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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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H. MICHAEL BRUCKER LAW 

CORPORATION

H. MICHAEL BRUCKER (#36297)

5855 DOYLE STREET, SUITE 110

EMERYVILLE, CA 94608

Telephone: (510) 654-6200

Facsimile: (510) 654-6166

E-Mail: michael@hmblawoffice.com

STEVEN M. KIPPERMAN LAW 

CORPORATION

STEVEN M. KIPPERMAN (#40895) 220 Montgomery St., Ste. 1077

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 397-8600

Facsimile: (415) 397-0792

E-Mail: kipperman@aol.com

Counsel for Defendant 

WOSS Enterprises LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

FITNESS ANYWHERE LLC,

 Plaintiff,

vs.

WOSS ENTERPRISES LLC

 Defendant.

Case No. C 14- 01725 BLF

Stipulated Protective Order 

MODIFIED BY THE COURT*E-Filed: August 19, 2015*

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITAITONS

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 non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that 

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could not be avoided by less restrictive means.

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material 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 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 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’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 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 Stipulation and Order cover not only 

[See Exhibit B for amended Section 3.]

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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 

[See Exhibit B for amended Section 4.]

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otherwise stipulated or 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 

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”). 

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(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 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 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 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.” 

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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. 

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 

[See Exhibit B for amended Section 6.3]

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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 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 

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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); 

(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 

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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), and (3) as to whom the procedures set 

forth in paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed]; 

(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 

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

information. 

No person receiving documents designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or confidential information 

derived therefrom, may participate in the drafting or prosecution of any patent 

application relating to hanger rod stiffening apparatuses and related accessories for 

a period of one year after the termination of this litigation, including all appeals. 

No patent arising out of any patent application whose drafting or prosecution 

contravened this subparagraph shall be asserted against any party whose 

confidential information was disclosed to any persons participating in that drafting 

or prosecution.

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

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

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

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

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

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” first must make a written 

request to the Designating Party that: (1) sets forth the full name of the Expert and 

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the city and state of his or her primary residence; and (2) identifies the Expert’s 

current employer(s). At such time that it is decided that the Expert will be 

testifying, than the Designating Party shall, in addition: (1) provide a copy of the 

Expert’s current resume; (2) identify each person or entity from whom the Expert 

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

expert has provided professional services at any time during the preceding five 

years; and (3) identify (by name and number of the case, filing date, and location of 

court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert 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 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 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 to the Expert 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 

within seven days of the written objection ^

the parties may seek judicial relief pursuant to the Standing Order. Discovery Dispute Joint Report Discovery Dispute Joint Report describe

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Expert shall bear the burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure 

would entail (under the safeguards proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need 

to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert. 

8. 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 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 

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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 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 

[See Exhibit B for amended Section 10.] as defined in paragraph 4, ^

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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. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: May 7, 2015

/s/ Michael Waters

Vedder Price P.C.

Attorneys for Plaintiff, Fitness Anywhere, LLC

DATED: May 7, 2015

/s/ H. Michael Brucker

H. Michael Brucker Law Corp.

Steven M. Kipperman Law Corp.

Attorneys for Defendant WOSS Enterprises, LLC

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: _________________________

______________________________________

Judge Beth Labson Freeman

13. All discovery and disclosure disputes are subject to the undersigned's Standing Order. ^

AS MODIFIED BY THE COURT Hon. Howard R. Lloyd United States Magistrate Judge August 19, 2015

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STIPLUATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Case No. C 14-01725 BLF

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] 

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STIPLUATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Case No. C 14-01725 BLF

Signature: __________________________________

[signature]

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Exhibit B

3. Scope

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

above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, 

summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by this 

Stipulation and Order do not cover the following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain 

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

Receiving Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including

becoming part of the public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the 

Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source 

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

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

4. Duration. Even after 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. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and 

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

exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or review of this action, including the time limits for 

filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law. For a period of six 

months after final disposition of this litigation, this Court will retain jurisdiction to enforce the terms of this 

order.

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

parties shall comply with the undersigned’s Standing Order Re: Civil Discovery Disputes. Any DDJR shall 

affirm that the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph have been satisfied. Failure 

by the Designating Party to timely seek judicial intervention shall automatically waive the confidentiality 

designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may seek relief with respect 

to challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a 

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challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. 

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

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

expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the 

Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to seek relief to retain confidentiality 

as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which 

it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the court rules on the challenge.

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. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing 

the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will 

issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade 

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

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

file the Protected Material in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e)(2) unless otherwise 

instructed by the court.

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