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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:101 Copyright Infringement

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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Counsel Listed on Signature Page 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

AJAXO, INC. a Delaware Corporation; and 

K. C. MULTIMEDIA, INC., a Delaware 

Corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

BANK OF AMERICA TECHNOLOGY 

AND OPERATIONS, INC., a Delaware 

Corporation; BANK OF AMERICA 

CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation; 

BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL 

ASSOCIATION; and ALLEN TAM, an 

individual, 

Defendants. 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 

disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted. 

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and request 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. 

2. DEFINITIONS

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

employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel of record (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 is or contains confidential technical, 

research, development, proprietary, financial, or commercial information of the Designating 

Party, or personal information furnished to the Designating Party in confidence by any thirdparty. 

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

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

non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less 

restrictive means. 

2.5 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only – Source Code” Information 

or Items: all source code produced by a Designating Party. 

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2.6 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

2.7 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.8 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 – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only – Source 

Code.” 

2.9 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential,” “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” or “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only – Source Code.” 

2.10 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are 

retained to represent a Party in this action as that Party’s counsel of record. 

2.11 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.12 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well 

as their support staffs). 

2.13 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 approved pursuant to section 8 below. 

2.14 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. 

2.15 Document: shall have the meaning set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure Rule 34(a). 

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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. 

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

Order, 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. 

Protected Material shall be designated and marked as follows: 

5.1.1 Documents are to be designated as Protected Material by affixing the 

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”). 

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 

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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”). 

5.1.2 Information or materials produced in electronic or magnetic medium (such 

as DC, DVD, floppy diskette or tape) and any other tangible items shall be designated as 

Protected Material by marking or labeling, in a prominent place, the container or containers in 

which the information or item is stored with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

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

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY – SOURCE CODE.” 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,” “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only,” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only – Source Code.” 

5.1.3 Deposition or trial transcripts (including exhibits) are to be designated as 

Protected Material (i) by making a statement to that effect on the record, during the deposition or 

other proceeding, or (ii) by sending to all other parties, the court reporter for the deposition, and 

all other persons known to the Designating Party to have received a copy of the deposition 

transcript, within ten (10) business days after counsel for the Designating Party receives the final 

deposition transcripts, a letter or other written notice designating the relevant portions or entirety 

of the transcript as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY.” The letter or other notice shall identify the appropriate level of confidentiality, and 

identify the pages and lines, and/or exhibits, to be Protected Material. Each copy of the transcript 

or videotape, and portions thereof, so designated shall be marked, by the person receiving the 

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letter or other notice, with the legend specified in subparagraphs 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 above indicating 

the level of confidentiality claimed by the Designating Party and shall be governed by the terms 

of this Protective Order. The court reporter and/or videographer shall separately bind any portion 

of the transcript of the deposition or hearing that has been designated to contain Protected 

Material. Copies of the separately bound portions of the transcript containing Protected Material 

may be provided only to persons permitted by the other provisions of this Protective Order to 

receive such Protected Material. In situations where the transcript in question involves a number 

of responses that may contain Protected Material and it is impractical to designate the appropriate 

level of confidentiality after every response, a Designating Party may comply with this portion of 

the Protective Order by designating the entire transcript as either “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” and then, upon written request 

from any other party, lowering or removing the level of confidentiality for specific portions of the 

transcript. 

If a deposition, proceeding or portion thereof is designated on the record, during 

the deposition or proceeding, as Protected Material, the deposition or proceeding shall continue in 

the absence of all persons to whom access to Protected Material is not permitted under this Order. 

5.2 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 

failure to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential,” “Highly Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only – Source Code” 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,” “Highly Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only – Source Code” after the 

material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on timely written notification of the 

designation, shall promptly ensure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of 

this Order. 

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6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. 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 conferring directly 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 L.R. 37-251 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. 

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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 solely for 

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle the above-captioned litigation. Such Protected 

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

this Order. (For purposes of this Order, “disclose” means to show, furnish, provide, or discuss the 

contents of, in whole or in part, the original, a copy, or any summaries of the referenced materials 

or document.) When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the 

provisions of section 12, 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. 

7.2 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: 

7.2.1 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; 

7.2.2 Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 

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

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), and who have previously been approved pursuant to the 

procedure set forth in section 8, below; 

7.2.3 The Court and its personnel; 

7.2.4 Court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

7.2.5 Deposition witnesses, where at least one of the following conditions 

applies: 

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7.2.5.1 the witness is an employee of the Designating Party when the 

disclosure is made; 

7.2.5.2 the attorney taking the deposition and showing the witness the 

Protected Material represents the Designating Party; 

7.2.5.3 the witness’s name appears on the Protected Material as a person 

who has previously seen or received the Protected Material, other than through improper 

means, or it is otherwise established that the witness has previously seen or received, 

through proper means, the Protected Material; 

7.2.5.4 the Designating Party has consented on the record of the deposition 

to the showing of the Protected Material to the witness; or 

7.2.5.5 at least three business three (3) business days before the deposition, 

the party wishing to show the witness the Protected Material notifies the Designating 

Party in writing of its intent to do so, with a specific listing of the Protected Material to be 

shown, and the Designating Party fails to provide, within one (1) business day of receipt 

of the notice, written objection to this use of Protected Material. If a timely written 

objection is provided, the Protected Information listed in the written objection shall not be 

shown to the witness unless and until the party wishing to show that Protected Material to 

the witness moves for and obtains appropriate relief from the Court. 

Witnesses being shown Protected Material under subsection 7.2.5.5 above 

must sign the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A) before being 

shown the Protected Material. Counsel defending the deponent to which Protected 

Material is disclosed during deposition shall provide to counsel for the Designating Party, 

before the start of the deposition, a copy of the executed Agreement. 

7.2.6 The author of the document or the original source of the information. 

7.2.7 Litigation support services, including independent document copiers, 

graphic artists and jury consultants who have an obligation to keep such information confidential; 

7.2.8 Any mediators and their personnel selected or appointed by the Court; 

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7.2.9 Mock jurors or focus group members engaged by a jury consultant in 

preparation for trial, provided that no such persons are officers, directors, or employees of any 

Party or of any direct competitors of any Party and that any such persons have signed the 

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A). 

7.3 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 information or materials designated CONFIDENTIAL only to the categories of persons 

designated in section 7.2 above, as well as to: 

7.3.1 House Counsel for each Party who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

7.3.2 Five (5) identified officers, directors or 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), provided that such officers, directors 

or employees must be identified to the Designating Party before any disclosure of Protected 

Material is made. If the Receiving Party is an individual Party to this action, as opposed to a 

corporate entity, that individual may have access to information or materials designated 

CONFIDENTIAL provided that the individual Party sign the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A) before any disclosure of Protected Material is made. 

7.4 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY – SOURCE CODE” Information or Items. All source code produced by a Party pursuant 

to pretrial discovery shall be subject to the same restrictions as information designated as “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” provided that such Party designates such source code as 

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only – Source Code.” In addition, the following 

restrictions shall apply to source code designated as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

– Source Code”: 

7.4.1 A single electronic copy of source code or executable code shall be 

produced to Outside Counsel for the Receiving Party. The produced electronic copy may be in an 

encrypted form and the Producing Party must provide the Outside Counsel for the Receiving 

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Party with specific decryption instructions and a decryption software application, if such 

application is necessary, for decoding the code. 

7.4.2 Except as provided in section 7.4.4 below, such electronic copy may only 

be installed on a single stand-alone non-networked desktop computer in such Outside Counsel’s 

offices and may not be removed from those offices except to the extent it may be temporarily 

stored at the site where any deposition related to the information is being taken, the courthouse, or 

any intermediate location reasonably necessary to transport the material to the site of a deposition 

or the courthouse (e.g., a hotel before a deposition). 

7.4.3 The stand-alone computer and any other computer with temporary copies 

of the code shall be equipped with a password protection/lockout/screen saver function having a 

“timeout” period of ten (10) minutes or less; the password for such function shall be known only 

to those people who are allowed to have access to the code in accordance with this Order. 

7.4.4 Other than prescribed in this Order, source code may not be printed or 

copied without the agreement of the Producing Party or further order of the Court, except: 

7.4.4.1 Hard copies of a source code file or excerpts of a source code file 

may be made to the extent necessary for the persons allowed access to “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” information, provided that material printed from the 

source code production shall be marked “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only – 

Source Code”; 

7.4.4.2 One electronic copy may be made for, and held at the offices of, 

each Expert subject to the requirements of section 8 hereof. Such copies shall be treated 

as set forth herein; 

7.4.4.3 Volatile copies necessarily made in the course of loading, 

accessing, and analyzing the source code on the non-networked computer, may be made 

without prior consent of the Producing Party. 

7.4.5 Under no circumstances may material designated “Highly Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only – Source Code” be transmitted electronically, e.g., via modem, network or 

the Internet, by or at the direction of anyone including Outside Counsel or an Expert for the 

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Receiving Party. 

8. PROCEDURES FOR APPROVING DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED 

MATERIAL TO “EXPERTS”

8.1 Timing of Notification. 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 Protected Material must notify in writing the Designating Party or parties, at least ten 

(10) business days before allowing such access (or such shorter period to which the Designating 

Party agrees in writing). The identification of an expert or consultant pursuant to this Order shall 

not be construed as the identification of an expert trial witness under Federal Rule 26(a)(2), and 

shall not constitute a waiver of attorney work-product protection or the attorney-client privilege. 

8.2 Contents of the Written Notification. Such written notice shall include the 

following: (1) the name of the Expert; (2) the present employer and title of the Expert; (3) a copy 

of the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A) signed by the Expert that states 

that the Expert has read and understood the terms of this Order and agrees to be bound by its 

terms; (4) a current curriculum vitae that lists all employers and clients to whom the Expert has 

provided services in the past five (5) years, cases in which the Expert has testified as an expert at 

trial or by deposition in litigation relating to semiconductor technology at any time, and all cases 

in which the Expert has testified as an expert at trial or by deposition within the past five (5) 

years. 

8.3 Objections by Disclosing Parties. Before the ten (10) business day period 

from the receipt of the written notification has expired, a Designating Party may object in writing 

to the disclosure of Protected Material to the Expert in question. If no such written objection is 

made within the ten (10) business day period, then Protected Material may be disclosed to the 

Expert in question. If an objection is made, the parties must first meet and confer in an attempt to 

resolve the objection. If the objection is not resolved within ten (10) business days of service of 

the notice of written objection to disclosure, the Objecting Party shall file and serve a motion with 

respect to its objection within twenty (20) business days after service of the notice of written 

objection to disclosure. If the Objecting Party does not file the appropriate motion with the Court 

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within that time, or within any additional time within which to move as may be granted by the 

Court or agreed to by stipulation of the parties, the Objecting Party waives its right to challenge 

the disclosure of Protected Material to the identified Expert, and the Protected Material may then 

be disclosed to the identified Expert. An identified Expert shall not be provided access to any 

Protected Material until a timely-filed objection or motion challenging disclosure to that Expert is 

resolved. 

9. 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 Protected 

Material, the Receiving Party must notify the Designating Party, in writing (by email or fax, if 

possible) immediately and in no event more than three (3) court days after receiving the subpoena 

or order. 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. 

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 

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Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective 

Order, the Receiving Party shall immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of all 

facts pertinent to the disclosure that, after due diligence and prompt investigation, are known to 

the party responsible for the disclosure (including the name, address, telephone number, and 

employer of the person to whom the disclosure was made), (b) take all reasonable efforts to 

prevent further disclosure by each unauthorized person who received such information, and (c) 

require each unauthorized person to return all Protected Material that was improperly disclosed to 

that person, all copies made of the improperly disclosed Protected Material, and all documents 

containing excerpts from or references to the improperly disclosed Protected Material. 

11. 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 L.R. 39-141. If the Party wishing to file or refer to a document that has been designated as 

Protected Material does not agree that the material is properly sealable under L.R. 39-141, the 

Party must still comply with L.R. 39-141 but may indicate in the motion for a sealing order that 

the Party does not believe the material is sealable. Within three (3) court days thereafter, the 

Designating Party may file with the Court a motion and appropriate declaration pursuant to L.R. 

39-141 establishing that the Protected Material is sealable. If the Designating Party does not file 

its responsive declaration as required herein, the document or proposed filing will be made part of 

the public record. 

12. FINAL DISPOSITION

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

after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must 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 

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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, 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. 

13. INFORMATION PROTECTED BY PRIVILEGE, WORK PRODUCT, OR 

OTHER DOCTRINE

The inadvertent production of any document or other materials or information which the 

producing party contends is subject to the attorney-client privilege, work-product protection, or 

any other privilege or protection against discovery shall not necessarily be deemed a waiver in 

whole or in part of the claim of privilege or protection, either as to the specific document or the 

information disclosed or as to any other document or information relating thereto. Within a 

reasonable time after the discovery of the inadvertent production, the producing party shall give 

notice to the receiving party that privileged documents or information have been inadvertently 

produced or disclosed and request the return of such documents. Any document or portion of 

transcript, including all copies thereof, constituting or containing information as to which notice 

of inadvertent production is given shall be returned to the producing party within fifteen (15) 

calendar days of such demand. If the Receiving Party objects to the claim of privilege, the claim 

of inadvertent production and/or the reasonableness of the notice given, the Receiving Party and 

the Producing Party shall attempt to resolve the dispute. If the dispute is not resolved, the 

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Receiving Party may move the Court to compel the re-production of the document(s) at issue. 

From the time of the Producing Party’s notification of inadvertent production, any documents or 

information as to which notice is given shall be deemed and treated as privileged and shall not be 

used for any purpose until the Court enters an order ruling otherwise, or until the Receiving Party 

and the Producing Party otherwise agree. 

14. USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL BY DESIGNATING PARTY

Nothing in this Protective Order limits a Party’s ability to show materials which that Party 

has designated as Protected Material to whomever the Designating Party may deem appropriate. 

Further, nothing in this Protective Order limits a Party’s ability to show materials designated by 

another party as Protected Material to that Designating Party, including any present officer, 

director, employee, or representative thereof. 

15. JURISDICTION

Each person receiving Protected Material under the terms of this Protective Order hereby 

agrees to subject himself or herself to the jurisdiction of this Court for purposes of any 

proceedings relating to the performance under, compliance with, or violation of this Protective 

Order. 

16. USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL DURING COURT PROCEEDINGS

If any Protected Material is used in any Court pretrial proceeding in this litigation 

(including, but not limited to, conferences, oral arguments, and hearings), the Protected Material 

shall not lose its status as Protected Material through such use. The Parties shall take all steps 

reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality of the Protected Material during any such use, 

including, but not limited to, requesting in camera proceedings. The terms of this Protective 

Order do not preclude, limit, restrict, or otherwise apply to the use of documents at trial. The 

Parties agree to meet and confer in good faith prior to trial to establish procedures for the use of 

Protected Material at trial. 

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17. MODIFICATION OF PROTECTIVE ORDER

Each Party reserves the right to request that the Court modify the terms of this Protective 

Order in the event that the Party believes that a modification is necessary. If such an application 

is made, all signatories of copies of the Certification, as well as persons described herein, shall 

remain bound by this Protective Order unless and until it is modified by the Court. 

18. MISCELLANEOUS

18.1 No Admissions. Compliance with this Order in no way constitutes an 

admission by any Party that any information designated pursuant to this Protective Order is or is 

not proprietary, confidential, or a trade secret. 

18.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 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 Order. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: March 25, 2008 DARIN W. SNYDER 

LUANN L. SIMMONS 

REBECCA B. BAUER 

WHITNEY MCCOLLUM 

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

By: /s/ Luann L. Simmons 

Luann L. Simmons 

Attorneys for Defendants 

BANK OF AMERICA TECHNOLOGY AND 

OPERATIONS, INC., BANK OF AMERICA 

CORP. and BANK OF AMERICA 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 

Dated: March 24, 2008 JAMES MCMANIS 

NEDA MANSOORIAN 

GEOFFREY BENTZEL 

MCMANIS FAULKNER & MORGAN 

By: /s/ Neda Mansoorian 

Neda Mansoorian 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ALLEN TAM 

Dated: March 21, 2008 RICHARD L. ANTOGNINI 

LAW OFFICES OF RICHARD L. 

ANTOGNINI 

By: /s/ Richard L. Antognini 

Richard L. Antognini 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

AJAXO, INC. and K.C. MULTIMEDIA, INC. 

I, Luann L. Simmons, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this 

Stipulated [Proposed] Protective Order. In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby 

attest that Neda Mansoorian and Richard L. Antognini have concurred in this filing. 

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Dated: March 25, 2008 O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

By: /s/ Luann L. Simmons 

Luann L. Simmons 

Attorneys for Defendants 

BANK OF AMERICA TECHNOLOGY AND 

OPERATIONS, INC., BANK OF AMERICA 

CORP., and BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL 

ASSOCIATION 

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 03/28/08 

 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows

 U.S. Magistrate Judge 

Ajaxo.po

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print or 

type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand 

the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California on ____________ in the case of Ajaxo, Inc. & K. C. Multimedia, Inc. v. 

Bank of America Technology and Operations, Inc. et al., Case No. 07-00945 GEB GGH. 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 Eastern District of California for the 

purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement 

proceedings occur after termination of this action. I hereby appoint 

__________________________ [print or type full name] of 

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone 

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

proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: 

Signature: 

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