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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:183 Patent Infringement

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING

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Jeffrey E. Ostrow (CSB No. 213118)

SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

3330 Hillview Avenue

Palo Alto, California 94304

Telephone: (650) 251-5000

Facsimile: (650) 251-5002

Henry B. Gutman (admitted pro hac vice)

Jeremy S. Pitcock (admitted pro hac vice)

SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

425 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10017

Telephone: (212) 455-2000

Facsimile: (212) 455-2502

Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterdefendant

3COM CORPORATION

David M. Barkan (CSB No. 160825/barkan@fr.com)

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

500 Arguello St., Suite 500

Redwood City, CA 94063

Telephone: (650) 839-5070

Facsimile: (650) 839-5071

Attorneys for Defendant

D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

3COM CORPORATION,

Plaintiff,

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D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC.

Defendant.

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CASE NO. C 05 00098 VRW

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

REGARDING DISCLOSURE OF

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

WHEREAS, Plaintiff 3Com Corporation and Defendant D-Link Systems, Inc. believe that 

certain information that is or may be sought through discovery in this action constitutes trade 

secrets or other “confidential research, development, or commercial information” within the 

meaning of Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c); and

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WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendant believe that it would facilitate discovery to produce 

such information under a protective order pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c);

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, subject to the approval of the Court, that:

1. Definitions:

(a) “Discovery Material” means any and all documents, testimony, deposition 

transcripts, deposition exhibits, interrogatory responses, admissions, and any other information 

produced or otherwise provided by a party or non-party to another party or non-party in 

connection with discovery in this litigation.

(b) “Designating Party” means any person or entity, whether a party to this lawsuit 

or not, who has designated documents or information as either “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” under this Order.

(c) “Producing Party” means any person or entity, whether a party to this lawsuit or 

not, who has produced documents or provided information in this litigation or from whom 

documents or information have been requested.

(d) “Receiving Party” means any party who has received documents or information 

in this litigation.

(e) “CONFIDENTIAL” information means information that the Producing Party in 

good faith believes to be “confidential research, development, or commercial information” within 

the meaning of Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c), including financial information, security measures, 

nonpublic technical information, ongoing research and development projects, unpublished patent 

applications and filewrappers, patent license agreements, or other non-public information.

(f) “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information means 

sensitive CONFIDENTIAL information that the Designating Party in good faith believes will 

harm its competitive position if the information becomes known to a party other than the 

Designating Party. The particular examples listed in sub-paragraph (e) above are not intended to 

create any presumption as to whether a particular type of document should be designated 

“Confidential-Attorneys Eyes Only” or “Confidential.”

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(g) “Confidential Discovery Material” means any Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” in 

accordance with the procedures set forth below, including but not limited to:

(i) Information furnished pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 

26.

(ii) Information furnished or set forth in response to any discovery 

request made under Fed. R. Civ. P. 31, 33, or 36, provided that, prior to disclosure to the 

Receiving Party, the information or responses are plainly marked or otherwise identified by the 

Designating Party on each page as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY”.

(iii) Information set forth in documents made available for inspection by 

the Producing Party voluntarily or under Fed. R. Civ. P. 33(d) or 34 and that are identified at the 

time of inspection as may be containing or comprising “Confidential Discovery Material,” shall be 

treated as CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” during the inspection. The party 

producing information for inspection need not designate the information by stamping or labeling it 

as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” until copies are 

delivered to the inspecting party in response to the inspecting party requesting copies of the 

information. Making documents and things available for inspection shall not constitute a waiver of 

any claim of confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, or work-product immunity.

(iv) Information set forth in any copies of documents produced to the 

Receiving Party voluntarily or under Fed. R. Civ. P. 33(d) or 34, provided that, prior to delivery of 

the copies to the Receiving Party, the copies are physically or digitally marked, as feasible, by the 

Designating Party as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

Each page, unit, or thing should be individually marked with the appropriate designation, as 

feasible.

(v) Information revealed by inspection of things or premises voluntarily 

or under Fed. R. Civ. P. 34, provided that, prior to the inspection, the party permitting inspection 

states in writing that its Confidential Discovery Material will be disclosed by the inspection and 

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specifies in writing those parts of the things or those areas of the premises in which its 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information will be 

revealed. Making things and premises available for inspection shall not constitute a waiver of any 

claim of confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, or work-product immunity.

(vi) Information revealed during deposition upon oral examination under 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 30 or pursuant to subpoena under Fed. R. Civ. P. 45, except that the information 

revealed during any particular deposition shall cease to be Confidential Discovery Material ten 

days after the deposition transcript becomes available, unless at the deposition or before the ten 

day period has expired, the witness, his employer, or his counsel states on the record at the 

deposition, or gives written notice before the ten day period expires, that “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information of the witness or his employer is 

set forth in the transcript. In the case of non-party witnesses, either a party or the non-party 

witness may designate information revealed as its “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL--

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information within ten days after the deposition transcript becomes 

available.

(vii) Any summary, digest, analysis, or comment on any Confidential 

Discovery Material identified in categories (i)-(v) that is not immune from discovery due to 

attorney-client privilege or work product immunity.

(h) Confidential Discovery Material shall not include any information that:

(i) is or becomes publicly available without the Receiving Party's 

breach of any obligation owed to the Designating Party;

(ii) is lawfully in the possession of a party receiving such information 

without any confidentiality obligations at the time of disclosure; or

(iii) is lawfully disclosed by a third party that is not subject to any 

confidentiality obligations at the time of disclosure.

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2. Confidential Discovery Material designated “CONFIDENTIAL” may only 

be disclosed to the persons falling within the categories specified in paragraphs 2(a), (b), (c), and 

(d) below:

(a) the Court and Court personnel involved with this case under seal as 

mandated by the Court's Local Rules;

(b) the parties' respective outside counsel of record in this action and also 

outside counsel for Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (“MSI”), including counsel’s legal support staff 

and outside copying and graphics services as reasonably necessary to perform such services under 

the supervision of outside counsel of record;

(c) outside stenographic court reporters and language translators (including 

support staff as reasonably necessary); and

(d) the additional individuals listed in categories (i) through (vi) immediately 

below, provided such additional individuals—except for those in category (iii) with respect to the 

Confidential Discovery Materials identified in category (iii)—have read this Protective Order in 

advance of disclosure and signed an Undertaking in the form attached as Exhibit A, which shall be 

retained in the files of outside counsel with whom the additional individual is associated:

(i) up to three (3) officers, directors, or employees of each party, and up 

to one (1) officer, director, or employee of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (“MSI”) to the extent 

necessary to assist in the conduct of this litigation, and who are specifically designated by written 

notice to the other party identifying each such person by name and position; 

(ii) any person retained by a party or its counsel of record as an 

independent consultant or testifying expert for purposes of this action who has no continuing 

relationship, other than as an expert or consultant, with any of the parties hereto or their affiliates, 

or any of their competitors, and retained in accordance with the provisions set forth in 

paragraph 5 below;

(iii) a deponent or other witness who is named as an author or recipient 

of, has previously seen the contents of, has at any time been authorized to see, or would normally 

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be expected to have seen or have access to the type of document or thing marked as Confidential 

Discovery Material that is to be disclosed to them;

(iv) paralegals, stenographic and clerical employees, and translators 

associated with the individuals enumerated in (a) and (d)(i) - (iii) above, but only as part of a 

disclosure to said individuals in accordance with this Protective Order;

(v) any person retained by a party to supervise the destruction of 

Confidential Discovery Material per paragraph 14 below under the supervision of a party's 

outside counsel of record; and

(vi) such other individuals as the parties may agree to in writing or in a 

transcribed record.

(e) Any disclosure of “Confidential Discovery Material” to an individual listed in 

items (d)(i) through (iv) under paragraph 2 above shall be limited to the information, documents 

and/or things that outside counsel believes are reasonably required for such individual to assist in 

this litigation.

3. Information designated “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY” 

may only be used for purposes of this litigation, and may only be disclosed to persons falling 

within the categories specified in Paragraphs 2(a), (b), (c), and (d)(ii)–(vi) of this Order, who are 

not currently engaged and shall not engage during the course of this litigation and for a period of 

two (2) years following final disposition of this litigation (whether by judgment including 

exhaustion of all appeals, settlement, or otherwise) in the preparation or prosecution of patent 

application(s) related to network interface hardware, including cards, adaptors, converters, circuit 

boards, chips, motherboards, hubs, routers, switches, controllers, and associated software and 

firmware used to operate the network interface hardware, including direct supervision or 

assistance thereof, on behalf of 3Com Corporation, D-Link Systems, Inc., Via Technologies, Inc., 

Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. or any of their corporate 

parents, predecessors in interest, subsidiaries, joint ventures, affiliates, or any other entities 

partially or wholly under their control or ownership, and only in accordance with the procedures 

established under this Order. The prohibitions on patent prosecution activity stated above does not 

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preclude said persons from counseling a client regarding prosecution strategy involving a client's 

patent portfolio, so long as the counsel provided by said persons is not based upon the information 

designated either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY.”

4. Counsel shall exert their best efforts to identify materials or information 

protected by the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, and/or any other privilege, 

before its disclosure. The inadvertent production (including through making the material available 

for inspection under paragraph 1(g)(iv)) of any document or thing by any Producing Party shall be 

without prejudice to any claim by the Producing Party that such material is protected by the 

attorney-client privilege, or protected from discovery as work product. Provided that diligent 

efforts are made to ensure that documents are carefully reviewed for privilege and that efforts to 

retrieve inadvertently produced documents are commenced within a reasonable period of time 

after discovery of their production, the Producing Party shall not be held to have waived any rights 

thereunder merely by inadvertent production made subsequent to the execution of this Order. If 

within a reasonable time after the discovery of the inadvertent production a Producing Party 

asserts that such materials are protected by the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, or 

any other claim of privilege, and were inadvertently produced, the Receiving Party shall take 

immediate steps to ensure that all known copies of such material are returned promptly to the 

Producing Party. The cost, if any, for excising such materials by the Receiving Party shall be 

borne by the Producing Party. Any party may thereafter contest such claims of privilege or work 

product as if the materials had not been produced, but shall not assert that a waiver occurred as a 

result of the production if the Producing Party has complied with the provisions of this paragraph.

5. Prior to showing any Confidential Discovery Material of the Designating 

Party to any of the individuals identified in paragraph 2(d)(ii) above, the party proposing the 

disclosure shall serve on the Designating Party and on MSI: (i) a written notice identifying such 

individual and stating such individual's present occupation, employer and position, and all other 

business affiliations for the past 10 years, (ii) the most up-to-date copy of such individual's 

curriculum vitae, and (iii) an Undertaking in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A executed by 

such individual. The Designating Party and MSI shall have ten (10) calendar days to object to the 

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disclosure of its Confidential Discovery Material to such individual. If at the end of the 10-

calendar-day period no written objection has been received by the party that wishes to disclose the 

information, then the individual may receive copies of such Confidential Discovery Material upon 

compliance with all applicable provisions of this Protective Order. Such an objection, however, 

shall stay disclosure to the proposed recipient. If the Designating Party or MSI and party 

proposing disclosure are unable to resolve a disagreement, the party proposing to make the 

disclosure may thereupon seek leave of the Court to make the disclosure, notwithstanding the 

objection, in accordance with the assigned Judges’ procedures for raising discovery disputes, in 

particular section 1.5 of Judge Walker’s Standing Order.

6. Any information designated as Confidential Discovery Material may not be 

offered into evidence at trial or any other proceeding unless the Designating Party is given 

reasonable notice and an opportunity to object and to seek a protective order. For the purposes of 

trial, designation of information in the pre-trial order shall be considered sufficient notice to a 

party with respect to the information referenced therein. For the purposes of motion practice, the 

parties shall follow the procedures set forth in Civil L.R. 79-5(d) with respect to the filing of 

another party’s designated material and following that procedure shall be considered full 

compliance with this paragraph.

7. Counsel shall exert their best efforts to identify Confidential Discovery 

Material. The inadvertent designation, misdesignation, or non-designation of any document or 

thing by any party or non-party shall be without prejudice to any claim the party or non-party has 

to preserve the confidentiality of inadvertently disclosed information. Provided that efforts to 

retrieve inadvertently designated documents are commenced within a reasonable period of time 

after discovery of their production, no Producing Party shall be held to have waived any rights 

thereunder by inadvertent disclosure. If within a reasonable time after discovery of the 

inadvertent production a Producing Party asserts that such materials should be designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” and were 

inadvertently produced with a different designation, the Receiving Party shall take immediate 

steps to ensure that all known copies of such material are appropriately disclosed according to the 

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provisions of this Order. The cost, if any, for redesignating such materials by the Receiving Party 

shall be borne by the Producing Party.

8. This Protective Order shall not prevent any party from moving this Court 

for an order de-designating or re-designating Confidential Discovery Materials. The information 

shall remain Confidential Discovery Material and under the status given by the Designating Party 

unless and until the Court rules to the contrary. It shall be the burden of the Designating Party to 

prove that its designation is appropriate. Further, a Receiving Party is not obligated to challenge 

the propriety of a designation as Confidential Discovery Material at the time of the designation, 

but must make all such challenges not later than 60 days prior to the trial date in this action.

9. In the event of any accidental or inadvertent disclosure of Confidential 

Discovery Material other than in a manner authorized by this Protective Order, counsel for any 

party who knows or becomes aware of such disclosure shall immediately notify counsel for the 

Designating Party of all of the pertinent facts, and make every effort to prevent further 

unauthorized disclosure, including retrieving all copies of any Confidential Discovery Material a 

party has improperly disclosed from the recipient(s) thereof and securing the agreement of the 

recipients in writing not to further disseminate the Confidential Discovery Material in any form.

10. Each recipient of any Confidential Discovery Material produced in this 

litigation hereby agrees to be subject to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of the 

implementation and enforcement of this Protective Order.

11. Confidential Discovery Material shall not be used or disclosed by any 

recipient for any purpose other than in connection with the above-captioned action and shall not 

be disclosed by the recipient to anyone other than those persons as designated in the appropriate 

section of paragraphs 2 and 3 herein, unless and until the restrictions herein are removed by order 

of the Court or by written stipulation of the parties and Designating Party, subject to the approval 

of the Court. 

12. Nothing herein shall bar or restrict any attorney from rendering advice to 

his or her client regarding this litigation and, in the course thereof, relying upon his or her 

examination of Confidential Discovery Material, provided, however, that in rendering such 

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advice and in otherwise communicating with his or her client, the attorney shall not disclose the 

content of any Confidential Discovery Material to anyone not authorized to receive such 

information in accordance with this Protective Order.

13. This Protective Order shall not be deemed a waiver of:

(a) any party's right to object to any discovery requests on any grounds;

(b) any party's right to seek an order compelling discovery with respect to any 

discovery request;

(c) any party's right in any proceeding in this litigation to object to the 

admission of any evidence on any ground;

(d) any party's right to use and disclose its own documents and its own 

Confidential Discovery Material in its sole and complete discretion; or

 (e) the status of any information as a trade secret or other confidential 

information.

14. This Protective Order shall be valid throughout the course of this litigation 

(defined to include all proceedings herein, appeals, and/or remands) and shall survive the 

termination of this litigation. Within sixty (60) days of the final termination of this litigation, all 

documents and copies of documents (including any copies created by optical scanning) produced 

by the parties or by nonparties designated as containing Confidential Discovery Material shall be 

returned to the Designating Party or destroyed. If destroyed or returned pursuant to this provision, 

the person or persons who destroy and/or return such Confidential Discovery Material shall 

provide written certification to the Designating Party within sixty (60) days of final 

termination of this litigation that such information has been properly destroyed or returned. 

The terms of this Protective Order shall survive and remain in full force after the termination 

of this lawsuit and the Court shall have jurisdiction over the parties, their attorneys, and all 

persons to whom Confidential Discovery Material has been disclosed for the purpose of 

enforcing the terms of this Protective Order and/or redressing any violation thereof.

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15. The terms of this Protective Order may be applied to the documents, 

information and things received by a party from any person who is not a party to this litigation at 

the election of such person.

16. Counsel for the parties to whom Confidential Discovery Material has been 

furnished shall be responsible for restricting disclosure in accordance with the provisions of this 

Protective Order and for securing execution of and retaining the Undertaking attached as Exhibit 

A as and when required under the provisions of this Protective Order.

17. This Protective Order may be modified or amended either by agreement of 

the parties or by further order of the Court upon good cause shown. 

18. Mock Jurors: A party may show another party’s Confidential Discovery 

Material to mock jury members after providing to the party owning the Confidential Discovery 

Material written assurance that it will use reasonable measures to screen the potential mock jurors 

to exclude any individuals who are employed by, have a relationship with, have ownership of or 

interests in, or are otherwise associated in any way with, any party and all predecessors, successor 

and assigns thereof, or any other entity involved in research, design, testing, manufacture and/or 

sale of networking equipment, network interface hardware, including cards, adaptors, converters, 

circuit boards, chips, motherboards, hubs, routers, switches, controllers, and associated software 

and firmware used to operate the network interface hardware. Additionally, prior to any 

disclosure of another party’s Confidential Discovery Material to mock jury members, each mock 

jury member must provide in writing to counsel for the party retaining the jury member an 

agreement to maintain as confidential all Confidential Discovery Material disclosed during the 

mock jury exercise. All materials provided to mock jury members must be returned to counsel for 

the party retaining the mock jury members after the conclusion of the mock jury exercise.

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Dated: February 9, 2006

__/s/ Henry B. Gutman__________________

Henry B. Gutman (Admitted pro hac vice)

SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

425 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10017

Telephone: (212) 455-2000

Facsimile: (212) 455-2502

Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterdefendant

3COM CORPORATION

Dated: February 9, 2006

__/s/ David M. Barkan ______________ 

David M. Barkan (CSB No. 160825/

barkan@fr.com)

Craig R. Compton (CSB No. 215491/

compton@fr.com)

FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.

500 Arguello St., Suite 500

Redwood City, CA 94063

Telephone: (650) 839-5070

Facsimile: (650) 839-5071

Attorneys for Defendant

D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC.

Pursuant to General Order No. 45, Section X(B) regarding signatures, I attest under 

penalty of perjury that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from David 

M. Barkan.

SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

By: /s/ Henry B. Gutman

Henry B. Gutman (admitted pro hac vice)

Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterdefendant

IT IS SO ORDERED:

Dated:

Hon. Vaughn R. Walker

United States District Judge

March 21, 2006

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Vaughn R Walker

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UNDERTAKING AND DECLARATION PURSUANT 

TO STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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ATTACHMENT A

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

3COM CORPORATION,

Plaintiff,

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D-LINK SYSTEMS, INC.

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UNDERTAKING AND DECLARATION PURSUANT

TO STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING

DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

I, __________________________________, hereby acknowledge that I am to be provided 

access to Confidential Discovery Material as defined in the Protective Order dated 

______________________ in the above-captioned lawsuit.

My address is ____________________________________________. My present 

employer is ________________________________________. My present occupation or job 

description is _________________________________________.

I certify my understanding that the Confidential Discovery Material is being provided to 

me pursuant to the terms and restrictions of the aforesaid Protective Order and that I have been 

given a copy of and have read and understood my obligations under that Protective Order. I hereby 

agree to be bound by the terms of the Protective Order. I understand that the Confidential 

Discovery Material and my copies or notes relating thereto may be disclosed to or discussed with 

only those persons permitted by the Protective Order to receive such information. I will return 

upon request all information containing Confidential Discovery Material, copies thereof and notes 

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UNDERTAKING AND DECLARATION PURSUANT 

TO STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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that I have prepared relating thereto, to outside trial counsel for the party with whom I am 

associated.

I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purpose of enforcement of the 

Protective Order and waive any and all objections to jurisdiction and venue.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 

foregoing is true and correct.

SIGNED this _____ day of ________, 20__

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(signature)

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(print name)

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