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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1121 Trademark Infringement

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER C 06 1296 SC

DOUGLAS A. WINTHROP (No. 183532)

Email: dwinthrop@howardrice.com

SHAUDY DANAYE-ELMI (No. 242083)

Email: sdanaye-elmi@howardrice.com

HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI CANADY

FALK & RABKIN

A Professional Corporation

Three Embarcadero Center, 7th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111-4024

Telephone: 415/434-1600

Facsimile: 415/217-5910

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant

LAPPERT’S INC., a Hawaii Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

LAPPERT’S ICE CREAM, INC., a

California Corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

LAPPERT’S INC., a Hawaii Corporation,

Defendant.

No. C 06 1296 SC

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

LAPPERT’S INC., a Hawaii Corporation,

Counterclaimant,

v.

LAPPERT’S ICE CREAM, INC., a

California Corporation,

Counterdefendant.

No.

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Plaintiff and Counterdefendant Lappert’s Ice Cream, Inc., and Defendant and

Counterclaimant Lappert’s, Inc., stipulate through their respective counsel of record as

follows:

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 would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the

court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this

Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and

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

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

acknowledge, as set forth in Section 9, 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.

Notwithstanding anything in this Stipulated Protective Order, the parties agree that the

Disclosure or Discovery Material, as defined in Section 1.2 below, shall not be used by the

Receiving Party, as defined in Section 1.5 below, for any purpose other than for prosecuting

or defending this action.

1. DEFINITIONS

1.1 Party or Parties: any party to this action, and all parties to this action, including

all of its or their officers, directors, partners, employees, consultants, retained experts, and

outside counsel (and their support staff), including the law firms Hanson Bridgett Marcus

Vlahos & Rudy, LLP, and Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk and Rabkin, A

Professional Corporation.

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

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things,

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testimony, transcripts, or tangible things) that are voluntarily exchanged, produced or

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

1.3 “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), and are designated as “Confidential”

in the good faith belief that it contains confidential, proprietary, trade secret and/or otherwise

private information subject to protection under state or federal law.

1.4 “Highly Confidential–Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: that narrow

and limited subset of Confidential Information or Items which is designated as “Highly

Confidential,” and whose disclosure to another Party or non-party the Designating Party (as

defined in Section 1.7, below) in good faith believes would create a substantial risk of

serious competitive injury to the business of the Designating Party, or other serious injury,

that could not be avoided by less restrictive means.

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

Producing Party.

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

Material in this action.

1.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL,” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

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

“CONFIDENTIAL,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

1.9 Counsel: attorneys who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

1.10 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent

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

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

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

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

trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation.

1.11 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.

2. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective Order cover not only Protected

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

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

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

Protected Material. All notes, memoranda, reports, and other written communications that

reveal or discuss information contained in Protected Materials shall be given the same

protections under this Stipulated Protective Order as though they were designated as

Protected Material.

3. DURATION

Even after the termination of this litigation—whether by settlement, discontinuance,

dismissal, severance, judgment or other disposition—the confidentiality obligations imposed

by this Stipulated Protective Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees

otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs.

4. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

Stipulated Protective Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of Section 4.1 (a), below), or as

otherwise stipulated or ordered, material that qualifies for protection under this Stipulated

Protective Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Stipulated Protective 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

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“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at

the top of each page that contains protected material. If only a portion of a document or

portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Designating Party must clearly

identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and

must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has

indicated which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and

before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party

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

determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Stipulated

Protective Order, and before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must

affix the appropriate legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top of each page that contains protected material. If

only a portion of a document or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection,

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

appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of

protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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

that the Designating Party identify all protected testimony on the record, before the close of

the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, or identify all protected testimony within

twenty (20) calendar days after receipt of the transcript. Until expiration of this twenty day

period, all such testimony shall be considered and treated as though it is designated

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Only those portions of the

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testimony that are designated for protection within the twenty (20) days shall be covered by

the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

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

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the

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 appropriate

legend. If that matter is stored or recorded electronically (including information databases,

images, or programs stored on computers, discs, networks or backup tapes) and a legend

cannot be affixed upon it, the Designating Party may designate such material as

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” by

cover letter identifying the Protected Material. Parties other than the Producing Party shall

also have the right to designate such materials for confidential treatment in accordance with

this Stipulated Protective Order by written notice. If only portions of the information or item

warrant protection, the Designating Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the

protected portions.

(d) for information revealed in the course of a hearing, that the Designating

Party identify all protected information on the record, before the conclusion of the hearing,

or other proceeding, or identify all protected testimony within twenty (20) calendar days

after receipt of the transcript. Until expiration of this twenty day period, all such testimony

shall be considered and treated as though it is designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” except that Parties may draft orders on the hearings as

necessary to effect the Court’s decisions. Only those portions of the testimony that are

designated for protection within the twenty (20) days shall be covered by the provisions of

this Stipulated Protective Order.

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

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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.

4.2 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If 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 Stipulated Protective 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 Stipulated Protective Order. As used in this Stipulated Protective Order, an act is

“timely” if it does not unduly prejudice another party.

4.3 Inadvertent Production. If the Producing Party contends that it has inadvertently

produced material that it alleges is protected by the attorney client privilege, the work

product doctrine, and/or any other privilege (“the Subject Material”), that party shall notify

the Receiving Party of the inadvertent production immediately upon its discovery of the

inadvertent production. Immediately upon notification, and in no event, no later than three

business days after receiving notice, the Receiving Party shall return and/or destroy all

copies of the Subject Material identified in the notice, and shall certify in writing that it has

done so. In so doing, the Receiving Party shall not waive or prejudice any challenge it may

have to the alleged privileged status of the Subject Material, nor shall it waive or prejudice

any challenge it may have to the Producing Party’s claim of inadvertent production. If, after

undertaking an appropriate meet-and-confer process, the parties are unable to resolve any

dispute they have concerning the Subject Material, the Receiving Party may file a motion to

compel such material.

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5. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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

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

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

sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must

explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must

give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider

the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the

chosen designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge

process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first.

5.2 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 Designating Party’s justification

for the confidentiality designation that was stated in the meet and confer dialogue.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating

Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the material

in question the protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation.

6. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

6.1 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

Stipulated Protective Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party

must comply with the provisions of Section 10, below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

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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

Stipulated Protective Order.

6.2 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 Counsel 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 of the Receiving Party to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation;

(c) Experts (as defined in this Stipulated Protective Order) of the Receiving

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

“Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(d) The Court and its personnel;

(e) Neutral evaluators, mediators or arbitrators assigned to the case by the

Court or retained for the case by the mutual agreement of the Parties;

(f) Professional Vendors for services such as copying, scanning, or electronicdocument processing to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation;

(g) Former employees, officers, or directors of the Parties, provided that such

former employees, officers, partners, or directors saw the said material when they held said

positions and have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound by Protective

Order” (Exhibit A); and

(h) The author of the document or the original source of the information.

6.3 Disclosures 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:

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(a) the Receiving Party’s Counsel in this action, as well as employees of said

Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation;

(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);

(c) the Court and its personnel;

(d) Neutral evaluators, mediators or arbitrators assigned to the case by the

Court or retained for the case by the mutual agreement of the Parties;

(e) Professional Vendors such as copying, scanning, or electronic-document

processing to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation.

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

6.4 Maintenance of Signed Agreements. The Counsel for the Receiving Party

wishing to disclose Protected Materials shall maintain the original signed

“Acknowledgement and Agreement(s) to Be Bound by Protective Order.”

6.5 Disclosure Not Otherwise Authorized. In the event that Counsel representing

any Party in this action believes that it is necessary to disclose Protected Materials to an

individual or entity to whom disclosure is not permitted by this Stipulated Protective Order,

such Counsel shall make a written request (delivered by hand, electronic mail or facsimile)

to Counsel for the Designating Party identifying the individual to whom it is desired to make

such disclosure and the specific Protected Materials involved. Within ten business days of

the request, Counsel for the Designating Party may object to such disclosure by delivering

by hand, electronic mail, or fax a written objection to Counsel serving the disclosure letter.

Failure to so object constitutes consent to such disclosure. In the event that a Designating

Party objects to such disclosure, such Protected Materials shall not be disclosed to any

individual other than those to whom disclosure is permitted by the provisions of this

Stipulated Protective Order until such dispute has been resolved by agreement of the parties

or by order of the Court.

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7. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN

OTHER LITIGATION

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

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

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” the

Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by hand delivery,

electronic mail or facsimile), 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. Provided that the Producing Party has taken the necessary steps to prevent,

through judicial process, production of the documents sought to be produced, the Receiving

Party shall not produce to the Party in the other action any documents designated as

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY,” and

will maintain the status quo pending resolution of the Producing Party’s motion to quash or

analogous proceeding.

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

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the

subpoena or order is the subject of this 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.

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.

8. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

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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 Stipulated Protective Order, and (d) request such person or

persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached

hereto as Exhibit A.

9. 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.

Any Court hearing that refers to or describes Highly Confidential information shall in

the Court’s discretion be conducted in camera.

10. FINAL DISPOSITION

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

days after the final termination of this action (e.g., a court order terminating this action and

from which no appeal is taken), each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to

the Producing Party. As used in this paragraph, “all Protected Material” includes all copies,

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

Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving

Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the

Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written

certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating

Party) by the sixty day deadline that affirms that the Receiving Party has complied with the

foregoing provisions, and 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 archival copies and not required to return copies of

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all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, attorney-client

communications or attorney work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material,

provided that such Counsel take appropriate steps to prevent the disclosure in a manner

contrary to this Stipulated Protective Order of such Protected Material. Any such archival

copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Stipulated

Protective Order as set forth in Section 3 (DURATION), above.

11. MISCELLANEOUS

11.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order abridges

the right of any person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

11.2 Admissions and Waivers. Neither the entry of this Order, nor the designation of

any information or documents as Confidential or Highly Confidential or failure to make such

a designation, shall constitute evidence or any admission with respect to any issue in the

case, and shall not constitute a waiver of any objections to the disclosure of such

information. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall be construed as waiving any

objections of either Party as to the admissibility of a particular document into evidence.

Moreover, nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall be construed to require any party

to disclose to any other party any Confidential of Highly Confidential Information, or to

prohibit any party from refusing to disclose Confidential or Highly Confidential Information

to any other party.

11.3 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

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

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: January 23, 2007

DOUGLAS A. WINTHROP

HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI CANADY FALK & RABKIN

A Professional Corporation

By: /s/

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant LAPPERT’S, INC.

DATED: January 23, 2007

SUSAN G. O’NEILL

GARNER K. WENG

HANSON BRIDGETT MARCUS VLAHOS & RUDY, LLP

By: /s/

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant LAPPERT’S ICE CREAM, INC.

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I, Shaudy Danaye-Elmi, hereby attest, pursuant to N.D. Cal. General Order No. 45, that

the concurrence to the filing of this document has been obtained from the other signatory

hereto.

By: /s/

SHAUDY DANAYE-ELMI

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: ________________

SAMUEL CONTI

United States District Judge

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Judge Samuel Conti

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

BY PROTECTIVE ORDER

I, ________________________, 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

Lappert’s Ice Cream, Inc. v. Lappert’s, Inc., and related counterclaim, Case No. C 06 1296

(SC). My address is ________________________________________________. My

present occupation is ____________________________.

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 of court. I solemnly promise that I will

not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to the Stipulated

Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of

this Order.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the

Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this

action.

I hereby appoint ___________________________ of _______________________

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______ [full address and telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in

connection with this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated

Protective Order.

Executed this __ day of ___________, 2007, at ________________________ [city and

state].

Signature ______________________________

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