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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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STEVE W. BERMAN (pro hac vice) 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

CATHERINE Y.N. GANNON (pro hac vice)

catherineg@hbsslaw.com 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3300 

Seattle, Washington 98101 

Telephone: (206) 623-7292 

Facsimile: (206) 623-0594 

Plaintiffs’ Interim Co-Lead Counsel 

[Additional Counsel listed on Signature Page] 

RANDALL W. EDWARDS (S.B. #179053) 

krubino@omm.com 

KEVIN R. RUBINO (S.B. #255677) 

redwards@omm.com 

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 984-8700 

Facsimile: (415) 984-8701 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY 

[Additional Counsel listed on Signature Page] 

STEPHEN M. RUMMAGE 

ZANA BUGAIGHIS (S.B. # 257926) 

steverummage@dwt.com 

zanabugaighis@dwt.com 

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP 

1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2200 

Seattle, Washington 98101 

Telephone: (206) 757-8136 

Facsimile: (206) 757-7136 

Attorneys for Non-Party 

MICROSOFT CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

IN RE 

MYFORD TOUCH CONSUMER 

LITIGATION 

 No. 3-13-cv-3072-EMC 

STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE 

ORDER FOR LITIGATION INVOLVING 

HIGHLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION, 

TRADE SECRETS, COMPUTER 

SOFTWARE, SOURCE CODE, AND 

RELATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

FOR NON-PARTY, MICROSOFT 

CORPORATION 

Hon. Edward M. Chen 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

On May 16, 2014, this Court entered a Stipulated Protective Order covering the disclosure 

or production of certain confidential documents and information (Dkt. No. 96). As noted in that 

Order, disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of certain 

confidential source code and related intellectual property for which special protection from public 

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

This Protective Order is intended to facilitate Non-Party Microsoft Corporation’s (“Microsoft”) 

production of confidential information, including certain Source Code and Data (defined in 

Section 2.17, supra). 

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following 

Stipulated Protective Order for Highly Confidential Information, Trade Secrets, Computer 

Software, Source Code and Related Intellectual Property (“Stipulation and Order”) for Non-Party, 

Microsoft. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all 

disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and 

use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 

under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 

14.4 below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential 

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and 

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

under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order. 

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is 

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

of Civil Procedure 26(c). See also Sections 2.8 and 2.9 below. 

2.3 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their support 

staff). 

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2.4 Designating Party: Non-Party Microsoft Corporation to the extent it produces data 

or documents in this action, whether in response to a subpoena or otherwise, as “HIGHLY 

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

CODE.” 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the 

medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, 

Source Code and Data, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced, generated 

in disclosures or responses to discovery, or otherwise made available for inspection in this matter 

and designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 

2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 

the litigation who (1) has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or 

as a consultant in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee or anticipated employee of a 

Party or Non-Party Microsoft, (3) is not a past or current employee or anticipated employee of a 

Party or Non-Party Microsoft’s competitor; and (4) has been approved by the Producing Party as 

provided by Section 7.3. 

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

Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of which to another 

Party or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by 

less restrictive means. 

2.8 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” Information or Items: 

extremely sensitive confidential materials representing computer code, source code, raw data, or 

native data and associated intellectual property and associated comments and revision histories, 

formulas, engineering specifications, bug reports, or schematics that define or otherwise describe 

in detail the algorithms or structure of software or hardware designs; human-readable 

programming language text that defines software, firmware or electronic hardware descriptions; 

scripts, assembly, object code; source code listings and descriptions of source code; object codes 

and listing and descriptions of object code; Hardware Description Language (HDL); Register 

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Transfer Level (RTL) files that describe the hardware design of any ASIC or other chip; similarly 

sensitive implementation details; programming languages; “include files”; “make files,” “link 

files” and other human-readable text files used in the generation and/or building of software 

directly executed on a microprocessor, microcontroller or DSP, including but not limited to, 

Source Code Data, the disclosure of which to another Party or Non-Party would create a 

substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. The parties 

agree Non-Party Microsoft’s Project Studio Bug-Tracking Database and Ford Source Code Depot 

are “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” Information or Items. 

2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party or Non-Party to this 

action. House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 

2.10 Non-Party: the only Non-Party subject to this protective order is non-party 

Microsoft Corporation to the extent it produces documents in this action in response to a 

subpoena or otherwise. 

2.11 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this 

action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action 

on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party. 

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

consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 

2.13 Producing Party: Non-Party Microsoft Corporation to the extent it produces or 

allows inspection of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” materials. 

2.14 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

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

organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and 

subcontractors. 

2.15 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

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

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 

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2.16 Receiving Party: a Party that receives or is allowed inspection of “HIGHLY 

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

SOURCE CODE” materials. 

2.17 Source Code and Data: source code and related intellectual property, including, 

but not limited to, associated computer software, raw data, binary files, and/or native data, as well 

as documents describing or interpreting that information, and engineering and technical 

specifications applicable to that information. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material 

(as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; 

(2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 

conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 

information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a 

Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a 

result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public 

record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to 

the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained 

the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any 

use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. 

4. DURATION 

Even after final disposition 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. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all 

claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after 

the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law. See also Section 14. 

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5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

designating information or items for protection under this Order, the Designating Party must take 

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

standards. To the extent it is practical to do so, the Designating Party must 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 Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated 

for protection do not qualify for protection at all or do not qualify for the level of protection 

initially asserted, that Designating Party must promptly notify all 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, 

Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so 

designated before the material is disclosed, produced or otherwise made available. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

(a) For information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party 

affix the legend “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” to 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. 

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The Producing Party may make original documents or materials available for inspection 

and not need to designate or mark 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 documents or material made available for inspection shall be deemed 

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

SOURCE CODE.” 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 (“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”) to 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. 

(b) For testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that 

the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being asserted. When it is 

impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection and it 

appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Designating 

Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) 

a right to have up to 21 days from the availability of the transcript to identify the specific portions 

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

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

within the 21 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at the deposition or up to 21 days after receipt of 

the transcript, that the entire transcript shall be treated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

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

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

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SOURCE CODE” is used or any substantive portion of Protected Material is disclosed during a 

deposition, the Receiving Party shall send the Designating Party the deposition transcript and the 

Designating Party shall have 21 days from its receipt of the transcript to identify the specific 

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

being asserted. 

Parties shall give the Designating Party and other parties notice if they reasonably expect a 

deposition, hearing or other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can 

ensure that only authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

Be Bound” (Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. At the request of the Designating Party, 

persons not permitted access to Disclosure and Discovery Materials under the terms of this 

Protective Order shall not be present at depositions while the Designating Party’s Disclosure and 

Discovery Material is discussed or otherwise disclosed. The use of a document as an exhibit at a 

deposition shall not in any way affect its designation as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE.” 

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title page 

that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all 

pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material and 

the level of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party, or 

Receiving Party if counsel for the Designating Party is absent, shall inform the court reporter of 

these requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of a 21-day period for 

designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated “HIGHLY 

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

CODE” in its entirety unless otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript 

shall be treated only as actually designated. 

(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, including the review room if 

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

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“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” If only a portion or portions of the 

information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall 

identify the protected portion(s) and specify the level of protection being asserted. 

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

designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s 

right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a 

designation, the Receiving Party 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. Any Party may challenge a designation of confidentiality 

at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality designation is 

necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a 

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. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging, by Bates number, and 

describing the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been 

made, the written notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in 

accordance with this specific section of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve 

each challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice 

dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service 

of notice. 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 

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or establishes that the Designating Party has failed to participate in the meet and confer process in 

a timely manner. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 

Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) within 21 days 

of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer 

process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is later. Each such motion must be accompanied 

by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed in the preceding section. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a 

motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall 

automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, 

the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if 

there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript 

or any portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed by the preceding section. 

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

Party. Frivolous challenges and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to 

sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to 

file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, 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 until the Court rules on the challenge. 

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 Non-Party Microsoft in connection with this case only for 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 

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been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of Section 14 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. 

The Receiving Party agrees to store any electronic Protected Material in password-protected form. 

7.2 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” only to: 

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

employees of Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

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

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party (1) to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in Section 

7.3(a)(2), below, have been followed; 

(c) The Court and its personnel; 

(d) Court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants,1

 and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(e) During their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed to by the Designating Party or ordered by the Court, 

provided, however, that Protected Material may not be disclosed to a deposition witness under 

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consultants, but also to mock jurors, to further trial preparation. In that situation, the parties will 

draft a simplified, precisely tailored Undertaking for mock jurors to sign. 

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this subsection (e) unless the Designating Party receives written notice fourteen (14) days before 

the scheduled deposition of the identity of any deponent in whose deposition Plaintiffs reasonably 

believe they will use the Designating Party’s Protected Materials and seven (7) days advance 

notice of the content of the Protected Material sought to be used. The Designating Party may 

challenge the disclosure of the Protected Material to the deposition witness pursuant to the dispute 

resolution procedure and timeframes set forth in Section 6 whereby the Designating Party is the 

“Challenging Party” and the deposing Party is the “Designating Party.” 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; and 

(f) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 

custodian or other person who otherwise actually or is reasonably expected to have possessed or 

known the information before disclosure in the context of this litigation. 

7.3 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY 

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

SOURCE CODE” Information or Items to Experts.

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or agreed to 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” pursuant to Section 7.2(c) 

first must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the general categories 

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

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” information that the Receiving Party seeks 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 or funding for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has 

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of court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert has offered expert testimony, 

including through a declaration, report, or testimony at a deposition or trial, during the preceding 

five years.3

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

preceding respective paragraphs may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified 

Expert unless, within 14 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 within seven (7) days of the written objection. 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 why the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the 

disclosure would entail, and suggest any additional means that could be used to reduce that risk. 

In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration describing the 

parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and 

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third-party, then the Expert must provide whatever information can be disclosed without violating 

any confidentiality agreements, and the Party seeking to disclose to the Expert shall be available 

to meet and confer with the Designating Party regarding any such engagement. If the Expert 

knows that he or she is presently working for a competitor of the Designating Party but that he or 

she is under a duty not to disclose that fact, the Expert shall not seek to obtain access to 

information designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE.” 

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not undertake work prior to the termination of the litigation if acceptance of that work that could 

foreseeably result in an improper use of the Designating Party’s “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE” information 

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confer discussions) and setting forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal 

to approve the disclosure. 

In any such proceeding, the Designating 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 Protected Material to its Expert. 

8. PROSECUTION BAR 

Absent written consent from the Producing Party, any individual who receives access to 

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

SOURCE CODE” information shall not be involved in the prosecution of patents or patent 

applications relating to software or hardware design for an interactive system similar to the MFT 

system at issue in this case or subject to discovery in this case, or for a patent or patent application 

broad enough to read on the MFT system at issue or subject to discovery in this case, before any 

foreign or domestic agency, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“the Patent 

Office”). For purposes of this paragraph, “prosecution” includes directly or indirectly drafting, 

amending, advising, or otherwise affecting the scope or maintenance of patent claims.4

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any doubt, “prosecution” as used in this paragraph does not include representing a party 

challenging a patent before a domestic or foreign agency (including, but not limited to, a reissue 

protest, ex parte reexamination or inter parties reexamination). This Prosecution Bar shall begin 

when access to “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” information is first received by the affected individual and 

shall end two (2) years after final termination of this action. 

9. SOURCE CODE AND DATA 

(a) A Producing Party may designate material as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

SOURCE CODE” if it comprises “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” Information 

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(b) Protected Material designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE 

CODE” shall be subject to all of the protections afforded to “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information including the Prosecution Bar set forth in Section 8, 

and may be disclosed only to the individuals to whom “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information may be disclosed, as set forth in Sections 7.2 and 7.3. 

(c) Designation and Production of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”: 

(c)(1) Any material produced in this action and designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” will be made available for inspection on a secured 

computer in a secured room in Microsoft’s outside counsel’s Seattle office. The computer will be 

equipped with a keyboard, mouse and two external monitors (“Stand-Alone Computer”). The 

programs installed on the computer will allow the Receiving Party’s Experts to perform a visual 

inspection of the Microsoft material designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE 

CODE.” Under no circumstances shall the Receiving Party or anyone acting on behalf of the 

Receiving Party seek or implement the compiling of source code or the installation of any 

software on the secured computers. Access to the secured room will be limited to individuals 

subjected to this Protective Order. 

(c)(2) Non-Party Microsoft shall make the Stand-Alone Computers available in 

the Seattle area offices of Microsoft’s outside counsel on ten (10) business days’ notice. No 

recordable media or recordable devices, including without limitation, sound recorders, cellular 

telephones, peripheral equipment, cameras, CDs, DVDs, portable hard drives, thumb drives or 

any other drives of any kind, or printers shall be permitted into the room containing the StandAlone Computer. 

(c)(3) Microsoft may visually monitor the activities of the Receiving Party’s 

representatives during any source code inspection through a video camera set not to record sound, 

but only to ensure that no unauthorized electronic records of the code or unauthorized information 

concerning the code are being created or transmitted in any way. The video camera will be 

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from capturing the contents of the notebooks. 

(c)(4) The Receiving Party’s Experts are permitted to bring into the review room 

in Seattle notes reflecting their research related to their inspection and analysis as provided in 

section 9(f). 

(c)(5) Under no circumstances will the Receiving Party or anyone acting on 

behalf of the Receiving Party move any copies or portions of source code outside the United 

States. 

(d) The Receiving Party may request to print limited portions of source code that are 

reasonably necessary for the preparation of court filings, pleadings, expert reports, or other 

papers, or for deposition or trial, but shall not request paper copies for the purposes of reviewing 

the source code. The Producing Party shall provide all such source code in paper form including 

Bates numbers and the label “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” The Producing 

Party may challenge the amount of source code requested in hard copy form pursuant to the 

dispute resolution procedure and timeframes set forth in Section 6 whereby the Producing Party is 

the “Challenging Party” and the Receiving Party is the “Designating Party” for purposes of 

dispute resolution. The burden shall be on the Receiving Party to demonstrate that such printed 

portions are no more than is reasonably necessary for a permitted purpose and not merely printed 

for the purposes of review and analysis elsewhere. Printed source code shall be subject to a cap 

of (a) twenty (20) contiguous pages of code in 12 point Courier font and (b) one hundred seventyfive (175) total pages of code in 12 point Courier font. While the parties do not anticipate any 

need to exceed this cap, the Receiving Party may request to do so pursuant to the dispute 

resolution procedure and timeframes set forth in Section 6, but must demonstrate compelling 

reasons that the additional pages are necessary to the preparation of their testimony, and not being 

used for the review of the code, and that the request is narrowly tailored to that need. The 

Producing Party may, at its election, make copies on non-copyable paper. To the extent the 

Producing Party provides printed copies on copyable paper, the Receiving Party’s Counsel may 

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Producing party, not including copies attached to court filings or used at depositions, and shall 

designate these paper copies on Plaintiffs’ access record as per Section 9(f). 

(e) Receiving Party’s Counsel shall securely maintain all printed copies of code in a 

locked room or cabinet within the secure source code review room provided by Ford Motor 

Company in San Francisco (“Ford Source Code Room”) when not in use and shall destroy those 

copies as soon as they are no longer needed. Storage of all printed copies of code will be 

pursuant to Section 9(c)(1)(b) of the Stipulation For Protective Order For Litigation Involving 

Highly Sensitive Information, Trade Secrets, Computer Software, Source Code And Related 

Intellectual Property, which was entered by this Court on November 4, 2014 (Dkt. No. 121) 

(“Highly Confidential Protective Order”). The Parties also agree that the application of Section 

9(c)(1)(b) of the Highly Confidential Protective Order is modified to require that the Parties 

receive Microsoft’s written consent before removing any printed copies of code subject to this 

Order from the Ford Source Code Room. A Receiving Party’s Expert preparing or submitting a 

report may keep within the Ford Source Code Room a paper copy of those portions of the code 

pertinent to the report and anticipated testimony subject to the following conditions: (1) Plaintiffs 

shall disclose the location of the Ford Source Code Room and the specific security precautions to 

be taken and shall not allow code to be stored at the Ford Source Code Room until Microsoft has 

approved the security precautions, which Microsoft shall not unreasonably withhold; (2) 

Plaintiffs’ Counsel shall keep a log of the transmission of any paper copies of the code provided 

to the Receiving Party’s Expert; (3) the Receiving Party’s Expert shall not copy the printed copies 

of the code, which must be securely maintained in a locked cabinet in the Ford Source Code 

Room accessible only to Ford Motor Company’s outside counsel, as well as the Receiving Party’s 

Expert and any staff working on this matter who have signed the form attached hereto as Exhibit 

A and otherwise comply with Section 3 above; (4) upon service or submission of the final report 

necessitating the code, the Receiving Party’s Expert shall return all paper copies of the code to 

Receiving Party’s Counsel; (5) Receiving Party’s Counsel shall certify it has received all paper 

copies of the code from the Receiving Party’s Expert; and (6) upon completion of the Receiving 

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destroyed. Receiving Party may not convert paper copies of the code into electronic format 

(including for emailing), except as needed for filing or service of papers (including reports of 

Receiving Party’s Experts and discovery responses), motions, exhibits and pleadings (all made 

under seal), or trial or hearing presentation, in which case such electronic copies of the code may 

be used only for those purposes. Paper copies of the code may not themselves be copied, except 

for use as exhibits for a deposition, expert report, motion, filing, hearing or trial. If Microsoft 

provided copies on non-copyable paper, Receiving Party’s Counsel may request an additional 

copy for those uses. 

Receiving Party’s Experts may take notes of their inspection of source code and may take 

the notes with them from the secure room but cannot use their note taking to copy any portion(s) 

of the source code (or make the substantive equivalent of a copy of the source code (or any 

portion(s) thereof) into the notes that is greater than two (2) contiguous lines of code. Any and all 

notes or other documents, including any report(s) or any portions of any report(s) prepared by an 

Receiving Party’s Expert as a result of the inspection, shall be designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” Any deposition testimony concerning Microsoft’s 

software code shall also be designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 

Access to and review of the “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” shall be 

strictly for the purpose of investigating, prosecuting, and defending the claims and defenses at 

issue in this Action. No person shall review or analyze any “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

SOURCE CODE” for purposes unrelated to this Action, nor may any person use any knowledge 

gained as a result of reviewing “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” in this Action 

in any other pending or future dispute, proceeding, patent prosecution, or litigation. 

(f) The Receiving Party shall maintain a record of any individual who has inspected 

any portion of the source code in electronic or paper form. This record should include (1) the 

identity of each person granted access to the source code in either electronic or paper form; (2) 

each date when such access was granted; and (3) each paper copy made of any portion of the 

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Section 9(e), the Receiving Party shall maintain all paper copies of any printed portions of the 

source code in a secured, locked area in the Ford Source Code Room. The paper copies 

maintained by the Receiving Party must be kept in a fireproof safe when not in use. The 

Receiving Party shall not create any electronic or other images of the paper copies and shall not 

convert any of the information contained in the paper copies into any electronic format. The 

Receiving Party shall only make additional paper copies if such additional copies are (1) 

necessary to prepare court filings, pleadings, or other papers (including a testifying expert’s 

expert report), subject to the provisions and restrictions of Section 14.1, (2) necessary for 

deposition, or (3) otherwise necessary for the preparation of its case. Any paper copies used 

during a deposition shall be retrieved by the Producing Party at the end of each day and must not 

be given to or left with a court reporter or any other individual.5

(g) Nothing herein shall be deemed a waiver of a Microsoft’s right to object to the 

production of specific “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” Absent a subsequent 

and specific court or agency order, nothing herein shall obligate a party to breach any non-party 

license agreement relating to such “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 

10. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” that Party 

must: 

(a) Promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a 

copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) Promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in 

the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to 

this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; 

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(c) Cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the 

subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “HIGHLY 

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

CODE” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the 

Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the 

burden and expense 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. 

11. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

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

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

unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized 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. 

12. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL 

(a) Inadvertent or unintentional production of documents or information containing 

information that should have been designated as attorney client privileged or work product 

immunity, or any other applicable privilege or immunity shall not be deemed a waiver in whole or 

in part of the Party’s claims of privilege. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 502(b)-(d), if a Party has 

inadvertently or unintentionally produced information subject to a claim of immunity or privilege, 

upon written request made by the Designating Party within twenty-one (21) days of discovery, all 

copies of such information shall be returned to the Designating Party within seven (7) business 

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assertion of privilege or immunity. If a Receiving Party objects to the return of such information 

within the seven (7) business day period described above, the Producing Party may move the 

Court for an order compelling the return of such information. Pending the Court’s ruling, a 

Receiving Party must sequester the inadvertently or unintentionally produced documents in a 

sealed envelope and shall not make any use of such information. 

(b) Inadvertent or unintentional production of documents or information containing 

information which should have been designated as Confidential or “Highly Confidential” shall 

not be deemed a waiver in whole or in part of the Party’s claims of confidentiality. If a Party has 

inadvertently or unintentionally produced information which should have been designated as 

Confidential, the Producing Party will notify the Receiving Party within twenty-one (21) days of 

discovery of the inadvertent production and request that the Confidential designation be applied to 

such documents or information. If a Receiving Party objects to the Producing Party’s 

Confidentiality designation, it will notify the Producing Party of its objections in writing within 

seven (7) business days of receipt of the notification described above. Within seven (7) business 

days, the Producing Party may then move the Court for an order compelling the protection of such 

information. Pending the Court’s ruling, a Receiving Party must maintain the documents as 

Confidential under the terms of this Order. 

13. MISCELLANEOUS 

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

seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

13.2 Right to Use Own Information. Nothing in this Order shall limit any Party’s 

right to disclose to any person, or use for any purpose, its own information, Source Code and 

Data. 

13.3 Not Applicable to Trial. This Order does not apply to the offer of or admission 

into evidence of Source Code and Data or their content at trial or in any evidentiary hearing, nor 

does it apply for any other purpose under the Federal Rules of Evidence. Such evidentiary issues 

should be raised as a separate matter upon the motion of any party at the time of trial or 

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13.4 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 the use in evidence of any of the material 

covered by this Protective Order, including, but not limited to, objections that the material is 

irrelevant or fails to meet the test for admissibility under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 

509 U.S. 579, 592-93 (1993). 

13.5 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. Protected Material may only be 

filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material 

at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request 

establishing that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or 

otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party’s request to file Protected 

Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) is denied by the Court, then the 

Receiving Party may file the Protected Material in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 

79-5(e)(2) unless otherwise instructed by the Court. 

14. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in Section 4, each 

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such 

material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. 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 60-day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all 

the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has 

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capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, 

legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work 

product, and consultant and expert 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). 

DATED: July 16, 2015 

Plaintiffs’ Counsel: 

/s/ Steve W. Berman 

Steve W. Berman 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3300 

Seattle, Washington 98101 

Telephone: 206-623-7292 

Facsimile: 206-623-0594 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

/s/ Adam J. Levitt 

Adam J. Levitt 

GRANT & EISENHOFER P.A. 

30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1200 

Chicago, Illinois 60602 

Telephone: 312-214-0000 

Facsimile: 312-214-0001 

alevitt@gelaw.com 

/s/ Roland Tellis 

Roland Tellis 

BARON & BUDD, P.C. 

15910 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 1600 

Encino, California 91436 

Telephone: 818-839-2320 

Facsimile: 818-986-9698 

rtellis@baronbudd.com 

/s/ Joseph G. Sauder 

Joseph G. Sauder 

CHIMICLES & TIKELLIS LLP 

One Haverford Centre 

361 West Lancaster Avenue 

Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041 

Telephone: 610-642-8500 

Facsimile: 610-649-3633 

JGS@chimicles.com 

Ford’s Counsel: 

/s/ Randall W. Edwards 

Randall W. Edwards 

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: 415-984-8700 

Facsimile: 415-984-8701 

redwards@omm.com 

/s/ Janet L. Conigliaro 

Janet L. Conigliaro 

DYKEMA GOSSETT PLLC 

400 Renaissance Center 

Detroit, Michigan 48243 

Telephone: 313-568-5372 

Facsimile: 855-262-6803 

jconigliaro@dykema.com 

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STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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Microsoft’s Counsel: 

Stephen M. Rummage 

Zana Bugaighis (S.B. # 257926) 

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP 

1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2200 

Seattle, Washington 98101-3045 

Telephone: (206) 757-8136 

Facsimile: (206) 757-7136 

steverummage@dwt.com 

zanabugaighis@dwt.com 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ____________________________________ 

 The Honorable Edward M. Chen 

 United States District Judge 

7/17/15

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 5-1(i)(3)

 I, Steve W. Berman, am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used 

to file the foregoing document. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest 

that all signatories have concurred in this filing. 

 Dated: July 16, 2015 /s/ Steve W. Berman 

 Steve W. Berman 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

 I hereby certify that on July 16, 2015, I electronically filed the foregoing document using 

the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the email addresses registered 

in the CM/ECF system. 

 Dated: July 16, 2015 /s/ Steve W. Berman 

 Steve W. Berman 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGMT. TO BE BOUND 

(EX. A TO PROTECTIVE ORDER) - 1 

Case No.: 13-cv-3072-EMC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IN RE 

MYFORD TOUCH CONSUMER 

LITIGATION 

No. 3-13-cv-3072-EMC 

Complaint served: November 12, 2013 

CLASS ACTION 

DISCOVERY MATTER 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND 

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

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 [insert 

formal name of the case and the number and initials assigned to it by the court]. 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. 

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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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