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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 28:1338 Copyright Infringement

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HOWREY LLP

James C. Pistorino (SBN 226496) 

Daniel T. Shvodian (SBN 184576) 

Ryan J. Moran (SBN 244447) 

HOWREY LLP 

1950 University Avenue, 4th Floor 

East Palo Alto, CA 94303 

Telephone: (650) 798-3500 

Facsimile: (650) 798-3600

Email: pistorinoj@howrey.com 

Email: shvodiand@howrey.com

Email: moranr@howrey.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterclaim 

Defendant TECHSAVIES, LLC 

J. Daniel Sharp (SBN 131042) 

Steven E. Wilson (SBN 240843) 

CROWELL & MORING LLP 

275 Battery Street, 23rd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 986-2800 

Facsimile: (415) 986-2827 

Email: dsharp@crowell.com

Email: swilson@crowell.com

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant 

WDFA MARKETING, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

TECHSAVIES, LLC, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

WDFA MARKETING, INC., 

Defendant. 

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ORDER 

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 

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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 (as well as their support 

staff). 

2.4. Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items 

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.5. 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, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses 

to discovery in this matter. 

2.6. 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. 

2.7. Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other 

legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.8. Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys 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 affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party. 

2.9. 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). 

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2.10. Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.11. 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. 

2.12. Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.13. 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. 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 

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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. 

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. 

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, 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” 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). 

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 “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified 

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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 “CONFIDENTIAL” legend 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). 

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

Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected 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.” 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). 

5.3. Inadvertent Failures to Designate

If timely corrected, 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 timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party 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

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. 

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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 14 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 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the 

parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. 

Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration 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 21 days (or 14 

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. 

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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. 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 13 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 

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 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); 

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(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, professional jury or trial consultants, 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) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary 

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

otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the Court. 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 or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or other 

person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

LITIGATION

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,” 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” 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. 

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.” 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) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this Court within 14 days 

of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the NonParty’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a 

protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that 

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is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the Court.1 

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. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 

MATERIAL

It is agreed that inadvertent production of documents or information subject to the attorneyclient privilege or work product immunity does not waive the attorney-client privilege or work-product 

immunity with respect to such production or with respect to other materials or information referred to 

in the materials produced if a request for return of such documents or information is made reasonably 

promptly after the Producing Party learns of its inadvertent production. After receiving such a request, 

the Receiving Party must promptly return or destroy the specified information and any copies it has 

and may not use or disclose the information. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, if the Receiving 

Party wishes to challenge the designation of the information as privileged or work product, it must 

sequester the information and promptly present the information to the Court under seal for a 

determination of the claim; it may not otherwise use or disclose the information until the challenge is 

ruled upon by the Court, and if the Court rules that the privilege or work product is legitimate, the 

information must be immediately returned or destroyed. Although the Receiving Party remains free to 

 

1 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of confidentiality 

rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to protect its confidentiality interests 

in this Court. 

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challenge the designation of the material as privileged or work product, the Receiving Party may not 

rely on the inadvertent production as the basis for waiver (in contrast to reliance on the use of the 

allegedly privileged information as exhibits without objection). Nothing in this paragraph shall 

prejudice the right of any party to seek discovery of communications, documents and things as to 

which a claim of privilege has been made. 

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. 

12.3. 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(d) is 

denied by the Court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to 

Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed by the Court. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Subject to subsections (a) and (b), within sixty (60) days after all issues of the case have been 

resolved and any right to appeal has lapsed, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Counsel for the 

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Designating Party, each Party, at its sole discretion, shall either: (1) destroy all Protected Material and 

certify, in writing to the party or third-party witness or entity from whom the Protected Material was 

obtained, that all such material was destroyed; or (2) assemble and return all Protected Material, 

including all copies and extracts thereof, to the party or third-party witness or entity from whom the 

Protected Material was obtained. 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. 

(a) 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). 

(b) Outside Counsel of Record may retain Protected Material if required to do so by law (e.g., if 

the documents are subject to a litigation hold or if the documents are subject to a subpoena), provided 

that outside counsel notifies the Designating Party of the reasons why the materials will not be 

destroyed or returned. The Designating Party retains the right to dispute Outside Counsel of Record’s 

decision to preserve the documents. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD 

Dated: July 16, 2010 HOWREY LLP 

By: /s/ Daniel T. Shvodian

Daniel T. Shvodian 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterclaim 

Defendant 

TECHSAVIES, LLC 

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Dated: July 16, 2010 CROWELL & MORING LLP 

By: /s/ Steven E. Wilson

Steven E. Wilson 

Attorneys for Defendant and 

Counterclaimant 

WDFA MARKETING, INC. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED 

Dated: 

By: 

Hon. Bernard Zimmerman 

United States Magistrate Judge 

July 19, 2010

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _________________________, residing at _______________________________________, 

declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the terms and 

restrictions of the Joint Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California on ___________________ in the case of Techsavies, LLC v. WDFA 

Marketing, Inc., Case No. CV-10-1213-BZ. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of 

this Joint 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 Joint 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 Joint Protective Order, even if such 

enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

Signature: __________________________________ 

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STIPULATED JOINT PROTECTIVE ORDER

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CERTIFICATION BY DANIEL T. SHVODIAN PURSUANT TO GENERAL ORDER NO. 45, 

SECTION X. RE E-FILING ON BEHALF OF MULTIPLE SIGNATORIES

1. I am an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of California, and am a partner in 

the law firm of Howrey LLP, counsel for Plaintiff Techsavies, LLC. The statements herein are made 

on my personal knowledge, and if called as a witness I could and would testify thereto. 

2. The above e-filed document contains multiple signatures. I declare that concurrence 

has been obtained from each of the other signatories to file this jointly prepared document with the 

Court. Pursuant to General Rule No. 45, I shall maintain records to support this concurrence for 

subsequent production for the Court if so ordered, or for inspection upon request by a party until one 

year after final resolution of the action (including appeal, if any). 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 

foregoing is true and correct on July 16, 2010. 

 /s/ Daniel T. Shvodian 

Daniel T. Shvodian 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE HOWREY LLP

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I am employed in the County of San Mateo, State of California. I am over the age of 18 and 

not a party to the within action. My business address is 1950 University Avenue, 4th Floor, East Palo 

Alto, California 94303. 

On July 16, 2010, I served the within: 

STIPULATED JOINT PROTECTIVE ORDER 

on the interested parties in said action as stated below. 

J. Daniel Sharp 

Steven E. Wilson 

CROWELL & MORING LLP 

275 Battery Street, 23rd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415.365.7372 

Facsimile: 415.986.2827 

Email: dsharp@crowell.com

Email: swilson@crowell.com

Attorneys for Defendant WDFA Marketing, Inc. 

 

(OVERNIGHT DELIVERY) I deposited in a box or other facility regularly maintained by 

Federal Express, an express service carrier, or delivered to a courier or driver authorized by 

said express service carrier to receive documents, a true copy of the foregoing document in 

sealed envelopes or packages designated by the express service carrier, addressed as stated 

above, with fees for overnight delivery paid or provided for. 

(MAIL) I am readily familiar with this firm's practice of collection and processing 

correspondence for mailing. Under that practice it would be deposited with the U.S. postal 

service on that same day in the ordinary course of business. I am aware that on motion of party 

served, service is presumed invalid if postal cancellation date or postage meter date is more 

than 1 day after date of deposit for mailing in affidavit. 

(PERSONAL SERVICE) I delivered such envelope(s) by hand to the offices of addressee. 

 (BY ELECTRONIC MAIL) I caused such document(s) to be sent to the persons at the e-mail 

addresses listed above. I did not receive, within a reasonable time after the submission, any 

electronic message or other indication that the transmission was unsuccessful. 

(BY CM/ECF) I caused such document(s) to be sent via electronic mail through the Case 

Management/Electronic File system with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 

California. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is 

true and correct. Executed on July 16, 2010, at East Palo Alto, California. 

Laurie M. Hockin /s/ Laurie M. Hockin

(Type or print name) (Signature) 

23361024 

X 

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