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

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CASE NO. C06-04455 JSW 

James J. Elacqua (CSB No.: 187897) 

james.elacqua@dechert.com 

Noemi C. Espinosa (CSB No.: 116753) 

nicky.espinosa@dechert.com 

Ellen J. Wang (CSB No.: 215478) 

ellen.wang@dechert.com 

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1117 California Avenue 

Palo Alto, California 94304 

Telephone: (650) 813-4800 

Facsimile: (650) 813-4848 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

MEDTRONIC, INC., MEDTRONIC USA, INC., 

AND MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC. 

Mark Linderman (CSB No.: 144685) 

mlinderman@sonnenschein.com 

John Querio (CSB No.: 235524) 

jquerio@sonnenschein.com 

SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP 

525 Market Street, 26th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2708 

Telephone: (415) 882-5000 

Facsimile: (415) 882-0300 

Attorneys for Defendant 

W.L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC. 

David H. Pfeffer (Pro hac vice) 

dpfeffer@morganfinnegan.com 

Christopher K. Hu (Pro hac vice) 

chu@morganfinnegan.com 

John T. Gallagher (Pro hac vice) 

jgallagher@morganfinnegan.com 

Gerard A. Haddad (Pro hac vice) 

ghaddad@morganfinnegan.com 

Jennifer Bianrosa (Pro hac vice) 

jbianrosa@morganfinnegan.com 

MORGAN & FINNEGAN, L.L.P. 

3 World Financial Center 

New York, New York 10281-2101 

Telephone: (212) 415-8700 

Facsimile: (212) 415-8701 

Attorneys for Defendant 

W.L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

MEDTRONIC, INC., a Minnesota 

corporation, MEDTRONIC USA, INC., a 

Minnesota corporation, and MEDTRONIC 

VASCULAR, INC., a Delaware corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC., a 

Delaware corporation, 

Defendant. 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

AND ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY 

PROCEDURES 

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. WHEREAS, the parties believe in good faith that certain information discoverable 

in this case consists of financial, business, sales, technical or other types of 

commercially valuable information that the respective parties maintain in 

confidence in the ordinary course of business; 

1.2. WHEREAS, the parties reasonably believe that public disclosure of such 

confidential information would cause financial and competitive harms to the 

disclosing party; 

1.3. WHEREAS, the parties believe that good cause exists for the entry of this order 

pursuant to F.R.Civ.P. Rule 26(c), which is narrowly tailored to protect the 

aforementioned confidential information of the parties. 

1.4. By reason of the foregoing, the parties, by their counsel, jointly request that this 

Court enter the following Stipulated Protective Order Regarding Confidential 

Information and Electronic Discovery Procedures (hereinafter, “Protective Order”) 

in this matter. 

2. APPLICABILITY OF THIS PROTECTIVE ORDER

2.1. The parties agree that the confidentiality provisions of this order shall apply to all 

information, documents and things subject to discovery or submitted to the Court 

in this Action that a party possesses or controls and designates as 

CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to the Protective Order. 

Information, documents or things obtained by a party from another party under this 

Protective Order shall be used solely for purposes of this litigation, and not for any 

other purpose or for any other legal proceeding, and not for any commercial or 

business purpose (including the pursuit of any intellectual property rights) or in any 

way adverse to the interests of the Producing Party. Specifically, and without 

limitation, such information, documents or things obtained by a party from another 

party shall not be used for any other litigation than this Action, and shall not be 

used in pursuit of legal rights, if any, of persons or entities not parties to this 

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Action. Nothing in this Protective Order shall restrict a Producing Party from 

using any Protected Material containing its own Confidential Information for any 

purpose. 

2.2. The provisions of this Protective Order shall apply to properly designated 

information, documents and things subject to discovery or submitted to the Court 

in this action that a party or third party owns or controls, which information, 

documents or things contain the designating party’s trade secrets or other 

confidential research, development, or commercial or financial information, 

including without limitation, testimony at depositions upon oral examination or 

upon written questions, answers to interrogatories, documents or things produced, 

information obtained through inspection of premises or things, and answers to 

requests for admission. This Protective Order also applies to all information, 

documents or things derived from such information, documents or things, 

including but not limited to copies, summaries, or abstracts. Designation of 

Confidential Information under the provisions of this Protective Order as either 

CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL constitutes a representation that 

counsel for the Producing Party in good faith believes that the designation is 

appropriate under the standards set forth herein. 

3. DEFINITIONS

3.1. “Action”: refers to the above-captioned matter, Medtronic, Inc., Medtronic USA, 

Inc., and Medtronic Vascular, Inc. v . W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Case No. 

C06-04455 JSW, now pending in the United States District Court for the Northern 

District of California. 

3.2. “Confidential Information”: means any non-public, commercially valuable 

information of a Producing Party that meets the criteria stated in the Introduction of 

this Protective Order. 

3.3. “Counsel” (without qualifier): includes Outside Counsel and House Counsel, as 

well as their support staffs, as defined herein. 

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3.4. “Documents”: means all information, documents or things within the scope of 

F.R.Civ.P. Rule 34. 

3.5. “House Counsel”: means attorneys who are employees of a Party to this Action. 

3.6. “Outside Counsel”: means attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are 

retained to represent or advise a Party in this Action. 

3.7. “Party”: refers to any party to the Action, including all of its officers, directors, and 

employees, and its outside counsel retained by that party for this Action, including 

such counsel’s support staff. 

3.8. “Producing Party”: refers to a party that designates Documents or testimony as 

CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to § 4 of this Protective 

Order. 

3.9. “Protected Material”: refers to any Document, or testimony that is designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to § 4 of this Protective 

Order. 

3.10. “Receiving Party”: a party that receives Documents in the Action. 

3.11. “Termination of this Action”: refers to the earlier of either (a) when there is a 

settlement with prejudice in this Action with respect to all causes of action, or (b) 

when a final judgment ending this action is no longer subject to appeal.

4. DESIGNATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

4.1. TREATMENT OF MATERIALS DESIGNATED AS “CONFIDENTIAL”

Any Document or testimony of a Producing Party which contains Confidential 

Information may be designated as CONFIDENTIAL. Material designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to this Protective Order shall only be made available to 

the persons provided in § 5.1, and such treatment shall apply to any so designated 

Document, testimony, or other discovery material, all copies thereof, and all 

derived abstracts, summaries, or notes thereof to the extent they refer to the 

Confidential Information contained therein. 

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4.2. TREATMENT OF MATERIALS DESIGNATED AS “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL”

Any Document or testimony of a Producing Party which contains particularly 

sensitive competitive Confidential Information may be designated as HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL. Material designated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to 

this Protective Order shall only be made available to the persons described in § 5.2, 

and such treatment shall apply to any so designated Document, testimony, or other 

discovery material, all copies thereof, and all derived abstracts, summaries, or 

notes thereof to the extent they refer to the Confidential Information contained 

therein. By way of example, but not limitation, some of the types of information 

that may be designated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL include: 

4.2.1. The names, or other information tending to reveal the identities, of a party’s 

suppliers, present or prospective customers, or distributors; 

4.2.2. Information relating to pending and not yet published patent applications; 

4.2.3. Financial information that is less than six months old, including but not 

limited to identifying the number of products sold, total dollar value of sales 

products, and profit margins for such products; 

4.2.4. Information constituting product specifications and/or regarding the 

technology used to make the accused products which is maintained as 

confidential; 

4.2.5. Technical notebooks and technical records, including schematic diagrams, 

technical reference manuals, operations manuals, or other like non-public 

information; and 

4.2.6. Forward-looking forecasts, projections, strategies, plans or the like. 

Other categories of HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information may exist. Disputes 

regarding whether material is properly designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” shall 

be resolved in accordance with § 10. 

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4.3. EXERCISE OF RESTRAINT IN DESIGNATION

 The Producing Party agrees to designate information as CONFIDENTIAL or 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL on a good faith basis and not for purposes of 

harassing the Receiving Party or for purposes of unnecessarily restricting the 

Receiving Party’s or the public’s access to information concerning the lawsuit. A 

Producing Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of the 

Documents or testimony that qualify – so that other portions of such Documents or 

testimony for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within 

the ambit of this Protective Order. 

 If it comes to a 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 shall promptly notify the Receiving Party 

that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

5. PERSONS WITH ACCESS TO PROTECTED MATERIALS

5.1. Persons with Access to Protected Material Designated as CONFIDENTIAL

Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Producing 

Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any Protected Material designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

5.1.1. the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this Action, as well as 

employees of said Outside Counsel working solely in legal, secretarial, 

clerical, and paralegal capacities and who are assisting those attorneys in 

this Action, and persons working for outsourced litigation support services 

for the purposes of this Action; 

5.1.2. authors, creators, addressees, and recipients of the Protected Material, who 

prior to the Action, lawfully received or had access to the Protected 

Material, including the officers, directors, or employees (including House 

Counsel) of the Producing Party; 

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5.1.3. expert witnesses or consultants and the employees or agents of such experts 

or consultants who are assisting them for the purposes of this Action, 

retained by the Receiving Party or the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel in 

connection with this Action after compliance with the procedures of § 5.2.2

of this Protective Order; 

5.1.4. stenographers, videographers, and their staffs retained for this Action; 

5.1.5. the Court and its personnel, and 

5.1.6. no more than three (3) officers, directors, or employees (including House 

Counsel) of a Party that is the Receiving Party, whose cooperation or 

assistance is reasonably necessary to enable the Party’s Outside Counsel to 

prepare for trial in this Action. The Receiving Party shall identify the 

positions held within the Receiving Party by title or other descriptive 

means, in writing, to the Producing Party at least five (5) business days 

prior to the first disclosure of such Protected Material to such individual 

persons. The Receiving Party may substitute an individual person holding 

one of the so-identified positions, without notice to the Producing Party, if 

such a person terminates his or her position as an officer, director or 

employee of the Receiving Party, so long as no more than three (3) such 

persons at any time are in possession or receive Protected Material from the 

Producing Party. 

5.2. Persons with Access to Protected Material Designated as HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL

Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Producing 

Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any Protected Material designated as 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

5.2.1. the persons identified in §§ 5.1.1 through 5.1.5 above; and, 

5.2.2. in addition, during the pendency of this Action and for two (2) years after 

Termination of this Action, no person with access to Protected Material 

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designated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL shall be involved in either (i) 

patent application preparation or prosecution for any client in the field of 

vascular or stent-related technology, or (ii) providing advice, counsel or 

suggestions about the preparation or prosecution of any such patent 

application. 

5.2.3. Persons for Whom A Signed Declaration and Agreement to be Bound by 

Protective Order is Required

 Prior to disclosure of any Protected Material to any person who is not a Party, such 

as a person to be designated under § 5.1.3 or to any prospective expert witness or 

consultant retained for this Action (hereinafter referred to as “Expert”), such 

Expert will comply with the notification procedure set forth in §5.3 below. Before 

disclosure of any Protected Material subject to this Protective Order is made to 

such Expert, outside of an actual deposition of such Expert, Outside Counsel for 

the Receiving Party seeking to disclose such information shall obtain a written 

Declaration and Agreement to be Bound by Protective Order, in the form attached 

hereto as Exhibit A, from each Expert to whom disclosure is intended to be made 

so that such Expert shall acknowledge that any Document or testimony that has 

been designated as CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL is subject to 

this Protective Order, that the Expert has read and understood this Protective 

Order, that such Expert agrees to comply with, and be bound by, this Protective 

Order, and that such Expert is aware that contempt sanctions may be entered for 

violation of this Protective Order. All original signed forms of Declaration and 

Agreement to be Bound by Protective Orders shall be maintained by the Counsel 

who obtained such agreement at least until the Termination of this Action. 

5.3. Notification Required Prior to Disclosures to Experts

Prior to disclosure of any Protected Material to any person intended to serve as an 

Expert in this Action, as described in § 5.1.3, the following conditions must first be 

met: 

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5.3.1. Outside Counsel for the Receiving Party wishing to disclose Protected 

Material to such Expert must notify the Producing Party’s Counsel in 

writing of the intent to disclose Protected Material. Such notice must 

include: 

5.3.1.1. a copy of the written Declaration and Agreement to be Bound by 

Protective Order in compliance with § 5.2.3, executed by the 

Expert; 

5.3.1.2. a true and accurate copy of the Expert’s current curriculum vitae or 

resume describing his or her present and past ten (10) years of 

employment, including all consulting agreements or arrangements 

during this period. If the curriculum vitae or resume does not 

include the following information, a supplemental disclosure must 

be provided which includes (1) the Expert’s full name and the 

address of his primary residence, (2) the Expert’s current 

employer(s), (3) a list of all persons or entities from whom the 

Expert has received compensation for work in his area of expertise 

or to whom he has provided professional services at any time 

during the preceding five (5) years, and (4) a list of all cases in 

which the Expert has testified at a deposition or trial in the last five 

(5) years; 

5.3.1.3. a statement indicating whether or not the Expert was a past 

employee or is a current shareholder of (1) a Party, (2) any 

subsidiaries of a Party, or (3) any company that, as far as the 

Expert is aware, performed services under a joint development or 

collaboration with a Party in the preceding five (5) years. 

5.3.1.4. In the event that the proposed Expert is not a natural person, but is 

a business entity (such as a firm retained to provide trial graphics 

or other demonstrative materials for this Action), such business 

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entity shall provide its list of engagements for the prior five (5) 

years, and a statement indicating whether or not it has ever been 

engaged by a Party, any subsidiaries of a Party, or any direct 

competitor of a Party, as well as a Declaration and Agreement to 

be Bound by Protective Order executed as required by § 5.2.3 by 

an authorized representative of such entity. 

5.3.2. No disclosure of Protected Material to the Expert shall occur until ten (10) 

calendar days after all of the requirements set forth in § 5.3 have been met. 

If the Producing Party objects in writing within this ten-day period, and 

such written objection sets forth in detail the grounds on which it is based, 

no disclosure of Protected Material shall be made to that Expert. 

5.3.3. If the Producing Party objects to the disclosure, the Producing Party and the 

Receiving Party who wishes to make the disclosure must meet and confer to try to 

resolve the matter. If no agreement is reached, the Producing Party may move the 

Court requesting that the disclosure not be permitted, and it shall be the burden of 

the Producing Party to show that the disclosure should not be made. Such motion 

must be filed and served within fourteen (14) calendar days of the written objection 

to disclosure; failure to so move during this fourteen-day period will be deemed a 

waiver of the Producing Party’s objections. 

6. MARKING OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

6.1. All Documents produced by any party shall be numbered (e.g., Bates numbered) 

using a prefix bearing the party’s name or an abbreviation thereof, such as an 

acronym or the first three letters of its name so long as the abbreviation differs 

from all other names/abbreviations. The prefix should be used on a consistent 

basis and in a manner which makes clear the identity of the Producing Party. 

Confidential Information shall be designated as either CONFIDENTIAL or 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL within the meaning of this Protective Order in the 

following manner:

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6.1.1. Documents: Any Document produced during discovery or otherwise 

disclosed in this Action, and any information contained therein, may be 

designated by the Producing Party as CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL by affixing the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” prior to production, service, or filing. Such legend shall 

be placed in a prominently visible location upon the first page of the 

Document containing Confidential Information and upon each page within 

such Document considered to contain Confidential Information. 

6.1.2. Magnetic or Optical Media Documents: Where a Document is produced in 

a magnetic medium (such as a floppy diskette or tape), an optical medium 

(such as a compact disc (CD) or digital versatile disc (DVD)), or other 

medium of data storage, the cartridge, reel, or medium container shall be 

marked with the appropriate legend as described in § 6.1.1 above. If the 

Receiving Party prints any information contained on the media, such 

printouts will be marked by the Receiving Party in the manner described in 

§ 6.1.1. 

6.1.3. Tangible Items: Where a physical exhibit or other tangible item is produced, 

designation shall be made by marking the item in a prominently visible 

location as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” if 

practicable or, if not practicable, by placing such marking prominently on a 

package or container associated with the item. 

6.1.4. Discovery Responses: Where Confidential Information is incorporated into 

written answers to interrogatories, document requests or responses to 

requests for admission, a designation shall be made by placing in a 

prominently visible location on the first page and all subsequent pages 

containing the Confidential Information the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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6.1.5. Originals: Where original files and records are produced for inspection, no 

marking need be made by the Producing Party in advance of the inspection. 

For the purposes of the inspection, all Documents or items produced shall 

be considered as designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.” Thereafter, 

upon selection of specified Documents for copying by the Receiving Party, 

the Producing Party shall mark the copies of such Documents as may 

contain Confidential Information in accord with §§ 6.1.1 - 6.1.2 of this 

Protective Order at the time the copies are produced to the Receiving Party. 

6.1.6. Testimonial Documents: Where a Producing Party introduces an affidavit, 

declaration, expert report, or other written witness testimonial, designation 

shall be made as provided by § 6.1.1. 

6.1.7. Court Filings: Any Document, pleading, or tangible item which contains 

Confidential Information, if filed or submitted to the court, shall be 

designated as provided in § 6.1.1. and filed under seal pursuant to the 

provisions of Local Rule 79-5. 

6.1.8. Deposition Testimony: Designation of portions, or the entirety, of 

deposition transcripts (including exhibits) as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” shall be made by a statement to such effect 

on the record in the course of the deposition, or upon review of such 

transcript by Counsel for the within fourteen (14) business days after 

Counsel’s receipt of the transcript. Until the expiration of the fourteen (14) 

business day time period, deposition transcripts will be treated by the 

Parties as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” in their entirety. Upon 

designation of the transcript or a portion thereof on the record during the 

deposition, the Producing Party shall be allowed to exclude all persons to 

whom access to Protected Material has been denied under the terms of this 

Protective Order for the portion of the deposition that contains Protected 

Material. The Court Reporter or other person recording the proceedings 

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shall segregate any portion of the transcript of the deposition which has 

been stated to contain Confidential Information and may furnish copies of 

these segregated portions, in a sealed envelope, only to the deponent as 

required by law, to the court, and to Counsel for the Parties bound by the 

terms of this Protective Order. 

 Designations made within fourteen (14) business days after receipt of a 

transcript of a deposition shall be made by sending written notice (by 

facsimile if possible) to the Court Reporter, to Counsel for all Parties to this 

Action, and to any other person known to have a copy of said transcript. 

The notice shall reference this Protective Order and identify the pages 

and/or exhibits or the transcript so designated. All copies of transcripts thus 

designated shall be marked with a notice indicating the confidentiality of 

the material therein and shall be governed by the terms of this Protective 

Order. 

7. PROCEDURES GOVERNING HANDLING OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

location and in a secure manner at all times to ensure that access is limited to the persons 

authorized under this Protective Order. Upon Termination of this Action, a Receiving 

Party must comply with the Provisions of § 14. 

8. CORRECTION OF INADVERTENT FAILURE TO DESIGNATE

If, through inadvertence, a Producing Party provides to a Receiving Party any 

information pursuant to this Action without designating the information as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” information, the Producing Party 

may subsequently inform the Receiving Party of the “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” nature of the disclosed information, and the Receiving Party shall 

immediately treat the disclosed information as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” information upon receipt of such written notice. To the extent the 

Receiving Party has already disclosed such information, such disclosure shall not be a 

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violation of this Protective Order, but the Receiving Party shall promptly collect any 

copies of disclosed material that have been provided to individuals other than those 

authorized under this Protective Order, and shall destroy or return them to the Producing 

Party. 

9. SCOPE OF PROTECTIVE ORDER

The restrictions set forth in this Protective Order will not apply to information 

which is in the possession of or otherwise known to the Receiving Party or the public 

before the date of its transmission to the Receiving Party, or which comes into the 

possession of or becomes known to the Receiving Party or comes into the possession of or 

otherwise becomes known to the public after the date of its transmission to the Receiving 

Party, provided that such information does not become publicly known by any act or 

omission of the Receiving Party, its employees, or agents which would be in violation of 

this Protective Order. If such information known to or possessed by the Receiving Party 

or the public is subsequently or previously designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” in this Action, the Receiving Party must provide ten (10) 

days’ advance written notice to the Producing Party of the pertinent circumstances before 

the restrictions of this order will be inapplicable to such materials. 

10. CONTESTING DESIGNATION OF CONFIDENTIALITY

 Acceptance by a Party of Protected Material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” shall not constitute a concession that the Protected Material 

contains Confidential Information. Any Party or interested member of the public may 

contest a claim of confidentiality. If the Receiving Party disagrees with the designation 

and marking by the Producing Party of any material as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL”, then the Parties shall first try to resolve such disputes on an informal 

basis. If agreement cannot be reached between Counsel, then such dispute may be 

presented to the Court by any Party by motion or otherwise. In the resolution of such 

matter, the burden of establishing that the material contains Confidential Information shall 

be on the Producing Party, but information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

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“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” shall be treated as such by the Receiving Party until the 

matter is resolved. 

11. ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY PROCEDURES

11.1. ELECTRONIC RECORDS

To manage the burden of collection and review of electronic mail (“email”) and 

other electronically stored documents or records that are reasonably related to the 

patent claims, defenses, and counterclaims in this case (“Electronic Records” 

which includes emails), the parties agree that they will provide electronic discovery 

to a requesting party as follows: 

11.1.1. Searches for emails will be conducted on the hard drives of individual 

personal computers, email servers, network files and/or shared files of a 

party’s employees and agents, in accordance with the party’s email 

archival procedures as of the date of this Protective Order; 

11.1.2. Email searches will be limited to the Electronic Records of no more than 

fifteen (15) employees of a proposed Producing Party, as identified by 

name, or title, or area of responsibility by the Receiving Party. The parties 

agree to meet and confer to agree on a date for mutual exchange of their 

lists identifying such employees. 

11.1.3. Searches for discoverable Electronic Records shall be limited to and 

conducted on the hard drives of individual personal computers, shared 

network files and/or shared files of a party’s employees and agents or 

relevant business units, in accordance with the party’s Electronic Records 

archival procedures as of the date of this Protective Order; and limited to 

the following subject matter categories: 

11.1.3.1. Electronic Records of, or emails sent or received by a named 

inventor or a prosecuting attorney that bear on the invention 

or the prosecution of that inventor’s patent, including, but not 

limited to, emails regarding relevant conception, reduction to 

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practice, any alleged diligence regarding the patented 

inventions, and any prior art to the patented inventions; 

11.1.3.2. Electronic Records referring to or mentioning any of the 

patents in suit or underlying application(s) by number or 

inventor(s); 

11.1.3.3. Electronic Records containing at least one of the Agreed 

Search Terms, as defined in section 11.1.5 of this Protective 

Order; 

11.1.3.4. Electronic Records regarding the relevant design, 

manufacture, use, marketing or sales of the products that are 

reasonably related to the claims and defenses in this case . 

11.1.4. Agreed Search Terms: After exchanging the lists of up to fifteen (15) 

designated employees, the parties agree to meet and confer to determine a 

list of agreed-upon search terms for use in the electronic discovery process 

(hereinafter, “Agreed Search Terms”). The parties shall agree to a 

reasonable numerical limit for the number of such Agreed Search Terms. 

If the parties are unable to agree on any proposed search term, either party 

may ask that the dispute be resolved by the Court, balancing the need for 

the information and the burden involved.

11.2. LIMITATIONS ON ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY

11.2.1. The parties agree that they will not be obligated to search for, collect, 

review, offer for inspection or produce electronically stored information 

that contains otherwise discoverable information which is located on 

backup tapes or other archival media used solely for archival purposes, but 

is not otherwise as readily accessible as the media described in section 

11.1 above. 

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11.2.2. The parties agree that they will not be obligated under this Protective 

Order to resort to forensic retrieval procedures in order to collect, review, 

offer for inspection or produce deleted electronically stored information. 

11.3. CURING DEFICIENCIES IN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY

11.3.1. The parties agree that nothing in this Protective Order’s section 11

regarding Electronic Discovery Procedures is intended to abrogate the 

obligations of any party under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any 

applicable local rules, or to allow a Producing Party to withhold from 

production any electronically stored information that its counsel has 

identified to be used or relied upon in this case. 

11.3.2. To the extent that either party determines that there is a material gap in the 

production of Electronic Records relating to the patent claims, defenses 

and counterclaims that is not otherwise filled by non-electronic discovery 

procedures, the parties agree to meet and confer in an attempt to agree on 

targeted email or other electronically stored information or search terms 

that will be likely to capture the information within such identified gap. If 

the parties are unable to agree on measures to capture information within 

such identified gap, the dispute will be resolved by the Court, balancing 

the need for the requested information and the burden involved. 

11.4. FORMAT OF ELECTRONIC PRODUCTION

The parties agree that they will produce electronically stored information 

preferably as multi-page .tiff files with accompanying industry standard litigation 

support tool load files wherever possible, or in the alternative, as .pdf files with 

accompanying industry standard litigation support tool load files, on CD-ROMs or 

DVDs, or as paper copies, with any Protected Material originating from 

electronically stored information designated as provided by §6 of this Protective 

Order. The parties will not generally be required to produce any documents in 

native format, or to produce any “metadata” or “OCR” or “text capture” data 

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associated with their Electronic Records. However, the parties agree to exchange 

certain select damages-related information (e.g., summary sales data) in native 

electronic form, such as EXCEL files and limited email information such as the 

“to,” “from,” “date,” and “subject” fields in native electronic form. The parties 

further agree to cooperate in exchanging sample production files in multi-page .tiff 

format to confirm that a Producing Party’s Electronic Records are compatible with 

the Receiving Party’s electronic systems.

12. NO LIMITATION OF OTHER RIGHTS

This Protective Order shall be without prejudice to the right of any Party to oppose 

production of any information on any and all grounds other than confidentiality. Further, 

nothing in this Protective Order prevents a Party from disclosing its own documents and 

information as it sees fit. 

13. RELIEF FROM , MODIFICATION, OR ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ORDER.

 This Protective Order shall not prevent any Party or interested member of the 

public from applying to the Court for relief therefrom, or from applying to the Court for 

further or additional protective orders, or from agreeing among themselves to modify or 

vacate this Protective Order, subject to the approval of the Court. 

 The Court retains jurisdiction even after termination of this Action to enforce this 

Protective Order and to make such amendments, modifications, deletions and additions to 

this Protective Order as the Court may from time to time deem appropriate. 

14. RETURN OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.

 At the Termination of this Action, all Protected Material received from a 

Producing Party, and all copies thereof, upon the Producing Party’s written request, shall 

be returned to Counsel for the Producing Party, or, and at the Producing Party’s option, 

destroyed by Counsel for the Receiving Party. In the case where the latter option is used, 

within thirty (30) days of the Termination of this Action, Counsel for the Receiving Party 

shall notify Counsel for the Producing Party, in writing, verifying that such destruction has 

taken place. The provisions of this Protective Order insofar as it restricts the disclosure, 

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communication of, and use of, Protected Material produced hereunder to a Receiving 

Party shall continue to be binding on such Receiving Party after the Termination of this 

Action. 

15. DISCOVERY FROM THIRD PARTIES.

 If discovery is sought of a person not a Party (a “Third Party”) requiring disclosure 

of such Third Party’s “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” information, 

the “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” information disclosed by such 

Third Party will be accorded the same protection as the Parties’ “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” information, and will be subject to the same procedures as 

those governing disclosure of the Parties’ “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” information pursuant to this Protective Order. 

16. ATTORNEY ADVICE TO CLIENT

 This Protective Order shall not bar Counsel in the course of rendering advice to his 

or her client with respect to this Action from conveying to any Party client an evaluation 

in a general way of Protected Material produced or exchanged under this Protective Order; 

provided, however, that in rendering such advice and otherwise communicating with the 

client, Counsel shall not disclose the specific contents, directly or indirectly, of any 

Protected Material produced under this Protective Order, which disclosure would be 

contrary to the terms of this Protective Order. 

17. PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS

 Privileged communications of any Counsel or Party client herein with respect to 

this Action that are dated on or after the date of the filing of the original Complaint in this 

Action need not be identified on any privilege log. Production of Protected Material 

(including physical objects) to the Receiving Party shall not constitute a waiver of the 

attorney-client privilege or work product immunity, if corrective measures in accordance 

with this section are promptly taken. Any Producing Party that mistakenly produces 

privileged materials may obtain the return of those materials after discovering the 

inadvertent production, by promptly notifying the Receiving Party of the privilege and 

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providing a privilege log for any such materials that are dated prior to the filing of the 

original Complaint. The Receiving Party shall then gather and return all copies of the 

privileged material to the Producing Party. 

18. DRAFTS OF EXPERT REPORTS

 The Parties agree that no Party or testifying expert witness is required to maintain 

or produce drafts of expert reports or communications with Counsel relating solely to 

those drafts; however, in all other respects, the Parties and their experts shall fully comply 

with the disclosure requirements of Rule 26(2)(B) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

19. OUTSIDE PARTY DISCOVERY REQUESTS FOR PROTECTED MATERIALS

 If any Protected Material received under this Protective Order and in the 

possession, custody, or control of any Receiving Party are sought by subpoena, request for 

production of documents, interrogatories, or any other form of discovery request or 

compulsory process, including any form of discovery request or compulsory process of 

any court, administrative, regulatory or legislative body, or any other person or tribunal 

purporting to have opportunity to seek such information by compulsory process or 

discovery request, including private parties, the Receiving Party to whom the process or 

discovery request is directed shall (i) within five (5) business days after receipt thereof, 

give written notice by hand or facsimile of such process or discovery request together with 

a copy thereof, to Counsel for the Producing Party; (ii) cooperate to the extent necessary to 

permit the to seek to quash such process or discovery request; and (iii) not produce or 

disclose the Protected Material until the Producing Party consents in writing to production 

or the Receiving Party is ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction to produce or 

disclose the Protected Material, so long as the order is not stayed prior to the date set for 

production or disclosure. 

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STIPULATION

 It is hereby stipulated that the foregoing Protective Order may be made and entered by the 

Court. It is further stipulated that the Parties will abide by this Protective Order from the date of 

execution of this Stipulation by counsel for all of the Parties. The Parties, through their 

undersigned counsel, respectfully request that the Court enter this stipulation as an Order. 

SO STIPULATED: 

Dated: March 5, 2007 DECHERT LLP 

By: /s/ Noemi C. Espinosa 

James J. Elacqua 

Noemi C. Espinosa 

Ellen J. Wang 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

MEDTRONIC, INC. 

MEDTRONIC USA, INC. 

MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC. 

Dated: March 5, 2007 MORGAN & FINNEGAN, LLP 

By: /s/ Gerard A. Haddad 

David H. Pfeffer (Pro hac vice) 

Christopher K. Hu (Pro hac vice) 

John T. Gallagher (Pro hac vice) 

Gerard A. Haddad (Pro hac vice) 

Jennifer BianRosa (Pro hac vice) 

Attorneys for Defendant 

W.L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC. 

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ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED:______________, 2007 ____________________________________ 

 HONORABLE JEFFREY S. WHITE 

 JUDGE OF THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT 

The Court notes that the parties must comply with the provisions of Local Rule 79-5 and must file a motion to seal any filings the 

parties contend contain confidential or highly confidential material. March 7, 

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EXHIBIT A

DECLARATION AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY PROTECTIVE ORDER 

I, _______________, declare and state under penalty of perjury that: 

I have read and reviewed in its entirety, and understand the annexed Protective Order 

(“Protective Order”) that has been signed and entered in this Action. 

I have been retained by [Party]________________________________ as a [role] 

_____________________________________ for this Action. 

I hereby agree to be bound by and comply with the terms of the Protective Order, and not 

to disseminate or disclose any information subject to the Protective Order that I either review or 

about which I am told, to any person, entity, party, or agency for any reason, except in accordance 

with the terms of this Protective Order. 

I am aware that if I violate the provisions of this Protective Order, the Court may order the 

entry of contempt sanctions against me. 

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of enforcement 

of the terms of this Protective Order. 

DATED this ____ day of _________, 200__. 

 ____________________________________ 

(Signature)

____________________________________ 

(Typed Name) 

____________________________________ 

(Title) 

12607694.7 

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