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

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SILVERLIT TOYS MANUFACTORY, LTD., a

Hong Kong company; and SPIN MASTER

LTD., a Canadian corporation,

Plaintiffs,

v.

ABSOLUTE TOY MARKETING, INC., a Utah

corporation, dba HOBBYTRON.COM; TIM

GIBSON; and JIM ROYER,

Defendants.

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No. C 06-7966 CW

TEMPORARY PROTECTIVE

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

would be warranted. This Order does not confer blanket protections

on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the

protection it affords extends only to the limited information or

items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to

treatment as confidential. As set forth in Section 10, below, that

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this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file

confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets

forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the

standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from

the court to file material under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

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

officers, directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and

outside counsel (and their support staff). 

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or

information, regardless of the medium or manner generated, stored,

or maintained (including, among other things, testimony,

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

disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information

(regardless of how generated, stored or maintained) or tangible

things that qualify for protection under standards developed under

F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”

Information or Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information

or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or nonparty would

create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be

avoided by less restrictive means.

2.5. Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure

or Discovery Material from a Producing Party.

2.6. Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces

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Disclosure or Discovery Material in this action.

2.7. Designating Party: a Party or non-party that

designates information or items that it produces in disclosures or

in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential

— Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery

Material that is designated as “Confidential” or as “Highly

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

2.9. Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of

a Party but who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this

action. 

2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a

Party. 

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and

House Counsel (as well as their support staffs). 

2.12 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or

experience in a matter pertinent to the litigation who has been

retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or

as a consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current

employee of a Party or of a competitor of a Party’s and who, at the

time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a

Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a

professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with

this litigation. 

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that

provide litigation support services (e.g., photocopying;

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videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or

demonstrations; organizing, storing, retrieving data in any

form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover

not only Protected Material (as defined above), but also any

information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies,

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony,

conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel to or in

court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION 

Even after the termination of this litigation, the

confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order shall remain in

effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a

court order otherwise directs. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating

Material for Protection. Each Party or non-party that designates

information or items for protection under this Order must take care

to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies

under the appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take

care to designate for protection only those parts of material,

documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify –

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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 Party’s or a non-party’s attention

that information or items that it designated for protection do

not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for the

level of protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party

must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the

mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as

otherwise provided in this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of

section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered,

material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be

clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

(a) for information in documentary form (apart from

transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings),

that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top of each page that

contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the

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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 (either

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

A Party or non-party that makes original documents

or materials available for inspection need not designate them for

protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which

material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection

and before the designation, all of the material made available for

inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it

wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which

documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this

Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the

Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL”

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) at the top of 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

(either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”). 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other

pretrial or trial proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering

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or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the

close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all

protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the

testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.” When it is impractical to identify separately each portion

of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears

that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for

protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives

the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or

proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify

the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted

(“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately

designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by

the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must

be separately bound by the court reporter, who must affix to the

top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

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

nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the

testimony.

(c) for information produced in some form other than

documentary, and for any other tangible items, that the Producing

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Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container

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

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

only portions of the information or item warrant protection, the

Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the

protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely

corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate qualified

information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential –

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” does not, standing alone, waive the

Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order

for such material. If material is appropriately designated as

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”

after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on

timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable

efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with

the provisions of this Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a

Designating Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to

avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic

burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the

litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a

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confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge

promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a

challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality designation must

do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring

directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication

are not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In

conferring, the challenging Party must explain the basis for its

belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must

give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated

material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in

designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen

designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of

the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and

confer process first. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a

challenge to a confidentiality designation after considering the

justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a

motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local

Rule 79-5, if applicable) that identifies the challenged material

and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such

motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms

that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements

imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with

specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation

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that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer

dialogue. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding

shall be on the Designating Party. Until the court rules on the

challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the material in

question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the

Producing Party’s designation. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use

Protected Material that is disclosed or produced by another Party

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

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. 

Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories

of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. 

When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must

comply with the provisions of section 11, below (FINAL

DISPOSITION). 

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a

Receiving Party at a location and in a secure manner that ensures

that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items.

Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by

the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any

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information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in

this action, as well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is

reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including

House Counsel) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(c) experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional

vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A). Pages of

transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that

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reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court

reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted

under this Stipulated Protective Order. 

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

the information. 

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’

EYES ONLY” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the

court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a

Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated

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

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in

this action, as well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is

reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) House Counsel of a Receiving Party (1) who has no

involvement in competitive decision-making or in patent

prosecutions, (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for

this litigation, and (3) who has signed the “Agreement to Be Bound

by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who

have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”

(Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in

paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed; 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

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(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional

vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

(f) the author of the document or the original source of

the information. 

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to

“Experts” 

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in

writing by the Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to

an “Expert” (as defined in this Order) any information or item that

has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

first must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1)

identifies the specific HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information that the

Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose to the Expert, (2)

sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of

his or her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s

current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s),

(5) identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has

received compensation for work in his or her areas of expertise or

to whom the expert has provided professional services at any time

during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by name and

number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any

litigation in connection with which the Expert has provided any

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professional services during the preceding five years. 

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the

information specified in the preceding paragraph may disclose the

subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, within

seven court 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. 

(c) 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. If no

agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to

the Expert 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

for which the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary,

assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and

suggest any additional means that might be used to reduce that

risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a

competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties’

efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and

the content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets forth the

reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to

approve the disclosure. 

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In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to

the Expert 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 Expert. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN

OTHER LITIGATION. 

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an

order issued in other litigation that would compel disclosure of

any information or items designated in this action as

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

Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing

(by fax, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three

court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such

notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in

writing the Party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the

other litigation that some or all the material covered by the

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In

addition, the Receiving Party must deliver a copy of this

Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other

action that caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the

interested parties to the existence of this Protective Order and

to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try

to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which

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the subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party shall bear

the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court

of its confidential material – and nothing in these provisions

should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving

Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another

court. 

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or

otherwise, it has disclosed Protected Material to any person or in

any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective

Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing

the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its

best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material, (c)

inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were

made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or

persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound”

that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. 

Without written permission from the Designating Party or

a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested

persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this action

any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any

Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

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11. FINAL DISPOSITION.

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the

Producing Party, within sixty days after the final termination of

this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected

Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all

Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,

summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the

Protected Material. With permission in writing from the

Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy some or all of

the Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the

Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party

must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if

not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the

sixty day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate)

all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that

affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,

abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or

capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this

provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all

pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda,

correspondence or attorney work product, even if such materials

contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain

or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective

Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above. 

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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. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

 2/5/07

DATED: _____________________ _______________________________

CLAUDIA WILKEN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT 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 ___________ [insert formal name of the

case and the number and initials assigned to it by the court]. 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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