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

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PROTECTIVE ORDER 

HEIDI A. TIMKEN (State Bar No. 159731) 

KI YUN HWANG (State Bar No. 197732) 

TIMKEN JOHNSON HWANG LLP 

500 Ygnacio Valley Road, Suite 360 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

Telephone: (925) 945-6211 

Facsimile: (925) 945-7811 

RICHARD ESTY PETERSON (State Bar No. 41013) 

1905-D Palmetto Avenue 

Pacifica, CA 94044 

Telephone: (650) 557-5708 

Facsimile: (650) 557-5716 

Attorneys for Plaintiff WORDTECH SYSTEMS, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

WORDTECH SYSTEMS, INC., a 

California corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

INTEGRATED NETWORK 

SOLUTIONS, INC., a Nevada 

corporation, dba INTEGRATED 

NETWORK SOLUTIONS, CORP. aka 

INTEGRATED NETWORK 

SOLUTIONS aka INTEGRATED 

SYSTEMS aka INTERNET NETWORK 

STORAGE COMPANY aka INSC; 

NASSER KHATEMI, an individual; 

HAMID ASSADIAN, an individual; 

EHTERAM GHODSIAN, an individual; 

SHOHREH JAVADI, an individual; 

MICHAEL F. ELLSWORTH, an 

individual; BRIAN J. DEAN, an 

individual; SAN JUAN UNIFIED 

SCHOOL DISTRICT; and DOES 1-50, 

Defendants. 

Case No. CIV-S-04-1971 MCE EFB 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 

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PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 Pursuant to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and it appearing that 

the discovery, pretrial and trial phases in the above-entitled action are likely to involve the 

disclosure of confidential information, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and 

between the parties hereto, plaintiff WordTech Systems, Inc. (“WordTech”) and defendants 

Integrated Network Systems, Inc., Nasser Khatemi and Hamid Assadian (“INSC defendants”), by 

and though their counsel of record, as follows: 

 1. In order that confidential technical, developmental, commercial and 

proprietary information and trade secrets are protected pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure, this Protective Order will govern any document, material item, 

testimony, or thing filed with or presented to the Court or produced, served, or generated during 

the discovery process which contains or comprises any confidential technical, developmental, 

commercial or proprietary information or trade secrets. 

 2. “Highly-Confidential Information” shall consists of interrogatory answers, 

responses to request for admissions, trial or deposition testimony, or other material that contains 

material or information which is produced in this litigation by one party to the other including, 

and without limitation, confidential technical information, research data, confidential business 

information, trade secrets, know-how, proprietary data, developmental, commercial, or 

proprietary information, which is not publicly known and which the designating party reasonably 

believes is of such a nature and character that the unlimited disclosure thereof to others, including 

the designated representative of the receiving party or non-parties, would be harmful to the 

designating party or its business or would provide the other party or non-parties with a 

competitive advantage over the designating party. Any information derived from HighlyConfidential Information also constitutes Highly-Confidential Information to the extent the 

derived information embodies, contains or discloses any Highly-Confidential Information, 

including excerpts, summaries, indices, abstracts or copies of such material. 

 3. “Confidential Information” shall consist of interrogatory answers, 

responses to request for admissions, trial or deposition testimony, or other material that contains 

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material or information which is produced in this litigation by one party or the other including 

and without limitation, confidential technical information, research data, confidential business 

information, trade secrets, know-how, proprietary data, developmental, commercial, or 

proprietary information, which is not publicly known and which the designating party reasonably 

believes is of such a nature and character that the unlimited disclosure thereof to others, excluding 

the designated representatives of the receiving party, would be harmful to the designating party or 

its business or would provide the other party or non-parties with a competitive advantage over the 

designating party. Any information derived from Confidential Information also constitutes 

Confidential Information to the extent the derived information embodies, contains or discloses 

any Confidential Information, including excerpts, summaries, indices, abstracts or copies of such 

material. 

 4. Nothing shall be regarded as Highly-Confidential Information or 

Confidential Information that: (a) is or has been in the public domain at the time of disclosure; 

(b) becomes part of the public domain, through no act, fault or failure of the receiving party; (c) is 

lawfully in the receiving party’s possession at the time of disclosure; (d) is received at a later date 

by the receiving party from a third party who has the right to make such a disclosure; or (e) is 

independently developed by the receiving party. 

 5. Any party may declare that any paper, document, record, pleading, 

response to discovery, deposition testimony or other material or thing contains information 

belonging to it or a third party which contains information, as Highly-Confidential Information or 

Confidential Information. No designation of material as Highly-Confidential Information or 

Confidential Information shall be made unless the designating party or non-party believes in good 

faith that the designated material is Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information 

and entitled to protection under Rule 26(c)(7) of the Federal Rules of Civil procedure. Nonparties who have been subpoenaed to testify or produce documents may likewise declare that any 

deposition testimony or document or thing produced contains information which is HighlyConfidential Information or Confidential Information, and such non-parties shall have the same 

rights and obligations with respect to such information as the parties hereto. 

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 6. All Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information produced 

or revealed by the parties or non-parties in the course of this litigation shall be used solely for the 

purpose of this litigation and for no other purpose, and shall not be disclosed to any person except 

in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order. 

 7. Access to Highly Confidential Information or Confidential Information 

shall be limited to “Qualified Persons.” Qualified persons shall include those individuals 

identified in Paragraphs 7 and 8 and the Court, the jury and alternate jurors empanelled by the 

Court in this action, employees of the Court, individuals identified by the Court, court reporters 

who transcribe depositions in this case, and videographers who videotape depositions in this case. 

 8. The Qualified Persons of each party who may have access to the HighlyConfidential Information of the other party or non-parties, including compilations, extracts, or 

summaries of such Highly-Confidential Information, are limited to: 

 a. The attorneys of record in this case which shall mean the attorneys 

 Richard Peterson, Heidi Timken, Ki Yun Hwang and Daniel 

 Richardson; 

 b. Persons employed in secretarial, clerical or paralegal capacities in 

 the offices of litigation counsel; 

 c. “Qualified Experts” retained to assist in this litigation (subject to 

 Paragraph 10 below); 

 d. Assistants, secretarial or clerical employees of Qualified Experts 

 who are assisting Qualified Experts in this action; 

 e. Mock jurors and jury consultants, not employed or associated with 

 any of the parties and employed solely for the purpose of trial 

 preparation; 

 f. Authors, creators and previous recipients of the Highly- 

 Confidential Information, but only to the extent such authors, 

 creators and previous recipients have independent recollection of 

 said Highly-Confidential Information; and 

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 g. Translators of foreign language documents or foreign language 

 testimony who are not employed by one of the parties, but only for 

 purposed of translating Confidential Information or related 

 testimony. Notwithstanding the exceptions set forth above, under 

 no circumstances shall Highly-Confidential Information of 

 WordTech be provided to any employee, officer or director of 

 INSC or to Nasser Khatemi or to Hamid Assadian, and under no 

 circumstances shall Highly-Confidential Information of the INSC 

 defendants be provided to any employee, officer or director of 

 WordTech, except as otherwise provided. 

 9. The Qualified Persons of each party who may have access to the 

Confidential Information of the other party or non-parties, including compilations, extracts, or 

summaries of such Confidential Information, are limited to: 

 a. The attorneys of record in this case which shall mean in Richard 

 Peterson, Heidi Timken, Ki Yun Hwang and Daniel Richardson; 

 b. Persons employed in secretarial, clerical or paralegal capacities in 

 the offices litigation counsel; 

 c. “Qualified Experts” retained to assist in this litigation (subject to 

 Paragraph 10 below); 

 d. Assistant, secretarial or clerical employees of Qualified Experts 

 who are assisting Qualified Experts in this action; 

 e. Mock jurors and jury consultants, not employed or associated with 

 any of the parties and employed solely for the purpose of trial 

 preparation; 

 f. Authors, creators and previous recipients of the Confidential 

 Information, but only to the extent such authors, creators and 

 previous recipients have independent recollection of said Highly- 

 Confidential Information; 

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 g. Translators of foreign language documents or foreign language 

 testimony who are not employed by one of the parties, but only for 

 purposes of translating Confidential Information or related 

 testimony; and 

 h. Notwithstanding the exceptions set forth above, under no 

 circumstances shall Confidential Information of Wordtech be 

 provided to any employee, officer or director of INSC or to Nasser 

 Khatemi or Hamid Assadian, and under no circumstances shall 

 Confidential Information of the INSC defendants be provided to 

 any employee, officer or director of WordTech, except as 

 otherwise provided. 

 10. An outside (i.e., non-employee) expert witness or consultant of a party may 

become a Qualified Expert if: 

 a. The expert witness or consultant is first designated by written 

 notice to the other parties, which written notice shall include a copy 

 of the expert witness or consultant’s current curriculum vitae and/or 

 resume and a brief description of the expert witness or consultant’s 

 business occupation(s) and affiliation(s) for the ten (10) year period 

 preceding the date of the notice, said written notice is to be served 

 on opposing litigation counsel of record at least seven (7) business 

 days before the Confidential Information is shown to the expert 

 witness or consultant; 

 b. The expert witness or consultant is given a copy of this Protective 

 Order, and the provisions of this Protective Order are explained to 

 the person by an attorney of record; 

 c. Said expert witness or consultant executes the “Qualified Expert’s 

 Agreement” in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and a copy 

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 thereof is provided to the non-designating parties, and retains the 

 original of each Qualified Expert’s Agreement; and 

 d. The non-designating parties do not object pursuant to Paragraph 10 

 below. 

 11. A non-designating party may object to disclosure of Highly-Confidential or 

Confidential Information to a person designated pursuant to Paragraph 10. The procedure for 

making and resolving any such objection shall be as follows: 

 a. Any objections must be made within five (5) business days of 

 receiving all of the information required by Paragraph 8, above. 

 b. Any objection made pursuant to this paragraph must be in writing 

 and state the reasons for such objection; 

 c. After a written objection is made, no disclosure of Confidential 

 Information shall be made to the designated person until the matter 

 is resolved by the Court or upon agreement of the parties; 

 d. The parties shall meet and confer in a good faith effort to resolve 

 the objection. Said meet and confer shall occur within three (3) 

 business days after the date the designating party receives written 

 notice of the objection to its designation, unless the parties stipulate 

 in writing to extend the meet and confer period; 

 e. If the meet and confer (Paragraph 11(d)) does not resolve the 

 pending objections to the designation, then the party objecting to 

 the designation must move the Court for a protective order within 

 five (5) business days of the conclusion of the meet and confer 

 period set forth in paragraph 11 (d), unless the parties stipulate in 

 writing to extend the time within which such a motion might be 

 filed. A failure to timely file such a motion shall operate as a 

 waiver of the objection made under this paragraph. Until the 

 parties or the Court resolves any such objection, the designated 

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 person shall be prohibited from having access to the Confidential 

 Information of the objecting party. 

 12. This Protective Order shall not preclude any party from using an employee 

as an expert witness or consultant even if such employee is not a “Qualified Expert,” but use of 

any such employee as an expert witness or consultant does not entitle such employee to have 

access to another party’s or non-party’s Highly-Confidential or Confidential information. 

 13. Counsel shall be responsible for their employees’ compliance with this 

Protective Order, and shall use their best efforts to ensure the compliance with this Protective 

Order by their outside vendors identified in Paragraphs 8 and 9 of this Protective Order. 

 14. Qualified Experts shall be responsible for their employees’ compliance 

with this Protective Order. 

 15. Documents, things, and deposition transcripts, and copies, extracts, or 

summaries thereof, and all things listed in Paragraph 3 containing Confidential Information shall 

be clearly marked as “Confidential,” or “Confidential Information,” or with a similar legend that 

has the same meaning and effect as the designation “Confidential Information.” Documents, 

things, and deposition transcripts, and copies, extracts, or summaries thereof, and all things listed 

in Paragraph 2 containing Highly-Confidential Information shall be clearly marked as “HighlyConfidential,” “Confidential Litigation Counsel Eyes Only,” or “Attorneys Eyes Only” or with a 

similar legend that has the same meaning and effect as the designation “Highly-Confidential 

Information.” 

 16. During any deposition, a party may designate testimony as HighlyConfidential Information or Confidential Information by stating on the record at the deposition 

that the testimony is Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information and is subject 

to the provisions of this Protective Order. 

 17. A party whose Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential 

Information will be discussed during a deposition has the right to exclude from the deposition 

room any persons who are not Qualified Persons, Qualified Experts, or Litigation Counsel, but 

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only during such time as Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information is being 

discussed. 

 18. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Protective Order, HighlyConfidential Information or Confidential Information may be used in the course of any deposition 

of current employees of the party designating such Highly-Confidential Information or 

Confidential Information. 

 19. A party may also designate information disclosed at a deposition taken in 

this case as Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information by notifying the other 

parties, in writing, within twenty-one (21) days of receipt of the transcript, of the specific pages 

and lines of the transcript which should be treated as Highly-Confidential Information or 

Confidential Information. Each party shall attach a copy of such written notice or notices to the 

face of each and every copy of the transcript, and any extracts or summaries thereof, in its 

possession, custody or control. All deposition transcripts shall be treated as Highly-Confidential 

Information or Confidential Information for a period of twenty-one (21) days after receipt of the 

transcript in order to allow the confidentiality thereof to be assessed, unless a shorter term is 

agreed to in writing by the disclosing party. Once the twenty-one (21) day period from receipt of 

the transcript has elapsed, any information not designated according to Paragraph 15 or 16 or this 

Paragraph may be treated as public information. 

 20. Depositions or portions thereof which contain Highly-Confidential 

Information or Confidential Information shall be marked according to Paragraph 15 and shall be 

treated accordingly. 

 21. Documents that are to be filed under seal must be accompanied by an order 

sealing them. If the order is also to be filed under seal, it shall so state. 

 22. Nothing shall be filed under seal with the Court, and the Court shall not be 

required to take any action, without separate prior order by the magistrate judge, after application 

by the affected party with appropriate notice to opposing counsel. In the event that HighlyConfidential Information or Confidential Information is included with, or the contents thereof are 

disclosed in, any pleading, motion, deposition, transcript or other paper a party files with the 

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Clerk of this Court, the party may make an advance or simultaneous application to the magistrate 

judge to have such paper filed under seal. The application shall state that the party has conferred 

with counsel of all other parties and indicate whether each other party objects to, consents to or 

joins the application. 

 23. To the extent the Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential 

Information in the pleading, motion, deposition, transcript, or other paper was produced subject to 

this Protective Order by a disclosing party other than the party filing such paper, and the party 

desires to file the paper under seal solely to comply with its obligations under this Protective 

Order and has determined that the disclosing party desires the filing of such paper under seal, the 

application shall state that the information was produced subject to this Protective Order, and that 

the party is filing the application to maintain the information in confidence pursuant to this 

Protective Order. The party filing the paper containing the Highly-Confidential Information or 

Confidential Information and the application shall promptly serve the application on the 

disclosing party. The disclosing party shall have five (5) calendar days to file with the Court a 

supplemental application to maintain the paper containing its Highly Confidential Information or 

Confidential Information under seal. 

 24. Pending the magistrate judge’s ruling on the application to file a paper 

under seal, the paper containing the Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information 

shall be lodged with the Court in a sealed envelope or container marked with the caption of the 

case, a general description of the contents of the envelope or container and a legend substantially 

in the following form: 

 “CONTAINS HIGHLY-CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OR 

 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SUBJECT TO A COURT ORDER – 

 TO BE OPENED ONLY BY OR AS DIRECTED BY THE COURT” 

 25. Upon an order of the magistrate judge permitting the paper to be filed 

under seal, the document shall be filed and kept under seal by the Clerk of the Court until further 

order of this Court. If the application to seal is denied, the lodge information will be returned to 

the party submitting the applications to seal. 

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 26. Should the application to seal be denied, the party filing the paper 

containing the Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information may file a public 

version of the paper with the Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information 

redacted, and the complete unredacted documents as well as the redacted documents shall be 

furnished to the attorneys for the parties. 

 27. Subject to applicable local rules, Litigation Counsel for the parties are 

hereby authorized to be the persons who may retrieve confidential exhibits and/or other 

confidential matters filed with the Court upon termination of this litigation without further order 

of this Court, and are the persons to whom such confidential exhibits or other confidential matters 

may be returned by the Clerk of the Court, if they are not so retrieved. 

 28. The designation by a party of an item as containing Highly-Confidential 

Information or Confidential Information may be challenged at any time by either of the other 

parties. The challenging party shall identify each item challenged by written statement to the 

designating party and shall state the basis or bases for asserting the confidentiality designation is 

improper. The designating party shall respond in writing within ten (10) business days of its 

receipt of such challenge, unless the parties stipulate in writing to extend this period. If a dispute 

regarding a confidentiality designation cannot be resolved by the parties within ten (10) business 

days after the challenging party’s receipt of the designating party’s response to its challenge, the 

challenging party must file a motion with the Court to challenge the confidentiality designation, 

unless the parties stipulate in writing to extend the period for filing such a motion. The 

designating party shall bear the burden of proving the confidentiality classification is proper. 

 29. All documents produced by a party or a non-party prior to the entry of this 

Protective Order and bearing the designation “CONFIDENTIAL,” or an equivalent statement, 

shall be treated as Confidential Information pursuant to this Protective Order. All documents 

produced by a party or non-party prior to the entry of this Protective Order and bearing the 

designation “Highly-Confidential,” “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION – LITIGATION 

COUNSEL EYES ONLY,” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or equivalent statement shall be 

treated as Highly-Confidential Information pursuant to this Protective Order. 

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 30. All deposition transcripts received prior to the entry of this Protective 

Order shall be deemed designated as Highly-Confidential Information for either: (i) ten (10) days 

after entry of the Protective Order; or (ii) thirty (30) days after receipt of the transcript, whichever 

period is longer. Thereafter, the deposition transcript shall become public information unless the 

designating party notifies the other parties, in writing, of the specific pages and lines of the 

transcript which should be treated as Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential 

Information. Each party shall, thereafter, attach a copy of such written notice or notices to the 

face of each and every copy of the transcript, and any extracts or summaries thereof, in its 

possession, custody or control. 

 31. All documents, materials, items, things, transcripts, or information 

designated under this Protective Order shall be kept in such a manner as to ensure that access 

thereto is limited to the persons properly having access thereto under the terms of this Protective 

Order. 

 32. Any item, document, or information inadvertently furnished by a party or a 

non-party person during the course of this litigation without a designation of confidentiality may 

nevertheless subsequently be designated as Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential 

Information under the terms of this Protective Order but only if counsel for the non-designating 

parties: (a) receives written notice from the designating party or non-party of the inadvertent 

failure to designate and the request to thereafter treat such item, document, or information as 

Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information; and (b) have a reasonable 

opportunity to advise others to whom such item, documents, or information already has been 

disclosed that such item, document, or information should be treated as Highly-Confidential 

Information or Confidential Information. 

 33. If information subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege, attorney work 

product, or any other legal privilege protecting information from discovery is inadvertently 

produced to a party or parties, such production shall in no way prejudice or otherwise constitute a 

waiver of, or estoppel as to, any claim of privilege, work product, or other grounds for 

withholding production to which the producing party or other producing person would otherwise 

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be entitled. If claim of inadvertent production is made pursuant to this paragraph with respect to 

information then in the custody of another party or parties, such party or parties promptly shall 

return to the claiming party or person that material and all copies or reproductions thereof as to 

which the claim of inadvertent production has been made, shall destroy all notes or other work 

product reflecting the contents of such material, and shall delete such material from any litigation 

support or other database. The party returning such material may then move the Court for an 

order compelling production of the material, but such motion shall not rely upon in any manner or 

assert as a ground for entering such an order the fact or circumstances of the inadvertent 

production. 

 34. If, during the course of any Court hearing or trial, a party refers to or seeks 

to introduce a document, material, item, thing, transcript, or information which has been 

designated as Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information, the party shall inform 

the Court and shall request attendance at such hearing or trial during the time such document, 

material, item, thing, transcript, or information is being discussed or utilized be limited to those 

persons entitled to have access to the designated material under the terms of this Protective Order. 

 35. Nothing in this Protective Order shall limit any party or any other person in 

the use of its, his or her own documents, things and/or information for any purpose or from 

disclosing its, his or her own Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information to any 

other person. 

 36. Unless the parties otherwise stipulate, evidence of the existence or 

nonexistence of a designation under this Protective Order, is not be admissible for any purpose. 

 37. The terms of this Protective Order shall survive the termination of this 

litigation. 

 38. Within thirty (30) days of termination of this litigation in its entirety, 

including appeals (if any), all copies of Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential 

Information, and abstracts, summaries, excerpts or compilations thereof, including litigation 

databases or portions of databases containing either the full text of Highly-Confidential 

Information or Confidential Information or abstracts, summaries, excerpts or compilations 

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thereof, shall, at the election of the designating party or third person, either be: (i) destroyed with 

certification of such destruction provided to counsel for the designating party; or (ii) returned to 

counsel for the party or non-party which produced such Highly-Confidential Information or 

Confidential Information, except that Litigation Counsel may keep (a) one copy of a complete set 

of pleadings, depositions transcripts, deposition exhibits, and trial exhibits entered into evidence 

and (b) copies of work product. Original documents and deposition transcripts shall not be 

destroyed for a period of two (2) years from the final conclusion of this action unless otherwise 

agreed to by the parties or ordered by the Court. The Court shall retain jurisdiction over this 

Protective Order, adjudicating claims of breach, and administering damages and other remedies. 

 39. Nothing in this Protective Order shall bar Litigation Counsel with access to 

Highly-Confidential Information or Confidential Information from rendering advice to his, her or 

their client with respect to this litigation and, in the course thereof, relying upon any HighlyConfidential Information or Confidential Information, provided counsel does not disclose HighlyConfidential Information or Confidential Information in a manner not specifically authorized 

under this Protective Order. 

 40. This Protective Order shall be without prejudice to the right of any party to 

oppose production of any information for any reason permitted under the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure. 

 41. In the event a producing party or a third party elects to produce documents 

or order material for inspection, no markings need be made by the producing party or third party 

in advance of the inspection. All such documents or other material may be temporarily 

designated as Highly-Confidential and shall be treated by the receiving party as if they contained 

Highly-Confidential Information. After selection by the receiving party of specified documents 

or material for copying, the producing party shall within five (5) business days make its 

designation under this Protective Order, if any, and the party making copies shall ensure that any 

copies include any designation made by the producing party. 

 42. This Protective Order may be amended by the agreement of counsel for the 

parties in the form of a stipulation, subject to order of the Court. Any party for good cause may 

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apply to the Court for a modification of this Protective Order. This Protective Order shall remain 

in full force and effect after the termination of this litigation, or until canceled or otherwise 

modified by order of this Court. 

 43. Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed as modifying this court’s 

order dated October 25, 2006. Nor shall any provision of this Protective Order be construed as 

extending the November 7, 2006, discovery deadline. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 26, 2006 ______________________________ 

 Edmund F. Brennan 

 U.S. Magistrate 

APPROVED AS TO FORM: 

Dated: October ___, 2006 TIMKEN JOHNSON HWANG LLP 

 

By: /signature on original 

Ki Yun Hwang 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 WORDTECH SYSTEMS, INC. 

Dated: October ___, 2006 RICHARDSON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

 LAW 

 

By: /signature on original 

Daniel Richardson 

Attorney for Defendants 

INTEGRATED NETWORK SYSTEMS, INC., 

NASSER KHATEMI AND HAMID 

ASSADIAN 

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