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

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SPEEDTRACK, INC.,

Plaintiff, No. C 06-7336 PJH

v. NOTICE

WAL-MART STORES, INC.,

Defendant.

_______________________________/

Before the court is the parties’ amended and restated stipulated protective order,

filed November 1, 2007. The amended and restated protective order seeks to modify the

stipulated protective order entered September 24, 2007.

In reviewing the parties’ proposed protective order in conjunction with the protective

order entered September 24, the court has identified paragraphs 12 and 24 to the

amended protective order as problematic. Paragraph 12 allows the parties to seek leave of

court to exclude witnesses or persons not covered by the protective order at any time

during hearings or “other proceedings” before the court. Paragraph 24 provides that the

terms of the protective order shall trump any federal procedural rule or local rule, in the

event of any conflict between the order and such rules. 

The court declines to approve these provisions of the protective order. Furthermore,

to the extent these provisions were included in the September 24 protective order currently

in effect, they are declared void. The parties are hereby instructed to submit a revised

amended and restated stipulated protective order, excluding these provisions. In the

alternative, the partes may file a written request for a case management conference, in

order to discuss their purported need for the inclusion of the above provisions in any

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protective order. 

 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 5, 2007 ______________________________

PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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