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SYNOPSYS, INC. v. ATOPTECH, INC., 3:13-cv-02965 MMC (DMR). (2016)

Court: District Court, N.D. California Number: infdco20160223856 Visitors: 11
Filed: Feb. 22, 2016
Latest Update: Feb. 22, 2016
Summary: FURTHER PRETRIAL STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING TRIAL DISCLOSURES MAXINE M. CHESNEY , District Judge . Plaintiff Synopsys, Inc. ("Synopsys") and Defendant ATopTech, Inc. ("ATopTech") (together, "the Parties"), by and through the undersigned counsel, submit this Stipulation and Proposed Order Regarding Trial Disclosures. WHEREAS the Parties have met and conferred about Synopsys' proposed trial disclosures, included in section IX of the Joint Pretrial Statement filed on Jan
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FURTHER PRETRIAL STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING TRIAL DISCLOSURES

Plaintiff Synopsys, Inc. ("Synopsys") and Defendant ATopTech, Inc. ("ATopTech") (together, "the Parties"), by and through the undersigned counsel, submit this Stipulation and Proposed Order Regarding Trial Disclosures.

WHEREAS the Parties have met and conferred about Synopsys' proposed trial disclosures, included in section IX of the Joint Pretrial Statement filed on January 29, 2016 (ECF No. 555); and

WHEREAS the Parties have met and conferred regarding various disclosures and exchanges to take place during trial and wish to facilitate the orderly and efficient exchange of such information.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by the Parties as follows:

STIPULATION ON TRIAL DISCLOSURES

The Parties agree to the following exchange and notice schedule for trial disclosures:

A. Corporate Representative:

1. On February 15, 2016 at 6:00 pm, the parties identified their corporate representative at trial. The parties will promptly meet and confer regarding any objections to the corporate representative being present at any aspect of the trial.

B. Demonstratives:

2. The parties will exchange demonstratives to be used in opening statements by 2:00 pm the day before opening statements, and any revisions by 4:00 pm the day before opening statements; provide any objections to such demonstratives by 6:00 p.m. on the day before opening statements; and by 7:00 pm on the day before opening statements, meet and confer to resolve any objections to opening statement demonstratives.

3. The parties will exchange demonstratives to be used in direct or adverse direct examination of witnesses by 5:30 pm the day before their intended use; provide any objections to such demonstratives by 7:30 p.m. on the day before their intended use and; by 9:30 pm on the day before their intended use, meet and confer to resolve any objections to the demonstratives.

4. Subject to adjustments as may be required based on the schedule for closing arguments, the parties will exchange demonstratives to be used in closing arguments by 5:00 pm the day before closing arguments; provide any objections to such demonstratives by 8:00 p.m. on the day before closing arguments and; by 9:00 pm on the day before closing arguments, meet and confer to resolve any objections to the closing argument demonstratives.

5. Any demonstratives will be provided to opposing counsel as a color copy in PDF form. If a demonstrative contains video, animations, or "builds," it will be provided to opposing counsel on DVD, CD, thumb drive, or FTP.

6. Subject to the Court's instructions on this matter, if good faith efforts to resolve objections to demonstratives fail, the objecting party shall bring any outstanding objections to the Court's attention prior to the opening statements, prior to the applicable witness being called to the witness stand or prior to closing arguments, as applicable.

7. This provision on demonstratives does not apply to demonstratives created during testimony or demonstratives to be used for cross examination, neither of which need to be provided to the other side in advance of their use. In addition, blow-ups or highlights of exhibits, parts of exhibits or testimony are not required to be provided to the other side in advance of their use.

C. Live Witnesses:

8. On February 15, 2016 at 6:00 pm, the parties identified the witnesses likely to testify live at trial.

9. No later than 5:30 pm the day before a witness may be called on direct examination, the offering party will provide the name(s) and order of the witnesses to be called.

10. Where a party plans to call an adverse witness in its case in chief, that party will notify the other side no later than 5:30 pm two days before that witness may be called, indicating the order the witnesses are likely to be called.

D. Witnesses Called By Deposition:

11. Because the parties anticipate that the deposition designations that they will seek to introduce into evidence at trial may be narrower than those served pretrial, the parties have agreed to the following procedure.

12. By 6:00 pm, three days before the presentation of deposition testimony at trial on direct examination, the party intending to introduce the testimony shall provide to opposing counsel the page and line numbers to be presented at trial, a highlighted transcript and a video clip that includes the affirmative designation to be played. The parties will meet and confer regarding the resolution of objections, but agree that objections will not be played for the jury.

13. By 6:00 pm the next day, the opposing party will provide any objections to the deposition testimony and shall also identify any counter-designations, by page and line number, a highlighted transcript and a video clip that includes both the affirmative and counter-designations, with all objections removed from the clip for the jury.

14. The offering party will provide any objections to the counter-designations by 9:00 pm the same day the counter-designations are provided.

15. The parties will file with the Court any outstanding objections to the deposition designations the morning of the day before the offering party intends to present such testimony at trial (or at a time designated by the Court).

E. Exhibits:1

16. By 5:30 pm one day before a witness may be called live on direct or on adverse direct examination, the calling party will provide opposing counsel a list of exhibits that are intended to be used on direct examination with that witness. The parties recognize that there may be a need to supplement its witness exhibit list with exhibits it did not anticipate using and agree that, for good cause, the witness exhibit list may be supplemented no later than one hour prior to calling the witness to the stand.

17. By 8:30 pm the day before a direct or adverse direct witness may be called live, the other party will provide any objections to the identified exhibits, as well as any exhibits to be used with that witness.

18. By 9:30 the day before a witness may be called live, the calling party will provide its objections to any exhibits identified by the opposing party. Thereafter, the parties will meet and confer to attempt to resolve objections.

19. For exhibits that are to be presented by deposition testimony at trial, the offering party will provide a list of any exhibits at the same time as the respective deposition designations.

20. The parties will raise with the Court any outstanding objections to the witness exhibits the morning of the day the offering party intends to offer such exhibits (or at a time designated by the Court).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

FootNotes


1. Synopsys does not stipulate that any of the exhibit exchanges include impeachment exhibits, which are not required to be disclosed under Rule 26(a)(3)(A). Synopsys will disclose all exhibits it plans to enter into evidence on direct, cross, redirect, or recross with a witness, but reserves its right to use any document, including documents that were not previously disclosed, solely for impeachment purposes. To the extent ATopTech maintains that any document, even one to be used solely for impeachment, must be exchanged on this schedule, Synopsys disagrees and expressly does not so stipulate. Synopsys cannot anticipate what a witness might say on the stand, and thus cannot anticipate what documents it might need to impeach a witness.
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