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Nature of Suit Code: 820
Nature of Suit: Copyright
Cause of Action: 17:101 Copyright Infringement

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[PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 3-4(a)(1),

NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF COUNSEL

AND NAMES OF PARTIES APPEAR ON 

SIGNATURE PAGE.]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND DIVISION

SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT 

AMERICA INC., a Delaware corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

DIVINEO INC., a Canadian corporation; 

DIVINEO U.K., an entity of unknown form; 

DIVINEO S.A.R.L., a French corporation, 

doing business as Divineo Online; FREDERIC 

LEGAULT, individually and doing business as 

Divineo Inc.; MAX LOUARN, individually and 

doing business as Divineo U.K., Divineo 

S.A.R.L., and Divineo Online; and DOES 1 

through 10,

Defendants.

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E-FILING

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Judge: Hon. Claudia Wilken

Courtroom: 2, 4th Floor

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in the above-entitled action (the “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 

Action would be warranted. In addition, the parties contemplate that non-parties may 

produce confidential information that should also be subjected to limited disclosure and use. 

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following 

Stipulated Protective Order (the “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 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 Counsel (and their support staff).

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

the medium or manner 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 Action.

2.3 "Confidential" Information or Items: information (regardless of how 

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards 

developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c).

2.4 "Highly Confidential – Attorneys' Eves Only" Information or Items: 

extremely sensitive "Confidential” information or items, the disclosure of which to another 

Party or non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury to the Producing Party.

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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 information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as "Confidential" or "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 Action 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 employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party. This definition includes a 

professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this Action.

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 

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

Protected Material.

4. DURATION

Even after the termination of this Action, 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 the 

appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only 

those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify —

so that other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which 

protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, 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 in the Action, or to 

impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on another Party), expose the Designating 

Party to sanctions.

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

designated for protection do not qualify for protection 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 Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of Section 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:

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(a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of 

depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend 

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" at the top of 

each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a 

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

portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) 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 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 of 

each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a 

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

portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) 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 Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the 

record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all Protected 

Material, and further specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as "HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." When it is impractical to identify separately 

each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears that substantial 

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portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, 

offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding 

is concluded) a right to have up to 30 court days 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 

the 30 court days 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 Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony.

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

and for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the 

exterior of 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 as "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only." 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. The inadvertent or unintentional 

production by any party, or any third party subject to an obligation of confidentiality, of 

confidential material or information without designating such material or information as 

"Confidential" or "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only" shall not be deemed a waiver 

in whole or in part of a party's claim of confidentiality, either as to that specific information or 

as to any other information. In the event that a party discovers that it or a third party subject 

to an obligation of confidentiality inadvertently or unintentionally provided confidential 

information without designation, that party shall promptly, by letter sent to opposing counsel, 

designate all documents or portions thereto containing such information as "Confidential" or 

"Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only" subject to the protections of this Stipulated 

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Protective Order and the opposing parties promptly shall so mark such documents. If 

inadvertently or unintentionally provided confidential information has been disclosed by the 

opposing parties in any filing, motion, hearing, trial or proceeding, then the opposing parties, 

after being duly notified by letter, shall, to the extent necessary designate all documents or 

portions containing such information as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' 

Eyes Only". To the extent this confidential information was submitted in a filing or motion, 

the party submitting the filing shall cooperate in any motion or request to the Court to seal 

such information, in accordance with the Court's rules and procedures. 

The inadvertent or unintentional production of documents genuinely subject to 

work product immunity, trade secret immunity, or the attorney-client privilege shall not 

constitute a waiver of the immunity or privilege, provided that the producing party (or the 

party holding the privilege or immunity if produced by a third party such as an outside law 

firm) promptly after learning of the production notifies the receiving party in writing of such 

inadvertent production. No party to this Action thereafter shall assert that such inadvertent 

disclosure alone waived any privilege or immunity. Absent court order or agreement of the 

parties to the contrary, no use shall be made of such documents during deposition, at trial, or 

in any filing or motion, nor shall they be shown to anyone who was not given access to them 

prior to the request to return or destroy them. The receiving parties will return such 

inadvertently produced items and all copies within seven (7) days of the earliest of (a) 

discovery by the receiving party of its inadvertent production, or (b) receiving a written 

request from the producing party for the return of such items. The return of such items shall 

not be construed as an agreement by the returning party that the information is, in fact, 

protected by any privilege or immunity. The receiving party, having so returned the items, 

may thereafter seek production of any such documents in accordance with the Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure (without asserting waiver based solely on their inadvertent production). 

Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall be construed to require the production of any 

information, document, or thing that a party contends is protected from disclosure by any 

privilege or immunity. 

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6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1. Any party may object to the designation of particular "Confidential" or 

"Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only" information by giving written notice to the party 

designating the disputed information. The written notice shall identify the information to 

which the objection is made. If the parties cannot resolve the objection within twenty (20) 

days after the time that the notice is received, it shall be the obligation of the party 

designating the information as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only" 

to file and serve, within thirty (30) days that the notice is received, 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 Section 6.2 above and that sets forth with 

specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the 

Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. The burden of persuasion in any such 

challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating Party. Until the Court rules on the 

challenge, all Parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to 

which it is entitled under the Producing Party's designation. If the designating party fails to 

file such a motion within the prescribed time, the disputed material and information shall lose 

its designation as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only" and shall not 

thereafter be treated as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only" in 

accordance with the Stipulated Protective Order. 

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

Designating Party's confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the 

process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are 

not sufficient) with Outside 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 

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basis for the chosen designation. A Designating Party may proceed to the next stage of the 

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

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-parry in connection with this case only 

for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such Protected Material may 

be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this 

Order. When the Action has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the 

provisions of Section 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 Outside Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose 

the information for this Action and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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

of the Receiving Parry to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who 

have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A);

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action 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 Action and who have signed the "Agreement to 

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Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A); 

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order" (Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to 

depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter 

and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Order.

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

information.

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 Outside Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose 

the information for this Action and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) House Counsel of a Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this Action, and (2) who has signed the "Agreement to Be Bound 

by Protective Order" (Exhibit A);

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

reasonably necessary for this Action, (2) who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order" (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in Section 7.4 

below, have been followed;

(d) The Court and its personnel;

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the "Agreement to 

Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A); and

(f) the author of the document or the original source of the 

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information. 

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 Receiving 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) identifies the specific HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party 

seeks permission to disclose to the Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the 

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

(4) identifies the Expert's current employer(s), (5) identifies (by name, address, telephone 

number and dates of service) 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, (6) 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, and (7) 

describes the nature of any relationship (purpose and length of relationship) that the Expert 

has or has had with any Party to this Action .

(b) A Receiving Party that makes a request and provides to the 

Designating Party the information specified in Section 7.4 (a) above may disclose the subject 

Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, within seven court days of making the 

request, the Receiving 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 Receiving Party that receives a timely written objection must 

meet and confer with the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) 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 

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make the disclosure to the Expert. 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 to the Designating Party 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 the 

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 

the 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 OR PROCEEDINGS.

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 fax, if possible) 

immediately and in no event more than ten 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 the material 

covered by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Stipulated Protecti ve Order. In 

addition, the Receiving Party must deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly 

to the party or parties in the other litigation 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 Stipulated Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this Action 

an opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the 

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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. If, within fifteen (15) days, the 

Designation Party fails to move for a protective order or otherwise cause to be suspended 

the obligations of the party receiving the subpoena to produce such documents, the party 

receiving the subpoena may produce responsive documents.

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 in writing the Designating Party of the 

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

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

all the terms of this Order, and (d) request that such person or persons execute the 

"Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. Without written permission from the 

Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, 

a Party may not file in the public record in this Action any Protected Material. A Party that 

seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5.

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the 

Producing Party, within 60 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. 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 60-day deadline that identifies (by 

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

that affirms that the Receiving Parry 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 Section 4 

(DURATION) above.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

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

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future. The Parties may by stipulation 

provide for exceptions to this Order, provided that such stipulation is presented to the Court 

as a Consent Order, and any Party may seek an order of this Court modifying or interpreting 

this Order. 

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 of any of the material covered by 

this Order.

12.3 Enforcement

In the event anyone shall violate or threaten to violate the terms of this 

Stipulated Protective Order, subject to meet and confer obligations in the Court's Local 

Rules, the aggrieved party may apply to obtain injunctive relief against any such person, and 

in such event, the respondent, subject to the terms of this Order, shall not employ as a 

defense thereto the claim that the aggrieved party possesses an adequate remedy at law. 

The parties and any other person subject to the terms of this Order agree that this Court 

shall retain jurisdiction over the Order and the parties for the purpose of enforcing the Order. 

The prevailing party regarding any dispute concerning the terms or enforcement of this 

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Protective Order shall be entitled to the costs and reasonable attorneys' fees it incurred. 

12.4 No Contract

This Stipulated Protective Order is not a contract or agreement between the 

parties, and creates no private rights of any sort in any person. It is an Order of the Court 

which can be amended or altered at any time by the Court for good cause. 

12.5 No Waiver

Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order, or the taking of any action in 

accordance with the provisions of this Order, or the failure to object thereto, shall be 

construed as a waiver or admission of any claim or defense in the Action. The failure to 

object to a designation shall not constitute an admission by the receiving party that the 

designated information is in fact trade secret or proprietary information. This Protective 

Order shall not in any way limit what a party may do with its own documents or information. 

Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to preclude a party from seeking and obtaining, on an 

appropriate showing, different or additional protections or relief regarding matter designated 

as containing "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only" information. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD

DATED: 

TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND AND CREW 

LLP

JAMES G. GILLILAND, JR. (State Bar No. 

107988)

TIMOTHY R. CAHN (State Bar No. 162136)

ANGUS M. MACDONALD (State Bar No. 

212526)

Two Embarcadero Center, 8th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111

Telephone: (415) 576-0200

Facsimile: (415) 576-0300

Email: jggilliland@townsend.com, 

trcahn@townsend.com,

 ammacdonald@townsend.com

JENNIFER Y. LIU (State Bar No. 164618)

JAMES Y. LEONG (State Bar No. 110860) 

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SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT 

AMERICA INC.

919 East Hillsdale Boulevard, 2nd Floor

Foster City, California 94404

Telephone: (650) 655-8000

Facsimile: (650) 655-8042

Email: Jennifer_Liu@playstation.sony.com,

Jim_Leong@playstation.sony.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff SCEA

DATED: 

RICHARD J. NELSON (State Bar No. 

141658

SIDEMAN & BANCROFT LLP

One Embarcedero Center, 8th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111

Telephone: 415-392-1960

Facsimile: 415-392-0827

Email: rnelson@sideman.com

PATRICIA B. CUNNINGHAM (Pro Hac Vice)

SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN LLP

999 Peachtree Street NE

Atlanta, Georgia 30309

Telephone: 404-853-8000

Facsimile: 404-853-806

Email:

patricia.cunningham@sablaw.com

DAVID E. WESLOW (Pro Hac Vice)

SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN LLP

1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

Telephone: 202-383-0100

Facsimile: 202-637-3593

Email: david.weslow@sablaw.com

Attorneys for Defendants

DIVINEO, INC. and FREDERIC LEGAULT

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED, BUT SEE LOCAL RULE 79-5.

7/5/05 /s/ CLAUDIA WILKEN

DATED: 

Honorable Claudia Wilkin 

United States District/Magistrate Judge

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, [print or type full name], of 

[print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and 

understand the Stipulated Protective Order (the “Order”) that was issued by the United 

States District Court for the Northern District of California on [date] in the case of Sony 

Computer Entertainment America Inc. v. Divineo, Inc., et al., Case No. C-04-4200-CW (the 

“Action”). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Order and I 

understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and 

punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any 

manner any information or item that is subject to this 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 Order, even if 

such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this Action.

I hereby appoint [print or type full name] of 

 [print or type 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 Order.

Date: 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

[printed name]

Signature: 

[signature]

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