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

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A/21709571.3/2023920-2239200800 Case No. 06-07490 MJJ 

JOINT STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP 

TRENTON H. NORRIS (SBN 164781) 

MONTY AGARWAL (SBN 191568) 

RACHEL L. 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 

DECRU, INC. 

KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART PRESTON GATES ELLIS LLP 

KEVIN C. TROCK (SBN 161787) 

TING-MAO CHAO (SBN 234909) 

HAROLD H. DAVIS, JR. (SBN 235552) 

55 Second St., Suite 1700 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: 415.882.8200 

Facsimile: 415.882.8220 

kevin.trock@klgates.com 

ting-mao.chao@klgates.com 

harold.davis@klgates.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CYPHERIX SOFTWARE PVT LTD. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

DECRU, INC., a Delaware corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CYPHERIX SOFTWARE PVT. LTD., a foreign 

corporation; ISYSTEMS SERVICES LLC, a 

Texas corporation doing business as Kingwood 

Computer; and DOES 1 through 150, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

No. 06-07490 MJJ 

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

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Plaintiff Decru, Inc. (“Decru”) and Defendants Cypherix Software Pvt. Ltd. 

(“Cypherix”) and iSystems Services LLC (“iSystems”), by and through their respective counsel 

of record, hereby 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 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. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

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

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

2.2 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 matter. 

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: 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). 

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

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or nonparty 

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

means. 

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

Producing Party. 

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

Material in this action. 

2.7 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.” 

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

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

2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees, or “in house” counsel, of a 

Party but who are attorneys of record retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.10 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 competitor of a Party’s. 

2.11 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. 

Professional vendors includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in this litigation. 

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, 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. 

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4. DURATION 

Even after the termination 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. 

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. 

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 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 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, 

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 (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” on each 

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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”). 

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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ⎯ ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) on 

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 30 days to 

identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the 

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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 30 days 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. 

(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 make reasonable efforts to 

assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

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. 

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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 (in voice to voice dialogue; 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 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 Order. When the 

litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11, 

below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

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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. 

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; 

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (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 “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 and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A). 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 or the original source of the information, or 

witnesses who have already received a copy of the Protected Material from the author of the 

document or the original source of the information as evident from the face of the material. 

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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: 

(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; 

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

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “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; 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

(e) the author of the document or the original source of the information, or 

witnesses who have already received a copy of the Protected Material from the author of the 

document or the original source of the information as evident from the face of the material. 

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 Order) any 

information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ⎯ ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” first must identify to the Designating Party the full name of the Expert and 

provide a current copy of the Expert’s curriculum vitae (“CV”)and a copy of the Agreement to 

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A) signed by the Expert. 

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

preceding paragraph must refrain from providing such material to the Expert for a period of five 

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(5) business days to permit the Designating Party to make a written objection to the disclosure. 

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

Party fails to make a written objection within five business days, the Receiving Party may 

disclose “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ⎯ ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information or item to 

its Expert. 

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

the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by 

agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert may file a 

motion, within three business days after the conclusion of the meet and confer, as provided in 

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

order from the court barring such disclosure. Any such motion must describe the circumstances 

with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert is not 

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 proving 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 fax, if possible) 

immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. 

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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 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 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 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. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must 

comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

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

sixty (60) days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must destroy or 

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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 sixty 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. Notwithstanding this provision, 

Outside Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, 

transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 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), above. 

12. PRIVILEGED DOCUMENTS 

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

product or any other ground on which production of such information should not be made to any 

party is nevertheless inadvertently produced to a party, such production shall in no way prejudice 

or otherwise constitute a waiver of, or estoppel as to, any claim of privilege, work product or 

other ground for withholding production to which the Producing Party would otherwise be 

entitled. 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, and said motion shall not assert as a ground for entering such an Order 

the fact or circumstances of the inadvertent production. 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

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 

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. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

DATED: October 10, 2007 BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP 

By: /s/ Monty Agarwal 

Monty Agarwal 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Decru, Inc. 

DATED: October 10, 2007 KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART PRESTON 

GATES ELLIS LLP 

By: /s/ Kevin C. Trock 

Kevin C. Trock 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Cypherix Software Pvt Ltd. 

 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATE __________________________ 

 

The Honorable Martin J. Jenkins 

United States District Court 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

I

A

Judge Martin J. Jenkins

10/16/07

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A/21709571.3/2023920-2239200800 14 Case No. 06-07490 MJJ 

JOINT STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

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 Decru, Inc. v. Cypherix Software Pvt 

Ltd., iSystems Services, LLC, et al., Case No. 06-7490 MJJ. 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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JOINT STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

ATTESTATION CLAUSE

I, Rachel L. Chanin, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to 

file this Joint Stipulation and Protective Order Re Confidential Information. In compliance with 

General Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that Kevin C. Trock has concurred in this filing. 

DATED: October 10, 2007 BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP 

By: /s/ Rachel L. Chanin 

Rachel L. Chanin 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Decru, Inc. 

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