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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:2 Antitrust Litigation

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FRANCIS M. GREGOREK (144785)

gregorek@whafh.com

RACHELE R. RICKERT (190634)

rickert@whafh.com

WOLF HALDENSTEIN ADLER 

 FREEMAN & HERZ LLP

750 B Street, Suite 2770

San Diego, CA 92101

Telephone: 619-239-4599

MARK C. RIFKIN (pro hac vice)

rifkin@whafh.com

ALEXANDER H. SCHMIDT (pro hac vice)

schmidt@whafh.com

MICHAEL LISKOW (243899)

liskow@whafh.com

WOLF HALDENSTEIN ADLER 

 FREEMAN & HERZ LLP

270 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Telephone: 212-545-4600

Counsel for Plaintiffs

ADAM J. LEVITT 

alevitt@gelaw.com

ROBERT G. EISLER 

reisler@gelaw.com

JOHN E. TANGREN 

jtangren@gelaw.com

GRANT & EISENHOFER P.A.

30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2350

Chicago, IL 60602

Telephone: 312/214-0000 

Counsel for Plaintiff Thomas Buchar

[Additional Counsel Appear On Signature Page]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND DIVISION

ZACK WARD and THOMAS 

BUCHAR, on behalf of themselves 

and all others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

APPLE INC., 

Defendant.

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CASE NO. 4:12-cv-05404-YGR 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

DEPT: Courtroom 1, 4th Floor

JUDGE: Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers

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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 this litigation may 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 from public disclosure 

and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 

under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 14.4, 

below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information 

under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards 

that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is 

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule 

of Civil Procedure 26(c).

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as 

well as their support staff).

2.4 Designated House Counsel: House Counsel who seek access to “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information in this matter.

2.5 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE 

CODE”.

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

medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, 

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testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or 

responses to discovery in this matter.

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

the litigation who (1) has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as 

a consultant in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee of a Party or of a Party’s 

competitor, and (3) at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or 

of a Party’s competitor.

2.8 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or 

Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of which to another 

Party or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by 

less restrictive means.

2.9 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” Information or Items: extremely 

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” representing computer code and associated 

comments and revision histories, formulas, engineering specifications, or schematics that define or 

otherwise describe in detail the algorithms or structure of software or hardware designs, disclosure 

of which to another Party or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could 

not be avoided by less restrictive means.

2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. House 

Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.

2.11 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.12 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this 

action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action 

on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party.

2.13 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).

2.14 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

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

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

organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and 

subcontractors.

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

“CONFIDENTIAL,” as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or as 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.”

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

Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

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

(as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) 

all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 

conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 

information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a 

Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a 

result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public 

record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to 

the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained 

the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any 

use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 

otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims 

and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the 

completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

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including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law.

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 Order must take care to 

limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. To 

the extent it is practical to do so, the Designating Party must 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 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 Designating 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 Designating Party must promptly notify all other parties that it is 

withdrawing the mistaken designation.

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

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 

Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so 

designated before the material is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party 

affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” to each page that contains protected 

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

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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.

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 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 Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the 

Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE 

CODE”) to 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.

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

the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being asserted. When it is 

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

appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Designating Party 

may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) a right 

to have up to 21 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of the testimony 

that are appropriately designated for protection within the 21 days shall be covered by the 

provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at 

the deposition or up to 21 days afterwards if that period is properly invoked, that the entire 

transcript shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

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Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, hearing or 

other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can ensure that only 

authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition 

shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title page 

that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all 

pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material and 

the level of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall inform 

the court reporter of these requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of a 

21-day period for designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety unless otherwise 

agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as actually 

designated.

(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,” 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

SOURCE CODE”. If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, the 

Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s) and specify the 

level of protection being asserted.

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

designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s 

right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a 

designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated 

in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

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6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 

confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 

burdens, or a 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. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis 

for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written 

notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this 

specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in 

good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 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 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 or establishes that 

the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely 

manner.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the parties shall follow the Court’s Standing Order in Civil Cases regarding 

Discovery and Discovery Motions. The parties may file a joint letter brief regarding retaining 

confidentiality within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties 

agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. 

Failure by a Designating Party to file such discovery dispute letter within the applicable 21 or 14 

day period (set forth above) with the Court shall automatically waive the confidentiality 

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designation for each challenged designation. If, after submitting a joint letter brief, the Court 

allows that a motion may be filed, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements 

imposed in the preceding paragraph. The Court, in its discretion, may elect to transfer the 

discovery matter to a Magistrate Judge.

In addition, the parties may file a joint letter brief regarding a challenge to a confidentiality 

designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation 

of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. If, after submitting a joint letter brief, the Court 

allows that a motion may be filed, any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet 

and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. The Court, in its discretion, may 

elect to refer the discovery matter to a Magistrate Judge.

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

Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to

sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to file 

a letter brief to retain confidentiality as described above, 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 until the court rules on the challenge.

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 Order. When the litigation has 

been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 15 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 Order.

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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 of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the

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

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(f) mock jurors who have signed an Undertaking, the content of which shall be 

agreed upon by the Parties; 

(g) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. 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.

(h) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian 

or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

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7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” and 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as 

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

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) Designated House Counsel of the Receiving Party (1) who has no involvement in 

competitive decision-making, (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, (3) who 

has signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and (4) as to whom the 

Designating Party has agreed in writing;(c) Experts of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), as long as the Expert is not a current officer, director, or 

employee of a competitor of a Party or anticipated to become one;

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(f) (mock jurors who have signed an Undertaking, the content of which shall be 

agreed upon by the Parties; and

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian 

or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

8. SOURCE CODE

(a) To the extent production of source code becomes necessary in this case, a 

Producing Party may designate source code as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE” 

if it comprises or includes confidential, proprietary or trade secret source code.

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(b) Protected Material designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE 

CODE” shall be subject to all of the protections afforded to “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information and may be disclosed only to the individuals to whom 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information may be disclosed, as 

set forth in Paragraph 7.3, with the exception of Designated House Counsel.

(c) Any source code produced in discovery shall be made available for 

inspection in a format through which it could be reasonably reviewed and searched during normal 

business hours or other mutually agreeable times at a location that is mutually agreed upon. The 

source code shall be made available for inspection on a secured computer in a secured room 

without Internet access or network access to other computers, and the Receiving Party shall not 

copy, remove, or otherwise transfer any portion of the source code onto any recordable media or 

recordable device. The Producing Party may visually monitor the activities of the Receiving 

Party’s representatives during any source code review, but only to ensure that there is no 

unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of the source code.

(d) The Receiving Party may request paper copies of limited portions of source 

code that are reasonably necessary for the preparation of court filings, pleadings, expert reports, or 

other papers, or for deposition or trial, but shall not request paper copies for the purposes of 

reviewing the source code other than electronically as set forth in paragraph (c) in the first 

instance. The Producing Party shall provide all such source code in paper form including bates 

numbers and the label “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE.” The Producing Party 

may challenge the amount of source code requested in hard copy form pursuant to the dispute 

resolution procedure and timeframes set forth in Paragraph 6 whereby the Producing Party is the 

“Challenging Party” and the Receiving Party is the “Designating Party” for purposes of dispute 

resolution.

(e) The Receiving Party shall maintain a record of any individual who has 

inspected any portion of the source code in electronic or paper form. The Receiving Party shall 

maintain all paper copies of any printed portions of the source code in a secured, locked area. The 

Receiving Party shall not create any electronic or other images of the paper copies and shall not 

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convert any of the information contained in the paper copies into any electronic format. The 

Receiving Party shall only make additional paper copies if such additional copies are (1) necessary 

to prepare court filings, pleadings, or other papers (including a testifying expert’s expert report), 

(2) necessary for deposition, or (3) otherwise necessary for the preparation of its case. Any paper 

copies used during a deposition shall be retrieved by the Producing Party at the end of each day 

and must not be given to or left with a court reporter or any other unauthorized individual.

9. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE 

CODE” that Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include 

a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue 

in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to 

this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; 

and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.1

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena 

or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,”

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

SOURCE CODE” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, 

unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear 

 

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

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.

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the burden and expense 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.

10. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN 

THIS LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a NonParty in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”. Such 

information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 

remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as 

prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce 

a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement 

with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall: 

1. promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that 

some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a NonParty;

2. promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective 

Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of 

the information requested; and 

3. make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court 

within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may 

produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the NonParty timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its 

possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 

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determination by the court.2 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the 

burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.

11. 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 unauthorized copies of the Protected 

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

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

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

12. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently 

produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 

Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This 

provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order 

that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 

502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 

communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, 

the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted to the 

court.

13. MISCELLANEOUS

13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this 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 Protective 

 

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The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of confidentiality 

rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to protect its confidentiality interests in 

this court.

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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 Protective Order.

13.3 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. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 

Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed 

under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at 

issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request 

establishing that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or 

otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party’s request to file Protected 

Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) is denied by the court, then the Receiving 

Party may file the Protected Material in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e)(2) 

unless otherwise instructed by the court.

14. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. 

As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 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 60-day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected 

Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained 

any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any 

of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an 

archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal 

memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, 

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and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any 

such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective 

Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

October 27, 2015 WOLF HALDENSTEIN ADLER

 FREEMAN & HERZ LLP

FRANCIS M. GREGOREK

RACHELE R. RICKERT 

/s/ Rachele R. Rickert

RACHELE R. RICKERT

750 B Street, Suite 2770

San Diego, CA 92101

Telephone: 619/239-4599

WOLF HALDENSTEIN ADLER

 FREEMAN & HERZ LLP

MARK C. RIFKIN

ALEXANDER H. SCHMIDT

MICHAEL LISKOW

270 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Telephone: 212/545-4600

Counsel for Plaintiffs

RANDALL S. NEWMAN, P.C.

RANDALL S. NEWMAN

37 Wall Street, Penthouse D

New York, NY 10005

Telephone: 212/797-3737

Counsel for Plaintiff Zack Ward

October 27, 2015 GRANT & EISENHOFER P.A.

ADAM J. LEVITT

JOHN E. TANGREN

/s/ Adam J. Levitt

ADAM J. LEVITT

30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2350

Chicago, IL 60602

Telephone: 312/214-0000 

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GRANT & EISENHOFER P.A.

ROBERT G. EISLER

123 Justison Street

Wilmington, Delaware 19801

Telephone: 302-622-7000

Counsel for Plaintiff Thomas Buchar

October 27, 2015 LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

DANIEL M. WALL

CHRISTOPHER S. YATES

SADIK HUSENY

/s/ Christopher S. Yates

CHRISTOPHER S. YATES

505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: 415/391-0600

dan.wall@lw.com

chris.yates@lw.com

sadik.huseny@lw.com

Attorneys for Defendant Apple Inc.

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

This Order terminates Docket Number 64.

DATED: October 29, 2015 _______________________________________

HON. YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

United States District Court Judge

DECLARATION REGARDING CONCURRENCE

I, Rachele R. Rickert, am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used 

to file this STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-

1(i)(3), I hereby attest that Christopher S. Yates and Adam J. Levitt have concurred in this filing.

DATED: October 27, 2015 WOLF HALDENSTEIN ADLER FREEMAN

 & HERZ LLP

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By: /s/ Rachele R. Rickert

RACHELE R. RICKERT

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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 Ward v. Apple Inc., CASE NO. 4:12-cv-05404-

YGR. 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.

I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of 

_____________________________________________________ [print or type full address and 

telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or 

any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Date: _________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: ______________________________

[printed name]

Signature: __________________________________

[signature]

APPLE3:22211

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