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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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Matthew B. Lehr (Bar No. 213139) 

Diem-Suong T. Nguyen (Bar No. 237557) 

Douglas K. Yatter (Bar No. 236089) 

Yiping R. Liao (Bar No. 238319) 

DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL 

1600 El Camino Real 

Menlo Park, California 94025 

Telephone: (650) 752-2000 

Facsimile: (650) 752-2111 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

VNUS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

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DIOMED HOLDINGS, INC., DIOMED 

INC., ANGIODYNAMICS, INC., and 

VASCULAR SOLUTIONS, INC., 

Defendants.

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CASE NO. C05-02972 MMC 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

REGARDING CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION

Judge: Hon. Maxine M. Chesney 

 The parties anticipate that discovery in this case will involve the disclosure of 

confidential information, and therefore agree to the following Protective Order under Rule 26 of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

 1. Designation of Confidential Material.

 (a) General. Any documents, materials, tangible things, items, testimony or 

other information filed with the Court, or produced or provided by any party in connection with this 

litigation (“Producing Party” or “Designating Party”) to another party (“Receiving Party”), may be 

designated as “Confidential” or “Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” All such information and 

material derived from it constitutes “Designated Material” under this Protective Order. As a 

general guideline, Designated Material shall be so designated for the purposes of avoiding invasion 

of privacy or protecting proprietary information, confidential business or financial information, 

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trade secrets, or personal or financial affairs. A Designating Party may designate information 

“Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” when the information is particularly sensitive because it 

relates to trade secrets, technical information, technical practices or methods, present or future 

marketing plans, product data or projections, financial data, business strategy, or agreements and 

relationships with third parties. 

 (b) Designation Procedure. A party wishing to invoke the provisions of this 

Protective Order shall designate the documents, materials, items, or information, or portions 

thereof, at the time such information is disclosed, or when the party seeking protection becomes 

aware of the nature of the information disclosed and sought to be protected. Designation shall be 

made by marking or stamping the documents, materials, items, or information “Confidential” or 

“Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” on all pages (or, if applicable, paragraphs). In the case of 

information stored on electronic media, the items produced shall be marked or stamped on the 

media if possible. In the case of information produced for inspection, but not yet provided to the 

inspecting party, such information shall presumptively be deemed “Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only,” regardless of whether so identified, until copies thereof are produced to the inspecting party. 

 (c) Designation Procedure For Deposition Testimony. With respect to 

deposition testimony, the witness under deposition, or his/her counsel, or any counsel representing 

any person at the deposition, may designate such testimony as “Confidential” or “ConfidentialAttorneys’ Eyes Only” either on the record at the deposition or within thirty (30) days after the 

mailing of the deposition transcript by the court reporter. The provisions of this paragraph may be 

invoked with respect to the witness’s entire deposition, or any portion thereof, at any time during 

the deposition. Until thirty (30) days after mailing of the transcript by the court reporter has passed, 

the entire transcript shall be treated as “Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

2. Use of Designated Material. Absent a specific order by this Court, Designated 

Material shall be used by the persons or entities to whom such information is disclosed solely for 

purposes of this litigation, and not for any business, competitive, or governmental purpose or 

function, and such information shall not be disclosed to anyone except as provided under this 

Protective Order; except that nothing in this Protective Order shall preclude any party or its counsel 

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of record from disclosing or using, in any manner or for any purpose, any information or 

documents from the party’s own files which the party itself has designated as “Confidential” or 

“Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

3. Access to Material Designated “Confidential.” Material designated “Confidential” 

under this Protective Order, and copies, extracts, compilations, summaries, and other materials that 

include or reflect such Designated Material, may not be provided to any third party. Material 

designated “Confidential” may be submitted to the Court only if submitted under seal in accordance 

with Paragraph 7 below. 

4. Access to Material Designated “Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” Material 

designated “Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” under this Protective Order, and copies, extracts, 

compilations, summaries, and other materials that include or reflect such Designated Material, may 

be given, shown, made available, or communicated in any way only to: 

 (a) outside litigation attorneys for the parties who are employed by the firms of 

record in this case, their staffs, and professional litigation support vendors retained by them; 

 (b) qualified persons taking testimony involving “Confidential – Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only” information, and necessary stenographic and clerical personnel thereof; 

 (c) independent consultants or experts and their staffs, if cleared by the parties 

pursuant to Paragraph 5 of this Protective Order; 

 (d) the Court and its staff; and 

 (e) a party’s in-house counsel or outside general counsel with the consent of the 

Designating Party, provided: 

(i) Such consent will not be unreasonably withheld, and the refusal to 

grant such consent shall be based on the Designating Party’s good faith concerns 

about protecting intellectual property rights or competitive business information 

from the requesting party’s employees or representatives; and 

(ii) The Designating Party may condition its consent on the material 

requested not being provided to any attorney involved in prosecuting patents or 

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making decisions regarding the party’s competitive position as to the Designating 

Party.

5. Clearance Procedure for Consultants and Experts. Designated Material may be 

provided to an independent consultant or expert as described in Paragraph 4(c) only after ten (10) 

business days following written notice to the Designating Party of the proposed disclosure to the 

consultant or expert. With the written notice shall be included a fully executed copy of the 

Acknowledgement attached hereto as Exhibit A, completed by the consultant or expert. If the 

Designating Party objects, in writing, to disclosure of Designated Material to the consultant or 

expert within the ten (10) day period, no disclosure of Designated Material may be made to the 

consultant or expert pending resolution of the objection. If the parties cannot resolve the issue 

informally, the party objecting to the proposed disclosure may thereupon seek an appropriate order 

from the Court disqualifying the consultant or expert or protecting against the proposed disclosure 

to the consultant or expert. Until the Court rules on the matter, no disclosure of Designated 

Material to the consultant or expert shall be made. 

6. Treatment of Designated Material. Copies of Designated Material may only be 

made where reasonably necessary to prepare work product or conduct proceedings in this litigation. 

Material designated “Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” or copies thereof may not be stored or 

viewed at a non-designating party’s business location, except to the extent provided in this 

Paragraph. Such information may be stored or viewed only at or on: 

 (a) the physical offices of outside attorneys of record in this litigation, or of 

professional litigation support vendors retained by such attorneys; 

 (b) the physical offices of consultants or experts cleared under Paragraph 5 of 

this Protective Order; 

 (c) the site where any deposition relating to the information is taken; 

 (d) the Court; 

 (e) any intermediate location reasonably necessary to transport the information 

(e.g., a hotel prior to a deposition); or 

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 (f) computers/servers/other electronic media of the outside attorneys of record in 

this litigation, professional litigation support vendors employed by outside attorneys of record, or 

experts and consultants cleared under Paragraph 5, provided those persons have a reasonable 

expectation of confidentiality associated with the computers/servers/other electronic media. 

 Such information may also be viewed electronically at the physical office of a party’s inhouse counsel or outside general counsel, provided that the information is not stored at the location 

and that such counsel may receive the information under Paragraph 4(e) of this Protective Order. 

7. Filing of Designated Material with the Court. Where filed with the Court (as 

pleadings or evidence), Designated Material shall be delivered sealed to the Clerk of the Court and 

shall not be available to public inspection. Envelopes or containers used to seal such documents 

shall bear the notation, “THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

AND IS BEING SUBMITTED UNDER SEAL PURSUANT TO A PROTECTIVE ORDER,” and 

shall state the party or person who designated any confidential information that the document 

contains. Where appropriate, the envelope or container shall bear the additional notation, 

“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” No such sealed envelope or container shall 

be provided to any individual not otherwise permitted to view the relevant Designated Material 

under this Protective Order. 

8. Errors in Designation. A Producing Party that inadvertently fails to designate an 

item pursuant to this Protective Order at the time of the production shall make a correction 

promptly after becoming aware of such error. Such correction and notice thereof shall be made in 

writing accompanied by substitute copies of each item, appropriately designated. Those individuals 

who reviewed the documents or information prior to notice of the failure to designate by the 

Producing Party shall, to the extent reasonably feasible, return to the Producing Party or destroy all 

copies of such undesignated documents and shall honor the provisions of this Protective Order with 

respect to the use and disclosure of any confidential information contained in the undesignated 

documents, from and after the date of designation. 

9. Improper Disclosure. If information designated pursuant to this Protective Order is 

disclosed to any person other than in the manner authorized by this Protective Order, the party 

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responsible for this disclosure must immediately bring all pertinent facts relating to such disclosure 

to the attention of the Designating Party, without prejudice to other rights and remedies of the 

Designating Party, and shall make every effort to prevent further improper disclosure. 

10. Objections to Designations. If at any time during the pendency of this litigation any 

party claims that information is not appropriately designated or that permission for in-house or 

outside general counsel to view certain material has been improperly withheld (the “Objecting 

Party”), the Objecting Party may serve a captioned notice of objection on the Designating Party.

Within ten (10) calendar days of receiving such notice, the Designating Party shall respond in 

writing. If the Designating Party and the Objecting Party cannot resolve the dispute by informal 

conference, the Objecting Party may move for an order from the Court for re-designation within ten 

(10) calendar days from service of the Designating Party’s written response. The original 

designation shall remain effective until three (3) days after the Court’s entry of an order redesignating the materials. 

11. Use of Designated Material at Trial. This Protective Order, insofar as it restricts the 

dissemination and use of Designated Material, shall not apply to the introduction of evidence at 

trial. However, any Party may seek appropriate court orders, including without limitation, an order 

which restricts the use of any material covered by this Protective Order during the trial, requests 

that portions of the transcript be sealed, or restricts access of the public to certain portions of the 

trial.

12. Inadmissibility of Designation. Unless the parties stipulate otherwise, evidence of 

the existence or nonexistence of a designation under this Protective Order shall not be admissible 

for any purpose, nor shall the designation or acceptance of any information designated pursuant to 

this Protective Order constitute an admission or acknowledgement that the material so designated is 

in fact proprietary, confidential, or a trade secret. 

13. Inadvertent Production. Counsel shall make their best efforts to identify materials 

protected by the attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine prior to the disclosure of any 

such materials. The inadvertent production of any document or thing shall be without prejudice to 

any claim that such material is protected by the attorney-client privilege or protected from 

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discovery as work product and no Producing Party shall be held to have waived any rights 

thereunder by inadvertent production. If a Producing Party discovers that materials protected by 

the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine have been inadvertently produced, counsel 

for the Producing Party shall promptly give written notice to counsel for the Receiving Party. The 

Receiving Party shall take prompt steps to ensure that all known copies of such material are 

returned to the Producing Party. The Receiving Party may afterward contest such claims of 

privilege or work product as if the materials had not been produced, but shall not assert that a 

waiver occurred as a result of the production. 

14. Notification of Subpoena, Document Request, or Order in Other Litigation. If a 

Receiving Party is served with a subpoena, document request, or order issued in other litigation that 

would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “Confidential” or 

“Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party in 

writing immediately and in no event more than five (5) days after receiving the subpoena, 

document request, or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena, document 

request, or order. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking to protect the 

requested material from production in the other litigation. 

15. Final Disposition of Designated Material. Upon termination of this litigation 

following settlement or final judgment (including exhaustion of all appeals), the originals and all 

copies of Designated Material shall be either destroyed or turned over to the Producing Party, or to 

its counsel, within sixty (60) days. However, attorneys of record may retain pleadings, attorney and 

consultant work product, and depositions (with exhibits) for archival purposes. If Designated 

Material is destroyed pursuant to this Paragraph, counsel shall provide to opposing counsel a 

certification identifying when and how the destruction was performed. 

 16. Survival. The terms of this Protective Order shall survive termination of this 

litigation.

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 Assent to the entry of the foregoing Protective Order is hereby given by the parties by and 

through their attorneys. 

Dated: March 30, 2006 ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT 

ANGIODYNAMICS, INC. 

 /S/ William Bright, Jr. 

William H. Bright, Jr. 

Mark D. Giarratana 

MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP 

CityPlace I, 36th Floor 

Hartford, CT 06103 

(860) 275-6700/(860) 724-3397 (fax) 

wbright@mccarter.com 

mgiarratana@mccarter.com 

Dated: April 10, 2006 ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANTS 

DIOMED HOLDINGS, INC. and DIOMED, 

INC.

 /S/ Michael A. Albert

Michael A. Albert 

James J. Foster 

Michael N. Rader 

WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C. 

600 Atlantic Avenue 

Boston, MA 02210 

(617) 720-3500/(617) 720-2441 (fax) 

malbert@wolfgreenfield.com 

Dated: April 10, 2006 ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT 

VASCULAR SOLUTIONS, INC. 

 /S/ Heather D. Redmond

Heather D. Redmond 

DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP 

50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1500 

Minneapolis, MN 55402-1498 

(612) 340-6343/(612) 340-2868 (fax) 

Redmond.heather@dorsey.com 

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Dated: April 14, 2006 ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF 

VNUS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 

 /S/ Diem-Suong T. Nguyen 

Diem-Suong T. Nguyen 

DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL 

1600 El Camino Real 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

(650) 752-2000/(650) 752-2111 (fax) 

suong.nguyen@dpw.com

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 18, 2006 

 

 

 MAXINE M. CHESNEY 

 United States District Judge 

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