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Nature of Suit Code: 195
Nature of Suit: Contract Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Contract Dispute

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Bingham McCutchen LLP 

GEOFFREY M. HOWARD (SBN 157468) 

THOMAS S. HIXSON (SBN 193033) 

NIMA E. SOHI (SBN 233199) 

Three Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, CA 94111-4067 

Telephone: (415) 393-2000 

Facsimile: (415) 393-2286 

geoff.howard@bingham.com 

thomas.hixson@bingham.com 

nima.sohi@bingham.com 

Oracle USA, Inc. 

DAVID E. GARRETT (SBN 190923) 

500 Oracle Parkway 

M/S 5op7 

Redwood City, CA 94065 

Telephone: (650) 506-5200 

Facsimile: (650) 506-7114 

dave.garrett@oracle.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Oracle USA, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

DENA’ NENA’ HENASH, INC. d/b/a 

TANANA CHIEFS CONFERENCE, an Alaska 

non-profit corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ORACLE CORPORATION, a Delaware 

Corporation, 

Defendant. 

No. CV-07-00633-CW 

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

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Disclosure and discovery activity in the above-captioned action (the “Action”) are 

likely to involve the 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, Plaintiff Dena’ Nena’ Henash, Inc. d/b/a 

Tanana Chiefs Conference (“TCC”) and Defendant Oracle USA, Inc. (“Oracle”), hereby 

stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order (“Protective 

Order”). The parties acknowledge that this Protective Order does not confer blanket protections 

on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the 

limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as 

confidential. The parties further acknowledge that this 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. 

It is hereby ordered that the terms and conditions of this Protective Order shall 

govern the handling of documents, answers to interrogatories, depositions, pleadings, exhibits, 

computer readable data storage media and all other information exchanged by the parties in this 

action, or provided by or obtained from non-parties in this action (the “Discovery Material”). 

It is hereby ORDERED as follows: 

1. This Protective Order shall be applicable to and govern all depositions, 

documents, information or things produced by a party or third party in connection with this 

litigation in response to requests for production of documents, requests for inspections of things, 

answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, answers to deposition questions 

and all other discovery taken pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as 

testimony adduced at trial, matters in evidence, and other information that the Disclosing Party 

designates as “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information – Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only.” 

2. Any non-party to this Action may designate any Discovery Material produced by 

it, whether pursuant to subpoena or by agreement, as “Confidential Information” or “Highly 

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Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order, 

upon such non-party’s execution of a Declaration of Compliance with this Protective Order 

substantially in the form attached to this Protective Order as Exhibit A. A Party (or, if 

applicable, non-party) designating Discovery Material as “Confidential Information” or “Highly 

Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” shall be referred to for purposes of this 

Protective Order as the “Designating Party.” Any Party (or, if applicable, non-party) receiving 

Discovery Material designated as “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential 

Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” shall be referred to for purposes of this Protective Order as 

the “Receiving Party.” Counsel for any Designating Party may designate any Discovery 

Material as “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only” under the terms of this Protective Order only if such counsel in good faith believes that 

such Discovery Material contains such information. The designation by any Designating Party 

of any Discovery Material as “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential InformationAttorneys’ Eyes Only” shall constitute a representation that such Discovery Material has been 

reviewed by an attorney for the Designating Party, and that there is a valid basis for such 

designation. 

3. For purposes of this Protective Order, “Confidential Information” shall include all 

non-public information or matter related to: financial or business plans or projections; 

acquisition offers or expressions of interest; proposed strategic transactions or other business 

combinations; compensation plans; proprietary technical information and specifications; current 

or future business and marketing information, plans, and strategies; studies or analyses by 

internal or outside experts; customer information, data or lists; confidential financial data or 

results; tax data; confidential information regarding assets and liabilities; valuation analyses; 

competitive analyses; confidential personnel information; personal financial information; 

personal information subject to protection under California law; or other commercially or 

personally sensitive or proprietary information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential 

Information shall not mean information or documents produced or disclosed that are or become, 

without violating this Protective Order, and apart from production or disclosure in connection 

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with this action, a matter of public record or publicly available by law or otherwise. 

4. For purposes of this Protective Order, “Highly Confidential Information” shall 

include only extremely sensitive, highly confidential, non-public information, consisting either 

of trade secrets or other highly confidential documents related to current or future business plans 

or strategies, the disclosure of which to the receiving Parties or non-parties (other than the 

Designating Party) would be likely to cause competitive or business injury to the Designating 

Party (other than injury to the Designating Party’s position in this Action). In general, 

information related to the implementation of the Oracle software at issue in this case, and not 

containing sensitive internal Oracle financial information, should not be designated “Highly 

Confidential.” Highly Confidential Information shall be designated as “Highly Confidential 

Information – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” and the use and disclosure of such information shall be 

restricted as set forth below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Highly Confidential Information 

shall not mean information or documents produced or disclosed that are or become, without 

violating this Protective Order, and apart from production or disclosure in connection with this 

action, a matter of public record or publicly available by law or otherwise. 

5. Any Discovery Material designated as “Confidential Information” or “Highly 

Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” whether such information is provided orally 

or by a document or in electronic form, shall be maintained as set forth in the Protective Order, 

and shall not be disclosed to any person or entity, except as set forth in the Protective Order. 

6. All Discovery Material, whether or not filed or lodged with the Court, that a 

Designating Party contends constitutes “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential 

Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” shall be designated by the Designating Party as follows: 

a. Documents or other tangible Discovery Material shall, at the time of their 

production, be designated by stamping or labeling the same with the legend “Confidential 

Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” on each page 

containing such information. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for 

protection, the Designating Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) and must 

specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted. 

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b. Deposition testimony shall be designated “Confidential Information” or 

“Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” (i) at the taking of the deposition by a 

statement on the record, by counsel at the time of such disclosure, or (ii) by written notice sent to 

counsel of record for all Parties within three (3) business days after receiving a copy of the final, 

hard copy transcript thereof, identifying the specific pages thereof designated as “Confidential 

Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” In both of the 

foregoing instances, counsel for the Designating Party shall direct that the legend “Confidential 

Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” be affixed to the 

portions of the original and all copies of the transcript. Counsel shall not permit deposition 

transcripts to be distributed to persons beyond those specified in Paragraphs 9 or 10 below until 

the relevant period for the designation has expired. The Parties may modify this procedure for 

any particular deposition through agreement on the record at such depositions without further 

order of the Court. 

c. Non-documentary and non-testimonial material, such as oral statements, 

shall be so designated orally at the time of disclosure and promptly confirmed in writing. 

d. Each Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection 

under this Protective 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 Protective 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 nonparty must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

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7. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate Discovery Material as 

“Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” shall 

not, standing alone, constitute a waiver of such claim and may be corrected by prompt 

supplemental written notice designating such Discovery Material as “Confidential Information” 

or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” in a manner consistent with 

Paragraph 6. The Party receiving such supplemental written notice shall thereafter mark and 

treat materials so designated as “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information 

- Attorneys’ Eyes Only” as the case may be, and such materials shall be fully subject to this 

Protective Order as if they had been initially so designated. A person disclosing Discovery 

Material that is subsequently designated as “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential 

Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” shall in good faith assist the Designating Party in retrieving 

such Discovery Material from all recipients not entitled to receive such Discovery Material under 

the terms of this Protective Order and prevent further disclosures except as authorized under the 

terms of this Protective Order. 

8. Except as the Designating Party or its counsel may otherwise agree in writing, or 

as the Court may otherwise order, all Discovery Material marked or otherwise identified as 

“Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” and 

received by any Receiving Party pursuant to this Protective Order: (a) shall be disclosed only to 

such persons and in such manner as set forth in this Protective Order; (b) shall be used solely for 

the purposes of preparation for trial, trial of and/or appeal from this Action and no other; and 

(c) shall not be used by the Receiving Party for any other purposes, including, without limitation, 

any business or commercial purpose. The foregoing prohibitions on the use of Confidential 

Information and Highly Confidential Information shall survive the termination of this Action. 

9. Counsel for a Receiving Party may disclose or make available any Discovery 

Material designated as “Confidential Information” and/or any information derived from such 

Discovery Material only to the following persons: 

a. Counsel to the Parties in this Action (outside counsel, of counsel, and inhouse counsel, including members of the outside counsel firms, associate attorneys, contract 

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attorneys, paralegals, secretarial staff, clerical and other regular or temporary employees), and 

consultants and vendors of such Counsel to the Parties (including trial consultants, jury 

consultants, and service vendors such as outside copying services, outside litigation support 

services, translations services or graphics, design, or document handling services/consultants 

retained in connection with this Action for purposes of preparing demonstrative or other exhibits 

for deposition, trial, or other court proceedings) (“Consultants and Vendors”), provided that no 

Discovery Material designated as “Confidential Information” shall be disclosed to any temporary 

employees of Counsel to the Parties unless and until such person has executed a Declaration of 

Compliance substantially in the form attached to this Protective Order as Exhibit A; 

b. The Parties and directors or employees of the Parties assisting counsel for 

the purposes of this Action; 

c. Witnesses or deponents (other than witnesses and deponents otherwise 

covered by (b) above), and their counsel, during the course of and, only to the extent necessary, 

in preparation for depositions or testimony in this Action; 

d. Retained experts and expert consultants assisting counsel for the Parties in 

this Action, and only to the extent necessary for the expert or expert consultant to prepare a 

written opinion, to prepare to testify, or to assist counsel in the prosecution or defense of this 

Action, subject to the provisions of Paragraph 12 below; 

e. The Court and its staff and administrative personnel, and Court reporters, 

videographers and stenographers employed to take depositions, and any essential personnel 

retained by the Court; and 

f. Any other person only upon order of the Court or upon stipulation of the 

Designating Party. 

10. Counsel for a Receiving Party may disclose or make available any Discovery 

Material designated as “Highly Confidential Information – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” and/or any 

information derived from such Discovery Material only to the following persons: 

a. Counsel to the Parties in this Action (outside counsel and of counsel 

including members of the outside counsel firms, associate attorneys, contract attorneys, 

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paralegals, secretarial staff, clerical and other regular or temporary employees), and Consultants 

and Vendors of such Counsel to the Parties, provided that no Discovery Material designated as 

“Highly Confidential Information – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” shall be disclosed to any temporary 

employees of Counsel to the Parties unless and until such person has executed a Declaration of 

Compliance substantially in the form attached to this Protective Order as Exhibit A; 

b. From each of TCC and Oracle, three in-house counsel who are employed 

by the legal department for a Party and who are acting as legal counsel in connection with this 

Action, as well as the designated in-house counsels’ necessary secretarial, clerical, administrative 

or support staff, provided that the designated in-house counsel, secretarial, clerical, 

administrative or support staff are not involved in competitive decision-making for the Party 

(i.e., development, marketing or pricing decisions) as to the subjects of the information 

designated as “Highly Confidential Information – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” Oracle designates 

David E. Garrett, Dorian Daley and Deborah Miller for this access, and TCC designates Mark 

Andrews. Both parties reserve the right to challenge access to these in-house counsel designees 

based on later-acquired information. If either party has fewer than three designees, it may name 

additional in-house counsel (up to a total of three) pursuant to this paragraph by proposing an 

amendment to this Protective Order. Consent to such proposed amendment will be deemed 

given by the other parties if objection is not made within seven business days. In the event that 

any in-house attorney designated by a Party under this subparagraph should leave the employ of 

either TCC or Oracle, as applicable, a replacement in-house attorney may be named by the 

relevant Party, subject to the restrictions of this subparagraph; 

c. Witnesses or deponents and their counsel, during the course of and, only 

to the extent necessary, in preparation for depositions or testimony in this Action provided that 

the witness or deponent shall execute a Declaration of Compliance substantially in the form 

attached to this Protective Order as Exhibit A acknowledging that the deponent will treat 

documents designated “Highly Confidential Information – Attorneys Eyes Only” in accordance 

with the Protective Order and that the deponent agrees to be bound by the terms of this 

Protective Order; 

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d. Retained experts and expert consultants assisting counsel for the Parties in 

this Action, and only to the extent necessary for the expert or expert consultant to prepare a 

written opinion, to prepare to testify, or to assist counsel in the prosecution or defense of this 

Action, subject to the provisions of Paragraph 12 below; 

e. The Court and its staff and administrative personnel, and Court reporters, 

videographers and stenographers employed to take depositions, and any essential personnel 

retained by the Court; and 

f. Any other person only upon order of the Court or upon stipulation of the 

Designating Party. 

11. Counsel for any Party to this litigation or counsel for the witness may exclude 

from the room during any deposition any person (other than the witness) who is not entitled 

under the provisions of Paragraph 9 or 10 to receive or review “Confidential Information” or 

“Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys Eyes’ Only” Discovery Material. The witness 

may be shown or examined on any “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential 

Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material if he or she is entitled under the 

provisions of Paragraphs 9 or 10 to receive or review “Confidential Information” or “Highly 

Confidential Information - Attorneys Eyes’ Only” Discovery Material, or if such disclosure to 

the witness is reasonably necessary. In such event, the witness must first be advised of the 

confidential nature of the Discovery Material, and be informed and agree on the record that any 

unauthorized disclosure of the information contained in the Discovery Material may constitute a 

contempt of this Court. The parties shall not attempt to use internal documents from the other 

party that do not describe communications with a third party in an effort to inflame or prejudice 

the testimony of the third party. A third-party deponent must execute a Declaration of 

Compliance substantially in the form attached to this Protective Order as Exhibit A, 

acknowledging that the deponent will treat documents designated “Confidential Information” or 

“Highly Confidential Information – Attorneys Eyes Only” in accordance with the Protective 

Order and that the third-party deponent agrees to be bound by the terms of this Protective 

Order. 

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12. Experts and/or Expert Consultants. 

a. “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material may be provided to retained experts and/or expert 

consultants assisting counsel for the Parties in this Action, and only to the extent necessary for 

the expert or expert consultant to prepare a written opinion, to prepare to testify, or to assist 

counsel in the prosecution or defense of this Action, provided that such expert or expert 

consultant: (i) is not currently, or has not in the past year from the date of this Protective Order, 

been a competitor of the non-retaining Party, or a partner, director, officer, employee or other 

affiliate of such a competitor; (ii) is using said “Confidential Information” or “Highly 

Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material solely in connection with 

this Action; and (iii) signs a Declaration of Compliance in the form attached to this Protective 

Order as Exhibit A, agreeing in writing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this 

Protective Order, consenting to the jurisdiction of the Court for enforcement of this Protective 

Order, and agreeing not to disclose or use any “Confidential Information” or “Highly 

Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material in a manner or for 

purposes other than those permitted by this Protective Order. Counsel for the Party using the 

expert or expert consultant shall be responsible for obtaining the signed undertaking and 

retaining the original, executed copy. 

b. Notwithstanding the above subparagraph (a), TCC may disclose 

“Confidential Information” to an expert it retains for the purpose of opining as to whether 

Oracle’s consulting services were provided in a professional manner consistent with industry 

standards, even if the expert is a “competitor” of Oracle’s within the meaning of Roman (i) in the 

above subparagraph (a), provided the scope of that expert’s retention is limited to 

implementation (and not, for example, damages analysis), and the other conditions of the above 

subparagraph (a) and this Protective Order are complied with. 

c. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the 

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an expert or expert consultant any information 

or item that has been designated “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” by 

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another Party or non-Party must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) sets 

forth the full name of the expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (2) 

identifies the “Highly Confidential” Information by Bates number (or, for deposition testimony, 

witness, date of deposition, and page numbers), (3) identifies the expert’s current employer(s), 

(4) 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 (5) 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. 

d. A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the 

preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Discovery 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. 

e. 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 the 

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

its expert. 

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 f. No “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material may be provided to retained experts and/or expert 

consultants unless and until such person has executed a Declaration of Compliance substantially 

in the form attached to this Protective Order as Exhibit A, and such Declaration of Compliance 

has been served on counsel for all parties. 

13. This Protective Order has no effect upon, and shall not apply to, the Parties’ use 

of their own Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information for any purpose. 

Nothing in this Protective Order shall: (i) prevent a Designating Party from disclosing its own 

“Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

Discovery Material to officers, directors, employees, agents, or advisors, including investment 

bankers and accountants, of the Designating Party; or (ii) impose any restrictions on the use or 

disclosure by a Party of documents, materials, or information designated “Confidential 

Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” if such documents, 

materials, or information was both lawfully obtained by and lawfully retained in the possession 

of such Party independently of the discovery proceedings in this Action. 

14. Without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured 

after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party or non-party may not file in the public 

record in this action any “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material. A Party or non-party that seeks to file under seal 

any “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

Discovery Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

15. The inadvertent production of any Discovery Material shall be without prejudice 

to any claim that such Discovery Material is privileged or protected from discovery as workproduct or by reason of any other applicable privilege or immunity, including without limitation 

the attorney-client privilege, and no Party or non-party shall be held to have waived any rights 

by such inadvertent production. If the claim of inadvertent production is made pursuant to this 

Paragraph with respect to information then in the custody of another Party or non-party, such 

Party or non-party shall promptly return to the claiming Party or non-party that material as to 

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which the claim of inadvertent production has been made and all copies thereof, and the 

receiving Party or non-party shall not use such information for any purpose other than in 

connection with a motion to compel. The Party or non-party returning such material may then 

move the Court for an order compelling production of the material. 

16. 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 Receiving Party does not waive its right to 

challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 

Designating Party discloses the designation. 

a. A Receiving 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 Receiving 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 Receiving Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge 

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

b. A Receiving 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 

subparagraph 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. 

c. 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 

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material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Designating Party's 

designation. 

17. Entering into, agreeing to, producing, or receiving “Confidential Information” or 

“Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material pursuant to, 

and/or otherwise complying with the terms of, this Protective Order, or the taking of any action 

pursuant to this Protective Order shall not: 

a. Constitute or operate as an admission by any Designating or Receiving 

Party that any particular document, material, testimony, or thing does or does not contain, reflect, 

or constitute a trade secret or any other type of Confidential Information or Highly Confidential 

Information; 

b. Prejudice in any way the rights of any Designating or Receiving Party to 

object to the production of documents it considers not subject to discovery, or operate as an 

admission by any Designating or Receiving Party that the restrictions and procedures set forth in 

this Protective Order constitute adequate protection for any particular information deemed by 

any Designating Party to be Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information; 

c. Prejudice in any way the rights of any Designating or Receiving Party to 

object to the relevancy, authenticity, or admissibility into evidence of any document, material, 

testimony, or thing subject to this Protective Order, or otherwise constitute or operate as an 

admission by any Designating or Receiving Party that any particular document, material, 

testimony, or thing is or is not relevant, authentic, or admissible into evidence at any deposition, 

at trial, or in a hearing; 

d. Prejudice in any way the rights of a Designating or Receiving Party to 

seek a determination by the Court whether any Discovery Material should be subject to the terms 

of this Protective Order; 

e. Prejudice in any way the rights of a Designating Party to petition the Court 

for a further protective order relating to any purportedly Confidential Information or Highly 

Confidential Information; and/or 

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f. Prevent the Parties to this Protective Order from agreeing, in writing, to 

alter or waive the provisions or protections of this Protective Order with respect to any particular 

Discovery Material. 

18. In the event additional persons or entities become Parties to this Action, none of 

such Parties’ counsel, experts or expert consultants retained to assist said counsel, shall have 

access to Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information produced by or obtained 

from any Designating Party until said Party has executed and filed with the Court its agreement 

to be fully bound by this Protective Order. No “Confidential Information” or “Highly 

Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material may be provided to such 

Parties’ counsel, experts or expert consultants unless and until such person has executed a 

Declaration of Compliance substantially in the form attached to this Protective Order as Exhibit 

A, and such Declaration of Compliance has been served on counsel for all parties. 

19. It is the present intention of the Parties that the provisions of this Protective Order 

shall govern discovery in this Action, but each of the Parties to this Protective Order shall be 

entitled to seek modification of this Protective Order, or relief from it, by application to the Court 

on notice to the other Parties here. 

20. The provisions of this Protective Order shall, absent written permission of the 

Designating Party or further order of the Court, continue to be binding throughout and after the 

conclusion of this Action, including without limitation any appeals in this Action. Within thirty 

(30) days after receiving notice of the entry of an order, judgment, or decree finally disposing of 

this Action in which “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material is permitted to be used, including the exhaustion of 

all permissible appeals, all persons and entities having received “Confidential Information” or 

“Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material, shall either make 

a good faith effort to return such material and all copies thereof (including summaries and 

excerpts) to counsel for the Designating Party or destroy all such “Confidential Information” or 

“Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material and copies 

thereof (including summaries and excerpts) and certify that fact to counsel for the Designating 

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Party. Outside counsel for the Parties shall be entitled to retain all filings, court papers, 

deposition and trial transcripts, deposition and trial exhibits, and attorney work product 

(regardless of whether such materials contain or reference Discovery Materials designated as 

“Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” by any 

Designating Party), provided that such outside counsel, and employees and agents of such 

outside counsel, shall not disclose any Confidential Information or Highly Confidential 

Information contained or referenced in such materials to any person except pursuant to court 

order or agreement with the Designating Party. All materials, if any, returned to the Parties or 

their counsel by the Court likewise shall be disposed of in accordance with this Paragraph. 

21. If any person receiving Discovery Material covered by this Protective Order (the 

“Receiver”) is: (a) subpoenaed in or (b) served with a demand in another action to which he, she 

or it is a party, or (c) served with any other legal process by one not a party to this Action 

seeking Discovery Material that was produced or designated as “Confidential Information” or 

“Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” by someone other than the Receiver, 

the Receiver shall give actual written notice, by hand or facsimile transmission, within two (2) 

business days of receipt of such subpoena, demand, or legal process, to the Designating Party. 

The Receiver shall not produce any of the Designating Party’s “Confidential Information” or 

“Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Discovery Material, until the 

Designating Party gives notice to the Receiver that the Designating Party opposes production of 

its “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

Discovery Material, and has had a reasonable opportunity to object to the production. The 

Designating Party shall be solely responsible for asserting any objection to the requested 

production. Nothing in this Paragraph shall be construed as requiring the Receiver or anyone 

else covered by this Protective Order to challenge or appeal any order requiring production of 

“Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

Discovery Material covered by this Protective Order, or to subject such person to any penalties 

for non-compliance with any legal process or order, or to seek any relief from this or any Court. 

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22. Any Designating or Receiving Party seeking enforcement of this Protective Order 

against any other Designating or Receiving Party may petition the Court by properly noticed 

motion, pursuant to this Court’s rules, including a concise statement of the specific relief sought. 

23. Violation by any person of any term of this Protective Order shall be punishable 

as a contempt of court. No provision of this Protective Order shall require any person, 

corporation, or other entity not a Party to this Action to respond to any discovery request, except 

as may otherwise be required by law. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

 DATED: February 11, 2008 

Bingham McCutchen LLP 

By: /S/ Thomas S. Hixson 

Thomas S. Hixson 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Oracle USA, Inc. 

DATED: February 11, 2008 

Dorsey & Whitney LLP 

By: /S/ Peter W. Sipkins 

Peter W. Sipkins 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Dena’ Nena’ Henash, Inc. d/b/a Tanana Chiefs 

Conference 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 3/5/08 ______ 

The Honorable Claudia Wilken 

United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

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EXHIBIT A

DECLARATION OF COMPLIANCE

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 Dena’ Nena’ Henash Inc. 

v. Oracle Corporation. 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. 

Date: 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

 [printed name] 

Signature: 

 [signature] 

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