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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:101 Copyright Infringement

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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Robert A. Mittelstaedt (SBN 60359)

ramittelstaedt@jonesday.com

Patrick T. Michael (SBN 169745)

pmichael@jonesday.com

Krista S. Schwartz (Admitted Pro Hac Vice)

ksschwartz@jonesday.com

Joe C. Liu (SBN 237356)

jcliu@jonesday.com

Nathaniel P. Garrett (SBN 248211)

ngarrett@jonesday.com

JONES DAY

555 California Street, 26th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 626-3939

Facsimile: (415) 875-5700

Paul Alexander (#49997)

ARNOLD & PORTER LLP

1801 Page Mill Road

Suite 110

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1216

Telephone: (650) 798-2920

Fax: (650) 798-2999

E-Mail: paul.alexander@aporter.com

Martin R. Glick (#40187)

Emily C. Hostage (#287116)

ARNOLD & PORTER LLP

7th Floor

Three Embarcadero Center

San Francisco, CA 94111-4024

Telephone: (415) 471-3100

Fax: (415) 471-3400

E-Mail: Marty.Glick@aporter.com

E-Mail: Emily.Hostage@aporter.com

Denise McKenzie (#193313)

ARNOLD & PORTER LLP

777 South Figueroa Street

Forty-Fourth Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90017-5844

Telephone: (213) 243-4000

Fax: (213) 243-4199

E-Mail: Denise.McKenzie@aporter.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

ATOPTECH, INC.

Heather N. Fugitt (SBN 261588)

hfugitt@jonesday.com

JONES DAY

1755 Embarcadero Road

Palo Alto, CA 94303

Telephone: (650) 739-3939

Facsimile: (650) 739-3900

Attorneys for Plaintiff

SYNOPSYS, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

SYNOPSYS, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

ATOPTECH, INC.,

Defendant.

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

confidential, proprietary, or private information, including, but not limited to, financial 

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information, proprietary information, confidential sales information, and/or commercially

valuable information that the respective Parties maintain in confidence in the ordinary course of 

business, 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 15.4 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, documents, and things the 

Designating Party believes in good faith comprises or includes confidential, proprietary and/or 

trade secrets or other confidential research, development, or sensitive commercial information 

that is not generally known to others, and which the Designating Party (i) would not normally 

reveal to third parties except in confidence or has undertaken with others to maintain in 

confidence, or (ii) believes in good faith is protected by a right to privacy under federal or state 

law or any other applicable privilege or right related to confidentiality or privacy.

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

well as their support staff).

2.4 Corporate Designee: An employee of a Party who is not an attorney and seeks 

access to “CONFIDENTIAL” and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

information in this matter.

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2.5 Designated House Counsel: House Counsel who seek access to 

“CONFIDENTIAL” and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

information in this matter.

2.6 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information, documents 

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

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE.”

2.7 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, including from a nonparty, 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, 

disclosed or generated in connection with discovery in this matter, including documents, 

deposition testimony or discovery responses.

2.8 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 a Party’s 

competitor, and (3) at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party 

or a Party’s competitor.

2.9 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or 

Items: information, documents, and things the Designating Party believes in good faith are not 

generally known to others and have significant competitive value such that unrestricted disclosure 

to others would create a substantial risk of serious injury, and which the Designating Party (i) 

would not normally reveal to third parties except in confidence or has undertaken with others to 

maintain in confidence, or (ii) believes in good faith is significantly sensitive and protected by a 

right to privacy under federal or state law or any other applicable privilege or right related to 

confidentiality or privacy.

2.10 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE” 

Information or Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” representing 

Source Code and associated comments and revision histories, formulas, engineering 

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specifications, or schematics that define or otherwise describe in detail the algorithms or structure 

of software or hardware designs, disclosure of which to another Party or Non-Party would create 

a substantial risk of serious harm to the competitive position of the Designating Party that could 

not be avoided by less restrictive means.

2.11 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.

2.12 Non-Party or Non-Parties: any natural person, partnership, corporation, 

association, or other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.13 Outside Counsel of Record or Outside Counsel: outside counsel who appear on 

the pleadings as counsel for a Party, or partners, associates, and employees of such outside 

counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation, 

including supporting personnel employed by the attorneys, such as paralegals, legal translators, 

legal secretaries, legal clerks and shorthand reporters.

2.14 Party or Parties: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support 

staffs).

2.15 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

2.16 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. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation and mock jurors retained by such a consultant to assist them in 

their work. Professional Vendors do not include consultants who fall within the definition of 

Outside Consultant.

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

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

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“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE” Material 

produced by a Party or Non-Party in discovery in this action.

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

Producing Party.

2.19 Source Code: computer instructions, data structures, and data definitions 

expressed in a form suitable for input to an assembler, compiler, translator, or other data 

processing module. 

3. SCOPE

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

(as defined above in Section 2.17), 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. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate 

agreement or order. Nothing herein shall alter or change in any way the discovery provisions of 

the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

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, except with respect to information, documents and things that become a 

matter of public record in this action. 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.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Subject to 

the limitations set forth in this Order, (a) a Designating Party may designate as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” information the Designating Party believes in good faith meets the definition 

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set forth in Section 2.2 above; (b) a Designating Party may designate as “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information the Designating Party believes in 

good faith meets the definition set forth in Section 2.9 above; (c) a Designating Party may 

designate as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE” 

information the Designating Party believes in good faith meets the definition set forth in Section 

2.10 above ; and (d) a Designating Party may designate as “SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION 

BAR” information the Designating Party believes in good faith meets the definition set forth in 

Section 8 below.

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., section 5.2(d) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosures 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) Information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings). The Producing Party 

should affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

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EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE 

CODE” to the first page and 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.

A discovery response is to be designated as Protected Material by placing, on the first 

page of the set of responses and on each page that contains information that the Designating Party 

claims to be Protected Material, one of the legends specified in this subsection.

(b) Information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other 

tangible items. Information or material produced in an electronic or magnetic medium (such as 

CD, DVD, floppy diskette or tape) is to be designated as Protected Material by marking or 

labeling the medium container with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

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

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE.” If any person or entity who receives such a 

designated magnetic medium prints or otherwise transfers to another medium any of the 

information contained on the magnetic medium, any resulting document or other medium shall be 

marked by that person or entity as Protected Material in accordance with this subsection.

A physical exhibit is to be designated as Protected Material by affixing to it a label with 

one of the legends specified in this subsection.

(c) Information made available for inspection. The procedures for inspecting source 

code are governed by Section 9 below. A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or 

materials (excluding source code) 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 

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legend (“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE”) 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.

(d) Testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings. The 

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

other proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being asserted. 

When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection 

and it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the 

Designating Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding 

is concluded) a right to have up to fifteen (15) business days following the receipt of the final 

transcript to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to 

specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of the testimony that are 

appropriately designated for protection within the fifteen (15) business days following the receipt 

of the final transcript shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at the deposition or up to fifteen (15) business 

days after receipt of the final transcript, 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 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 

shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

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

- SOURCE CODE. ” 

If a portion of a deposition is designated on the record, during the deposition, as 

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

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE,” the deposition 

shall continue, and if any persons not approved for access to Protected Material under this 

Protective Order are attending the deposition, they shall leave.

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 being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall 

inform the court reporter of these requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the 

expiration of a 15-business-day period for designation shall be treated during that period as if it 

had been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety 

unless otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as 

actually designated.

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 is permitted to challenge a 

designation of confidentiality at any time. A Party or Non-Party shall not be obligated to 

challenge the propriety of any designation of Discovery material under this Order at the time the 

designation is made, and the failure to do so shall not preclude a subsequent challenge thereto. 

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 and shall particularly identify each document by Bates 

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number and set forth the specific reason the Challenging Party believes the designation is 

improper for that document. 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 follow the procedures in this Court’s standing order 

regarding discovery disputes, see ECF No. 159, 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. Failure by the Designating Party to seek judicial intervention 

through the procedure described above shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation 

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

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

the designation of a deposition transcript of any portions thereof. Any joint letter brought 

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

parties have complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed by this Court’s standing 

order regarding discovery disputes.

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 

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designation until the Court rules on the challenge.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or agreed to in writing by 

the Parties, a Receiving Party is permitted to 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 a Receiving Party shall not use Protected Material for 

any other purpose. 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 16 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 Materials Designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Information and material designated as “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” may be disclosed only to the following 

persons, unless the Designating Party first otherwise agrees in writing or the Court first otherwise 

orders:

(a) Outside Counsel of Record for the Parties to this litigation, and employees, or inhouse contractors or vendors of such Outside Counsel (or such counsel’s law firm) who work 

under the supervision of and support such counsel, provided, however, that none has a financial 

interest in the outcome of the case and/or any relationship whatsoever, except for the relationship 

arising from work relating to the prosecution or defense of this litigation, to any Party to this 

litigation;

(b) Independent consultants or Expert witnesses performing consulting or testifying 

services in connection with the prosecution or defense of this litigation, provided that each such 

person:

(i) is not an officer, director, owner or employee of any Party; and

(ii) executes a copy of the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A).

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(c) Non-Parties specifically retained to assist Outside Counsel in copying or computer 

coding of Disclosures or Discovery Material provided that each such person executes a copy of 

Exhibit A attached to this Protective Order;

(d) Non-Parties specifically retained by Outside Counsel in preparing demonstrative 

or other exhibits for deposition, trial or other court proceedings in this action provided that each 

such person executes a copy of Exhibit A attached to this Protective Order;

(e) Non-Parties such as non-technical jury or trial consulting services, including mock 

jurors, or other counsel retained by the Parties or by Counsel who have not entered an appearance 

in this action, provided that each such person executes a copy of Exhibit A attached to this 

Protective Order;

(f) Qualified persons taking or recording testimony involving Protected Material and 

their employees and their co-workers whose duties require access to Protected Materials;

(g) Professional Vendors retained by the Parties or by Counsel;

(h) The Court, Court personnel, and court reporters;

(i) Any mediators and their personnel selected or appointed by the Court;

(j) Deposition witnesses, where at least one of the following conditions applies:

(i) the witness is an employee of the Designating Party when the disclosure is 

made;

(ii) the attorney taking the deposition and showing the witness the Protected 

Material represents the Designating Party;

(iii) the witness’s name appears on the Protected Material as a person who has 

previously seen or received the Protected Material, or it is otherwise established that the witness 

has previously seen or received the Protected Material or knows the information contained within 

it;

(iv) the Designating Party has consented on the record of the deposition to the 

showing of the Protected Material to the witness; or

(v) at least three (3) business days before the deposition, the Party wishing to 

show the witness the Protected Material notifies the Designating Party in writing of its intent to 

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do so, with a specific listing of the Protected Material to be shown, and the Designating Party 

fails to provide, within one (1) business day of receipt of the notice, written objection to this use 

of Protected Material. If a timely written objection is provided, the Protected Material identified 

in the written objection shall not be shown to the witness unless and until the Party wishing to 

show that Protected Material to the witness moves for and obtains appropriate relief from the 

Court.

(vi) Witnesses being shown Protected Material under subsection (v) above must 

sign Exhibit A before being shown the Protected Material. Counsel defending the deponent to 

whom Protected Material is disclosed during deposition shall provide to Counsel for the 

Designating Party, prior to the start of the deposition, a copy of the executed Exhibit A. Such 

witnesses may not retain copies of Designated Material unless permitted by other provisions of 

this Order.

7.3 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Materials designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” may be disclosed to any of the categories of persons designated in section 

7.2 above as well as to two (2) House Counsel for each Party (“Designated House Counsel”) who 

are members of a United States state bar or of the Bar of the District of Columbia and any 

administrative staff or paralegals who report to the Designated House Counsel, provided that each 

Designated House Counsel, before receiving the materials, signs a copy of Exhibit A attached to 

this Order and be identified by name and title to the Designating Party. 

7.4 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

Information or Items to Designated House Counsel and Corporate Designees. Unless otherwise 

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

disclose any information or items designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” only to: 

(a) up to two (2) Designated House Counsel (i) who are members of a United States 

state Bar or of the Bar of the District of Columbia, (ii) who have no involvement in competitive 

decision-making activities such as pricing and product design, (iii) who have no involvement in 

patent prosecution related to electronic design automation, (iv) who have signed the 

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“Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound” (Exhibit A) and (v) as to whom the procedures 

set forth in paragraph 7.4(c) below have been followed. In addition, any Designated House 

Counsel shall not engage in any competitive decision-making or restricted patent prosecution for 

two (2) years after the individual’s last access of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” information. 

(b) up to two (2) Corporate Designees (i) who have no involvement in competitive 

decision-making activities such as pricing and product design, (ii) who have no involvement in 

patent prosecution related to electronic design automation, (iii) who have read, understood, and 

executed the “Corporate Designee’s Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound” (Exhibit B), 

and (iv) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4(c) below have been followed. In 

addition, any Corporate Designee shall not engage in any competitive decision-making or 

restricted patent prosecution for two (2) years after the individual’s last access of “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information.

(c) 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 or Corporate Designees any 

information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” material pursuant to paragraphs 7.4 (a) and (b) first must make a written request to 

the Designating Party that (1) sets forth the full name of the Designated House Counsel or 

Corporate Designee and the city and state of his or her residence, and (2) describes the 

Designated House Counsel’s or Corporate Designee’s current and reasonably foreseeable future 

primary job duties and responsibilities in sufficient detail to determine if the House Counsel or 

Corporate Designee is involved, or may become involved, in any competitive decision making. 

(d) 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 Corporate Designees unless, within 14 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. 

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(e) 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 Corporate Designees 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 Corporate Designees 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 Corporate Designees 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 Corporate Designees.

(f) Designated House Counsel and Corporate Designees may only view material 

marked “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in the presence of Outside 

Counsel at the Outside Counsel’s Office. Designated House Counsel and Corporate Designees 

shall not possess any copies of material or excerpts of material marked “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

8. PROSECUTION BAR

(a) Absent written consent from the Producing Party, any individual on behalf of the 

Receiving Party who receives access to Producing Party’s “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY -

SOURCE CODE” information shall not be involved in the following activities relating to 

electronic design automation:

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(i) prosecution of patents or patent applications, including without limitation 

the patents asserted in this action and any patent or application claiming priority to or otherwise 

related to the patents asserted in this action, before any foreign or domestic agency, including the 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (“the Patent Office”). For purposes of this paragraph, 

“prosecution” includes directly or indirectly drafting, amending, advising, or otherwise affecting 

the scope or maintenance of patent claims. To avoid any doubt, “prosecution” as used in this 

paragraph does not include representing a Party before a domestic or foreign agency (including, 

but not limited to, a reissue protest, ex parte reexamination, inter partes reexamination, or inter 

partes review) so long as such activities do not involve directly or indirectly drafting or amending 

the patent claims. However, any individual who receives one Party’s “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE” and who represents the Party before a 

domestic or foreign agency (including, but not limited to, a reissue protest, ex parte

reexamination, inter partes reexamination, or inter partes review), may not use the other Party’s 

information in that proceeding.

(b) This Prosecution Bar shall begin when access to “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY -

SOURCE CODE” information is first received by the affected individual and shall end two (2) 

years after final termination of this action.

9. REVIEW OF SOURCE CODE

The Producing Party shall make available for inspection a password-protected, text 

searchable, electronic copy of properly discoverable Source Code in its possession, custody or 

control (“Designated Code”). All Designated Code shall be subject to the same restrictions as 

information designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as well 

as the following additional restrictions:

(a) Such Designated Code may be provided only to persons falling within the 

categories specified in Section 7.2 of this Protective Order and only as set forth in this section. 

Designated Code shall not be provided to Designated House Counsel.

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(b) Any Source Code produced in discovery shall be made available for inspection, in 

a format allowing it to be reasonably reviewed and searched, during normal business hours or at 

other mutually agreeable times, at an office of the Producing Party’s Outside Counsel of Record. 

The Source Code shall be made available for inspection on a secured computer in a secured room 

without Internet access or network access to other computers, and the Receiving Party shall not 

copy, remove, or otherwise transfer any portion of the Source Code onto any recordable media or 

recordable device. The Producing Party may visually monitor the activities of the Receiving 

Party’s representatives during any Source Code review, but only to ensure that there is no 

unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of the Source Code. Use or possession of any 

input/output device (e.g., USB memory stick, cameras or any camera-enabled device, CDs, 

floppy disk, portable hard drive, laptop, etc.) is prohibited. All persons inspecting the Source 

Code must agree to submit to reasonable security measures to ensure they are not carrying any 

prohibited items before they will be given access to the secured computer. 

(c) The Receiving Party shall be permitted to take notes relating to the Source Code, 

but shall not copy any portion of the Source Code into those notes. No copies of all or any 

portion of the Source Code is permitted to leave the room in which the Source Code is inspected, 

except as otherwise provided herein.

(d) The Receiving Party is permitted to request paper copies of limited portions of 

Source Code that are reasonably necessary for the preparation of court filings, pleadings, expert 

reports, or other papers, or for deposition or trial, but shall not request paper copies for the 

purposes of reviewing the Source Code other than electronically as set forth in paragraph (c) in 

the first instance. The Producing Party shall provide all such Source Code in paper form 

including Bates numbers and the label “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY - SOURCE CODE.” The Producing Party is permitted to challenge the amount of Source 

Code requested in hard copy form pursuant to the dispute resolution procedure and timeframes set 

forth in Paragraph 6 whereby the Producing Party is the “Challenging Party” and the Receiving 

Party is the “Designating Party” for purposes of dispute resolution.

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(e) The Receiving Party shall maintain a record of any individual who has inspected 

any portion of the source code in electronic or paper form. The Receiving Party shall maintain all 

paper copies of any printed portions of the source code in a secured, locked area. The Receiving 

Party shall not create any electronic or other images of the paper copies and shall not convert any 

of the information contained in the paper copies into any electronic format. The Receiving Party 

shall only make additional paper copies if such additional copies are (1) necessary to prepare 

court filings, pleadings, or other papers (including a testifying expert’s expert report), 

(2) necessary for deposition, or (3) otherwise necessary for the preparation of its case. Any paper 

copies used during a deposition shall be retrieved by the Producing Party at the end of each day 

and shall not be given to or left with a court reporter or any other unauthorized individual.

(f) At the conclusion of the litigation any entity receiving Designated Code will 

certify that: (a) all external media, print-outs, and copies containing Designated Code have been 

destroyed or erased in a manner that prevents any forensic recovery of the Designated Code, with 

the exception of portions of code that were included in filed or served pleadings or their exhibits, 

or as exhibits to depositions, or admitted into evidence; and (b) the print logs have been archived 

along with Counsel’s other records from this litigation. Other than as set forth in this 

subparagraph, Counsel may not maintain or retain a file copy of the Designated Code.

10. 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,” 

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

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE,” 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 

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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.

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

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY - SOURCE CODE ” 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.

11. 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,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

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

– SOURCE CODE.” 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: 

(i) 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 NonParty;

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(ii) 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 

(iii) 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 

Non-Party’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 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.

12. 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.

13. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 

MATERIAL

The disclosure of any testimony, information, thing or document governed by this 

Stipulation and Order shall be without prejudice to any claim by the Producing Party or NonParty that the disclosed material is privileged or work product within the meaning of Fed. R. Civ. 

P. 26, and no Party or Non-Party shall be held to have waived any of its privilege or work product 

rights under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26 by such disclosure. In addition to the provisions within this Order, 

Federal Rule of Evidence 502 shall also apply to inadvertent disclosures in this case.

If a Producing Party discovers that privileged or work product protected materials were 

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inadvertently disclosed, that Party must, within a reasonable time after the discovery of the 

inadvertent disclosure, inform each Party to which the documents were disclosed in writing that 

such documents were inadvertently disclosed and that the Producing Party is not waiving the 

privilege or work product protection on those materials. Each such Receiving Party shall then 

take reasonable steps to ensure that all copies of those documents are either (a) returned to 

Counsel for the Designating Party or, upon consent of the Designating Party, (b) destroyed, with a 

certification in writing that the documents have been destroyed. If data or information has been 

extracted or copied from a document that is thus subsequently returned, that information and/or 

data shall be expunged and not used. To the extent, however, that, before being notified of the 

inadvertent disclosure, the Receiving Party has in good faith used such information and/or data in 

documents filed with the Court or at depositions, the Receiving Party shall have no obligation to 

expunge such information and/or data from, or otherwise to alter, any such document filed with 

the Court or the transcript of any such deposition. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d), 

any disclosure under this Protective Order that does not result in a waiver of the attorney-client 

privilege or work product protection in connection with this case shall not constitute a waiver in 

any other Federal or State proceeding. Nothing herein shall prevent the Receiving Party from 

challenging the propriety of the attorney-client privilege or work product immunity or other 

applicable privilege or immunity designation by submitting a written challenge to the Court.

14. PROCEDURE FOR QUALIFYING INDEPENDENT EXPERTS AND 

CONSULTANTS

In order for an independent expert or consultant to be permitted access to Protected 

Material, the Counsel wishing to provide such access must notify in writing the Designating 

Party, with a copy to all other Parties, at least six (6) business days before allowing such access 

(or such shorter period to which the Designating Party agrees in writing). The identification of an 

Expert or consultant pursuant to this Order shall not be construed as the identification of an 

Expert trial witness under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2), and shall not constitute a 

waiver of attorney work product protection or the attorney-client privilege.

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(a) Contents of the Written Notification: Such written notice shall include the 

following: (1) the name of the Expert or consultant; (2) the present and past employers and titles 

of the Expert or consultant; (3) a copy of the executed Exhibit A; and (4) a current curriculum 

vitae that lists all employers and clients to whom the Expert or consultant has provided services in 

the past five (5) years and cases in which the Expert or consultant has testified as an expert at trial 

or by deposition at any time.

(b) Objections by Designating Parties: Before the six (6) business day period from 

the receipt of the written notification has expired, a Designating Party may object in writing to the 

disclosure of Protected Materials to the Expert or consultant in question. If no such written 

objection is made within the six (6) business day period, then Protected Materials may be 

disclosed to the Expert or consultant in question. If an objection is made, the Parties must first 

meet and confer in an attempt to resolve the objection. If the objection is not resolved within ten 

(10) business days of service of the notice of written objection to disclosure, the objecting Party 

shall file and serve a motion with respect to its objection within seventeen (17) business days 

after service of the notice of written objection to disclosure. If the objecting Party does not file 

the appropriate motion with the Court within that time, or within any additional time within 

which to move as may be granted by the Court or agreed to by stipulation of the Parties, the 

objecting Party waives its right to challenge the disclosure of Protected Material to the identified 

Expert or consultant, and the Protected Material may then be disclosed to the identified Expert or 

consultant. An identified Expert or consultant shall not be provided access to any Protected 

Material until a timely filed objection or motion challenging disclosure to that Expert or 

consultant is resolved.

(c) Draft Expert Reports: The Parties agree that draft Expert reports and attorney 

communications with Experts will not be subject to discovery and shall not be admissible. But all 

materials that an Expert relied upon in connection with a submitted declaration, final expert 

report, tutorial or testimony shall be discoverable.

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15. MISCELLANEOUS

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

seek its modification by the court in the future.

15.2 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.

15.3 Export Control. Disclosure of Protected Material shall be subject to all applicable 

laws and regulations relating to the export of technical data contained in such Protected Material, 

including the release of such technical data to foreign persons or nationals in the United States or 

elsewhere. The Producing Party shall be responsible for identifying any such controlled technical 

data, and the Receiving Party shall take measures necessary to ensure compliance.

15.4 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 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.

15.5 Use of Protected Material by Designating Party. Nothing in this Protective Order 

limits a Party’s ability to show materials which that Party has designated as “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

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Designating Party may deem appropriate. Further, nothing in this Protective Order limits a 

Party’s ability to show materials designated by another Party as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

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

SOURCE CODE,” or “CONFIDENTIAL” to the Party that designated the materials, including 

any present officer, director, employee or representative thereof.

15.6 Use of Protected Material During Court Proceedings. If any Protected Material is 

used in any Court pretrial proceeding in this litigation (including, but not limited to, conferences, 

oral arguments, and hearings), the Protected Material shall not lose its status as Protected Material 

through such use so long as the Court agrees. The Parties shall take all steps reasonably 

necessary to protect the confidentiality of the Protected Material during any such use, including, 

but not limited to, requesting in camera proceedings. The terms of this Protective Order do not 

preclude, limit, restrict or otherwise apply to the use of documents at trial. The Parties agree to 

meet and confer in good faith prior to trial to establish procedures for the use of Protected 

Material at trial.

15.7 No Waiver of Other Objections. This Protective Order is entered into without 

prejudice to (1) any Party’s claim as to the propriety or impropriety of this action or any of the 

claims asserted therein; (2) any Party’s right to assert objections to any discovery request 

propounded in this action; (3) any Party’s right to assert objections to the admissibility of any 

Protected Material in this action; and/or (4) any Party’s right to assert that certain material may 

require additional or different confidentiality protections than those set forth herein. 

15.8 No Admissions. Compliance with this Protective Order in no way constitutes an 

admission by any Party that any information designated pursuant to this Protective Order is or is 

not proprietary, confidential or a trade secret.

15.9 Modification of Protective Order. Each Party reserves the right to request that the 

Court modify the terms of this Protective Order in the event that the Party believes that a 

modification is necessary. If such an application is made, all signatories of copies of the 

Certification, as well as persons described herein, shall remain bound by this Protective Order 

unless and until it is modified by the Court.

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16. FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within 60 calendar 

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 60 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).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: January 23, 2015 By: /s/ Patrick Michael ________ Patrick T. Michael 

Attorney for Plaintiff SYNOPSYS, INC.

Dated: January 23, 2015 By: /s/ Paul Alexander_________ Paul Alexander Attorney for Defendant ATOPTECH, INC.

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: January __, 2015

Hon. Donna M. Ryu

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 Synopsys, Inc. v. ATopTech, Inc., Case No. 3:13-cv-02965-MMC (DMR). 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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EXHIBIT B

CORPORATE DESIGNEE’S 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 Synopsys, Inc. v. ATopTech, Inc., Case No. 3:13-cv-02965-MMC (DMR). 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 personally to sanctions 

and punishment in the nature of contempt of court, and that I have the same obligations to 

observe the protective order as an attorney before this Court. I further understand that I may be 

responsible personally for any monetary or other sanctions the Court may award arising from a 

violation by me of this order, and that such monetary or other sanctions may include any and all 

sanctions that the Court could lawfully impose on an attorney before the Court. I have reviewed 

these obligations personally with ATopTech’s counsel of record in this case and represent to the 

Court that I understand my obligations under the Protective Order and will be responsible to the 

Court in the same manner as a Designated House Counsel. 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: 

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City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

Signature: 

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