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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:44 Trademark Infringement

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WO 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

THE ESTER C COMPANY, an Arizona 

corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

NATURE’S WAY PRODUCTS, INC., a 

Utah corporation; THE C GROUP, INC., an 

Arizona corporation, 

 Defendants. 

No. CV 06-1958-PCT-SMM

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

The discovery, pretrial and trial phases of this action may involve disclosure of 

trade secrets and other confidential and proprietary business, technical and financial 

information. For good cause shown, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

1. Any party to this action, and any non-party from whom discovery is sought 

in connection with this action, may designate as “Subject to Protective Order” and 

“Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only”

or 

“Confidential”

any documents, things, interrogatory answers, responses to request for admissions, trial or 

deposition testimony, or other material that contains material or information that is not 

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publicly known which is produced in this litigation by one party to the other including, 

without limitation, confidential business information, confidential technology, trade 

secrets, know-how, proprietary data, confidential research, development or commercial 

information including, but not limited to, production, sales, shipments, purchases, 

transfers, identification of customers, inventories, amount or source of any income, 

profits, losses, or expenditures, agreements, contracts, job information, invoices, orders, 

things, notes, outlines, compilations, memoranda, operating manuals or instructions, 

correspondence, reports, records, data, charts, specifications, designs, flowcharts, and 

software and other written, recorded or graphic material, and which is designated as 

confidential in the manner described in this Order (“Protected Information”). Protected 

Information includes all such confidential information, whether revealed during a 

deposition, in a document, in an interrogatory answer, by production of tangible evidence, 

hearing or trial transcripts, responses to requests for admissions or otherwise made 

available to counsel for either party in this action. 

2. “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” and “Confidential” material, 

as used in this Order, shall refer to any Protected Information designated pursuant to 

paragraph 1 above, and all copies thereof, and shall also refer to the information contained 

in or derived from material designated pursuant to paragraph 1 above, including excerpts, 

summaries, indices, abstracts, or copies of such material. 

3. No designation of materials as “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only”

shall be made unless the designated material comprises or contains confidential, highly 

sensitive technical, marketing, financial, sales or other business information which could 

be used by the receiving party to obtain a business (not legal) advantage over the 

producing party. 

4. No designation of material as “Confidential” shall be made unless the 

designating party or non-party believes in good faith that the designated material is 

Protected Information and entitled to protection under Rule 26(c)(7) of the Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure. 

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5. Outside counsel of the respective parties, including secretarial, clerical, 

litigation support and paralegal personnel regularly employed by such outside counsel 

may receive Protected Information designated “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside 

Counsel Eyes Only.” As used herein, “outside counsel” shall mean in the case of 

Nature’s Way Products, Inc., attorneys from the firms Workman Nydegger and Renaud 

Cook Drury Mesaros, PA, and in the case of Zila Nutraceuticals, Inc. attorneys from the 

firms Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, and Lewis and Roca, LLP. 

6. Translators of foreign language documents or foreign language testimony 

who are not employed by one of the parties, but are retained to provide translations of any 

material or testimony designated as “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel 

Eyes Only,” may receive materials so designated, but only for purposes of translating 

such documents or testimony. 

7. Third parties, who are not affiliates of or employed by one of the parties, but 

are specifically retained to assist the attorneys of record or a party in copying or computer 

coding or imaging of documents, may receive materials designated “Confidential” or 

“Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only,” but only for purposes of copying or 

computer coding or imaging Protected Information contained therein. 

8. The Court and its employees and court stenographers whose function 

requires them to have access to material designated as “Confidential” or “Confidential – 

Outside Counsel Eyes Only” may receive such materials, but only for purposes of 

discharging the function which requires them to have access thereto. 

9. Independent outside experts and their clerical and support staff specifically 

engaged by counsel or the parties to assist in this litigation may receive Protected 

Information designated “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only,”

subject to the provisions of paragraphs 11 and 12 below. 

10. Up to a total of two (2) employees, officers or directors of the parties, 

whether or not an expert, may be designated and permitted to receive Protected 

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Information designated “Confidential,” subject to the provisions of paragraphs 11 and 12 

below. 

11. Before any disclosure of Protected Information is made pursuant to 

paragraphs 9 or 10 above, the following must occur: 

(a) The individual to whom disclosure is to be made must be given a 

copy of this Order, and the provisions of this Order must be explained to the 

individual to whom disclosure is to be made by an attorney; 

(b) The individual to whom disclosure is to be made must sign an 

undertaking in the form of the attached Exhibit A; 

(c) If the individual to whom disclosure is to be made is an expert and is 

a Competitor of the party whose Protected Information is proposed to be disclosed, 

a copy of such expert’s signed undertaking and curriculum vitae (including an 

identification of employment history and consulting relationship with any party or 

any related company) must be served by facsimile on opposing counsel of record at 

least seven (7) business days before the Protected Information is shown to such 

expert. A “Competitor” is a present employee, independent contractor or 

consultant to any manufacturer or seller of vitamins or nutritional supplements; and 

(d) If the individual to whom disclosure is to be made is one of the two 

employees, officers, or directors of either party specified in paragraph 10 who may 

receive Protected Information designated “Confidential” (but not “Confidential—

Outside Counsel Eyes Only”), an identification of the individual including a 

summary of their titles and duties and responsibilities, must be served by 

facsimile on opposing counsel of record at least seven (7) business days before 

the Protected Information is shown to such an individual. 

12. Any party may object to the disclosure of Protected Information pursuant to 

paragraphs 9 or 10 above, within seven (7) business days of receiving all of the 

information required to be provided by subparagraph 11(c) or 11(d). The procedure for 

making and resolving any such objection shall be as follows: 

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(a) Any objection made pursuant to paragraphs 11(c) and 11(d) shall be 

transmitted writing by facsimile, to the disclosing party and shall state in detail the 

basis for such objection; 

(b) The parties shall thereafter have three (3) business days to confer in 

an effort to resolve the objection. If they are unable to do so or fail to confer, the 

objecting party shall have four (4) additional business days to seek an Order from 

the Court barring the requested disclosure proposed to be made under paragraphs 9 

or 10. The failure to seek such an Order within seven (7) business days of the 

service of a written notice of objections shall effect a waiver of such objection; 

(c) The party seeking to disclose Protected Information under paragraphs 

9 or 10 shall have six (6) business days from the date of service by facsimile to 

respond to any objections filed with the Court. There shall be no reply submission 

permitted, nor shall oral argument on the objections be held unless the Court deems 

it appropriate; 

(d) No proposed disclosure of Protected Information under paragraphs 9 

or 10 shall take place until the Court resolves the issue, or any objection is 

withdrawn or waived. 

13. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Order, Protected Information 

may be used in the course of any deposition of current employees of the party designating 

such Protected Information. 

14. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Order, any party or third-party 

witness may be shown at a deposition or examined on any document containing material 

designated “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” if it appears 

from the face of the document that the witness authored or received a copy of it, or if it is 

reasonably established that the witness has knowledge of information which is contained 

in the document and about which the witness is being examined. 

15. In the event that counsel for either party deems it necessary to disclose 

Protected Information to an officer, employee or agent of their client other than those to 

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whom disclosure is provided for in this Order, the parties agree to negotiate in good faith 

whether such disclosure may occur and the terms on which such disclosure can occur. In 

the event the parties are unable to agree, the party seeking disclosure may make 

application to the Court for such disclosure. 

16. Until or unless the Court rules otherwise, Protected Information and any 

information derived therefrom, including excerpts, summaries, indices, abstracts or copies 

thereof, shall be maintained in confidence by the person to whom such material is 

produced and shall not be disclosed to any person without the express written consent, or 

consent on the record, of the producing party, except as set forth above. 

17. Any person to whom Protected Information is divulged pursuant to the 

provisions of this Order is similarly obligated to maintain the confidence of such 

Protected Information, and not to disclose it to any person other than a person authorized 

under this Order. All produced Protected Information shall be carefully maintained so as 

to preclude access by the officers, employees and agents of either party other than those 

otherwise authorized under this Order. 

18. Protected Information shall not be used for any purposes other than this 

litigation. 

19. Any redaction of confidential information, not agreed to by both parties or 

ordered by the court, shall be accompanied by a notification indicating that the redaction 

has been made and shall further provide the reasoning for the redaction. 

20. In the event a producing party or a third party elects to produce documents 

or other material for inspection, no markings need be made by the producing party or 

third party in advance of the inspection. All such documents or other material may be 

temporarily designated as “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” 

and shall be treated by the receiving party as if they were so marked. After selection by 

the receiving party of specified documents or material for copying, the producing party 

without delay shall make its designation under this Order, if any, and the party making 

copies shall ensure that any copies include any designation made by the producing party. 

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21. Except as otherwise provided herein, no designation shall be effective 

unless there is placed or affixed on such material a “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes 

Only” or “Confidential” marking, or unless the parties agree upon some other appropriate 

methods of designation. The designations “Highly Confidential Attorneys Eyes Only,”

“Confidential Attorneys Eyes Only” or “Attorneys Eyes Only” shall have the same 

meaning and effect as the designation “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only.”

22. All Protected Information not reduced to documentary, tangible or physical 

form, or which cannot be conveniently designated pursuant to the foregoing paragraph 21, 

shall be designated by the producing party by informing the opposing party in writing. 

23. Depositions or portions thereof which contain Protected Information may be 

designated as “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” and shall be 

separately bound in a confidential volume, marked in accordance with paragraph 1, and 

shall, if required, be separately filed as provided herein so as to distinguish such 

confidential deposition or confidential portions thereof from non-confidential public 

depositions or public portions thereof. 

24. At any deposition session, where appropriate, counsel for a party may 

temporarily designate as “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only”

the entire deposition transcript. When such a designation is made, all parties shall 

maintain the entire deposition transcript and all information contained therein as required 

by such designation “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” until 

thirty (30) calendar days after receipt of an execution copy of the transcript. During that 

period, the party desiring to maintain confidentiality must designate in writing those 

portions of the transcript regarded as “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel 

Eyes Only” and only those portions will thereafter be handled and marked in accordance 

with the provisions of this Order. Designation of material at a deposition as Protected 

Information shall not, however, operate to exclude a party’s representative, not authorized 

to receive Protected Information, from any part of a deposition except when counsel for a 

party deems that a question and/or the answer to a question will result in disclosure of 

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Protected Information. Only individuals otherwise authorized to receive such Protected 

Information under the terms of this Order will be allowed to attend confidential portions 

of depositions. 

25. Material and deposition transcripts produced without the designation of 

“Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” or “Confidential” may be so designated 

subsequent to production or testimony if the producing party provides replacement 

materials bearing appropriate designations and notifies the receiving party promptly after 

becoming aware of same that the producing party failed to make such designation at the 

time of production, during the testimony, or during the thirty (30) day period after receipt 

of the transcript through inadvertence, mistake, or error. If discovery material is 

designated “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” subsequent to 

production or testimony, the receiving party promptly shall collect any copies that have 

been provided to individuals other than those authorized to receive Protected Information 

so designated under this Order, and shall affix the appropriate designation to any copies 

that have been provided to individuals authorized to receive Protected Information so 

designated under this Order. 

26. If any party objects to a designation hereunder, that party may request the 

designating party to rescind the designation. If the parties do not agree to rescind the 

designation, the objecting party may move the Court to order a lower designation, e.g., 

from “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” to “Confidential,” or de-designation 

of any material. The designating party shall bear the burden of establishing the need for 

the “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” or “Confidential” designation. 

27. If in the course of this litigation discovery is sought from third parties which 

would require such parties to disclose and/or produce “Confidential” or “Confidential – 

Outside Counsel Eyes Only” information, such third parties may gain the protections of 

this Order by simply agreeing in writing to produce documents pursuant to this Order and 

to be bound by it. No further order of this Court shall be necessary to extend the 

protections of this Order to third parties. 

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28. At the conclusion of this case all Protected Information and all materials 

designated “Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” pursuant to 

this Order, produced as part of discovery in this action, and all copies thereof, shall be 

returned to the producing party or, at the option of the receiving party, receiving counsel 

shall destroy and certify in writing that such material has been destroyed. Outside counsel 

may retain one copy of any material containing Protected Information market 

“Confidential” or “Confidential – Outside Counsel Eyes Only” and one copy of 

counsel’s work product incorporating such Protected Information, which shall remain 

subject to the provisions of this order. 

29. Any document or thing containing or embodying Protected Information that 

is to be filed or submitted in this action shall be filed or submitted in accordance with the 

official procedures of the Court, if no such procedures are provided by the Court, the 

documents or things containing or embodying Protected Information shall be filed in 

sealed envelopes or other sealed containers which shall bear the caption of the case, shall 

identify the contents for docketing purposes, shall bear a statement substantially in the 

form: 

CONFIDENTIAL

Filed under Protective Order. This envelope is not to be 

opened nor the contents thereof displayed or revealed except 

by direction or Order of the Court, or by agreement of the 

parties. 

Subject to applicable local rules, outside attorneys of record and local counsel for the 

parties are hereby authorized to be the persons who may retrieve confidential exhibits 

and/or other confidential matters filed with the Court upon termination of this litigation 

without further order of this Court, and are the persons to whom such confidential exhibits 

or other confidential matters may be returned by the Clerk of the Court, if they are not so 

retrieved. No material or copies thereof so filed shall be released except by order of the 

Court, to outside counsel of record or as otherwise provided for hereunder. 

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30. The restrictions set forth in any of the preceding paragraphs do not and shall 

not apply to information or material that: 

(a) was, is or becomes public knowledge in a manner other than by 

violation of this Order; 

(b) is acquired by the non-designating party from a third party having the 

right to disclose such information or material; or 

(c) was lawfully possessed by the non-designating party prior to the 

entry by the Court of this Order. 

31. Nothing in this Order shall bar or otherwise restrict any attorney herein from 

rendering advice to his client with respect to this litigation and in the course thereof, 

relying upon the attorney’s examination of Protected Information; provided, however, that 

in rendering such advice and in otherwise communicating with his client, the attorney 

shall not disclose any Protected Information. 

32. Any discovery documents produced in this litigation may be later 

designated as “Attorney Client Privileged” or “Attorney Work Product” promptly upon 

discovery by the producing party that any such privileged or immune document was 

produced through inadvertence, mistake, or other error, and no waiver or privilege or 

immunity shall be deemed to have occurred. Upon such designation, the receiving 

attorney promptly shall make best efforts to collect all copies of the documents and return 

them to the producing party. In the event that the receiving attorney believes in good faith 

that the producing party cannot properly assert any privilege or immunity with respect to 

the documents, the receiving attorney must notify the designating attorney in writing and 

the designating attorney shall within thirty (30) calendar days of such notice file a motion 

to establish that the material is attorney-client privileged; otherwise, the claim of privilege 

shall be deemed waived. 

34. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of any party to oppose 

production of any information for any reason permitted under the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure. 

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35. This Order may be amended by the agreement of counsel for the parties in 

the form of a stipulation, subject to order of the Court. Any party for good cause may 

apply to the Court for a modification of this Order. This Order shall remain in full force 

and effect after the termination of this litigation, or until canceled or otherwise modified 

by order of this Court. 

 Dated this 16th day of January, 2007. 

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EXHIBIT A

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

THE ESTER C COMPANY, an Arizona 

corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

NATURE’S WAY PRODUCTS, INC., a 

Utah corporation; THE C GROUP, INC., an 

Arizona corporation, 

 Defendants. 

No. CV 06-1958-PCT-SMM

UNDERTAKING PURSUANT TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

(Assigned to The Honorable 

Stephen M. McNamee)

I, ______________________________________, declare that: 

1. My address is _________________________________________________. 

2. My present employer is ________________________________________. 

3. My present occupation or job description is __________________________ 

____________________________________________________________. 

4. I have received a copy of the Protective Order in this action signed by Judge 

McNamee on _______________________, ________. 

5. I have carefully read and understand the provisions of the Protective Order. 

6. I will comply with all of the provisions of the Protective Order. 

7. I will hold in confidence, will not disclose to anyone not qualified under the 

Protective Order, and will use only for purposes of this action any 

confidential materials which are disclosed to me. 

8. I will return all confidential material that comes into my possession, and 

documents or things that I have prepared relating thereto, to counsel for the 

party by whom I am employed or retained. 

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9. I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of 

enforcement of the Protective Order in this action. 

DATED this _____ day of _______________, 20___. 

 

 (Signature) 

 

 (Typed Name) 

 

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