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

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[Counsel Listed on Signature Page] 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, OAKLAND DIVISION 

IN RE LITHIUM ION BATTERIES 

ANTITRUST LITIGATION 

This Document Relates to: 

Microsoft Mobile Inc. and Microsoft Mobile 

Oy v. LG Chem America, Inc., et al. 

Case No. 4:13-md-02420-YGR (DMR)

MDL No. 2420 

STIPULATED REVISED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

 This “Microsoft Action Protective Order” is meant to apply only to documents and 

information produced (i) by the Stipulating Defendants to Microsoft, and (ii) by Microsoft to the 

Stipulating Defendants. All other discovery, including productions made to and by class 

plaintiffs, continues to be governed by the Class Action Protective Order (Docket No. 193). 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action may involve production of trade secrets or 

other confidential research, development, or commercial information, within the meaning of 

Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(c); or other private or competitively sensitive 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 confidential treatment. 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 

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reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the Court to file 

material under seal, and is hereby incorporated by reference. This Order shall not apply to the use 

of protected material at trial. The parties agree to meet and confer and seek Court approval in 

advance of trial to address appropriate limitations on the use of such material at trial. 

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, documents, 

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 Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

2.4 Highly Confidential Information or Items: Extremely sensitive Confidential 

Information or Items whose disclosure to another Party or non-party would create a substantial 

risk of injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. This category includes 

Information and Items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” as defined herein. 

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,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY.” 

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

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL 

ONLY.” 

2.9 Outside Counsel: Attorneys, along with their paralegals, and other support 

personnel, who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to represent or advise a Party in 

this action. 

2.10 In House Legal Personnel: Attorneys and other personnel employed by a Party to 

perform legal functions and/or who are responsible for overseeing this litigation for the Party. 

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and In House Legal Personnel (as 

well as their support staffs, including but not limited to attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, law 

clerks, and investigators), and, in the event an action or actions are brought by state Attorney(s) 

General, the Attorney General’s office including its attorneys, paralegals, and other support 

personnel. 

2.12 Expert and/or Consultant: A person with specialized knowledge or experience in a 

matter pertinent to the litigation, along with his or her employees and support personnel, 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 current employee, nor has been an employee within four years of the date 

of entry of this Order, of a Party or of a Lithium-Ion Battery business unit of a non-party, and 

who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or of a LithiumIon Battery business unit of a non-party. This definition includes a professional jury or trial 

consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.13 Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

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

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

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective Order cover not only Protected 

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

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copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by Parties or Counsel in settings that might reveal Protected Material. However, 

this Order shall not be construed to cause any Counsel to produce, return, and/or destroy their 

own attorney work product, or the work product of their co-counsel. 

4. DURATION

The confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order shall remain in effect, even after the 

termination of this litigation, until the Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or this Court 

orders otherwise. 

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 and 

avoid indiscriminate designations. 

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 Receiving Parties that it is 

withdrawing or changing the mistaken designation. 

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

(see, e.g., section 5.2(b), 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. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, should a Producing Party discover that it 

produced material that was not designated as Protected Material, the Producing Party may notify 

all Parties, in writing, of the error and identify (by Bates number or other individually identifiable 

information) the affected material and their new designation. Thereafter, the material so 

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designated will be treated as Protected Material. Promptly after providing such notice, the 

Producing Party shall provide re-labeled copies of the material to each Receiving Party reflecting 

the change in designation. The Receiving Party will replace the incorrectly designated material 

with the newly designated material and will destroy the incorrectly designated material. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

(a) for information in documentary or digital image format (apart from transcripts of 

depositions or other pretrial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL 

ONLY” on each page or digital image that contains protected material unless otherwise agreed to 

a different designation protocol for digital information. 

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

non-party that sponsors, offers, gives, or elicits the testimony, designate any portion of the 

testimony as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” either on the record before the close of the deposition, hearing, or 

other pretrial proceeding, or in writing on or before the later of (i) twenty days after the final 

transcript is received or (ii) the date by which any review by the witness and corrections to the 

transcript are to be completed under Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(e). Only those portions of the testimony 

that are designated for protection in accordance with the preceding sentence shall be covered by 

the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. The entire testimony shall be deemed to have 

been designated Confidential or Highly Confidential until the time within which the transcript 

may be designated has elapsed. If testimony is not designated within the prescribed time period, 

then such testimony shall not be deemed Confidential or Highly Confidential except as ordered 

by the Court. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

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“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” as instructed by the Party or 

nonparty sponsoring, offering, giving or eliciting the witness’ testimony. 

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary or digital image, 

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,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL 

ONLY”. 

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

qualified information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” does not, standing 

alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. 

If material is re-designated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” after the material was 

initially produced, the Receiving Party, upon notification of the designation, must make 

reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 

Order. 

5.4 Increasing the Designation of Information or Items Produced by Other Parties or 

Non-Parties. Subject to the standards of paragraph 5.1, a Party may increase the designation (i.e., 

change any Disclosure or Discovery Material produced without a designation to a designation of 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL 

ONLY” or designate any Disclosure or Discovery Material produced as “CONFIDENTIAL,” 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” 

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY”) of any Discovery Material 

produced by any other Party or non-Party, provided that said Discovery Material contains the 

upward Designating Party’s own Confidential or Highly Confidential Information. 

Increasing a designation shall be accomplished by providing written notice to all Parties 

identifying (by bates number or other individually identifiable information) the Disclosure or 

Discovery Material whose designation is to be increased. Promptly after providing such notice, 

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the upward Designating Party shall provide re-labeled copies of the material to each Receiving 

Party reflecting the change in designation. The Receiving Party will replace the incorrectly 

designated material with the newly designated materials and will destroy the incorrectly 

designated materials. Any Party may object to the increased designation of Disclosure or 

Discovery Materials pursuant to the procedures set forth in paragraph 6 regarding challenging 

designations. The upward Designating Party shall bear the burden of establishing the basis for 

the increased designation. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

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

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

promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

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

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

notifying the Designating Party in writing, by telephone or in person of its challenge and identify 

the challenged material, then conferring directly in voice-to-voice dialogue (other forms of 

communication are not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. The Parties must then 

meet and confer in good faith. Each Party must explain the basis for its respective position about 

the propriety of the challenged confidentiality designations. The parties shall have fourteen (14) 

days from the initial notification of a challenge to complete this meet and confer process. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. In any judicial proceeding challenging a confidentiality 

designation, the burden of persuasion with respect to the propriety of the confidentiality 

designation shall remain upon the Designating Party. If the parties are not able to resolve a 

dispute about a confidentiality designation within the time provided in paragraph 6.2, above, the 

parties shall comply with the court’s Standing Order regarding resolution of discovery disputes 

and submit a joint letter to the court regarding the dispute. Until the ruling on the dispute 

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becomes final, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to 

which it is entitled under the Designating Party’s designation. 

In the event that the final ruling is that the challenged material is not confidential or that 

its designation should be changed, the Designating Party shall reproduce copies of all materials 

with their designations removed or changed in accordance with the ruling within thirty (30) days 

at the expense of the Designating Party. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF DISCOVERY MATERIAL

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

or produced by a Producing Party only in connection with this action for prosecuting, defending, 

or attempting to settle this action, or as agreed upon in writing by the Producing Party. Protected 

Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in 

this Order, or as agreed upon in writing by the Producing Party. When the litigation has been 

terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11, below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION). 

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

in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order. 

For purposes of this Order, a secure website, or other internet-based document depository with 

adequate security and access limited to the persons authorized under this Order, shall be deemed a 

secure location. 

The restrictions on Protected Material shall not apply to information which, at or prior to 

disclosure thereof in this action, is or was public knowledge as a result of publication by one 

having the unrestricted right to do so, or which is otherwise in the public domain. Nothing in this 

Protective Order shall in any way restrict the use or dissemination by a Party or third Party of its 

own “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL 

ONLY” Protected Material. 

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

the Court or permitted in writing or on the record 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 counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation; 

(b) officers, directors, and employees of Parties 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 and/or Consultants with respect to each of whom (1) disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (2) an “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective 

Order” (Exhibit A) has been signed; 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) stenographers, their staffs, Professional Vendors, and private mediators to whom 

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

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(f) the author, addressees, or recipients of the document; 

(g) during their deposition, any natural person who would have likely reviewed such 

document during his or her employment as a result of the substantive nature of his or her 

employment position, or who is specifically identified in the document, or whose conduct is 

purported to be specifically identified in the document, or who would reasonably be expected to 

have knowledge of the information in the document based on the specific context; 

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

necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective 

Order” (Exhibit A), which shall be made an exhibit to the deposition transcript, or has agreed on 

the record to keep the information confidential and not to use it for any purpose, or has been 

ordered to do so; and provided further that, pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits 

to depositions that reveal Confidential Information must be marked “Confidential” and separately 

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bound by the court reporter and not included in the main deposition transcript and exhibit binder, 

and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; 

(i) participants in a focus group or mock jury who have agreed in writing to keep the 

information confidential and not to use it for any purpose other than the focus group, mock jury, 

or similar exercise, provided that such participants shall not be permitted to retain any copies of 

any Protected Material or to retain any notes of any Protected Material; and 

(j) any other person to whom the Designating Party agrees in writing or on the record 

and any other person to whom the Court compels access to the Confidential Information. 

7.3 Disclosure of Information of Items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. No information or items 

designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” may be disclosed to any Party or its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, current or 

former directors, officers, or employees, including In House Legal Personnel (except as 

specifically set forth below). Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing or on 

the record by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose, summarize, describe, 

characterize or otherwise communicate or make available, in whole or in part, information or 

items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to the following persons: 

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

employees of said counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation; 

(b) no more than two (2) In-House Legal Personnel of Parties, who have no 

involvement in competitive decision-making,1 to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 

 

1 The term “competitive decision making,” as used in Paragraph 7.3(b), means decision making 

concerning lithium-ion batteries or lithium-ion battery products business strategy (including setting prices, 

product development, business plans and marketing). Pricing advice based on compliance with laws (e.g., 

compliance with the Robinson-Patman Act) does not qualify as competitive decision making.

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this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit 

A); 

(c) Experts and/or Consultants with respect to each of whom (1) disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (2) an “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective 

Order” (Exhibit A) has been signed; 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) stenographers, their staffs, Professional Vendors, and private mediators to whom 

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

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(f) the author, addressees, or recipients of the document; 

(g) during their deposition, any natural person who is specifically identified in the 

document, or whose conduct relevant to the claims or defenses in this litigation is purported to be 

specifically identified in the document; and 

(h) participants in a focus group or mock jury who have agreed in writing to keep the 

information confidential and not to use it for any purpose other than the focus group, mock jury, 

or similar exercise, provided that such participants shall not be permitted to retain any copies of 

any Protected Material or to retain any notes of any Protected Material. 

7.4 Disclosure of Information of Items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY”. The use of the designation “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY’ shall be limited to production of Protected Material of third 

parties in the possession of the Designating Party when such third party has instructed the 

designating Party to use this designation. No information or items designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” may be disclosed to any Party or its parents, 

subsidiaries, affiliates, current or former directors, officers, or employees, including In House 

Legal Personnel. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing or on the record 

by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose, summarize, describe, characterize or 

otherwise communicate or make available, in whole or in part, information or items designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” only to the following persons: 

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

employees of said counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation; 

(b) Experts and/or Consultants with respect to each of whom (1) disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (2) an “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective 

Order” (Exhibit A) has been signed; 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) stenographers, their staffs, Professional Vendors, and private mediators 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, addressees, or recipients of the document. 

7.5 Retention of Exhibit A. Outside Counsel for the Party that obtains the signed 

“Agreements To Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), as required above, shall retain such 

documents for one year following the final termination of this action, including any appeals, and 

shall make them available to other Parties upon good cause shown. 

7.6 Retention of Protected Material. Persons who have been shown Protected Material 

pursuant to Section 7.2(b), (c), (f), (g), (h), or (i); Section 7.3(a), (e), or (f); or Section 7.4(a) or 

(e) shall not retain copies of such Protected Material. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED 

IN OTHER LITIGATION

If a Receiving Party is served with a discovery request, subpoena or an order issued in 

other litigation that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action 

as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL 

ONLY,” or any information or items produced in this action regardless of designation, the 

Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by electronic mail, if possible), 

along with a copy of the discovery request, subpoena or order, as soon as reasonably practicable. 

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The Receiving Party also must immediately inform the party who caused the discovery 

request, 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 discovery request, subpoena or order to issue. 

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

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

try to protect its interests in the court from which the discovery request, subpoena or order is 

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

that court. 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 thirty days 

after the final termination of this action, including any appeals, each Receiving Party must return 

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

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

capturing any of the Protected Material. The Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the 

Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the Protected Material is returned or 

destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if 

not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the thirty 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, 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. INADVERTENTLY PRODUCED DOCUMENTS

If a Party at any time notifies any other Party that it inadvertently produced documents, 

testimony, information, and/or things that are protected from disclosure under the attorney-client 

privilege, work product doctrine, and/or any other applicable privilege or immunity from 

disclosure, or the Receiving Party discovers such inadvertent production, the inadvertent 

production shall not be deemed a waiver of the applicable privilege or protection. 

The Receiving Party shall immediately return all copies of such documents, testimony, 

information and/or things to the inadvertently producing Party and shall not use such items for 

any purpose until further order of the Court. In all events, such return must occur within three (3) 

business days of receipt of notice or discovery of the inadvertent production. The return of any 

discovery item to the inadvertently producing Party shall not in any way preclude the Receiving 

Party from moving the Court for a ruling that the document or thing was never privileged. 

13. ATTORNEY RENDERING ADVICE

Nothing in this Protective Order will bar or otherwise restrict an attorney from rendering 

advice to his or her client with respect to this matter or from relying upon or generally referring to 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

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ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL 

ONLY” Disclosure or Discovery Material in rendering such advice; provided however, that in 

rendering such advice or in otherwise communicating with his or her client, the attorney shall not 

reveal or disclose the specific content thereof if such disclosure is not otherwise permitted under 

this Protective Order. 

14. TRIAL

The terms of this Protective Order shall govern in all circumstances except at trial. The 

parties shall meet and confer in advance of trial and seek the guidance of the Court as to 

appropriate procedures to govern such proceedings. 

15. GRAND JURY DISCOVERY 

No party shall serve or seek any discovery that would refer, reflect, or relate to any party’s 

or witness’ communications with the United States or with the grand jury (including, but not 

limited to, the fact or the existence of such communications), relating to the grand jury 

proceedings concerning the lithium ion battery industry, except by order of the Court upon good 

cause shown and consistent with governing law. This provision shall not bar the production to 

Plaintiffs of documents produced by any defendant to the United States concerning lithium ion 

batteries and/or lithium ion battery products if ordered by the Court. 

16. MISCELLANEOUS

16.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 

seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

16.2 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. 

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Dated: April 4, 2016 

By: /s/ Valarie C. Williams 

 Valarie C. Williams 

ALSTON & BIRD 

1950 University Avenue, 5th Floor 

East Palo Alto, CA 94303-2282 

Telephone: 650-838-2000 

Facsimile: 650-838-2001 

lance.termes@alston.com 

James C. Grant** 

Valarie C. Williams ** 

B. Parker Miller** 

Edward P. Bonapfel** 

ALSTON & BIRD LLP 

1201 West Peachtree Street 

Atlanta, Georgia 30309 

Telephone: 404-881-7000 

Facsimile: 404-881-7777 

**Pending Pro Hac Vice Admission 

jim.grant@alston.com 

valarie.williams@alston.com 

parker.miller@alston.com 

ed.bonapfel@alston.com

Attorneys for Microsoft Mobile, Inc. and 

Microsoft Mobile Oy 

Dated: April 4, 2016 

By: /s/ John Dwyer 

 John Dwyer 

COOLEY LLP 

Stephen C. Neal 

John C. Dwyer 

3175 Hanover Street 

Palo Alto, CA 94304 

Telephone: (650) 843-5000 

Facsimile: (650) 857-0663 

nealsc@cooley.com 

dwyerjc@cooley.com 

Beatriz Mejia 

Matthew M. Brown (264817) 

101 California Street, 5th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-5800 

Telephone: (415) 693-2000 

Facsimile: (415) 693-2222 

mejiab@cooley.com 

brownmm@cooley.com 

Attorneys for Defendants Sony Corporation, 

Sony Electronics Inc., and Sony Energy 

Devices Corporation

Dated: April 4, 2016 

By: /s/ Michael W. Scarborough 

 Michael W. Scarborough 

Dylan Ian Ballard 

James Landon McGinnis 

Tyler Mark Cunningham 

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & 

HAMPTON 

Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-4106 

Telephone: (415) 434-9100 

Facsimile: (415) 434-3947 

mscarborough@smrh.com 

dballard@sheppardmullin.com 

jmcginnis@sheppardmullin.com 

tcunningham@sheppardmullin.com 

Attorneys for Defendants Samsung SDI 

America, Inc. and Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.

Dated: April 4, 2016 

By: /s/ Reginald Steer 

 Reginald Steer 

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD 

580 California Street, Suite 1500 

San Francisco, CA 94104-1036 

Telephone: (415) 765-9500 

Facsimile: (415) 765-9501 

rsteer@akingump.com 

Attorneys for LG Chem America, Inc. and LG 

Chem, Ltd. 

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Dated: April 4, 2016 

By: /s/ Jeffrey L. Kessler 

 Jeffrey L. Kessler 

A. Paul Victor (pro hac vice) 

Eva W. Cole (pro hac vice) 

Jeffrey J. Amato (pro hac vice) 

Erica C. Smilevski (pro hac vice) 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

200 Park Avenue 

New York, NY 10166-4193 

Telephone: (212) 294-4601 

Facsimile: (212) 294-4700 

jkessler@winston.com 

pvictor@winston.com 

ewcole@winston.com 

jamato@winston.com 

esmilevski@winston.com 

Ian L. Papendick (SBN 275648) 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

101 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 591-6904 

Facsimile: (415) 591-1400 

ipapendick@winston.com 

Roxann E. Henry (pro hac vice) 

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 

2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 

Suite 6000 

Washington, DC 20006 

Telephone: (202) 887-1500 

Facsimile: (202) 887-0763 

rhenry@mofo.com 

Counsel for Panasonic Corporation, Panasonic 

Corporation of North America, Sanyo Electric 

Co., Ltd., and Sanyo North America 

Corporation 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 18, 2016 ____________________________________ 

 The Honorable Donna M. Ryu 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Donna M. Ryu

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