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

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Neil A. Smith (State Bar No. 63777) 

David Schnapf (State Bar No. 100199) 

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP 

4 Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor 

San Francisco CA 94111-4106 

Phone: (415) 434-9100 

Fax: (415) 434-3947 

Email: nsmith@sheppardmullin.com 

Email: dschnapf@sheppardmullin.com 

Attorneys for Nova Measuring Instruments, Ltd. 

Daniel S. Mount, Esq. (State Bar No. 77517) 

Ron C. Finley, Esq. (State Bar No. 200549) 

Justin T. Beck, Esq. (State Bar No. 53138) 

Daniel H. Fingerman, Esq. (State Bar No. 229683) 

Mount & Stoelker, P.C. 

333 West San Carlos 

RiverPark Tower, 17th Floor 

San Jose CA 95110-2726 

Phone: (408) 279-7000 

Fax: (408) 998-1473 

Email: dan@mount.com 

Email: rfinley@mount.com 

Email: jbeck@mount.com 

Email: dfingerman@mount.com 

Attorneys for Nanometrics, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS 

LTD.,

Plaintiff, 

vs.

NANOMETRICS, INC., 

Defendant.

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CASE NO. 3:05-CV-00986 (MMC) (EDL) 

[PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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[Proposed] Protective Order 

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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95110-2726 

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(1) PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure 

and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted. The parties 

acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to 

discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are 

entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further 

acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, that this 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 respective support staffs). 

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium 

or matter 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 Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

2.4 "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only" Information or Items: sensitive 

"Confidential Information or Items" whose disclosure to another Party or non-party would create a 

risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. By way of example, 

"Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only" Information or Items may include those things of a 

proprietary business nature that may be of value to a competitor or potential customer of the 

Producing Party or Designating Party, or a customer of such party or non-party holding proprietary 

rights therein and that must be protected from disclosure. 

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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95110-2726 

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2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material 

in this action. 

2.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates Disclosure or Discovery 

Material as "Confidential" or as "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only." 

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

"Confidential" or as "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only." 

2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to 

represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs). 

2.12 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to the 

litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 

consultant in this action and who is not a past or current employee of a Party or of a competitor of a 

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

competitor of a Party's. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation. 

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., 

photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, storing, 

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

(3) SCOPE

The protections conferred by this 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. 

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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95110-2726 

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(4) DURATION

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

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

otherwise directs. 

(5) DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 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 appropriate standards. A Designating 

Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral 

or written communications that qualify — so that other portions of the material, documents, items, or 

communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of 

this Order. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown 

to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily 

encumber or retard the case development process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on 

other parties), expose the Designating Party to sanctions. 

If it comes to a Party's or non-party's attention that information or items that it designated for 

protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for the level of protection initially 

asserted, that Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the 

mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designation. Except as otherwise provided in this Order (see 

e.g., second paragraph of § 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material that 

qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed 

or produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

(a) For information in documentary form (including documents produced in 

electronic form, but not including transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that 

the Producing Party affix the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL — 

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MOUNT & STOELKER, P.C. 

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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95110-2726 

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ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" at the top or bottom of each page or, if a Producing Party produces 

material in electronic form, it may affix the appropriate legend on the outside of the electronic 

recording medium that contains the Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material 

on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected 

portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, 

the level of protection being asserted ("Confidential" or "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes 

Only").

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection need 

not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material it 

would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material 

made available for inspection shall be deemed "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only." After 

the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party 

must determine which documents or portions thereof qualify for protection under this Order, then, 

before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend 

("CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY") at the top 

or bottom of each page or, if a Producing Party produces material in electronic form, it may affix the 

appropriate legend on the outside of the electronic recording medium that contains the Protected 

Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 

Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 

markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted 

("Confidential" or "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only"). 

If a Producing Party produces documents in electronic form and opts to designate the 

electronic recording medium containing those documents as containing Protected Material by 

affixing the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY" to the outside of that medium without separately designating each document contained on 

that medium, the duty to determine if one or more documents or portions thereof contained on that 

medium are subject to a reduced level of protection shall not arise until the Receiving Party wishes to 

copy or print selected documents from the medium. Before a Receiving Party may copy or print any 

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material from the electronic recording medium, it shall confer with the Producing Party, and the 

Producing Party and the Receiving Party shall agree on the appropriate level of protection for the 

particular material to be copied or printed and the manner in which an appropriate legend shall be 

affixed to each copy of such copied or printed material. If the Producing Party and the Receiving 

Party cannot agree on the appropriate level of protection for the particular material to be copied or 

printed and the manner in which an appropriate legend shall be affixed to each copy of such material, 

the Receiving Party may not copy or print the material unless the court specifically orders that the 

particular material in question may be copied or printed. The court's order shall specify (1) the 

particular material at issue, (2) the manner in which the material may be copied, printed, or both, 

(3) if the material is to be copied electronically, the number of electronic copies that may be made 

and the manner in which each copy will be stored or transmitted, (4) the level of protection that will 

apply to the material, and (5) the manner in which a legend shall be affixed to the material, signifying 

that the material has been designated "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes 

Only." Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Receiving Party's outside counsel may print or copy a 

document produced in electronic form for the purpose of creating an internal working copy for the 

law offices of the Receiving Party's outside counsel without previously meeting and conferring with 

the Producing Party, provided that the Receiving Party's outside counsel immediately affixes a legend 

to the top or bottom of each page of the printed document that matches the legend affixed to the 

outside of the electronic recording medium. 

Nothing in this Order, nor any Party's stipulation to have this Order entered by the Court, shall 

be deemed to be an agreement by any party to produce or to receive documents or electronically 

stored information in any particular form, including in electronic form. Similarly, nothing in this 

Order, nor any Party's stipulation to have this Order entered by the Court, shall be deemed to be a 

waiver of any right to seek production from any other party of documents or electronically stored 

information in a particular form, including in electronic form. 

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

any Party or non-party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, its protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as 

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its "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only" information or items. When it is 

impractical to identify separately each portion of the testimony that is entitled to protection, and when 

it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, any Party or non-party 

may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 

days after the transcript is prepared to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which 

protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted ("Confidential" or "Highly 

Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only"). Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately 

designated for protection within 20 days after the transcript is prepared shall be covered by the 

provisions of this Order. 

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

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY," as instructed by the Designating Party. 

(c) For information produced in some form other than documentary, and for any 

other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the 

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

"HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." If only portions of the information 

or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected 

portions, specifying whether they qualify as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' 

Eyes Only." 

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

designate qualified information or items as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes 

Only" does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party's right to secure protection under this 

Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as "Confidential" or "Highly 

Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only" after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, 

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

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

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(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 dialog; other forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel for the 

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

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

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

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge shall be on the Designating Party. Until the 

court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of 

protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party's designation. 

(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, 

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

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 

been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of § 11, below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION).

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

secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order. 

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;

(b) The officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the 

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" (attached hereto as Exhibit A); 

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order" (Exhibit A); 

(d) The Court and its personnel; 

(e) Court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(f) During their depositions, witnesses in this 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 Order. 

(g) The author of the document, the original source of the information or anyone 

who previously had access to the document or information (such as a recipient of the document). 

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7.3 Disclosure of "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only" Information or Items.

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

Party may disclose any information or item designated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL — 

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY only to: 

(a) The Receiving Party's Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation, but not to Outside Counsel who is engaged in the prosecution of patent applications for the 

Receiving Party; 

(b) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, and (2) who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective 

Order" (Exhibit A); and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4, below, have been 

followed; 

(c) The Court and its personnel; 

(d) Court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(e) During their depositions, witnesses in this 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 Order. 

(f) The author of the document, the original source of the information, or anyone 

who previously had access to the document or information (such as a recipient of the document). 

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes 

Only " Information or Items to "Experts" 

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the Designating 

Party, a party that seeks to disclose to an "Expert" (as defined in this Order) any information or item 

that has been designated "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only" first must make a written 

request to the Designating Party that (1) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of 

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his or her primary residence, (2) attaches a copy of the Expert's current resume, (3) identifies the 

Expert's current employer(s), (4) identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has received 

compensation for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided 

professional services at any time during the preceding five years, and (5) identifies (by name and 

number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the 

Expert has provided any professional services during the preceding five years. 

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the 

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

within seven court days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the 

Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based. 

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with the 

Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialog) to try to resolve the matter by agreement. If 

no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion as 

provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) seeking 

permission from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with 

specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably 

necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail, and suggest any additional means 

that might be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties' efforts to resolve the matter by 

agreement (i.e., the extent and content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets forth the reasons 

advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. 

In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the burden of 

proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under safeguards proposed) outweighs 

the Receiving Party's need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert. 

(8) PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION

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

would compel disclosure of any information or items designated "Confidential" or "Highly 

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[Proposed] Protective Order 

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Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only," the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in 

writing (by fax or email, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three court days after 

receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court 

order.

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the 

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of 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 Order 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 

Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to protect its 

confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party 

shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material 

— and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving 

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

(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 Order, the Receiving Party 

must immediately (a) notify 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 "Acknowledgement 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 parties, 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. 

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(11) FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty days after 

the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 

Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, "all Protected Material" includes all copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries, or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. The Receiving Party may, at its option, destroy some or all of the Protected Material 

instead of returning it to the Producing Party. Whether the Protected Material is returned or 

destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not 

the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the sixty day deadline that identifies (by 

category, where appropriate) all Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms 

that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, or other 

forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, 

Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal 

memoranda, correspondence, 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 Order as set forth in § 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 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 Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any 

ground to use in evidence any of the material covered by this Order. 

12.3 Inadvertent Production or Disclosure of Privileged Matter. Any inadvertent 

production or disclosure of information or items subject to any privilege, work product immunity, or 

similar protection shall not constitute a waiver of such privilege, work product immunity, or similar 

protection. A Receiving Party shall not assert that the Producing Party's inadvertent production or 

disclosure of such information or items constitutes a failure to exercise reasonable care to prevent the 

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production or disclosure of such information or items. If a Receiving Party believes that any 

information or items produced or disclosed to it may be subject to any privilege, work product 

immunity, or similar protection, it shall promptly notify the Producing Party and shall not read or 

otherwise view the remainder of such information or items. Upon learning of such inadvertent 

production or disclosure, the Producing Party may timely notify the Receiving Party that such 

production or disclosure was inadvertent and that the Producing Party claims a privilege or similar 

protection in the material. Upon such notification, the Receiving Party shall return the original and 

all copies of such material to the Producing Party or shall certify in writing to the Producing Party 

that the original and all copies of such material have been destroyed. 

12.4 Third Parties. If a party seeks discovery from a non-party, the non-party may invoke 

the benefits of this order by written notice to all parties and may designate information or items 

"Confidential" or "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only" in accordance with the terms of this 

Order.

Dated:________________________ __________________________________________ 

Hon. Elizabeth D. Laporte 

U.S. District Magistrate Judge 

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 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 Protective Order 

that was issued in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in the case 

of Nova Measuring Instruments, Ltd. v. Nanometrics, Inc., Case No. 3:05-cv-00986 (MMC) (EDL). I 

agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of that 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 that Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of that 

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 that 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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