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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BARE ESCENTUALS BEAUTY, INC., 

a Delaware corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP., a 

Washington corporation, 

 Defendant. 

CASE NO. 07CV0090 JLS (WMC) 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

WHEREAS, plaintiff Bare Escentuals Beauty, Inc. (“Bare 

Escentuals”) and defendant Costco Wholesale Corp. (“Costco”) 

agree that discovery in this action may involve disclosure of 

certain sensitive or proprietary business and personal 

information about the parties, non-parties requested to produce 

documents, and the businesses of the parties and non-parties; 

ACCORDINGLY, the parties, by and through their respective 

undersigned counsel of record, therefore stipulate to the 

following protective order and procedures for handling such 

information, which will apply to all documents, testimony, 

tangible things, materials, items, and/or information produced 

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by the parties or non-parties during discovery and designated as 

Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only (as those terms are defined 

below) by the producing person or entity: 

1. All documents, testimony, tangible things, materials, 

items, and/or information that may contain or comprise 

confidential research, development, or commercial information 

produced, testified to, or submitted during the course of the 

above-captioned action, either by a party or by a nonparty 

(“Confidential Information”) shall be governed by this 

Stipulated Protective Order (the “Order”). This Order shall be 

effective and binding upon the parties upon entry by the Court. 

However, by stipulating to this Order, Costco is not waiving its 

right to seek review of the Magistrate Judge’s September 24, 

2007 Order, or to request that the Court enter a more 

restrictive protective order with respect to Costco’s vendor 

information. 

2. Counsel of record may designate Confidential 

Information as “Confidential.” Materials shall be deemed 

designated as “Confidential” when physically marked with the 

legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

3. Counsel of record may designate as “Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only” financial or competitively sensitive or proprietary 

Confidential Information of the following nature which is not 

normally revealed to third parties or which the disclosing party 

would otherwise require third-parties to maintain in confidence: 

(a) Non-public financial information, including, without 

limitation, information regarding personal or business-related 

financial data, actual or projected revenues, expenses, profits, 

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losses, and/or compensation; 

(b) Non-public business plans and strategies, including, 

without limitation, marketing strategies, sales strategies, 

product information, and/or documents relating to agreements and 

business relationships with third parties; and 

(c) Non-public trade secrets; 

(d) Vendor identities, except as noted in paragraph 5. 

Confidential Information shall be deemed designated as 

“Attorneys’ Eyes Only” when physically marked with the legend 

“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

4. Confidential Information designated “Confidential” 

pursuant to Paragraph 2 may be disclosed only to the following 

persons: 

(a) The attorneys of record and in-house attorneys for the 

parties, including without limitation, employees and support 

staff of the attorneys, legal support service personnel, and 

their employees; 

(b) Independent experts and consultants and their 

employees. Prior to receiving documents or information 

designated as Confidential, each such party or person shall sign 

an acknowledgment (attached as Exhibit A) that such person has 

read and agrees to abide by this Order; 

(c) The Court and Court personnel; 

(d) Persons to whom the documents already would be 

lawfully available outside of this litigation, such as third 

party authors or recipients of the documents; 

(e) The parties, including officers, directors, board 

members, and employees of corporate parties; and 

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(f) Such other persons as are designated by written 

agreement by the producing party or by Court order. 

5. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the information 

regarding the identity of Costco’s supplier that is the subject 

of the Court’s Order dated September 24, 2007 shall be 

designated “Confidential” and shall only be disclosed to those 

persons listed above in paragraph 4(a)-(c), as well as to Bare 

Escentuals’ COO/CFO and VP of Operations and any of their 

support staff who are absolutely necessary to adequately 

understand and review the information. Again, by stipulating to 

this Order, Costco is not waiving its right to seek review of 

the Magistrate Judge’s September 24, 2007 Order, or to request 

that the Court enter a more restrictive protective order with 

respect to Costco’s vendor information. 

6. Confidential Information designated “Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only” pursuant to Paragraph 3 may be disclosed only to the 

following persons: 

(a) The attorneys of record and in-house attorneys for the 

receiving party and others to whom the attorneys of record 

reasonably believe it necessary to show the documents, including 

without limitation, employees and support staff of the 

attorneys, legal support service personnel and their employees; 

(b) Independent experts and consultants and their 

employees. Prior to receiving documents or information 

designated as Attorneys’ Eyes Only, each such party or person 

shall sign an acknowledgment (attached as Exhibit A) that such 

person has read and agrees to abide by this Order; 

(c) The Court and Court personnel; 

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(d) Persons to whom the documents already would be 

lawfully available outside of this litigation, such as third 

party authors or recipients of the documents; and 

(e) Such other persons as are designated by written 

agreement by the producing party or by Court order. 

7. Any party may designate deposition testimony by any 

witness, or any portion thereof, as Confidential or Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only at the time of the deposition by making the 

designation on the record at the time of the deposition or by 

written notice to all counsel of record within ten (10) business 

days after receipt of the written transcript. 

8. Any party receiving Confidential Information 

designated as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only has the right 

to challenge any such designation pursuant to Paragraph 13

below. The parties may, at any time after the time periods set 

forth herein, designate Confidential Information as Confidential 

or Attorneys’ Eyes Only by agreement of the parties or upon 

leave of Court. 

9. “Disclosure” and “disclosed” as used in this Order and 

the attached Exhibit A shall include, without limitation, 

allowing or failing to take reasonable steps under the 

circumstances to prevent: (1) visual inspection of a designated 

document (or any summary, description, abstract, or index 

thereof) by an individual not authorized under this Order; or 

(2) any communication that reveals, reflects, paraphrases, 

conveys, or otherwise discloses the substance or form of all or 

any information that has been part of a designated document (or 

any summary, description, abstract, or index thereof) to an 

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individual not authorized under this Order. 

10. If a party producing Confidential Information 

inadvertently produces Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

materials without marking it with the appropriate legend, the 

party producing the Confidential Information may give written 

notice within thirty (30) days after production that the 

materials shall be treated as if marked as “Confidential” and 

“Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” and it shall thereafter be treated as 

such. However, prior to receiving that written notice, the 

parties may use the unmarked information or materials in any way 

they deem reasonably appropriate. 

11. Confidential Information to be presented to the Court 

shall be provided under a caption, labeled “CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE COURT” and lodged 

or filed, if lodged or filed at all, under seal with a notice 

attached to such filing. Attorneys’ Eyes Only Confidential 

Information to be presented to the Court shall be provided under 

a caption, labeled “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION SUBJECT TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE COURT” and lodged or filed, if lodged or 

filed at all, under seal with a notice attached to such filing. 

A party that objects to lodging or filing Confidential 

Information presented to the Court under seal remains free to 

file a motion or application so objecting. 

12. The disclosing person, entity, or party, and all other 

parties to this action may agree in writing or on the record, 

without further order of this Court, to allow disclosure of 

documents or information to an individual who otherwise would 

not be authorized to receive such documents or information 

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hereunder. 

13. Counsel of record for any party (the “Notifying 

Party”) may at any time serve a written notice upon all other 

counsel of record, including counsel for the person or entity 

producing discovery designated as Confidential or Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only (the “Producing Party”): (1) objecting to a 

Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only designation made by the 

Producing Party; (2) proposing to disclose Confidential 

Information designated as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

to an individual to whom such disclosure is not authorized by 

this Order; or (3) proposing to designate as Confidential or as 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only any such Confidential Information which the 

Producing Party failed to so label. The parties shall attempt 

to resolve any dispute concerning (1), (2) or (3) in good faith. 

If the parties’ attempt is unsuccessful, the Notifying Party may 

move, by noticed motion, for an order changing the designation 

of the documents or information at issue and/or authorizing the 

disclosure of certain documents or information to a specific 

person not otherwise permitted hereunder. If any such dispute 

is submitted to the Court, then the Confidential Information 

referred to in such further notice will retain its original 

designation as either Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only and 

shall be submitted to the Court in the manner set forth in 

Paragraph 11 until a ruling by the Court, and thereafter shall 

be classified in accordance with such ruling. However, with 

respect to (3), the Confidential Information at issue shall be 

immediately designated as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

as requested by the Notifying Party until the parties and/or the 

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Court resolve the dispute. The Court shall make an independent 

determination as to whether any disputed Confidential 

Information is to be protected from disclosure and this Order 

shall not alter the burden of proof as to this issue. 

14. Within thirty (30) days of the final termination of 

this action, by judgment or otherwise, all parties and persons 

subject to the terms of this Order shall either: (1) assemble 

and return all Confidential and Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

Confidential Information to each party producing such 

Confidential Information; or (2) destroy all Confidential and 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only Confidential Information and provide the 

party producing such Confidential Information with written 

notice of such destruction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each 

party may retain motion papers, briefs, memoranda of law, 

transcripts of depositions and court proceedings, written 

responses to discovery requests, and/or any other pleadings 

filed with the Court in this action, and any attorney work 

product. This Order shall continue to apply to the documents 

retained by any party in accordance with the preceding sentence. 

15. This Order shall not affect any party’s right to 

object to the use in this litigation of Confidential and/or 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only Confidential Information on any ground or 

to use its own documents or other documents lawfully obtained 

from a third party in any manner permitted by law. Consent to 

and entry of this Order shall not restrict the right of any 

party to file an application for an order seeking modification 

of this Order or further protection, nor shall it restrict the 

right of any party to object, as permitted by law, to any 

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discovery requests directed to a party or third party, as 

appropriate. 

16. Neither this Order nor the designation of any material 

as Confidential or Attorneys’ Eyes Only shall constitute an 

admission or acknowledgment by any party that any such material 

is, in fact, confidential, proprietary, or otherwise 

protectable. The fact that material has been designated under 

this Order shall in no way prejudice the right of any party to 

contest the confidential or proprietary nature of any material, 

at the time of trial or otherwise. 

17. The Court shall determine at the time of trial how 

Confidential and Attorneys’ Eyes Only material shall be handled, 

consistent with the purposes of this Order. 

18. This Order shall not prejudice or affect any party’s 

right to object to the authenticity or admissibility of any 

evidence at the time of trial or as to any motion in which such 

evidence may be offered. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: October 1, 2007 LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

By: /s/ Jennifer L. Barry 

Jennifer L. Barry 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

BARE ESCENTUALS BEAUTY, INC. 

Dated: October 1, 2007 GREENBERG GLUSKER FIELDS CLAMAN 

& MACHTINGER LLP 

By: /s/ Norman H. Levine 

Norman H. Levine 

Attorneys for Defendant 

COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP. 

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ORDER

This Order is subject to further court order based 

upon public policy or other reasons and may be modified sua 

sponte in the interests of justice. Therefore, having reviewed 

the terms of the above Stipulated Protective Order, and for good 

cause showing, it is hereby ORDERED that the above Stipulated 

Protective Order is now in effect in this case. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 10, 2007 

 Hon. William McCurine, Jr. 

 U.S. Magistrate Judge 

 United States District Court 

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EXHIBIT A: NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT 

I, ________________________, acknowledge that I have been 

given a copy of and have read the Stipulated Protective Order 

(hereafter, the “Order”) in Bare Escentuals Beauty, Inc. v. 

Costco Wholesale Corp., Case No. 07 CV 0090 JM (WMC), and I 

agree to be bound by its terms. I have been retained by 

__________________ in this matter and otherwise am not employed 

by or affiliated with any party or any competitor of any party 

to this litigation. 

I acknowledge and agree that any documents received, viewed 

or prepared by me in connection with this matter that have been 

designated Confidential and/or Attorneys’ Eyes Only, and any 

copies, excerpts, summaries and abstracts of such documents, 

shall not be disclosed to or discussed with anyone except as 

expressly provided in the Order and shall be returned to counsel 

with whom I have consulted upon request or at the conclusion of 

the case. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the 

United States that the foregoing is true and correct. This 

declaration was executed on _________________, 200__. 

____________________ _______________________ 

Signature Print Name 

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