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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:0271 Patent Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IMAGINE THAT INTERNATIONAL, 

INC., a California corporation dba ALL 

FOUR PAWS 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CS TECH US. a Nevada corporation dba ZENPET and ZENPETUSA.COM, CS 

TECH MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V., a 

foreign corporation, CHAD GIBSON, an 

individual, JEN BARRELLI, an 

individual, HECTOR D. CAMPA, an 

individual, AND DOES 1-10, 

INCLUSIVE, 

Defendants, 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

CS TECH US. a Nevada corporation dba 

Zenpet and Zenpetusa.com, CS TECH 

MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V., a foreign 

corporation, CHAD GIBSON, an 

individual, JEN BARRELLI, an 

individual, HECTOR D. CAMPA, an 

individual, AND DOES 1-10, inclusive, 

Counter-Claimants, 

v. 

IMAGINE THAT INTERNATIONAL, 

INC., A California corporation dba ALL 

FOUR PAWS, 

Counter-Defendant.

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The Court recognizes that at least some of the documents and information 

("materials") being sought through discovery in the above-captioned action are, for 

competitive reasons, normally kept confidential by the parties. The parties have 

agreed to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order (“Order”) in this action. 

The materials to be exchanged throughout the course of the litigation 

between the parties may contain trade secret or other confidential research, 

technical, cost, price, marketing or other commercial information, as is 

contemplated by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(7). The purpose of this 

Order is to protect the confidentiality of such materials as much as practical during 

the litigation. THEREFORE: 

DEFINITIONS 

1. The term "Confidential Information" will mean and include 

information contained or disclosed in any materials, including documents, portions 

of documents, answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, trial 

testimony, deposition testimony, and transcripts of trial testimony and depositions, 

including data, summaries, and compilations derived therefrom that is deemed to be 

Confidential Information by any party to which it belongs. Use of any information 

or documents labeled "CONFIDENTIAL" or "CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL 

ONLY" and subject to this Protective Order, including all information derived 

therefrom, shall be restricted solely to the litigation of this case and shall not be 

used by any party for any business, commercial, or competitive purpose. 

2. The term "materials" will include, but is not be limited to: documents; 

correspondence; memoranda; bulletins; blueprints; specifications; customer lists or 

other material that identify customers or potential customers; price lists or 

schedules or other matter identifying pricing; minutes; telegrams; letters; 

statements; cancelled checks; contracts; invoices; drafts; books of account; 

worksheets; notes of conversations; desk diaries; appointment books; expense 

accounts; recordings; photographs; motion pictures; compilations from which 

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information can be obtained and translated into reasonably usable form through 

detection devices; sketches; drawings; notes (including laboratory notebooks and 

records); reports; instructions; disclosures; other writings; models and prototypes 

and other physical objects. 

3. The term "counsel" will mean outside counsel of record, and other 

attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, and other support staff employed in the law firms 

identified below: 

GENERAL RULES 

4. Each party to this litigation that produces or discloses any materials, 

answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admission, trial testimony, 

deposition testimony, and transcripts of trial testimony and depositions, or 

information that the producing party believes should be subject to this Protective 

Order may designate the same as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "CONFIDENTIAL - FOR 

COUNSEL ONLY." 

a. Designation as "CONFIDENTIAL": Any party may designate 

information as "CONFIDENTIAL" only if, in the good faith belief of such party 

and its counsel, the unrestricted disclosure of such information could be potentially 

prejudicial to the business or operations of such party. 

b. Designation as "CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY": Any 

party may designate information as "CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY" 

only if, in the good faith belief of such party and its counsel, the information is 

among that considered to be most sensitive by the party, including but not limited 

to trade secret or other confidential research, development, financial or other 

commercial information. 

c. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 

PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION 

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(i) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced 

by a Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY.” Such information produced by 

Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief 

provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as 

prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(ii) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery 

request, to produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the 

Party is subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 

confidential information, then the Party shall: 

(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the 

Non-Party that some or all of the information requested is subject to a 

confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party; 

(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the 

Stipulated Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a 

reasonably specific description of the information requested; and 

(3) make the information requested available for inspection 

by the Non-Party, if requested. 

(iii) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this Court 

within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the 

Receiving Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive 

to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the 

Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that 

is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 

determination by the Court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party 

shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in this Court of its 

Protected Material. 

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5. In the event the producing party elects to produce materials for 

inspection, no marking need be made by the producing party in advance of the 

initial inspection. For purposes of the initial inspection, all materials produced will 

be considered as "CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY," and must be 

treated as such pursuant to the terms of this Order. Thereafter, upon selection of 

specified materials for copying by the inspecting party, the producing party must, 

within a reasonable time prior to producing those materials to the inspecting party, 

mark the copies of those materials that contain Confidential Information with the 

appropriate confidentiality marking. 

6. Whenever a deposition taken on behalf of any party involves a 

disclosure of Confidential Information of any party: 

a. the deposition or portions of the deposition must be designated as 

containing Confidential Information subject to the provisions of this Order; such 

designation must be made on the record whenever possible, but a party may 

designate portions of depositions as containing Confidential Information after 

transcription of the proceedings; [A] party will have until fourteen (14) days after 

receipt of the deposition transcript to inform the other party or parties to the action 

of the portions of the transcript to be designated "CONFIDENTIAL" or 

"CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY. 

b. the disclosing party will have the right to exclude from attendance at 

the deposition, during such time as the Confidential Information is to be disclosed, 

any person other than the deponent, counsel (including their staff and associates), 

the court reporter, and the person(s) agreed upon pursuant to paragraph 8 below; 

and 

c. the originals of the deposition transcripts and all copies of the 

deposition must bear the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "CONFIDENTIAL - FOR 

COUNSEL ONLY," as appropriate, and the original or any copy ultimately 

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presented to a court for filing must not be filed unless it can be accomplished under 

seal, identified as being subject to this Order, and protected from being opened 

except by order of this Court. 

7. All Confidential Information designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or 

"CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY" must not be disclosed by the 

receiving party to anyone other than those persons designated within this order and 

must be handled in the manner set forth below and, in any event, must not be used 

for any purpose other than in connection with this litigation, unless and until such 

designation is removed either by agreement of the parties, or by order of the Court. 

8. Information designated "CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY" 

must be viewed only by counsel (as defined in paragraph 4) of the receiving party, 

and by independent experts under the conditions set forth in this Paragraph. The 

right of any independent expert to receive any Confidential Information will be 

subject to the advance approval of such expert by the producing party or by 

permission of the Court. The party seeking approval of an independent expert must 

provide the producing party with the name and curriculum vitae of the proposed 

independent expert, and an executed copy of the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, 

in advance of providing any Confidential Information of the producing party to the 

expert. Any objection by the producing party to an independent expert receiving 

Confidential Information must be made in writing within fourteen (14) days 

following receipt of the identification of the proposed expert. Confidential 

Information may be disclosed to an independent expert if the fourteen (14) day 

period has passed and no objection has been made. The approval of independent 

experts must not be unreasonably withheld. 

9. Information designated "CONFIDENTIAL" must be viewed only by 

counsel (as defined in paragraph 3) of the receiving party, by independent experts 

(pursuant to the terms of paragraph 8), and by the additional individuals listed 

below, provided each such individual has read this Order in advance of disclosure 

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and has agreed in writing to be bound by its terms: 

(a) Executives who are required to participate in policy decisions with 

reference to this action; 

(b) Technical personnel of the parties with whom Counsel for the parties 

find it necessary to consult, in the discretion of such counsel, in preparation for trial 

of this action; and 

(c) Stenographic and clerical employees associated with the individuals 

identified above. 

10. Designation by either party of information or documents as 

"Confidential" or “CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY” or failure to so 

designate, will not be constitute an admission that information or documents are or 

are not confidential or trade secrets. 

11. With respect to material designated "CONFIDENTIAL" or 

"CONFIDENTIAL – FOR COUNSEL ONLY," any person indicated on the face of 

the document to be its originator, author or a recipient of a copy of the document, 

may be shown the same. 

12. All information which has been designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or 

"CONFIDENTIAL -FOR COUNSEL ONLY" by the producing or disclosing party, 

and any and all reproductions of that information, must be retained in the custody of 

the counsel for the receiving party identified in paragraph 3, except that 

independent experts authorized to view such information under the terms of this 

Order may retain custody of copies such as are necessary for their participation in 

this litigation. 

13. Before any materials produced in discovery, answers to 

interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, deposition transcripts, or other 

documents which are designated as Confidential Information are filed with the 

Court for any purpose, the party seeking to file such material must seek permission 

of the Court to file the material under seal. 

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14. No document shall be filed under seal unless counsel secures a court 

order allowing the filing of a document under seal. An application to file a 

document under seal shall be served on opposing counsel, and on the person or 

entity that has custody and control of the document, if different from opposing 

counsel. If opposing counsel, or the person or entity who has custody and control 

of the document, wishes to oppose the application, he/she must contact the 

chambers of the judge who will rule on the application, to notify the judge’s staff 

that an opposition to the application will be filed. 

15. At any stage of these proceedings, any party may object to a 

designation of the materials as Confidential Information. The party objecting to 

confidentiality must notify, in writing, counsel for the designating party of the 

objected-to materials and the grounds for the objection. If the dispute is not 

resolved consensually between the parties within seven (7) days of receipt of such a 

notice of objections, the objecting party may move the Court for a ruling on the 

objection. The materials at issue must be treated as Confidential Information, as 

designated by the designating party, until the Court has ruled on the objection or the 

matter has been otherwise resolved. 

16. All Confidential Information must be held in confidence by those 

inspecting or receiving it, and must be used only for purposes of this action. 

Counsel for each party, and each person receiving Confidential Information must 

take reasonable precautions to prevent the unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure of 

such information. If Confidential Information is disclosed to any person other than 

a person authorized by this Order, the party responsible for the unauthorized 

disclosure must immediately bring all pertinent facts relating to the unauthorized 

disclosure to the attention of the other parties and, without prejudice to any rights 

and remedies of the other parties, make every effort to prevent further disclosure by 

the party and by the person(s) receiving the unauthorized disclosure. 

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17. No party will be responsible to another party for disclosure of 

Confidential Information under this Order if the information in question is not 

labeled or otherwise identified as such in accordance with this Order. 

18. If a party, through inadvertence, produces any Confidential 

Information without labeling or marking or otherwise designating it as such in 

accordance with this Order, the designating party may give written notice to the 

receiving party that the document or thing produced is deemed Confidential 

Information, and that the document or thing produced should be treated as such in 

accordance with that designation under this Order. The receiving party must treat 

the materials as confidential, once the designating party so notifies the receiving 

party. If the receiving party has disclosed the materials before receiving the 

designation, the receiving party must notify the designating party in writing of each 

such disclosure. Counsel for the parties will agree on a mutually acceptable manner 

of labeling or marking the inadvertently produced materials as "CONFIDENTIAL" 

or "CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY" - SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE 

ORDER. 

19. Nothing within this order will prejudice the right of any party to object 

to the production of any discovery material on the grounds that the material is 

protected as privileged or as attorney work product. 

20. Nothing in this Order will bar counsel from rendering advice to their 

clients with respect to this litigation and, in the course thereof, relying upon any 

information designated as Confidential Information, provided that the contents of 

the information must not be disclosed. 

21. This Order will be without prejudice to the right of any party to oppose 

production of any information for lack of relevance or any other ground other than 

the mere presence of Confidential Information. The existence of this Order must not 

be used by either party as a basis for discovery that is otherwise improper under the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

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22. Nothing within this order will be construed to prevent disclosure of 

Confidential Information if such disclosure is required by law or by order of the 

Court. 

23. The Parties shall meet and confer regarding the procedures for use of 

Confidential Materials at trial and shall move the Court for entry of an appropriate 

order. 

24. 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. 

25. Upon final termination of this action, including any and all appeals, 

counsel for each party must, upon request of the producing party, return all 

Confidential Information to the party that produced the information, including any 

copies, excerpts, and summaries of that information, or must destroy same at the 

option of the receiving party, and must purge all such information from all 

machine-readable media on which it resides. Notwithstanding the foregoing, 

counsel for each party may retain all pleadings, briefs, memoranda, motions, and 

other documents filed with the Court that refer to or incorporate Confidential 

Information, and will continue to be bound by this Order with respect to all such 

retained information. Further, attorney work product materials that contain 

Confidential Information need not be destroyed, but, if they are not destroyed, the 

person in possession of the attorney work product will continue to be bound by this 

Order with respect to all such retained information. 

26. The restrictions and obligations set forth within this order will not 

apply to any information that: (a) the parties agree should not be designated 

Confidential Information; (b) the parties agree, or the Court rules, is already public 

knowledge; (c) the parties agree, or the Court rules, has become public knowledge 

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other than as a result of disclosure by the receiving party, its employees, or its 

agents in violation of this Order; or (d) has come or will come into the receiving 

party's legitimate knowledge independently of the production by the designating 

party. Prior knowledge must be established by pre-production documentation. 

27. The restrictions and obligations within this order will not be deemed to 

prohibit discussions of any Confidential Information with anyone if that person 

already has or obtains legitimate possession of that information. 

28. Transmission by facsimile is acceptable for all notification purposes 

within this order. 

29. This Order may be modified by agreement of the parties, subject to 

approval by the Court. 

30. The Court may modify the terms and conditions of this Order for good 

cause, or in the interest of justice, or on its own order at any time in these 

proceedings. The parties prefer that the Court provide them with notice of the 

Court's intent to modify the Order and the content of those modifications, prior to 

entry of such an order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: July 22, 2016 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IMAGINE THAT INTERNATIONAL, 

INC., a California corporation dba ALL 

FOUR PAWS 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CS TECH US. a Nevada corporation dba ZENPET and ZENPETUSA.COM, CS 

TECH MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V., a 

foreign corporation, CHAD GIBSON, an 

individual, JEN BARRELLI, an 

individual, HECTOR D. CAMPA, an 

individual, AND DOES 1-10, 

INCLUSIVE, 

Defendants, 

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AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

CS TECH US. a Nevada corporation dba 

Zenpet and Zenpetusa.com, CS TECH 

MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V., a foreign 

corporation, CHAD GIBSON, an 

individual, JEN BARRELLI, an 

individual, HECTOR D. CAMPA, an 

individual, AND DOES 1-10, inclusive, 

Counter-Claimants, 

v. 

IMAGINE THAT INTERNATIONAL, 

INC., A California corporation dba ALL 

FOUR PAWS, 

Counter-Defendant.

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I, __________________________________ , declare and say that: 

1. I am employed as __________________________________________ 

by ________________________________________________________________. 

2. I have read the Protective Order entered in Imagine That International, 

Inc. v. CS Tech et al., Case No. 15-cv-01558-GPC-WVG, and have received a copy 

of the Protective Order. 

3. I promise that I will use any and all "CONFIDENTIAL" or 

"CONFIDENTIAL – FOR COUNSEL ONLY" information, as defined in the 

Protective Order, given to me only in a manner authorized by the Protective Order, 

and only to assist counsel in the litigation of this matter. 

4. I promise that I will not disclose or discuss "CONFIDENTIAL" or 

"CONFIDENTIAL – FOR COUNSEL ONLY" with anyone other than the persons 

described in paragraphs 3, 8 and 9 of the Protective Order. 

5. I acknowledge that, by signing this agreement, I am subjecting myself 

to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of 

California with respect to enforcement of the Protective Order. 

6. I understand that any disclosure or use of "CONFIDENTIAL" or 

"CONFIDENTIAL – FOR COUNSEL ONLY" information in any manner contrary 

to the provisions of the Protective Order may subject me to sanctions for contempt 

of court. 

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Date:_______________________________ 

________________________________________ 

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