Dell, IBM, Lenovo object to AMD Intel order

AS WE PREDICTED other third parties involved in the AMD Intel antitrust case have piled in to register their objections to a proposed protection order.

IBM, Dell, Lenovo and Fry's all registered their quibbles with the original protection order, and we'd expect a few more to enter their claims.

Dell said that its confidential discovery material should be protected at trial and at other court proceedings. The proposed order, said Dell's lawyers, don't protect a third party's confidential discovery material.

It wants the judge to get the parties to give Dell 10 days notice to meet if either AMD or Intel expects to use subpoenad confidential discovery material.

It also wants the court to protect its material during depositions. The lawyers argue it would be unfair to have the court bandying around secret information because witnesses and attorneys wouldn't have Dell's interest in mind.

It also wants witnesses to sign an acknowledgement of the protective order before being shown subpoenad discovery material. It also wants the names of lawyers that have access to this material.

It also makes the point that the Japanese litigation gives no protection to Dell, particularly as some of the material in the US case may be passed across. Dell has thousands of documents that have AMD and Intel information. The burden of sifting through all this material is too much. µ

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Dell's quibbles (PDF)