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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Fraud

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO. 5:06-CV-01303-JW HRL

265065 

Jeffrey S. Facter (State Bar No. 123817) 

Jiyoun Chung (State Bar No. 226900) 

SHEARMAN & STERLING LLP 

525 Market Street, Suite 1500 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 616-1100 

Facsimile: (415) 616-1199 

Email: jfacter@shearman.com 

 jiyoun.chung@shearman.com 

Attorneys for Defendants ATI Technologies Inc., 

ATI Technologies Systems Corp., ATI Research 

Silicon Valley Inc., and ATI Research, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

In re ATI Tech. HDCP Litigation Case No.: 5:06-CV-01303-JW HRL 

Assigned to The Honorable James Ware 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

 AS AMENDED BY THE COURT

 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 CASE NO. 5:06-CV-01303-JW HRL 265065 

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 (“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 to confidential treatment under the 

applicable legal principles. 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. 

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Party: Any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

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

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: All items or information, regardless of 

the medium or manner in which the same was or is 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.C.P. 26(c). 

2.4 Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

2.5 Producing Party: A Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.6 Designating Party: A Party or non-party that designates as “Confidential” 

information or items produced in disclosures or in responses to discovery in this action. 

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2.7 Protected Material: Any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential.” 

2.8 Outside Counsel: Attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are 

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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

2.10 Counsel: Outside Counsel and In-House Counsel, as well as their 

respective support staffs. 

2.11 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 current employee of a Party or of 

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

employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party. This definition includes a professional jury or trial 

consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.12 Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (such as photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and 

organizing, storing, and retrieving data in any form or medium), and their employees and 

subcontractors, etc. 

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected 

Material (as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all 

copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by Parties or Counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected 

Material. 

4. DURATION

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed 

by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court 

order otherwise directs. 

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The court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the terms of this order for six months after final termination of the action.

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5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each 

Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take 

care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate 

standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of 

material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify -- 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 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, among other like things or actions) are prohibited. 

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 after all, 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, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material that qualifies for protection under this Order 

must be clearly so designated by the Designating Party before the material is disclosed or 

produced, if the Designating Party is the Party or non-party disclosing or producing the material as 

to which protection is sought. 

To the extent any Party or non-party wishes to designate as “Confidential” 

Disclosure or Discovery Material that it did not itself disclose or produce, such designation shall 

be made promptly after the disclosure or production of such material. 

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” at the top or bottom of each page that contains Protected Material. If only a 

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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). 

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 “Confidential.” 

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 legend “CONFIDENTIAL” at the top or bottom 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). 

(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 testimony to be 

protected. When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to 

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for 

protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the 

record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 30 days to identify 

the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought. Only those portions of the 

testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 30 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,” 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 

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” If only portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing 

Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portions. 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure 

to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” 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” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving 

Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the 

material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not 

waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge 

promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

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

Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by 

conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) 

with Counsel for the Designating Party. Such challenges must be made on a document by 

document basis. In so conferring, the challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that 

the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity 

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

designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging Party may 

proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer 

process first. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may 

file and serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7, and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5 if 

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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 such protection as is consistent with the Designating Party’s designation. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 

disclosed or produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for 

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be 

disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When 

the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions set forth 

infra for return or destruction of the Protected Materials. 

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 

location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under 

this Order. 

7.2 Disclosure of “Confidential” Information or Items. Unless otherwise 

ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may 

disclose any information or item designated Confidential only to: 

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

well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information 

for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is 

attached to this Order as Exhibit A; 

(b) the 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); 

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(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that 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; or 

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

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation 

that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as 

“Confidential,” 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 promptly 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. 

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The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court 

of its confidential material -- and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or 

encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

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

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

of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected 

Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the 

terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

Without written permission from the Designating Party or a Court Order secured 

after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this 

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

comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed to in writing by the Producing Party, within 

forty-five (45) 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 or portions thereof. 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 forty-five day deadline confirming that the Protected Material was 

returned or destroyed and affirming that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material 

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or portions thereof. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy 

of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney work 

product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain 

or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

(DURATION), above. 

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 

Protective Order, no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or 

producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective 

Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of 

the material covered by this Protective Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: April ___, 2007 PARISI & HAVENS LLP 

 David C. Parisi 

 Susanne Havens Beckman 

 By: ______________________ 

 David C. Parisi 

 KAMBER & ASSOCIATES, LLC 

 Scott A. Kamber 

 Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs 

Dated: April 5, 2007 SHEARMAN & STERLING LLP 

 Jeffrey S. Facter 

 Jiyoun Chung 

 By: _________/s/_____________ 

 Jeffrey S. Facter 

 

Attorneys for Defendants ATI Technologies 

Inc., ATI Technologies Systems Corp., ATI 

Research Silicon Valley Inc., and ATI 

Research, Inc. 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ___________________________ _______________________________ 

Hon. James Ware 

United States District Judge 

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Hon. Howard R. Lloyd 

United States Magistrate Judge April 23, 2007

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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 _________ in the case of In re ATI Tech. HDCP Litigation, Case No. 5:06-CV01303 JW HRL. 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. 

Date: ________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: __________________________ 

Printed name: ________________________________ 

Signature: ________________________________ 

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