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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING Case No.: 3:14-cv-04741-RS

DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION

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RACHEL KREVANS (CA SBN 116421)

RKrevans@mofo.com

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

425 Market Street

San Francisco, California 94105-2482

Telephone: 415.268.7000

Facsimile: 415.268.7522

GRANT J. ESPOSITO

GEsposito@mofo.com

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

250 West 55th Street

New York, NY 10019-9601

Telephone: 212.468.8000

Facsimile: 212.468.7900

ERIK J. OLSON (CA SBN 175815)

EJOlson@mofo.com

ERIC C. PAI (SBN 247604) 

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

755 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, California 94304

Telephone: 650.813.5600

Facsimile: 650.494.0792

Attorneys for Defendant

SANDOZ INC.

VERNON M. WINTERS (CA SBN 130128)

vwinters@sidley.com

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

555 California Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94104-1503

Telephone: 415.722.1200

Facsimile: 415.772.7400

NICHOLAS GROOMBRIDGE (pro hac vice)

ngroombridge@paulweiss.com

ERIC ALAN STONE (pro hac vice)

JENNIFER H. WU (pro hac vice)

JENNIFER GORDON

PETER SANDEL (pro hac vice)

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10019-6064

Telephone: 212.373.3000

Facsimile: 212.757.3990

WENDY A. WHITEFORD (CA SBN 150283)

wendy@amgen.com

LOIS M. KWASIGROCH (CA SBN 130159)

One Amgen Center Drive

Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1789

Telephone: 805.447.1000

Facsimile: 805.447.1010

Attorneys for Plaintiffs AMGEN INC. and 

AMGEN MANUFACTURING, LIMITED

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

AMGEN INC. and AMGEN 

MANUFACTURING, LIMITED,

Plaintiffs,

v.

SANDOZ INC., SANDOZ INTERNATIONAL 

GMBH, and SANDOZ GMBH,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:14-cv-04741-RS

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER REGARDING DISCOVERY OF

ELECTRONICALLY STORED

INFORMATION

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Upon the stipulation of Amgen Inc., Amgen Manufacturing, Limited, and Sandoz Inc. 

(collectively, “the parties”), the Court ORDERS as follows:

Purpose

1. This Order supplements all other discovery rules and orders. It streamlines 

Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”) production to promote a “just, speedy, and inexpensive 

determination of this action, as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1.” Nothing in this Order 

shall waive in whole or in part any objection raised by a party in its written responses to specific 

discovery requests served in this action. 

Cooperation

2. The parties are aware of the importance the Court places on cooperation and commit to 

cooperate in good faith throughout the matter consistent with this Court’s Guidelines for the Discovery 

of ESI.

Modifications

3. This Order may be modified in the Court’s discretion or by stipulation. 

Cost Shifting

4. As in all cases, costs may be shifted for disproportionate ESI production requests 

pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26. Likewise, a party’s nonresponsive or dilatory 

discovery tactics are cost-shifting considerations.

5. A party’s meaningful compliance with this Order and efforts to promote efficiency and 

reduce costs will be considered in cost-shifting determinations.

Preservation

6. The parties have discussed their preservation obligations and needs and agree that 

preservation of potentially relevant ESI will be reasonable and proportionate. To reduce the costs and 

burdens of preservation and to ensure proper ESI is preserved, the parties agree that ESI from certain 

data sources will be considered not reasonably accessible because of undue burden or cost pursuant to 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(2)(B), and for purposes of this litigation, the parties agree they need not preserve 

the following: (i) recorded voice messages; (ii) instant messaging communications that are not 

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ordinarily retained in a server dedicated to instant messaging; (iii) draft email or electronic 

communications that are not sent; (iv) temporary data stored in a computer’s random access memory 

(RAM), or other ephemeral data that are difficult to preserve without disabling the operating system; 

(v) online access data such as temporary Internet files, history, cache, cookies, and the like; (vi) 

device-to-device (pin-to-pin) messages sent to or from mobile devices (e.g., Android, iPhone, and 

Blackberry devices); (vii) other electronic data stored on a mobile device, such as calendar or contact 

data or notes; (viii) logs of calls made from mobile devices; (ix) server, system or network logs; (x) 

electronic data temporarily stored by laboratory equipment or attached electronic equipment, provided 

that such data is not ordinarily preserved as part of a laboratory report; (xi) backup tapes intended for 

data-recovery purposes (xii) deleted data remaining in fragmented form only accessible by forensics.

7. Documents in this litigation will be produced in single-page TIFF format with full-text 

extraction and Concordance load files. If there is no extractable text, the producing party shall perform 

Optical Character Recognition (“OCR”) on the document and provide the associated text file. All text 

files should be produced as document level text files with a path to the text file included in the 

Concordance load file; extracted text/OCR should not be embedded in the load file itself. A party that 

receives a document produced in a format specified above may make a reasonable request to receive 

the document in its native format, and upon receipt of such a request, the producing party shall produce 

the document in its native format to the extent reasonably accessible. Additionally, where production 

of a document in TIFF image file format would be impracticable (such as Excel spreadsheets), the 

producing party shall produce such document in native format.

Email 

8. General ESI production requests under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 and 45 shall 

not include email or other forms of electronic correspondence (collectively “email”). Email production 

requests shall be governed by the search term process outlined below. To obtain email parties must 

propound specific email production requests.

9. Email production requests shall only be propounded for specific issues, rather than 

general discovery of a product or business.

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10. A requesting party shall limit its email production requests to a total of eight custodians 

per producing party for all such requests. The parties may jointly agree to modify this limit without 

the Court’s leave. The Court shall consider contested requests for additional custodians, upon showing 

a distinct need based on the size, complexity, and issues of this specific case. Cost-shifting may be 

considered as part of any such request. The parties shall meet and confer as soon as possible to 

identify the custodians who are most likely to have responsive or relevant emails.

11. Each requesting party shall limit its email production requests to a total of ten search 

terms per custodian. The parties may jointly agree to modify this limit without the Court’s leave. The 

Court shall consider contested requests for additional search terms per custodian, upon showing a 

distinct need based on the size, complexity, and issues of this specific case. The search terms shall be 

narrowly tailored to particular issues. Indiscriminate terms, such as the producing company’s name or 

its product name, are inappropriate unless combined with narrowing search criteria that sufficiently 

reduce the risk of overproduction. A conjunctive combination of multiple words or phrases (e.g., 

“computer” and “system”) narrows the search and shall count as a single search term. A disjunctive 

combination of multiple words or phrases (e.g., “computer” or “system”) broadens the search, and thus 

each word or phrase shall count as a separate search term unless they are variants of the same word. A 

disjunctive string of patent numbers that are asserted in this litigation shall only count as a single 

search term. Use of narrowing search criteria (e.g., “and,” “but not,” “w/x”) is encouraged to limit the 

production and shall be considered when determining whether to shift costs for disproportionate 

discovery. Should a party serve email production requests with search terms beyond the limits agreed 

to by the parties or granted by the Court pursuant to this paragraph, this shall be considered in 

determining whether any party shall bear all reasonable costs caused by such additional discovery.

12. As with the production of any other documents in this litigation, production of email 

shall be subject to and may be limited by the producing party’s objections, pursuant to Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure 34, and nothing in this Order shall be construed to the contrary. 

Other ESI

13. For all other ESI that must be preserved and searched, reviewed and produced, and 

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which does not qualify as email ESI as set forth above, a producing party shall be subject to its general 

obligation to conduct a reasonable search to locate and produce any responsive information (subject to 

its objections) pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34. Such search may include using search 

terms to search ESI on central databases, servers, or individual hard drives, or producing all ESI from 

particular electronic folders or files likely to contain responsive information, and/or any other 

appropriate method to capture the responsive information. 

Metadata

14. For email production, the following metadata shall be included, if available: 

FIELDNAME DESCRIPTION

PRODBEG Beginning production number

PRODEND Ending production number

PRODVOL Production volume (e.g., MF-PD001)

BEGATTACH Beginning production family number

ENDATTACH Ending production family Number

CUSTODIAN Human custodian whose email was searched

PGCOUNT Total page count per document

DOCTYPE “EMAIL” (for email), “ATT” (for attachment)

DOCEXT File extension of original document

TITLE Subject of e-mail or Title of Attachment or Electronic Loose File

DESIGNATION Confidentiality designation

DOCDATE Document Last Modified Date or Document Sent Date, Use Sent 

Date of Parent Email if Attachment

DOCTIME Document Last Modified Time or Document Sent Time, Use 

Sent Time of Parent Email if Attachment

TEXT Text of email/attachment

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FILESIZE Document file size in bytes

FILENAME Attachment or electronic loose filename

AUTHOR Author of document

APPNAME File Type, such as Word 6.0, Excel 2000, etc.

FROM Email sender

RECIPIENT Email recipient or paper recipients

CC Email CC or paper CC

BCC Email BCC or paper BCC

CONVERSATIONID Identification of a message chain

CONVERSATIONINDEX Position of the message in a conversation

CONVERSATIONTOPIC Text topic of the conversation without RE, FW, etc.

MD5/SHA VALUE Facilitates de-duplication

15. For production of all other ESI, the following metadata shall be included, if available: 

FIELDNAME DESCRIPTION

PRODBEG Beginning production number

PRODEND Ending production number

PRODVOL Production volume (e.g., MF-PD001)

CUSTODIAN Human custodian whose files were searched

PGCOUNT Total page count per document

DOCEXT File extension of original document

TITLE Title of original document

DESIGNATION Confidentiality designation

CREATEDATE Document Creation Date 

DOCDATE Document Last Modified Date 

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DOCTIME Document Last Modified Time 

TEXT Text of document

FILESIZE Document file size in bytes

FILENAME Attachment or electronic loose filename

AUTHOR Author of document

APPNAME File Type, such as Word 6.0, Excel 2000, etc.

MD5/SHA VALUE Facilitates de-duplication

16. Should additional metadata exist that if provided would significantly aid a receiving 

party in understanding or using a particular document(s), if requested, the producing party shall not 

unreasonably withhold such metadata if such metadata is reasonably accessible.

17. Nothing in this Order prevents the parties from agreeing to use technology assisted 

review and other techniques insofar as their use improves the efficacy of discovery.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, through Counsel of Record.

DATED: January 29, 2016 By: /s/Rachel Krevans

Rachel Krevans (SBN 116421)

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

425 Market Street

San Francisco, California 94105-2482

Telephone: 415.268.7000

Facsimile: 415.268.7522

rkrevans@mofo.com

Attorneys for Defendant Sandoz Inc.

OF COUNSEL:

Grant J. Esposito (pro hac vice)

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

250 West 55th Street

New York, NY 10019-9601

Telephone: 212.468.8000

Facsimile: 212.468.7900

gesposito@mofo.com

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Erik J. Olson (SBN 175815)

Eric C. Pai (SBN 247604) 

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

755 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, California 94304

Telephone: 650.813.5600

Facsimile: 650.494.0792

ejolson@mofo.com

DATED: January 29, 2016 By: /s/Vernon M. Winters

Vernon M. Winters (SBN 130128)

Alexander D. Baxter (SBN 281569)

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

555 California Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 772-1200

Facsimile: (415) 772-7400

vwinters@sidley.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Amgen Inc. and 

Amgen Manufacturing, Limited

OF COUNSEL:

Nicholas Groombridge (pro hac vice)

Eric Alan Stone (pro hac vice)

Jennifer H. Wu (pro hac vice)

Jennifer Gordon

Peter Sandel (pro hac vice)

PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON

& GARRISON LLP

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10019

Telephone: (212) 373-3000

Facsimile: (212) 757-3990

ngroombridge@paulweiss.com

Wendy A. Whiteford (SBN 150283)

Lois M. Kwasigroch (SBN 130159)

AMGEN INC.

One Amgen Center Drive

Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1789

Telephone: (805) 447-1000

Facsimile: (805) 447-1010

wendy@amgen.com

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ECF ATTESTATION

In accordance with Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I attest that concurrence in the filing of this 

document has been obtained from any other signatory to this document.

Dated: January 29, 2016

/s/ Rachel Krevans 

Rachel Krevans

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED

Dated:

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 THE HONORABLE MARIA-ELENA JAMES

1/29/16

RICHARD SEEBORG

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