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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:145 Patent Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

N4D, LLC, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

LEGEND3D, INC. f/k/a 

LEGEND FILMS, INC., et al., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. 13-CV-2656-BEN-NLS

ORDER GRANTING JOINT 

MOTION FOR ENTRY OF 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

(Dkt. No. 38.) 

 The Court having read the parties’ joint motion for the entry of a protective 

order (dkt. no. 38), finding no objection and good cause appearing, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this motion is GRANTED, and the 

following protective order is entered: 

1. The email dated November 4, 2010, from Scott Mautner, Esq., General 

Counsel for Symphony 3D, LLC to Anthony Balakian, Chad Aaron, Lance Hilton, 

and Marc Goldman, copied to Alan U. Schwartz, Esq., George M. Belfield, Esq., 

and Jack McBride, Esq., hereafter “the Mautner email,” is a privileged 

communication. 

2. The Mautner email was used in documents filed with this court, not 

under seal but accessible by the public, without counsel for Passmore first notifying 

N4D’s counsel of their intent to do so. 

3. Counsel for Passmore has since notified counsel for N4D as follows: 

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The email in question was produced by N4D’s counsel in the Georgia case. 

In response to Passmore Lab’s request for production of documents, N4D, 

through its counsel, produced over 125,000 documents, including emails, in 

electronic form at one time. The amount of documentation produced was so 

voluminous that a computer program had to be created to do keyword 

searches for relevant documents. We are unaware of any other privileged 

documents contained in that production. I have satisfactorily described the 

circumstances of the origins of the email and my knowledge of whether any 

other privileged documents exist. The Federal Rules require no more. If you 

wish to delve into greater detail, I would recommend contacting your client’s 

past and current counsel in the Georgia litigation, since it was they who were 

responsible for allowing the document to be produced in the first place. 

4. The Mautner email, as previously produced by N4D in the Georgia 

case shall be sequestered by Passmore’s counsel for the duration of all litigation 

pending between Plaintiff and Passmore as of the date of the Protective Order, 

including this case; Bird Rock Multimedia, Inc. v. 3DH Communications, Inc., San 

Diego Superior Court No. 37-2009-00100935; Bird Rock Multimedia, Inc., et al. v. 

N4D, San Diego Superior Court No. 37-2010-00103118-CU-MC-CTL; and N4D, 

Inc. v. Gregory Passmore a/k/a Greg Passmore, et al., Gwinnett County (Georgia) 

Superior Court No. 10-A-11197-7. 

5. No party shall use or refer to the Mautner email in any form, whether in 

pleadings or other documents filed with the court, as discovery, as substantive 

evidence, as impeachment material, or for purposes of witnesses’ refreshing of 

memory, in any pending litigation between the parties, including this case, the cases 

described in Paragraph 4 above, and N4D, LLC v. Legend3D, Inc., San Diego 

Superior Court No. 37-2012-00088480-CU-NP-CTL. 

6. The office of Passmore’s counsel represents, based on information and 

belief, that it is unaware of any other privileged documents inadvertently produced 

by N4D in its responses to Passmore’s requests for production in N4D, Inc. v. 

Gregory Passmore a/k/a Greg Passmore, et al., Gwinnett County (Georgia) 

Superior Court No. 10-A-11197-7, but it has not performed any further search to 

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verify the non-existence of any other privileged documents in the production of 

documents made by N4D. 

7. Without admitting that privileged documents other than the Mautner 

email were inadvertently produced by N4D, LLC, to the extent that privileged 

documents may exist in the previous document production made by N4D in N4D, 

Inc. v. Gregory Passmore a/k/a Greg Passmore, et al., Gwinnett County (Georgia) 

Superior Court No. 10-A-11197-7, Passmore and Legend agree to refrain from using 

or referring to such documents in any form, whether in pleadings or other 

documents filed with the court, as discovery, as substantive evidence, as 

impeachment material, or for purposes of witnesses’ refreshing of memory, in any 

pending litigation between N4D and Passmore or Legend, including this case, the 

cases described in Paragraph 4 above, and N4D, LLC v. Legend3D, Inc., San Diego 

Superior Court No. 37-2012-00088480-CU-NP-CTL, with such refraining to include 

the withdrawal of all previously-filed documents containing or referring to the 

Mautner email. 

8. The office of Legend’s counsel represents that it has not received any 

privileged documents, other than the Mautner email, that were inadvertently 

produced by N4D in its responses to Passmore’s requests for production in N4D, 

Inc. v. Gregory Passmore a/k/a Greg Passmore, et al., Gwinnett County (Georgia) 

Superior Court No. 10-A-11197-7. 

9. Because the office of Passmore’s counsel claims that immediate 

destruction is impossible, at the close of all pending litigation between N4D and 

Passmore, including this case and the cases described in Paragraph 4 above, 

Passmore will destroy all copies of the Mautner email and any other privileged 

documents in its possession that may have been inadvertently produced by N4D in 

its responses to Passmore’s requests for production in N4D, Inc. v. Gregory 

Passmore a/k/a Greg Passmore, et al., Gwinnett County (Georgia) Superior Court 

No. 10-A-11197-7, to the extent that any such documents exist. 

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10. At the close of all pending litigation between N4D and Legend, Legend 

will destroy all copies of the Mautner email. 

11. This stipulation and Protective Order shall apply only to the use of the 

Mautner email and any other assertedly privileged documents inadvertently 

produced by N4D in N4D, Inc. v. Gregory Passmore a/k/a Greg Passmore, et al., 

Gwinnett County (Georgia) Superior Court No. 10-A-11197-7, to the extent that any 

such documents exist. This stipulation and Protective Order shall not apply to any 

subsequent production by N4D of any privileged documents, including the Mautner 

email, in this action or in the case of N4D, LLC v. Legend3D, Inc., San Diego 

Superior Court No. 37-2012-00088480-CU-NP-CTL. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 Date: May 14, 2014 _____________________________ 

 The Honorable Nita L. Stormes 

 United States Magistrate Judge

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