Motions (Dkt Nos. 90, 92, & 97) of Defendant 

AuthenTec, Inc. (“AuthenTec”) to compel Plaintiffs Atmel Corporation, Atmel Switzerland, Atmel 

France and Atmel SARL (collectively “Atmel”) to produce allegedly privileged documents, to produce 

documents and witnesses for deposition and to provide complete responses to certain interrogatories 

and Atmel’s Motion (Dkt No. 89) to extend the case schedule. The Court, having reviewed and 

considered the parties’ respective briefing and arguments on the motions and all relevant factual 

statements therein hereby ORDERS as follows: 

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1. AuthenTec’s motion to compel Atmel to produce allegedly privileged documents is 

DENIED without prejudice. 

2. AuthenTec’s motion to compel Atmel to provide complete answers to certain interrogatories 

is GRANTED. Atmel shall provide full and complete supplemental responses to Interrogatories 2, 3, 

7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, and 17 by September 25, 2007. Atmel shall provide supplemental responses to 

Interrogatories 5 and 16 with the information currently available to them. Atmel shall provide a full 

and complete supplemental response to Interrogatory No. 4 two weeks prior to the opening claim 

construction brief. 

With respect to Interrogatory No. 2, Atmel shall provide a declaration from someone 

knowledgeable about all the search efforts to confirm whether or not the interrogatory response is 

accurate, and detailing efforts that were undertaken to confirm whether or not the response is accurate. 

Atmel shall provide the declaration by September 25, 2007. 

With regard to Interrogatory No. 3, Atmel shall amend its response to indicate whether Atmel 

was aware prior to filing of the patent application of any prior art identified in AuthenTec’s invalidity 

contentions. Atmel is further ordered to identify, in its amended response, any prior art that Atmel, 

including the inventor and others working with the inventor, were aware of prior to filing the patent 

application. In addition, Atmel shall provide a declaration indicating the steps taken to produce the 

supplemental response to Interrogatory No. 3 by September 25, 2007. 

With respect to Interrogatory No. 7, Atmel shall identify specific agreements that comprise the 

complete assignment history for the ‘114 patent and shall also identify the complete assignment history 

for the ‘804 patent. Atmel shall also identify any license agreements. Atmel shall also provide a 

declaration regarding what efforts have been made to research the existence of license agreements and 

to fully respond to Interrogatory No. 7 by September 25, 2007. 

With respect to Interrogatory Nos. 8 and 9, Atmel shall provide a declaration explaining in 

detail the efforts it made to ascertain the information requested in Interrogatories Nos. 8 and 9. If there 

were no communications with other competitors, Atmel shall confirm this in the declaration, and 

describe what steps were taken to verify the facts in the response. The declaration shall be provided by 

September 25, 2007. 

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With respect to Interrogatory No. 10, Atmel shall supplement its response with basic 

underlying facts, but not mental impressions, of what the products were and how they were 

investigated. 

3. AuthenTec’s motion to compel Atmel to produce documents and witnesses for deposition is 

GRANTED IN PART. Atmel is ordered to produce and to certify that it has produced to AuthenTec 

all non-privileged documents responsive to the Patent Local Rules and AuthenTec’s First, Second, and 

Third Sets of Requests for Production of Documents by September 25, 2007. The parties shall 

exchange all translations of French documents that have been obtained by September 25, 2007. 

4. Atmel’s motion to extend the case schedule is GRANTED. Discovery and the case schedule 

shall be extended 90 days. The revised case schedule is the following: 

EVENT DATE 

Fact Discovery Cut-Off December 21, 2007 

Completion of Claim Construction Discovery January 14, 2008 

Claim Construction Opening Brief and 

Dispositive Motions 

January 29, 2008 

Claim Construction Responsive Brief and 

Responses to Dispositive Motions 

February 29, 2008 

Claim Construction Reply Brief and Reply re 

Dispositive Motions 

March 14, 2008 

Claim Construction/Dispositive Sur Reply 

Brief 

March 28, 2008 

Claim Construction/Dispositive Motion 

Hearing and Case Management Conference 

May 1, 2008 

2:00 p.m. 

Opening Expert Reports 21 Days After Claim 

Construction Ruling 

Rebuttal Expert Reports 21 Days After Opening Expert 

Reports 

Completion of Expert Discovery 21 Days After Rebuttal Report 

5. The parties are ordered to schedule and conduct mediation by December 21, 2007. 

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IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: September _________, 2007 

Elizabeth D. Laporte 

United States Magistrate Judge 

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