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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 15:1126 Patent Infringement

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David M. Bass (State Bar No. 117199) 

Peter M. Cho (State Bar No. 213870) 

DAVID M. BASS & ASSOCIATES 

2029 Century Park East, 14th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90067 

Telephone: (310) 789-1152 

Facsimile: (310) 789-1149 

E-mail: dbass@basslawla.com 

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaim 

Plaintiff TEAK WAREHOUSE, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

KINGSLEY-BATE LTD., a Delaware 

Corporation,

Plaintiff, 

vs.

TEAK WAREHOUSE, INC., a California 

Corporation,

Defendant.

TEAK WAREHOUSE, INC., a California 

Corporation,

Counterclaim Plaintiff, 

vs.

KINGSLEY-BATE LTD., a Delaware 

Corporation,

Counterclaim Defendant. 

Case No. C-06-3946-RMW 

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I. 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 

10, 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. 

II. DEFINITIONS.

A. Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

B. 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. 

C. “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated, 

stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed 

under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c). 

D. “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. 

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E. Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

F. Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

G. 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.” 

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

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

I. Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are 

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

J. House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

K. Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as 

their support staffs). 

L. 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. 

M. 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. 

III. SCOPE.

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective 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 

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presentations by parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected 

Material.

IV. 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. 

V. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL.

A. 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 – 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. 

B. Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order 

(see, e.g., second paragraph of Section B.1, 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. 

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 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

(1) 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 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”). 

(2) 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, 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 

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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. 

(3) 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.” 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.” 

C. 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. 

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VI. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS.

A. 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 confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge 

promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

B. 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. 

C. 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 

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.

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VII. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

A. 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 XI, 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. 

B. 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: 

(1) 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; 

(2) 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); 

(3) 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); 

(4) the Court and its personnel; 

(5) 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); 

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(6) 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 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; 

(7) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

C. 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: 

(1) 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; 

(2) House Counsel of a Receiving Party (1) who has no involvement in 

competitive decision-making or in patent prosecutions involving furniture, (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); 

(3) Experts (as defined in this Order) (a) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (b) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective 

Order” (Exhibit A), and (c) as to whom the procedures set forth in Section D, below, have been 

followed]; 

(4) the Court and its personnel; 

(5) 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 

(6) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

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D. Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts”.

(1) 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 (a) identifies the 

specific HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to 

disclose to the Expert, (b) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his or 

her primary residence, (c) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (d) identifies the 

Expert’s current employer(s), (e) 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 (f) 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. 

(2) 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. 

(3) 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 

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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. 

 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. 

VIII. 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 Stipulated 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 Stipulated 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. 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. 

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IX. 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. 

X. 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. 

XI. 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 

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xxxxxxxxxx Patricia V.

xxxxx Trumbull

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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 ___________________, 2006 in the case of Kingsley-Bate, Ltd. v. Teak 

Warehouse, Inc., Case No. C-06-3946-RMW. 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: 

[printed name] 

Signature: 

[signature] 

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