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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1338 Trademark Infringement

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

CASE NO. C07-5279 JSW 

410124.01 

KEKER & VAN NEST, LLP 

ELLIOT R. PETERS - #158708 

DANIEL PURCELL - #191424 

KLAUS H. HAMM - #224905 

TRAVIS LEBLANC - #251097 

710 Sansome Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111-1704 

Telephone: (415) 391-5400 

Facsimile: (415) 397-7188 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SEYFARTH SHAW LLP and JACK L. SLOBODIN 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

RICHARD W. BERGER and BRANT W. 

BERGER, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

SEYFARTH SHAW LLP, an Illinois limited 

liability partnership; JACK L. SLOBODIN, an 

individual; BURNETT, BURNETT & 

ALLEN, a California partnership; DOUGLAS 

B. ALLEN, an individual; and DOES 1-100, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

 

Case No. C07-05279 JSW 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Date Comp. Filed: September 12, 2007 

Trial Date: None set. 

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In order to facilitate the production and exchange of information that is not in the public 

domain and is subject to legal protection as confidential, private, proprietary, attorney-client 

privileged or attorney work product information, Plaintiffs Richard W. and Brant W. Berger and 

Defendants Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Jack L. Slobodin, and Douglas B. Allen d/b/a Burnett, Burnett, 

& Allen, by and through their respective undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate and agree to the 

request for, and entry of, the following Protective Order pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c): 

1. This Protective Order governs all parties to this case as well as any non-parties who, 

having received a copy of this Order, agree to and sign the “Declaration To Be Bound By 

Protective Order,” which is attached hereto as Exhibit 1. 

2. All documents, materials, items, and/or information that contain or comprise 

Confidential Information produced either by a party or by a non-party to or for either of the 

parties shall be governed by this Protective Order. The term “Confidential Information” refers to 

anything designated “CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” and any 

information contained in or derived from anything so designated. The term “Highly 

Confidential” refers to anything designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER” and any information contained in or derived from anything so 

designated. 

3. Any document, deposition testimony, or discovery response furnished or disclosed by 

a party or by anyone else in this action must be prominently marked “CONFIDENTIAL -

PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER” to be designated for protection under this Protective Order. Where a 

document, discovery response, or deposition testimony consists of more than one page, the first 

page and each page on which Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information 

appears shall be designated “CONFIDENTIAL -PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER.” The protections 

conferred by this Protective Order cover not only the Confidential Information and Highly 

Confidential Information but also all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus 

testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings 

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that would reveal Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information. 

4. A party or non-party shall designate as “CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER” only those documents, deposition testimony, or discovery responses it 

believes in good faith contain information of a confidential, proprietary, or personal protectible 

under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26. 

5. A party or non-party shall designate as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT 

TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” only those documents, deposition testimony, or discovery 

responses it believes in good faith constitutes, reflects, or concerns trade secrets; know-how or 

proprietary data; research, development, testing and studies relating to proposed future products 

or pending patent applications; sensitive business, financial or commercial information; the 

disclosure of which to a party in this litigation is likely to cause harm to the competitive position 

of the party or non-party making the confidential designations. 

6. Confidential Information shall not be disclosed to anyone except as provided herein. 

Confidential Information may be disclosed only to the following: 

 (a) the Court and its staff; 

 (b) any agreed-upon or assigned mediator; 

 (c) the named parties to this litigation, including any attorneys for the parties; 

 (d) court reporters and videographers who record and/or transcribe 

depositions or other testimony in this action, and their support staff provided that each such 

individual is made aware of and agrees to the terms of this Protective Order; 

 (e) independent experts or independent consultants engaged by counsel of 

record to a party to assist in this litigation, and deponents to the extent necessary in preparation 

for and at their noticed depositions, provided that, before any disclosure of Confidential 

Information, each such expert, independent consultant, or deponent first agrees to be bound by 

this Protective Order by signing a copy of the “Declaration To Be Bound By Protective Order,” 

attached hereto as Exhibit 1. Counsel disclosing the information shall maintain all such signed 

Declarations. 

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 (f) Counsel of record in this litigation and their respective support staffs. 

7. Highly Confidential Information shall not be disclosed to anyone except as provided 

herein. Highly Confidential Information may be disclosed only to the following: 

 (a) the Court and its staff; 

 (b) any agreed-upon or assigned mediator; 

 (c) court reporters and videographers who record and/or transcribe 

depositions or other testimony in this action, and their support staff provided that each such 

individual is made aware of and agrees to the terms of this Protective Order; 

 (d) independent experts or independent consultants engaged by counsel of 

record to a party to assist in this litigation, and deponents to the extent necessary in preparation 

for and at their noticed depositions, provided that, before any disclosure of Highly Confidential 

Information, each such expert, independent consultant, or deponent first agrees to be bound by 

this Protective Order by signing a copy of the “Declaration To Be Bound By Protective Order,” 

attached hereto as Exhibit 1. Counsel disclosing the information shall maintain all such signed 

Declarations. 

 (e) Counsel of record in this litigation and their respective support staffs. 

8. In the event a party objects to a party’s or non-party’s designation of information as 

“CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER,” it shall in writing specify to the designating party 

those documents, and/or materials, or categories of documents and materials it contends should 

not be designated as Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information (“Disputed 

Documents”), and the reasons therefore. The disputing parties and/or non-parties shall meet and 

confer within ten (10) business days of when a written specification of Disputed Documents is 

provided under this paragraph. If an agreement cannot be reached after the disputing parties 

and/or non-parties have conferred in a good faith effort to resolve any dispute, the recipient of 

the Disputed Document(s) may file a motion with the Court under governing Federal Court rules 

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within thirty (30) days of when the disputing parties and/or non-parties reach impasse. The 

recipient of the Disputed Document(s) shall keep the information in dispute Confidential or 

Highly Confidential pending entry of a final Court order on the matter. If the Court determines 

that a party or non-party has repeatedly over-designated documents or materials as Confidential 

Information or Highly Confidential Information, the Court may, at that time, amend this Order to 

provide that the party or non-party designating such documents or materials as Confidential 

Information Highly Confidential Information shall have the burden of filing a motion to maintain 

the “CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” designation of documents and 

materials. 

9. An inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items as 

“CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” does not, standing alone, waive 

the right to secure protection under this Protective Order for such material. If a party or nonparty who has agreed to be bound by this Protective Order inadvertently produces information 

without marking it “CONFIDENTIAL – SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER,” the producing party or nonparty shall promptly upon discovery of such inadvertent disclosure inform the receiving party in 

writing and the receiving party shall thereafter treat the document, thing, or information as 

Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information under this Protective Order. If 

material is designated as “CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” 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 

Protective Order. 

10. Inadvertent disclosure of any document or other information covered by the attorneyclient privilege, work-product or other applicable privileges during discovery in this matter shall 

be without prejudice to any claim that such document or other information is privileged, and no 

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party shall be held to have waived any rights by such inadvertent disclosure. The party receiving 

any such inadvertently produced material shall not use such material and agrees to return such 

material immediately upon request, unless all applicable privileges have been waived by some 

means other than the inadvertent disclosure. 

11. Notwithstanding any challenge to the designation of material as Confidential 

Information or Highly Confidential Information, all documents shall be treated as such and shall 

be subject to the provisions hereof unless and until (a) the party or non-party who claims that the 

material is Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information, withdraws such 

designation in writing; (b) the Court rules the material is not Confidential Information or Highly 

Confidential Information, or (c) the party or non-party challenging the designation of 

information fails to file a motion within the time period set forth in paragraph 8 above. 

12. If a party or non-party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 

Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information, to any person or in any 

circumstance not authorized under the Protective Order, that party or non-party must 

immediately (a) notify in writing the designating party or non-party of the unauthorized 

disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Confidential Information or Highly 

Confidential Information, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures 

were made of all the terms of this Protective Order, and (d) request such person or persons 

execute the “Declaration To Be Bound By Protective Order,” attached hereto as Exhibit 1. 

13. When Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information is intended to be 

filed or lodged with the Court, the parties and non-parties who have agreed to this Protective 

Order will comply with Northern District of California Local Rule 79-5 as applicable. 

14. Documents, discovery responses, and deposition testimony containing Confidential 

Information or Highly Confidential Information, and excerpts, summaries, and compilations of 

such documents, discovery responses or deposition testimony containing Confidential 

Information or Highly Confidential Information, shall be used only for the purposes of litigating 

this action. 

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party’s use or disclosure of its own Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information 

for any purpose. 

16. Nothing in this Protective Order affects the right of a party or third party that 

produces documents, deposition testimony, or discovery responses designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” hereunder to make any 

otherwise lawful use or disclosure of such documents or information. 

17. If anyone bound by this Protective Order becomes subject to a legal obligation to 

produce or disclose any Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information to anyone 

not bound by this Protective Order, whether by discovery request, subpoena, disclosure 

obligation or otherwise, the individual or entity that is subject to the obligation shall promptly 

provide the party or non-party who designated the material as “CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT 

TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – PURSUANT TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER” with written notice by facsimile and overnight delivery enclosing a 

copy of the subpoena, document request, and other documents by which the person or entity 

became subject to the obligation in order to allow the designating party or non-party to oppose or 

limit production of the Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information, and shall 

cooperate in seeking to keep the material designated as Confidential Information or Highly 

Confidential Information from being disclosed. 

18. All provisions of this Protective Order restricting the communication or use of 

Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information shall continue to be binding after 

the conclusion of this action, unless otherwise agreed or ordered by the Court. Upon conclusion 

of this action (whether by entry of a final order of dismissal, judgment, settlement or otherwise), 

all parties, non-parties, natural persons, corporations, partnerships, firms, agencies, associations, 

or other entities in the possession of Confidential Information or Highly Confidential 

Information or otherwise subject to this Stipulation shall either (a) return such documents no 

later than thirty (30) days after conclusion of this action to counsel for the party or non-party 

who provided such information, or (b) destroy such documents within the time period and certify 

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in writing within thirty (30) days that the documents have been destroyed. 

19. The parties agree to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order pending its entry 

by the Court. 

20. The parties agree through the signature of counsel below that they have read and 

understood this Stipulation and Protective Order and agree to be bound by its terms, restrictions, 

and prohibitions. 

Dated: February 14, 2008 KEKER & VAN NEST, LLP 

By: ______/s/ Klaus H. Hamm___________

KLAUS H. HAMM 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SEYFARTH SHAW LLP, and JACK L. 

SLOBODIN 

Filer’s Attestation: Pursuant to General 

Order No. 45, Section X.B. regarding 

signatures, Klaus H. Hamm hereby attests 

that concurrence in the filing of the 

document has been obtained.

ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

 The Honorable Jeffrey S. White 

 United States District Judge 

Dated: February 14, 2008 BURNETT, BURNETT & ALLEN 

By: ___/s/ Douglas B. Allen__________

Attorneys for Defendants 

DOUGLAS B. ALLEN and BURNETT, 

BURNETT & ALLEN 

Concurrence obtained per General Order 

45 X.B.

Dated: February 14, 2008 BECK, ROSS, BISMONTE & FINLEY, 

LLP 

By: _______/s/ Craig A. Hansen 

CRAIG A. HANSEN 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

RICHARD W. BERGER and BRANT W. 

BERGER 

Concurrence obtained per General Order 

45 X.B..

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EXHIBIT 1 

DECLARATION TO BE BOUND BY PROTECTIVE ORDER

 The undersigned, ___________________________________ (print or type name), 

hereby acknowledges that he/she received a copy of the Protective Order entered in the action 

titled Richard W. Berger, et al. v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al., Case No. C07-5279 JSW, pending 

in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, has read same, 

declares, and agrees (1) to be bound by all provisions thereof and (2) to submit to the jurisdiction 

of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for matters relating to 

this action. 

Dated: _______________ ______________________________________________ 

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