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

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DOUGLAS RICHARD KERTSCHER 

HILL, KERTSCHER & WHARTON 

3350 Riverwood Parkway 

Suite 800 

Atlanta, GA 30339 

Telephone: 770-953-0995x102 

Fax: 770-953-1358 

Email: drk@hkw-law.com 

TODD A. NOAH 

DERGOSITS & NOAH LLP 

Four Embarcadero Center 

Suite 1150 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415-705-6377 

Fax: 415-705-6383 

Email: tnoah@dergnoah.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

SERCONET, LTD. 

JAMES A. DIBOISE, State Bar No. 83296 

JENNIFER A. OCHS, State Bar No. 174069

CHRISTOPHER PARRY, State Bar No. 209858 

WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

650 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050 

Telephone: 650-493-9300 

Fax: 650-565-5100 

Email: cparry@wsgr.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

NETGEAR, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

SERCONET, LTD., 

Plaintiff, 

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NETGEAR, INC., 

Defendant. 

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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. 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 

extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal 

principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in 

Section 12, below, that 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. See also Phyllis J. Hamilton Standing Order for Cases Involving Sealed 

or Confidential Documents. 

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, including items or 

information from a non-party, 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 non-party 

would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive 

means. 

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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 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 In-House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and In-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 

and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party. 

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, 

storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this 

litigation. 

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 there from, 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. 

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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. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routine 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” on each page that contains 

protected material. 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, 

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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”) on each page that contains 

Protected Material. 

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

Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close of 

the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, including 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 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”). Failure to timely identify the specific 

portions as per the above will constitute a waiver of any “on the record” designation. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

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

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 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.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. 

An inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” does not 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 

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produced, the Receiving Party must promptly make all reasonable efforts to assure that the 

material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order, including retrieving any 

copies that may have been distributed to unauthorized individuals. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. 

Following the production of material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” counsel for a Party may challenge such 

designation by providing the Designating Party with written notice of such challenge and by 

identifying the material as specifically as possible. The challenge should be made as soon as is 

practicable following production, and unreasonable delay may be considered a waiver of the 

challenge if the circumstances so warrant. The Designating Party shall have fifteen (15) days 

from the receipt of such notice to withdraw its designation. If the Designating Party does not 

withdraw its designation, counsel for the challenging Party may file a motion with the Court 

within 30 days of providing written notice challenging the objection that the designation is 

invalid as set forth below. 

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, in addition to the written notice, must confer 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 file a motion challenging the designation only if it has engaged in this meet and confer 

process first. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. 

A Party that elects to file a motion after the meet and confer shall identify in the motion 

challenged material and set forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such motion must be 

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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 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 Designating Party’s designation. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. 

All documents produced by, or discovery responses of, any party in these proceedings, as 

well as all deposition testimony in these proceedings, whether or not designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, shall be used 

solely in connection with, and only as necessary to, this litigation and the preparation and trial in 

this case, or any related appellate proceeding, and not for any other purpose, including without 

limitation any other litigation or any business or competitive purpose or function. To that end, 

the parties and their counsel shall not distribute or disclose any documents or information 

produced in this litigation to any third party or any of their agents, consultants, officers, 

directors, employees or representatives except on a need to know basis and pursuant to such 

agent, consultant, employee, officer, director or representative’s obligation to maintain the 

confidentiality of such document or information. 

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 A Receiving Party may use 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 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 12, below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION). 

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7.3 Nothing in this Order shall restrict a Producing Party’s use or disclosure of its 

own Confidential or Highly Confidential Information, nor the use of information by a Receiving 

Party that has become or does become publicly known through no fault of the Receiving Party. 

7.4 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. 

Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, including Outside 

Counsel’s support staff such as paralegals and secretaries; 

(b) no more than two officers, directors, and employees (including In-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 such as graphics services or 

jury consultants 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. 

7.5 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, including Outside 

Counsel’s support staff such as paralegals and secretaries; 

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(b) 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 7.6, have been followed; 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors such as graphics services 

and jury consultants to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

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

(e) the author of the document or the original source of the information; 

(f) Testifying and consulting experts who review “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items shall not be employed by a party to this 

Order and shall not concurrently consult for any party to this Order; and 

7.6 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 disclose to the Designating Party in a writing that (1) sets forth the full name of the 

Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (2) attaches a copy of the Expert’s 

current resume, (3) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s), (4) 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 ten 

years, and (5) 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 professional services during the 

preceding five years. 

(b) A Party that discloses and provides the information specified in the preceding 

paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, within ten 

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. The 

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objection must state the Designating Party’s good faith belief, factual basis for and legal support 

(if any) for believing that such expert may be commit inadvertent disclosure of the information 

in spite of the expert’s execution of Exhibit A, attached hereto. 

(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 prevent 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 to prevent such disclosure . Any such motion must describe the 

circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the 

Expert would harm the party seeking to prevent the disclosure and re-state that party’s good faith 

contentions as to the expert’s potential inadvertent disclosure of the information in spite of the 

expert’s execution of Exhibit A, attached hereto. In addition, any such opposition 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 party seeking to disclose. 

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. 

7.7 Any person who is not otherwise qualified under Paragraphs 7.4 or 7.5 to view 

information or material designated as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes 

Only," respectively, may be examined as a witness at trial (if that person submits an expert report 

under Rule 26 or is otherwise a fact witness) or during a deposition concerning any information 

or material designated as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only" which 

that person had lawfully received or authored prior to and apart from this action. During 

examination, any such witness may be shown information or material designated as 

"Confidential" or "Highly Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only" by a party which appears on its 

face or from other documents or testimony to have been received or authored by that witness 

from, or communicated to that witness by, that same party. 

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8. PROVISIONS FOR HANDLING SOURCE CODE. 

Any source code produced shall also be designated as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only” and shall be subject to the following procedures: 

(a) the producing party shall provide two (2) copies of source code in encrypted 

format on optical disks; 

(b) such source code may be copied to storage media, including hard drives, flash 

memory drives, and optical disks, so long as said storage media is not connected to or accessible 

on any computer network or the internet, and so long as such storage media are kept in a secure 

location when not in regular use; 

(c) said source code may only be viewed on a computer that is not connected to or 

accessible on any computer network or the internet; and 

(d) said source code on said storage media shall be protected by password protection 

and/or encryption at all times that it is not being viewed on said computer. Aside from the 

storage media referenced in paragraph 8(b), no source code should be stored anywhere 

electronically in an unencrypted format. 

(e) Upon the conclusion of this action, the parties shall delete all source code from 

the storage media referenced in paragraph 8(b) above and overwrite the bits for those files on 

said computers’ storage media using the Eraser program or comparable software. Any storage 

media not amenable to being overwritten (e.g. optical disks) shall be destroyed. 

(f) If the receiving party wishes to send storage media containing source code to 

another approved party (e.g., an expert authorized to review confidential information under this 

protective order), the password required to decrypt the storage media should not be transmitted 

with the package or materials containing the storage media. 

(g) The parties may print out on paper portions of the source code to use as exhibits 

in depositions, hearings, and pleadings provided that all paper copies are marked “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” on each page and protected according to the provisions of 

this protective order. 

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9. 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 five 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 the subpoena or order issued. 

Nothing herein shall be construed as requiring the party or anyone else covered by this Protective 

Order to challenge or appeal any order requiring production of information or material covered 

by this Protective Order, or to subject itself to any penalties for noncompliance with any legal 

process or order, or to seek any relief from this Court or any other court. Once notification is 

given pursuant to this provision, it shall be the obligation of the party or person that designated 

the information or materials at issue to challenge such a subpoena, demand, or other legal 

process, and not the obligation of the party or person that received the subpoena, demand, or 

other legal process. 

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL. 

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 

Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective 

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

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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. 

Unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure does not change the status of Protected Material 

or waive the right to hold the disclosed document or information as Protected. 

11. INADVERTENT DISCLOSURE OF PRIVILEGED MATERIAL. 

If a Responding Party inadvertently produces a document that it later discovers or in good 

faith asserts to be a privileged document, the production of that document shall not be deemed to 

constitute a waiver of any applicable privileges. In such circumstances, the producing party shall 

immediately notify the receiving party of the inadvertent production, and request the return or 

confirmed destruction of the privileged materials. Within five (5) business days of receiving 

such notification, the receiving party shall return or confirm destruction of all such materials, 

including any summaries thereof. Such return or confirmation of destruction shall not preclude 

the receiving party from seeking to compel production of the materials for the reasons other than 

the inadvertent production and shall not constitute an admission by the receiving party that the 

materials were, in fact, privileged in any way. 

12. 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. 

13. 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 or destroy 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. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, 

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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, and exhibits thereto, 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. 

14. PATENT PROSECUTION BAR. 

Notwithstanding any provision of this Order, any attorney who receives information 

designated under this Order by an opposing Party as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only” shall be precluded from being substantively involved in any way in preparing or 

prosecuting for a client who is a party to this suit (including by way of drafting, editing, revising 

and/or providing substantive input regarding the nature of the claims) any patent applications, 

reissue proceedings, or reexamination proceedings with the United States Patent and Trademark 

Office (“USPTO"), or any similar proceedings with any foreign counterpart to the USPTO. This 

bar shall expressly prohibit any Outside Counsel who has received “Highly Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” information from providing any information to the parties’ patent 

attorneys regarding market conditions. This preclusion is limited to patents and patent 

applications having an effective filing date before this action, during this action, or within two 

years after termination of this action.

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. By stipulating to this Order, the parties do not waive the right to argue that 

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certain material may require additional or different confidentiality protections than those set forth 

herein. 

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. 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. 

Dated: December 18, 2006 HILL, KERTSCHER & WHARTON 

By: /s/ 

Douglas Richard Kertscher 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and 

Counterclaim-defendant 

SERCONET, LTD. 

Dated: December 18, 2006 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

Professional Corporation 

By: /s/ 

Christopher Parry 

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant 

NETGEAR, INC. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED 

DATED: 

 HON. PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

12/21/06

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton

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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 in the case of SERCONET, LTD. v. NETGEAR, INC., Case No. CV 06-04646 PJH. 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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