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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1125 Trademark Infringement (Lanham Act)

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PAUL J. ANDRE, Bar No. 196585 

(pandre@perkinscoie.com) 

LISA KOBIALKA, Bar No. 191404 

(lkobialka@perkinscoie.com) 

ESHA BANDYOPADHYAY, Bar No. 212249 

(ebandyopadhyay@perkinscoie.com) 

SEAN M. BOYLE, Bar No. 238138 

(sboyle@perkinscoie.com) 

PERKINS COIE LLP

101 Jefferson Drive 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

Telephone: (650) 838-4300 

Facsimile: (650) 838-4350 

Attorneys for Defendant 

The Freecycle Network, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

FREECYCLESUNNYVALE, a California 

unincorporated association, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

THE FREECYCLE NETWORK, INC., an 

Arizona corporation, 

 Defendant. 

CASE NO. C 06-00324 CW 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS. 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

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

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

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated 

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

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

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

confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, that this 

Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Civil 

Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards that will 

be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

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

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

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

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

tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this 

matter. 

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

or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed under 

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

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

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

would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 

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

Producing Party. 

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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 who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to 

represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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

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

support staffs). 

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

litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness in this 

action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of a Party’s and 

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

of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection 

with this litigation. 

2.13 Consultant: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 

the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as a consultant in this action 

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

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

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

this litigation. 

2.14 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. 

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3. SCOPE 

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

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

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION 

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

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

otherwise directs. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to 

limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. A 

Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of material, 

documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of the 

material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not 

swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order (see, 

e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material 

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that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is 

disclosed or produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

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

pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top of each page that 

contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for 

protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making 

appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection 

being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY”). 

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

need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material 

it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the 

material made available for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants 

copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, 

qualify for protection under this Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the 

Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) at the top of each page that contains 

Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, 

the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 

markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted 

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

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the Party 

or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions 

of the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

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ONLY.” When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to 

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for 

protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the 

record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify 

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

protection being asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY”). Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for 

protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

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

nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony. 

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

tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container 

or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the 

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

identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” or as “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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

designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ 

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

under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was initially produced, the 

Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure 

that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

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5.4 Inadvertent Disclosure. If a party inadvertently produces a document that it later 

discovers to be a privileged document, the production of that document shall not be deemed to 

constitute the waiver of any applicable privileges. In such circumstances, the producing party 

must immediately notify the receiving party of the inadvertent production, and request the return 

or confirmed destruction of the privileged materials. The receiving party shall promptly notify the 

producing party either (a) that the material will be promptly returned or destroyed or (b) that the 

receiving party will challenge the claim of privilege. If the receiving party challenges the claim of 

privilege, the receiving party may retain a copy solely for the purposes of the challenge. Return or 

confirmation of destruction shall not preclude the receiving party from seeking to compel 

production of the materials for reasons other than its inadvertent production. 

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 designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging 

Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet 

and confer process first. 

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

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve 

a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) 

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that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such 

motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets 

forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the 

Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

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

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

question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

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

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

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 

been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11, below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION). 

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

a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order. 

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by 

the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any 

information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

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

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

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

hereto as Exhibit A; 

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

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

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

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

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

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

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

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

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

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

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

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

anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order. 

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

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

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

Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to: 

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

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

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

hereto as Exhibit A; 

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

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

Order” (Exhibit A); 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) 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 

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

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

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

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

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” or “Consultant” (as defined in this 

Order) any information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

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

identifies the specific HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party seeks 

permission to disclose to the Expert or Consultant, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert or 

Consultant and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the 

Expert’s or Consultant’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s or Consultant’s current 

employer(s), (5) identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert or Consultant has received 

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

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

name and number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with 

which the Expert or Consultant has provided any professional services during the preceding five 

years. 

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

preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert or 

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

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

which it is based. 

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

Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by 

agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert or 

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

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

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

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

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

any such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration in which the movant describes 

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

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

to approve the disclosure. 

In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert or Consultant 

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 or Consultant. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION. 

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

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

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

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

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

must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the 

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

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must 

deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that 

caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

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

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

protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The 

Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of its 

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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, 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 

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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. MISCELLANEOUS 

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

its modification by the Court in the future. 

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

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

information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no 

Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered 

by this Protective Order. 

 12.3 Status on Appeal. The provisions of this Protective Order shall, absent written 

permission of the Producing Party or further order of the Court, continue to be binding throughout 

and after the conclusion of this action, including without limitation any appeals therefrom. Within 

sixty (60) calendar days after receiving notice of the entry of an order, judgment or decree finally 

disposing of this action, including any appeals therefrom, all persons having received information 

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

hereunder shall return such material and all copies thereof (including summaries and excerpts) to 

counsel for the producing party, or shall certify destruction thereof. Counsel described in 

paragraphs 6(a) and 7(a) above shall be entitled to retain court papers, deposition and trial 

transcripts and attorney work product (including court papers, transcripts, and attorney work 

product that contain information or material designated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential 

– Attorneys’ Eyes Only”) provided that such counsel, and employees of such counsel, shall not 

disclose any such information and material designated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” contained in such court papers, transcripts, or attorney work product to any 

person or entity except pursuant to a written agreement with the producing party of the 

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information or material. All materials returned to the parties or their counsel by the Court likewise 

shall be disposed of in accordance with this paragraph. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: August 3, 2006 PERKINS COIE LLP 

 By: /s/ 

Esha Bandyopadhyay 

Attorneys for Defendant 

THE FREECYCLE NETWORK, INC. 

Dated: August 3, 2006 MAYER, BROWN, ROWE & MAW LLP 

 By: /s/ 

Dennis Corgill 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

FREECYCLESUNNYVALE 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 8/10/06 /s/ CLAUDIA WILKEN 

DATED: ________________________ _____________________________________ 

Judge Claudia Wilken 

United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

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I, Esha Bandyopadhyay, am the ECF user whose ID and password are being used to file this 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER. In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby 

attest that Dennis Corgill has concurred in this filing. 

DATED: August 3, 2006 PERKINS COIE LLP

By /s/ 

 Esha Bandyopadhyay 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 THE FREECYCLE NETWORK, INC. 

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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 ___________ [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. 

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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