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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1114 Trademark Infringement

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BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP 

TRENTON H. NORRIS (SBN 164781) 

MONTY AGARWAL (SBN 191568) 

RACHEL CHANIN (SBN 229253) 

Three Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, CA 94111-4067 

Telephone: (415) 393-2000 

Facsimile: (415) 393-2286 

trent.norris@bingham.com 

monty.agarwal@bingham.com 

rachel.chanin@bingham.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

THRESHOLD ENTERPRISES LTD. 

KRONENBERGER BURGOYNE, LLP 

KARL S. KRONENBERGER (SBN 226112) 

JEFFREY M. ROSENFELD (SBN 222187) 

150 Post Street, Suite 520 

San Francisco, CA 94108 

Telephone: (415) 955-1155 

Facsimile: (415) 955-1158 

karl@kronenbergerlaw.com 

jeff@kronenbergerlaw.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FUNCTIONAL BRANDS, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

THRESHOLD ENTERPRISES LTD., a 

Delaware Corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

FUNCTIONAL BRANDS, LLC, a Michigan 

limited liability company; and DOES 1 through 

150, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

No. C-07-1400 BZ 

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

RE CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION 

Hon. Bernard Zimmerman 

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Plaintiff Threshold Enterprises Ltd. and Defendant Functional Brands, LLC 

STIPULATE AND AGREE that the Court may enter the following order: 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 

disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting, defending or attempting to settle 

this litigation would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the 

court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order 

does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the 

protection it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the 

applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set 

forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file 

confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be 

followed and reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the 

court to file material under seal. All documents, things, answers and/or information furnished 

through discovery are provided solely for the legitimate purposes of this litigation or other 

litigation arising out of purported violations of this Protective Order, may only be used for such 

legitimate purposes within this litigation and shall not be used for any other purpose whatsoever. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Action: The above captioned case, Threshold Enterprises Ltd., v. Functional 

Brands, LLC, et al., Case No. C-07-1400 BZ, or any stipulated or court-ordered alternative 

dispute resolution of the above-captioned case. 

2.2 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its agents, officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

2.3 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the 

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 

transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 

discovery in this Action. 

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2.4 “Confidential” Information or Items: commercially sensitive information 

(regardless of how generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection 

under standards developed under F. R. Civ. P. 26(c), the disclosure of which to a Party or 

nonparty would create risk of injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means.

2.5 “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: extremely 

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” the disclosure of which to another Party or 

nonparty would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less 

restrictive means. The parties contemplate certain documents in this category to include: (i) 

new, presently unreleased products or services that have not been publicly disclosed or offered 

for sale; (ii) costs relating to both released and/or unreleased products and/or services; (iii) 

supplier, business partner and/or customer identity, price, correspondence, and sales information; 

(iv) employee rosters; (v) employee wages; (vi) investor rosters and level and type of 

investment; (vii) future financial plans; (viii) future business plans; (ix) product or service 

development information for any products or services not publicly disclosed or offered for sale; 

(x) the organizational structure and financial foundation (e.g., tax returns, financial statements, 

and supporting schedules) for a particular Party; (xi) unpublished patents and related disclosures; 

(xii) technology trade secrets; (xiii) information related to affiliated business; (xiv) 

confidentiality agreements; (xv) contracts, including contractor agreements. 

2.6 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

2.7 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this Action. 

2.8 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that 

it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential 

⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

2.9 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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2.10 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are 

retained to represent or advise a Party in this Action. 

2.11 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.12 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs). 

2.13 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent 

to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its Counsel to serve as an expert witness or 

as a consultant in this Action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a 

competitor of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an 

employee of a Party or a Party’s competitor. This definition includes a professional jury or trial 

consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.14 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, 

storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected 

Material (as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as 

all copies in any form whatsoever, whether paper, electronic, or any other media, excerpts, 

summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or 

counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION 

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations 

imposed by this Stipulated Protective Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party 

agrees otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party 

or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Stipulated Protective 

Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 

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appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those 

parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that 

other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not 

warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that 

are shown to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to 

unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process, or to impose unnecessary 

expenses and burdens on other parties), expose the Designating Party to sanctions. 

If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s attention that information or items that it 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for the level of 

protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that it 

is withdrawing and/or redesignating the mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 

Stipulated Protective Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise 

stipulated or ordered, material that qualifies for protection under this Stipulated Protective Order 

must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Stipulated Protective Order requires: 

(a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of depositions 

or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only” at the top of each page that contains protected 

material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 

Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 

markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being 

asserted (either “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only”) (or suitable 

substitutes such as “Confidential ⎯ Counsel’s Eyes Only”). 

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for 

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated 

which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the 

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designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “Highly 

Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents 

it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions 

thereof, qualify for protection under this Stipulated Protective Order, then, before producing the 

specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only”) at the top of each page that contains Protected 

Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 

Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 

markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being 

asserted (either “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only”). 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, 

that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the 

close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify 

any portions of the testimony that qualify as “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to 

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for 

protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the 

record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days after the 

transcript is available to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted (“Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only”). Only those portions of the testimony that are 

appropriately designated for protection within the 20 days after the transcript is available shall be 

covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the 

court reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” as instructed by the Party or nonparty offering or 

sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony. 

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(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary, and for 

any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of 

the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “Confidential” 

or “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” If only portions of the information or item 

warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected 

portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential ⎯

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection 

under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was initially produced, the 

Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must disclose who the information 

was disclosed to and certify that the person who inappropriately received the information has 

acknowledged the protective order requirements. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not 

waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge 

promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating 

Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by 

conferring directly (by voice dialogue with confirmation by email or letter; other forms of 

communication are not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the 

challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not 

proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to 

reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for 

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the chosen designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge 

process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality 

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and 

serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if 

applicable) that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the 

challenge. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that 

the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding 

paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation 

that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the 

material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s 

designation. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed 

or produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 

defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only 

to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Stipulated Protective 

Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the 

provisions of section 11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 

location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized 

under this Stipulated Order. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall bar or otherwise 

restrict any attorney herein from rendering advice to his client and, in the course thereof, 

referring to or relying upon his or her examination of Confidential Information; provided, 

however, that in rendering such advice and in otherwise communicating with his or her client, 

the attorney shall not make any disclosure of “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential ⎯

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Attorneys’ Eyes Only” information until and unless said recipient is qualified to review the 

information pursuant to the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

7.2 Disclosure of “Confidential” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by 

the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any 

information or item designated Confidential only to: 

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this Action as well as 

employees of said Outside Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation, and who have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to 

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees of the Receiving Party (including 

House Counsel) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Stipulated Protective Order) of the Receiving 

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the Action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that 

reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be 

disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order. 

(g) the author of the document. 

7.3 Disclosure of “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or 

Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “Highly Confidential ⎯

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” only to: 

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(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this Action as well as 

employees of said Outside Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation, and who have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to 

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(b) House Counsel of a Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, and who has signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A). 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in 

paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed; 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation; and 

(f) the author of the document. 

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only” Information or Items to “Experts”

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the 

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined in this Stipulated 

Protective Order) any information or item that has been designated “Highly Confidential ⎯

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” first disclose to the Designating Party (1) the full name of the Expert and 

the city and state of his or her primary residence, (2) a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (3) 

the Expert’s current employer(s), (4) the identity of each person or entity from whom the Expert 

has received compensation for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has 

provided professional services at any time during the preceding three years, and (6) the identity 

(by name and number of the case, and location of court of any litigation in connection with 

which the Expert has provided any professional services during the preceding three years. 

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(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the 

preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, 

within ten (10) court days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from 

the Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is 

based. 

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with 

the Designating Party (through voice dialogue with confirmation by email or letter) to try to 

resolve the matter by agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the 

disclosure to the Expert may file a motion, within seven (7) court days of filing the objection, as 

provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) 

seeking permission from the Court to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances 

with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert is 

reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and suggest any 

additional means that might be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to 

resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer 

discussions) and sets forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to 

approve the disclosure. 

In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the 

burden of showing that there is a reasonable likelihood that the risk of harm that the disclosure 

would entail (under the safeguards proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose 

the Protected Material to its Expert. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION. 

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other 

litigation that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as 

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” the Receiving Party must so 

notify the Designating Party, in writing (by email and fax, if possible) immediately and in no 

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event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification must 

include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who 

caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered 

by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Stipulated Protective Order. In addition, the 

Receiving Party must deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in 

the other action that caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the 

existence of this Stipulated Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an 

opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or 

order issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking 

protection in that court of its confidential material — and nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action to disobey a lawful 

directive from another court. 

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 

Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated 

Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating 

Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected 

Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all 

the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute 

the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. 

Without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured 

after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this 

Action any Protected Material or taken any action or do any act that would result in a public 

disclosure, a prohibited disclosure, or any prohibited use. A Party that seeks to file under seal 

any Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

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11. FINAL DISPOSITION. 

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within 

thirty (30) calendar days after the final termination of this Action, each Receiving Party must 

return all Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected 

Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of 

reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. With permission in writing from the 

Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead 

of returning it. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party 

must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, 

to the Designating Party) by the thirty (30) calendar day deadline that identifies (by category, 

where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that 

the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or other 

forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 

12. PRIVILEGED DOCUMENTS 

If information subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege and attorney work 

product is nevertheless inadvertently produced to a party, such production shall not constitute a 

waiver of, or estoppel as to, any claim of privilege or work product to which the Producing Party 

would otherwise be entitled. If such inadvertent production is made, the Receiving Party shall 

immediately notify the Producing Party. The Receiving Party must disclose who the information 

was disclosed to and certify that the person who inappropriately received the information has 

acknowledged the protective order requirements. If a claim of inadvertent production is made 

with respect to information then in the custody of another party, such Party shall promptly return 

the information to the claiming party or person and the Receiving Party shall not use such 

information for any purpose other than in connection with a motion to compel (which shall be 

filed under seal). The Party returning such material may then move the Court for an Order 

compelling production of the material, which shall be filed under seal. 

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13. MISCELLANEOUS 

13.1 Right to Further Relief. This Stipulated Protective Order may be modified by 

further written stipulation signed by the undersigned attorneys and order of the Court. Nothing 

in this Stipulated Protective Order abridges the right of any person to seek its modification by 

the Court in the future. 

13.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Stipulated 

Protective Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or 

producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective 

Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of 

the material covered by this Stipulated Protective Order. 

13.3 Fair Use of Confidential Information. This Stipulated Protective Order shall not 

be construed to prevent any person, including a qualified person, from making use of designated 

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only” information which (a) was 

lawfully in their possession prior to the production by the supplying party, (b) appears in any 

publicly available printed or electronic publication which includes information that specifically 

identifies the information within the printed or online publication as being related to the 

Producing Party, or is otherwise publicly available and includes information that specifically 

identifies the information as being related to the Producing Party, without fault to the Receiving 

Party, (c) was or is hereafter obtained from a source or sources having the lawful right to 

disclose such information, (d) was or is lawfully discovered, independently by the Receiving 

Party, through means not under an obligation of secrecy to any other Party or Parties, or (e) is 

exempted from the operation of this Stipulated Protective Order by the express written consent 

of the party producing such “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

information. The person seeking to make use of the designated information shall have the 

burden of proof, through written documentation, of establishing that the information falls within 

one of the above outlined categories. 

13.4 No Admissions. Neither this Stipulated Protective Order nor the designation of 

or failure to challenge any material as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential ⎯ Attorneys’ 

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Eyes Only” shall be construed as any admission that such information, document or other 

tangible thing is confidential or that such material, or any testimony relating to such material, in 

a deposition or at trial, would be admissible in evidence in this case or any other proceeding. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

DATED: July 2, 2007 BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP 

By: /s/Monty Agarwal 

Monty Agarwal 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Threshold Enterprises, Ltd. 

DATED: July 2, 2007 KRONENBERGER BURGOYNE, LLP 

By: /s/Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld 

Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Functional Brands, LLC 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: The Honorable Bernard Zimmerman 

United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

July 3, 2007

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Bernard Zimmerman

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, ____________________ [print or type full name], of ____________________ 

[print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and 

understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for 

the Northern District of California on [date] in the case of Threshold Enterprise LTD v. 

Functional Brands, Case No. 07-01400 BZ. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the 

terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so 

comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly 

promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the 

provisions of this Order. 

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for 

the Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this Action. 

Date: 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

[printed name] 

Signature: 

[signature] 

 

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NOTICE OF ATTESTATION

I, Monty Agarwal, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to 

file this Amended ADR Certification by Parties and Counsel. In compliance with General 

Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld has concurred in this filing. 

DATED: July 2, 2007 BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP 

By: /s/Monty Agarwal 

Monty Agarwal 

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