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

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TUCKER ELLIS LLP

David J. Steele SBN 209797

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Howard A. Kroll SBN 100981

howard.kroll@tuckerellis.com

Howard A. Kroll SBN 100981

howard.kroll@tuckerellis.com

515 South Flower Street

Forty-Second Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Telephone: 213.430.3400

Facsimile: 213.430.3409

Attorneys for Plaintiffs,

FACEBOOK, INC. and INSTAGRAM, LLC

LEXANALYTICA, PC

Perry J. Narancic – SBN 206820

pjn@lexanalytica.com

2225 E. Bayshore Road

Suite 200

Palo Alto, CA 94303

Telephone: 650.655.2800

Attorneys for Defendants,

ONLINENIC, INC. and DOMAIN ID SHIELD

SERVICES CO., LIMITED

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FACEBOOK, INC. and INSTAGRAM, LLC,

Plaintiffs,

v.

ONLINENIC, INC.; DOMAIN ID SHIELD 

SERVICES CO., LIMITED; and DOES 1-20,

Defendants.

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ORDER

Hon. Susan van Keulen

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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 may 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 from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited 

information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles. The 

parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does 

not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures 

that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the Court

to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of information or 

items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is generated, 

stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 

26(c).

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as 

their support staff).

2.4 Designated House Counsel: House Counsel who seek access to “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information in this matter.

2.5 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.”

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

manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 

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

in this matter.

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

litigation who (1) has been retained by a Party or its Counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a consultant 

in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee of a Party or of a Party’s competitor, and (3) at the time 

of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or of a Party’s competitor.

2.8 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items: 

extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of which to another Party or NonParty would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive means 

or that, as discussed in Section 12.3, would be subject to export control laws or regulations.

2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. House Counsel does 

not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.

2.10 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity 

not named as a Party to this action.

2.11 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys, as well as their employees, who are not employees 

of a party to this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in 

this action on behalf of that party or are employed by a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that 

party.

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

consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).

2.13 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material in 

this action.

2.14 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., 

photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or 

retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors.

2.15 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

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

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2.16 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a Producing 

Party.

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. However, if the accuracy of information is confirmed only through the review of 

Protected Material, then the information shall not be considered to be in the public domain. For example, 

unsubstantiated media speculations or rumors that are later confirmed to be accurate through access to 

Protected Material are not “public domain” information. Such information is explicitly included in the 

definition of “Protected Material” set forth in Section 2.15 above. Any use of Protected Material at trial 

shall be governed by a separate agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition 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 reviews of this action, including the time limits for filing any 

motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law and the time limits for filing a 

petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States, if applicable.

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5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party or NonParty 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. To the extent it is practical 

to do so, the Designating Party must 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 Designating 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 Designating 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, Disclosure or Discovery 

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 (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but excluding

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

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

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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”) to 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.

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

must either (1) identify on the record or (2) identify, in writing, within twenty-one days of receipt of the 

final transcript, the portions of the transcript that shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Only those portions of the testimony that are 

appropriately designated for protection within the twenty-one-day period shall be covered by the 

provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at the 

deposition or up to twenty-one days afterwards, that the entire transcript shall be treated as 

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

Parties shall give the other Parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, hearing, or other 

pretrial or trial proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other Parties can ensure that only 

authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A) 

are present at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition or other pretrial or 

trial proceedings shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title page that the 

transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all pages (including 

line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material and the level of protection 

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being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall inform the court reporter of these 

requirements. Any transcript that was not designated pursuant to the first paragraph in Section 5.2(b), 

above, shall be treated during the twenty-one-day period for making designations as if it had been 

designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety unless otherwise 

agreed. After the expiration of that period, or as of such earlier time that such transcript is designated, the 

transcript shall be treated only as actually designated.

(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 a portion or portions of the information or item warrant

protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s) and specify 

the level of protection being asserted.

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. An inadvertent failure to designate qualified information 

or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order 

for such material. Upon correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make all reasonable efforts 

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

In the event that Disclosure or Discovery Material that is subject to a “CONFIDENTIAL”, 

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

SOURCE CODE” designation is inadvertently produced without such designation, the Producing Party 

that inadvertently produced the document shall give written notice of such inadvertent production (the 

“Inadvertent Production Notice”) and shall reproduce copies of the Discovery Material that contain the 

appropriate confidentiality designation. Upon receipt of such Inadvertent Production Notice and 

reproduction of Discovery Materials, the Party that received the inadvertently produced document, 

material, or testimony shall promptly destroy the inadvertently produced document, material, or testimony 

and all copies thereof, or return such together with all copies of such documents, material, or testimony to 

counsel for the Producing Party. Should the Receiving Party choose to destroy such inadvertently 

produced document, material, or testimony, the Receiving Party shall notify the Producing Party in writing 

of such destruction within fourteen days of receipt of the Inadvertent Production Notice and reproduction 

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of Discovery Materials. This provision is not intended to apply to any inadvertent production of any 

document, material, or testimony protected by attorney-client or work-product privileges.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 

confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality designation 

is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a 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. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process by 

providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each challenge. 

To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must recite that the 

challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the Protective 

Order. The Parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must begin the process by 

conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) within 

fourteen days of the date of service of notice. 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 or 

establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely 

manner.

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

the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Civil Local Rule 7 (and 

in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) within twenty-one days of the initial notice of 

challenge or within fourteen days of the Parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve 

their dispute, whichever is earlier.1 Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration 

1 If the Court, in its discretion, decides that the Challenging party has made an excessive number of 

challenges or is otherwise abusing this process, the Court may issue an order shifting the burden to move 

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

paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the required declaration 

within twenty-one days (or fourteen days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the confidentiality 

designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion 

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

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

pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph.

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 file a motion 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.

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 and associated appeals. 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 15 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION).

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

manner2that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

on the Challenging Party for future challenges. The burden of persuasion would remain on the Designating 

Party.

2 The Designating Party may require the Receiving Party to store any electronic Protected Material in 

password-protected form.

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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 “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

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

Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation 

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 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 “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” (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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound”

(Exhibit A);

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff;

(f) professional jury or trial consultants (including mock jurors), and Professional Vendors to

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(g) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary,

with the consent of the Designating Party or as ordered by the Court, and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (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.

(h) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or other person

who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

(i) any mediator who is assigned to this matter, and his or her staff, who have signed the

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A).

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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

Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation 

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as 

Exhibit A;

(b) Designated House Counsel of the Receiving Party (1) who has no involvement in competitive

decision-making, (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, (3) who has signed 

the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and (4) as to whom the procedures set 

forth in Section 7.4(a)(1), below, have been followed;

(c) Experts of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this

litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and (3) 

as to whom the procedures set forth in Section 7.4(a)(2), below, have been followed;

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants (but not mock jurors), and

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(f) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or other person

who otherwise possessed or knew the information; and

(g) any mediator who is assigned to this matter, and his or her staff, who have signed the

“Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A).

7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to Designated House Counsel or Experts.

(a)(1) Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or agreed to in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Party that seeks to disclose to Designated House Counsel any information or item that has been designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” pursuant to Section 7.3(b) first must make 

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a written disclosure to the Designating Party that (1) sets forth the full name of the Designated House 

Counsel and the city and state of his or her residence, and (2) describes the Designated House Counsel’s 

current and reasonably foreseeable future primary job duties and responsibilities in sufficient detail to 

determine if House Counsel is involved, or may become involved, in any competitive decision-making.

Such disclosure may occur at any time during the litigation and need not be tied to a request to disclose 

specific materials.

(a)(2) Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or agreed to 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” pursuant to section 7.3(c) first 

must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the general categories of “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information that the Receiving Party seeks 

permission to disclose to the Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his 

or her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s 

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

or funding for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the Expert has provided professional 

services, including in connection with a litigation, at any time during the preceding five years and the 

party to the litigation for whom such work was done, and (6) identifies (by name and number of the case, 

filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert has offered expert 

testimony, including through a declaration, report, or testimony at a deposition or trial, during the 

preceding five years.

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

paragraphs may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Designated House Counsel or 

Expert unless, within fourteen 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. If the 

Designating Party is producing Protected Material Subsequent to the prior identification of Designated 

House Counsel, that Party may object in writing to the disclosure to Designated House Counsel at the time 

of production.

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(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 within seven days 

of the written objection. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to Designated 

House Counsel or 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 why the disclosure to Designated 

House Counsel or the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would 

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

motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration describing the Parties’ efforts to resolve the 

matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and setting forth 

the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure.

In any such proceeding, the Party opposing disclosure to Designated House Counsel or the 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 Designated House 

Counsel or Expert.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

LITIGATION

8.1 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” that Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a copy of the

subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other

litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this Protective 

Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the Designating

Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

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If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena or 

court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” before a determination by the court from 

which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The 

Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense 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.

8.2 The provisions set forth herein are not intended to, and do not, restrict in any way the 

procedures set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45(d)(3) or (f).

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS

LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this

action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

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. 

(b) 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 litigation, 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.

(c) Unless any contractual notice period in an agreement between the Producing Party and the

Non-Party covering the confidentiality and/or disclosure of the information requested allows additional 

time to allow for the Non-Party to seek a protective order (in which case that time period shall govern), if 

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the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this Court within fourteen days of receiving 

the notice and accompanying information the Producing Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential 

information responsive to the discovery request, unless any contractual provision in an agreement between 

the Producing Party and the Non-Party requires additional time (in which case that time period shall 

govern absent order of the Court). If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Producing 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.

10. 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 unauthorized 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.

11. PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain produced material is subject

to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure 

may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production without prior privilege review. 

Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), the Parties have reached an agreement on the effect 

of disclosure of a communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work-product 

protection as stated in the Parties’ Stipulated [Proposed] Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) Order and 

Clawback Agreement.

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other federal or state proceeding. For example, the mere production of privilege or work-product-protected 

documents in this case as part of a production is not itself a waiver in this case or any other federal or state 

proceeding.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective 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 Stipulated 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 Export Control. The Protected Material disclosed by the Producing Party may contain 

technical data subject to export control laws, and therefore the release of such technical data to foreign 

persons or nationals in the United States or elsewhere may be restricted. The Receiving Party shall take 

measures necessary to ensure compliance with applicable export control laws, including confirming that 

no unauthorized foreign person has access to such technical data.

No Protected Material designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” may leave the territorial boundaries of the United States of America. Without limitation, this 

prohibition extends to such Protected Material (including copies) in physical and electronic form. The 

viewing of such Protected Material through electronic means outside the territorial limits of the United 

States of America is similarly prohibited. The restrictions contained within this paragraph may be 

amended through the express written consent of the Producing Party to the extent that such agreed to 

procedures conform with applicable export control laws and regulations. Nothing in this paragraph is 

intended to remove any obligation that may otherwise exist to produce documents currently located in a 

foreign country.

12.4 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 

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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.

12.5 Privilege Logs. No Party is required to identify on its respective privilege log any document 

or communication dated after the filing of the Complaint. The Parties shall exchange their respective 

privilege logs at a time to be agreed upon by the Parties following the production of documents, or as 

otherwise ordered by the Court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within sixty days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in Section 4, each Receiving

Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this 

subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other 

format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 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 (1) identifies (by 

category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that 

the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format 

reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are 

entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, 

legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, 

and consultant and expert 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).

14. OTHER PROCEEDINGS. By entering this Stipulated Protective Order and limiting the disclosure

of information in this case, the Court does not intend to preclude another court from finding that 

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information may be relevant and subject to disclosure in another case. Any person or Party subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order who becomes subject to a motion to disclose another Party’s information 

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

pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order shall promptly notify that Party of the motion so that the party 

may have an opportunity to appear and be heard on whether that information should be disclosed.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: February 13, 2020 Tucker Ellis LLP

By: /s/David J. Steele

David J. Steele

Howard A. Kroll

Steven E. Lauridsen

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

FACEBOOK, INC. and INSTAGRAM, LLC

DATED: February 13, 2020 LexAnalytica, PC

By: /s/Perry J. Narancic

Perry J. Narancic

Attorneys for Defendants, 

ONLINENIC, INC. and DOMAIN ID 

SHIELD SERVICES CO., LIMITED

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ATTESTATION

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), the filer of this document attests that all other signatories 

listed and on whose behalf this filing is made concur in the filing of this document and have granted 

permission to use an electronic signature.

 /s/David J. Steele

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: February 14, 2020 _________________________________

Susan van Keulen

United States Magistrate 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 Facebook, Inc. v. OnlineNIC, No. 5:19-cv-07071-SVK

(N.D. Cal.). 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: ______________________________

Signature: _________________________________

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