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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:145 Patent Infringement

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Deborah Bailey-Wells (114630) 

Kevin C. Trock (161787) 

Harold H. Davis, Jr. (235552) 

KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART NICHOLSON GRAHAM LLP

Four Embarcadero Center, 10th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 249-1000 

Fax: (415) 249-1001 

dbaileywells@klng.com 

ktrock@klng.com 

hdavis@klng.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff STV ASIA, LTD. 

Harold J. McElhinny (SBN 66781) 

Alison M. Tucher (SBN 171363) 

Shane Brun (SBN 179079) 

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 

425 Market Street 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2482 

Telephone: (415) 268-7000 

Facsimile: (415) 268-7522 

(hmcelhinny@mofo.com) 

(atucher@mofo.com) 

(sbrun@mofo.com) 

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

STV ASIA LTD., 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

PRN CORPORATION, PREMIER RETAIL 

NETWORKS, INC., BEST BUY CO., INC., 

BEST BUY STORES L.P., CIRCUIT CITY 

STORES, INC., CIRCUIT CITY STORES 

WEST COAST, INC., COSTCO 

WHOLESALE CORPORATION, 

WAKEFERN FOOD CORPORATION d/b/a 

SHOPRITE, AND ALBERTSONS, LLC 

 Defendants. 

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Judge: Hon. Joseph C. Spero 

Date Action Filed: March 2, 2006 

Trial Date: January 7, 2008 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

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

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

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

warranted. Accordingly, the parties petition the court to enter a Protective Order. The 

parties acknowledge that such 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 such 

Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 

sets forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards that will be 

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

2. DEFINITIONS 

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

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

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

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

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

responses to discovery in this matter. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

means. 

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

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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, or who provide legal 

services to a Party and are employees of a corporation that is part of the same corporate 

family as 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 Protected 

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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. However, in order to make certain documents available in native file format and 

to speed the process of producing large volumes of Protected Material, multi-page 

documents in which Protected Material is pervasive may be marked “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” throughout, with the understanding that portions of those 

documents not containing Protected Material can be de-designated through the meet-andconfer process of Paragraph 6.2. 

 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 

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(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as 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” on each 

page that contains protected material. 

 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”). 

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

that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony designate at any time during 

the testimony or during a review period of up to 30 days after receipt of the official transcript 

of such testimony by counsel for the Party or non-party whose information has been 

disclosed any portions of the testimony that qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Each deposition transcript in its entirety 

shall be treated as having been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” during the review 

period. 

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reasonably identified at the beginning of the deposition transcript when produced. 

Designations of Protected Material made during the review period will be made in writing 

served on all parties. It will be the responsibility of counsel of record to take reasonable 

steps to make sure that Protected Material in deposition transcripts is used only as 

expressly permitted in this Order. 

 Party representative(s) attending any deposition will be temporarily excused 

from the deposition room at times when testimony then being designated by another party 

as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” is being given. Expert witnesses who have signed Exhibit A 

may attend depositions in their entirety. 

 Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by 

the court reporter, who must affix on each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

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

nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony. 

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

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

of the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 

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

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

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

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” To the extent that a 

Receiving Party prints out or otherwise renders paper copies of any Protected Materials 

produced in electronic format, the Receiving Party agrees to affix the appropriate legend 

(“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS” EYES ONLY”) upon each 

page that contains Protected Material. 

 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 

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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 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 

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

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

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

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

Party’s designation. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

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

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

be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this 

Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the 

provisions of section 11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

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

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

this Order. 

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

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

disclose any information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

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

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

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

that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

 (b) House Counsel or other officers, directors, and employees 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 

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Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

 (d) the Court and its personnel; 

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

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

by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

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

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

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

disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

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

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

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

 (c) the Court and its personnel; 

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

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

by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

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

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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 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 

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“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. INADVERTENT DISCLOSURE OF PRIVILEGED INFORMATION. 

 (a) Inadvertent production of Disclosure or Discovery Materials subject to work 

product immunity or the attorney-client privilege shall not constitute a waiver of the immunity 

or privilege, provided that the Producing Party shall notify the Receiving Party in writing of 

such inadvertent production within 15 days after the earlier of (a) the Producing Party’s 

discovery of the inadvertent production or (b) its use in pleadings, motions or deposition 

testimony by the Receiving Party. Such inadvertently produced documents shall be 

returned to the Producing Party upon request, provided that the Producing Party establishes 

the circumstances surrounding the documents’ inadvertent production. No use shall be 

made of such documents during deposition or at trial, nor shall they be shown to anyone 

who has not already been given access to them prior to the request to return them. If, after 

conferring, the Parties are unable to reach a satisfactory agreement within five (5) business 

days of the request to return them, the Producing Party may petition the court regarding the 

matter within ten (10) business days thereafter. The Receiving Party shall not disclose the 

document for which the belated claim of immunity or privilege is being made to any person, 

other than those persons who have had it in their possession prior to receipt of notification 

from the Producing Party, until expiration of the ten (10) business day period identified in 

this paragraph or, if a petition to the court is submitted, until disposition of that petition. 

 (b) Counsel for the party responsible for the disclosure shall make every effort 

to further prevent unauthorized disclosure, including retrieving all copies of the Designated 

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Information from the recipient(s) thereof. Compliance with the foregoing shall not prevent 

the disclosing party from seeking further relief from the Court. 

12. FINAL DISPOSITION. 

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

(60) 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 (60) day deadline that identifies 

(by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed 

and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, 

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

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

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

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

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

forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above. 

13. MISCELLANEOUS 

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

to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

 13.2 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. 

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material covered by this Protective Order. 

 13.3 Limitation on Patent Prosecution. (a) No individual to whom Highly Confidential 

-- Attorneys’ Eyes Only Information is disclosed in connection with the lawsuit shall 

hereafter, directly or indirectly, engage or assist in or discuss or communicate regarding the 

prosecution of any patent applications related to (e.g., continuations, continuations-in-part, 

divisions, reissues, or reexamination of) any of the patents-in-suit, or any patent belonging 

to a Defendant in this litigation that relates to video media distribution networks. This 

prohibition shall expire one year after the completion of this litigation, including all appeals. 

The prohibition shall not apply to reexaminations of the patents-in-suit instituted by any 

Defendant in this action, or by any entity in the same corporate family as any Defendant in 

this action. Nor shall it apply to reexaminations of any patent belong to a Defendant that 

relates to video media distribution networks, where that reexamination is instituted by 

Plaintiff, or by any entity in the same corporate family as Plaintiff. 

(b) No individual to whom Highly Confidential -- Attorneys’ Eyes Only Information is 

disclosed in connection with the lawsuit shall, during the course of this litigation and for one 

year after its completion (including all appeals), be involved in the prosecution of any patent 

applications related to video media distribution networks on behalf of any party, or any entity 

in the same corporate family as any party. 

Respectfully Submitted, 

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Dated: November 16, 2006 KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART NICHOLSON 

GRAHAM LLP 

____/s/ Kevin C. Trock______________________ 

Kevin C. Trock 

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF STV ASIA LTD. 

Dated: November 16, 2006 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 

_____/s/ Alison Tucher____________________ 

Alison M. Tucher 

ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANTS 

 I, Alison Tucher, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this 

Proposed Order. In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that Kevin C. 

Trock has concurred in this filing. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

Dated: ______________, 2006 By: 

 Hon. Joseph C. Spero 

United States Magistrate Judge 

 

November 17

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Joseph C. Spero

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[PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Case No. C-06-1664 JCS 

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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 STV Asia Ltd. v. PRN Corp. et al., Case No. C-06-1664 JCS. 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. 

Dated: ______________, 2006 City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

Signature: 

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