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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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GEORGE M. BORKOWSKI (State Bar No. 133416) 

MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP

11377 West Olympic Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90064-1683

Telephone: (310) 312-2000

Facsimile: (310) 312-3100

DICKSON M. LUPO

BRUCE J. ROSE

S. BENJAMIN PLEUNE

ALSTON & BIRD, LLP

101 South Tryon Street

Charlotte, NC 28280

Telephone: (704) 444-1000

Facsimile: (704) 444-1111

Attorneys for Defendants

Homestore, Inc., The National Association of Realtors

and The National Association of Home Builders 

of the United States

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

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

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

warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the 

following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not 

confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection 

it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the 

KEVIN L. KEITHLEY,

Plaintiff,

v.

HOMESTORE.COM, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. C 03-4447 MJJ

The Honorable Martin J. Jenkins

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as 

set forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to 

file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that 

must be followed and reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission 

from the court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

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

2.2. Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 

of the medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, 

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

responses to discovery in this matter.

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how 

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

developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c).

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

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

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

restrictive means.

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

from a Producing Party.

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

Discovery Material in this action.

2.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

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2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

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

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

are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

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

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as 

well as their support staffs).

2.12 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter

pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert 

witness or as a consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party 

or of a competitor of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become 

an employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party’s. 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 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.

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5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each 

Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must 

take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate 

standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of 

material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other 

portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not 

warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 

that are shown to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., 

to unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process, or to impose unnecessary 

expenses and burdens on other parties), expose the Designating Party to sanctions.

If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s attention that information or items that 

it designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for the level 

of protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties 

that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

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

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

ordered, material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated 

before the material is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of 

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

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

top of 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 

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portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each 

portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials 

available for inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party 

has indicated which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and 

before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has 

identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine 

which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order, then, before 

producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend 

(“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) at 

the top of each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the 

material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the 

protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, 

for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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

proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the 

record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected 

testimony, and further specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” When it is impractical to identify 

separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears that 

substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party that 

sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or 

proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions of the 

testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted 

(“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within 

the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately 

bound by the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend 

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

instructed by the Party or nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 

testimony.

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary, and 

for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the 

exterior of the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 

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

only portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent

practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as 

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

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

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

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure 

protection under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as 

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was 

initially produced, the Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make 

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

this Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating 

Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, 

unnecessary economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a 

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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 (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are 

not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party 

must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and 

must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to 

reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis 

for the chosen designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the 

challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party 

may file and serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local 

Rule 79-5, if applicable) that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the 

basis for the challenge. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration 

that affirms that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in 

the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the 

confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer 

dialogue.

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

Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford 

the material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing 

Party’s designation.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

disclosed or produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for 

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prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be 

disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. 

When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions 

of section 11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION). Protected Material must be stored and 

maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a secure manner that ensures that access 

is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 

otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving 

Party may disclose any information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to:

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

well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

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

Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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

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

have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(c) experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom

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

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(d) the Court and its personnel;

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

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

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

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

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

Order” (Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that 

reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be 

disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order.

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(g) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing 

by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to:

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

well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation;

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

competitive decision-making or in patent prosecutions involving automatically updating 

demographic databases (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, and 

(3) who has signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4, 

below, have been followed;

(d) the Court and its personnel;

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

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

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and

(f) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts”

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined in this Order) any

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

EYES ONLY” first must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies 

the specific HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party seeks 

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permission to disclose to the Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and 

state of his or her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) 

identifies the Expert’s current employer(s), (5) identifies each person or entity from whom the 

Expert has received compensation for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the 

expert has provided professional services at any time during the preceding five years, and (6) 

identifies (by name and number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in 

connection with which the Expert has provided any professional services during the preceding 

five years.

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

in the preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified 

Expert unless, within seven court days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written 

objection from the Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds 

on which it is based.

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

confer with the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the 

matter by agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to 

the Expert may file a motion as provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil 

Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) seeking permission from the court to do so. Any such motion 

must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the 

disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure 

would entail and suggest any additional means that might be used to reduce that risk. In 

addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration in which the 

movant describes the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and 

the content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets forth the reasons advanced by the 

Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure.

In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert 

shall bear the burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under 

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the safeguards proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected 

Material to its Expert.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION.

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other 

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

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

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

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

Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. The Receiving Party 

also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the subpoena or order to issue 

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

subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must deliver a copy of this 

Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that caused the subpoena 

or order to issue.

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

existence of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an 

opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena 

or order issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking 

protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful 

directive from another court.

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL.

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

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

Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating 

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Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the 

Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were 

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

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

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. Without written permission from the 

Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a 

Party may not file in the public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks 

to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5.

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the 

Producing Party, within sixty 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 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.

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12. MISCELLANEOUS.

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

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

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

Protective Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or 

producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective 

Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any 

of the material covered by this Protective Order.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: September 6, 2006 /s/

Scott R. Mosko

Attorney for Plaintiffs

DATED: September 6, 2006 /s/ S. Benjamin Pleune

S. Benjamin Pleune

Attorney for Defendants

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: ________________________ _____________________________________

United States District/Magistrate Judge

September 14, 2006

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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

[print or type full address], declare under penalty

of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was 

issued by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on [date] in the 

case of Kevin Keithley and Tren Technology Holdings, LLC v. The Homestore.com, Inc., The 

National Association of Realtors, and The National Association of Homebuilders of the United 

States, Case No. C 03-4447 MJJ (EDL). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the 

terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so

comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly 

promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the 

provisions of this Order.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. I 

hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of

___________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as 

my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings 

related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Name [printed]:

Signature: 

Date: 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

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