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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:1 Antitrust Litigation

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IN RE STATIC RANDOM ACCESS 

MEMORY (SRAM) ANTITRUST 

LITIGATION 

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This Document Relates to: 

ALL ACTIONS 

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Master Docket File: M:07-CV-01819-CW 

MDL No. 1819 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal 

principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 

10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential 

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

and reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to 

file material under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS

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

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

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

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

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

discovery in this matter. 

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

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

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

 2.4 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information 

or Items: extremely sensitive “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items whose disclosure to 

another Party or non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be 

avoided by less restrictive means. 

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

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from a Producing Party. 

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

Discovery Material in this action. 

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

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

 2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated 

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

 2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys, paralegals and other support personnel who are 

not employees of a Party but who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

 2.10 House Counsel: attorneys, paralegals and other legal department personnel 

who are employees of a Party. 

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

as their support staffs). 

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

pertinent to the litigation, including his or her employees and support personnel, who has been 

retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a consultant in this action 

and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of a Party and who, at 

the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a 

Party. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with 

this litigation. 

 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

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

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

subcontractors. 

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective Order cover not only Protected 

Material (as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as 

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all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected 

Material. 

4. DURATION

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by 

this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court 

order otherwise directs. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

Each Designating Party must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that 

qualifies under the appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for 

protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that 

qualify - so that other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which 

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

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that 

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

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

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

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Defendants producing Materials pursuant to the Court’s Case 

Management Order No. 1, may designate such Material as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the time of production, subject to redesignating such 

documents appropriately in accordance with this Stipulated Protective Order after production. 

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

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

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

is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

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

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

before the material is disclosed or produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

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

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

“CONFIDENTIAL” of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” on each 

page that contains Protected Material. Use of the legend “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” shall be 

construed as and shall have the same meaning and effect of use of the legend “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

page that contains Protected Material. 

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

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

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

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

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of 

testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the 

testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the 

testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to 

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

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level of protection being asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”), no later than the time when review by the witness and 

corrections to the transcript shall be due. Only those portions of the testimony that are 

appropriately designated for protection within the time specified above shall be covered by the 

provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound 

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

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

instructed by the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 

testimony. 

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

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

exterior of the container or containers in which the information or items are stored the legend 

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

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

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

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

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

failure to designate qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” does not, standing alone, waive the 

Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is 

appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on 

timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is 

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

5.4 Upward Designation of Information or Items Produced by Other Parties or 

Non-Parties. Subject to the standards of paragraph 5.1, a Party may upward designate (i.e., 

change any Discovery Material produced without a designation to a designation of 

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

designate any Discovery Material produced as “CONFIDENTIAL” to a designation of 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) any Discovery Material 

produced by any other Party or non-Party, provided that said Discovery Material contains the 

upward designating Party’s own confidential, proprietary, competitive or private information. 

Upward designation shall be accomplished by providing written notice to all 

Parties identifying (by Bates number or other individually identifiable information) the 

Discovery Material to be re-designated within 30 days of production by the Producing Party. 

Failure to upward designate within 30 days of production, alone, will not prevent a Party from 

obtaining the agreement of all Parties to upward designate certain Discovery Material, or 

otherwise move the court for such relief. Any Party may object to the upward designation of 

Discovery Materials pursuant to the procedures set forth in paragraph 6 regarding challenging 

designations. The upward designating Party shall bear the burden of establishing the basis for the 

upward designation. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not 

waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge 

promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a 

Designating Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the 

process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not 

sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must 

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

the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in the 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 

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it has engaged in this meet and confer process first. 

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

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party 

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

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

challenge. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that 

the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding 

paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation 

that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

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

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

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

designation. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

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

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

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

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

11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 

location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized 

under this Order. The restrictions on Discovery Material shall not apply to information which, at 

or prior to disclosure thereof in this action, is or was public knowledge as a result of publication 

by one having the unrestricted right to do so, or which is otherwise in the public domain. 

Nothing in this Protective Order shall in any way restrict the use or dissemination by a Party or 

third Party of its own “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” Discovery Material. 

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7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 

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

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

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

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

for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A, provided, however, that support personnel of Outside Counsel do 

not need to execute an “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”; 

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

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

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

(c) pursuant to the provision in 7.4 (a)-(c), experts or consultants to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

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

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

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(f) during the preparation for and conduct of their depositions, 

witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the 

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A). Any Party intending to use 

Protected Material at a deposition preparation session or during a deposition pursuant to this 

paragraph shall provide written notice to the Producing Party identifying (by Bates number or 

other individually identifiable information) the Protected Material no later than five (5) business 

days before preparation session or deposition. 

(g) the author or recipient of the document or the original source of the 

information. 

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

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

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

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

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

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

for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A, provided, however, that support personnel of Outside Counsel do 

not need to execute an “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”; 

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

in competitive decision-making or in patent prosecutions involving Static Random Access 

Memory products, (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (3) who 

has signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), provided, however, 

that each individual House Counsel must be approved in writing by each affected Producing 

Party before that Producing Party’s “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” documents may be disclosed to such House Counsel, unless otherwise ordered by the 

court; 

(c) pursuant to the provision in 7.4 (a)-(c), experts or consultants to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

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

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

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

(f) the author or recipient of the document or the original source of 

information. 

7.4 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” Information or Items to Experts or Consultants. 

 (a) If any party wishes to disclose Protected Materials produced by 

any other party and designated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” to any expert or 

consultant, the expert or consultant must sign the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

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(Exhibit A). Nothing in this Protective Order shall require that non-testifying experts or 

consultants be deposed or otherwise be the subject of discovery. 

(b) If any party desires to disclose another party’s information designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” to any expert or consultant who, in the five years priors to the 

date this Order is entered, has worked for one of the defendants (or their predecessors) then and 

only then, that party must first identify in writing to the attorneys for the producing party that 

expert or consultant and a general description of the nature of that engagement sufficient to allow 

the producing party to determine if it will object to the disclosure of its “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” information to that expert or consultant, unless the producing party agrees to 

permit disclosure without such information. The attorney for the producing party shall have five 

(5) days from receipt of such notice to undertake informal dispute resolution procedures, and any 

objections not informally resolved shall be the subject of a regularly noticed motion by the 

producing party who shall have the burden to support the restriction on dissemination of its 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” information to that expert or consultant. 

(c) Such identification of an expert or consultant under section 7.4(b) shall 

include the full name, professional address and affiliation of the expert or consultant, the present 

and prior employments or consultancies of the expert or consultant and work done for defendants 

and/or their predecessors (other than work done for the party engaging that expert or consultant 

in this litigation.) 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the party 

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who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material 

covered by the subpoena or order is the subject of the Protective Order. In addition, the 

Receiving Party must deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the party in 

the other action that caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

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

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

to try to protect its confidentiality interest in the court from which the subpoena or order is 

issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in 

that court of its confidential material - and nothing in these provisions should be construed as 

authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from 

another court. 

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

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

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

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

(c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of 

this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 

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

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this action 

any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply 

with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION

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

after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material 

to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, 

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abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party 

may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the Protected 

Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the 

Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the sixty day 

deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was 

returned or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival 

copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 

work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that 

contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in 

Section 4 (DURATION), above. 

12. INADVERTENTLY PRODUCED DOCUMENTS

If a Party at any time notifies any other Party that it inadvertently produced documents, 

testimony, information, and/or things that are protected from disclosure under the attorney-client 

privilege, work product doctrine, and/or any other applicable privilege or immunity from 

disclosure, or the Receiving Party discovers such inadvertent production, the inadvertent 

production shall not be deemed a waiver of the applicable privilege or protection. The Receiving 

Party shall return all copies of such documents, testimony, information and/or things to the 

inadvertently producing party within five (5) business days of receipt of such notice or discovery 

and shall not use such items for any purpose until further order of the court. The return of any 

discovery item to the inadvertently producing Party shall not in any way preclude the Receiving 

Party from moving the court for a ruling that the document or thing was never privileged. 

13. ADVICE TO CLIENT

Nothing in this Protective Order will bar or otherwise restrict an attorney from rendering 

advice to his or her client with respect to this matter or from generally referring to or relying 

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

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Discovery Material in rendering such advice, provided however, that in rendering such advice or 

in otherwise communicating with his or her client, the attorney shall not reveal or disclose the 

specific content thereof if such disclosure is not otherwise permitted under this Protective Order. 

14. MISCELLANEOUS

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

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

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

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

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

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

material covered by this Protective Order. 

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING THERE FOR, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: December 14, 2007 ___________/s/___________ Honorable Fern M. Smith 

 Discovery Master 

DATED:____12/21/07_________________ ___________________________________ 

 Honorable Claudia Wilken 

 United States District Judge 

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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

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

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

the Northern District of California on [date] in the case of In re Static Random Access Memory 

(SRAM) Antitrust Litigation, Master Docket File M:07-cv-01819-CW. 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. 

Date: _____________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: ____________________________________ 

Printed name: __________________________________ 

Signature: ___________________________________

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