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

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CASE NO. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

LSI CORPORATION, AGERE 

SYSTEMS LLC and AVAGO 

TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP 

(SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

FUNAI ELECTRIC COMPANY, LTD.; 

FUNAI CORPORATION, INC.; FUNAI 

SERVICE CORPORATION; and P&F 

USA, INC., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:12-CV-02047-AG (AJWx) 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSE AND LIMITS OF THIS ORDER 

Discovery in this action is likely to involve confidential, proprietary, or private information 

requiring special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than this 

litigation. Thus, the Court enters this Protective Order. This Order does not confer blanket 

protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery, and the protection it gives from public 

disclosure and use extends only to the specific material entitled to confidential treatment under the 

applicable legal principles. This Order does not automatically authorize the filing under seal of 

material designated under this Order. Instead, the parties must comply with L.R. 79-5.1 if they 

seek to file anything under seal. This Order does not govern the use at trial of material designated 

under this Order. 

2. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

2.1 Over-Designation Prohibited. To the extent practicable, only those parts of 

documents, items, or oral or written communications that require protection shall be designated. 

Designations with a higher confidentiality level when a lower level would suffice are prohibited. 

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Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designation under this Order is 

allowed only if the designation is necessary to protect material that, if disclosed to persons not 

authorized to view it, would cause competitive or other recognized harm. Material may not be 

designated if it has been made public, or if designation is otherwise unnecessary to protect a 

secrecy interest. If a designator learns 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 designator must promptly notify all parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

2.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Designation under this Order requires the 

designator to affix the applicable legend (“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”) to each page 

that contains protected material. For testimony given in deposition or other proceeding, the 

designator shall specify all protected testimony and the level of protection being asserted. It may 

make that designation during the deposition or proceeding, or at any time up to 21 days from the 

deposition or proceeding. 

2.2.1 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 

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

before the designation, all material shall be treated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY. After the inspecting party has identified the documents it 

wants copied and produced, the producing party must designate the documents, or portions 

thereof, that qualify for protection under this Order. 

2.2.2 Parties shall give advance notice if they expect a deposition or other 

proceeding to include designated material so that the other parties can ensure that only 

authorized individuals are present at those proceedings when such material is disclosed or 

used. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition shall not in any way affect its 

designation. Transcripts containing designated material shall have a legend on the title 

page noting the presence of designated material, and the title page shall be followed by a 

list of all pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated, and the 

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level of protection being asserted. The designator shall inform the court reporter of these 

requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of the 21-day period for 

designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY unless otherwise agreed. After the 

expiration of the 21-day period, the transcript shall be treated only as actually designated. 

2.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. An inadvertent failure to designate does not, 

standing alone, waive protection under this Order. Upon timely assertion or correction of a 

designation, all recipients must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the material is treated 

according to this Order. 

3. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

All challenges to confidentiality designations shall proceed under L.R. 37-1 through L.R. 

37-4. 

4. ACCESS TO DESIGNATED MATERIAL 

4.1 Basic Principles. A receiving party may use designated material only for this 

litigation. Designated material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 

conditions described in this Order. 

4.2 Disclosure of CONFIDENTIAL Material Without Further Approval. Unless 

otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the designator, a receiving party may 

disclose any material designated CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

4.2.1 The receiving party’s outside counsel of record in this action and employees 

of outside counsel of record to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary; 

4.2.2 No more than three (3) officers, directors, and employees of the receiving 

party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary, and who have signed the Agreement to 

Be Bound (Exhibit A). A party seeking to disclose to in-house counsel any material 

designated CONFIDENTIAL must identify to the designator the full name of the in-house 

counsel, the city and state of such counsel’s residence, and such counsel’s current and 

reasonably foreseeable future primary job duties and responsibilities in sufficient detail to 

determine present or potential involvement in any competitive decision-making, and 

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provide a copy of the Agreement to be Bound (Exhibit A) to the designating party; 

4.2.3 Experts retained by the receiving party’s outside counsel of record to whom 

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

(Exhibit A); 

4.2.4 The Court and its personnel; 

4.2.5 Outside court reporters and their staff, outside mediators, professional jury 

or trial consultants and mock jurors used by the same, and professional vendors (including 

vendors providing translation and/or interpretation services) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary, and who have signed the Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit A); 

4.2.6 During their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit A); and 

4.2.7 The author or recipient of a document containing the material, or a 

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

4.3 Disclosure of HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY and 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE Material Without Further Approval. 

Unless permitted in writing by the designator, a receiving party may disclose material designated 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

SOURCE CODE without further approval only to: 

4.3.1 The receiving party’s outside counsel of record in this action and employees 

of outside counsel of record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information; 

4.3.2 Experts retained by the receiving party’s outside counsel of record to whom 

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

(Exhibit A); 

4.3.3 The Court and its personnel; 

4.3.4 Outside court reporters and their staff, outside mediators, professional jury 

or trial consultants and mock jurors used by the same, and professional vendors (including 

vendors providing translation and/or interpretation services) to whom disclosure is 

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reasonably necessary, and who have signed the Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit A); and 

4.3.5 The author or recipient of a document containing the material, or a 

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

4.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE 

CODE Material to Experts. Unless agreed to in writing by the designator: 

4.4.1 A party seeking to disclose to an expert retained by outside counsel of 

record any information or item that has been designated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE must first 

make a written request to the designator that (1) identifies the general categories of 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– SOURCE CODE information that the receiving party seeks permission to disclose to the 

expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the expert and the city and state 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 each person or entity from whom the expert has received 

compensation or funding for work in his or her areas of expertise (including in connection 

with litigation) in the past five years, and (6) identifies (by name and number of the case, 

filing date, and location of court) any litigation where the expert has offered expert 

testimony, including by declaration, report, or testimony at deposition or trial, in the past 

five years. If the expert believes any of this information at (4) - (6) is subject to a 

confidentiality obligation to a third party, then the expert should provide whatever 

information the expert believes can be disclosed without violating any confidentiality 

agreements, and the party seeking to disclose the information to the expert shall be 

available to meet and confer with the designator regarding any such confidentiality 

obligations. 

4.4.3 A party that makes a request and provides the information specified in 

paragraphs 4.4.1 or 4.4.2 may disclose the designated material to the identified in- house 

counsel or expert unless, within seven days of delivering the request, the party receives a 

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written objection from the designator providing detailed grounds for the objection. 

4.4.4 All challenges to objections from the designator shall proceed under L.R. 

37-1 through L.R. 37-4. 

5. SOURCE CODE 

5.1 Designation of Source Code. If production of Source Code is necessary, a party 

may designate it as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE if it is, or includes, 

confidential, proprietary, or trade secret Source Code. “Source Code” shall mean source code, 

object code (i.e., computer instructions and data definitions expressed in a form suitable for input 

to an assembler, compiler, or other translator), microcode, register transfer language (“RTL”), 

firmware, Verilog, and hardware description language (“HDL”), as well as any and all 

programmer notes, annotations, and other comments of any type related thereto and accompanying 

the code. For avoidance of doubt, this includes source files, make files, intermediate output files, 

executable files, header files, resource files, library files, module definition files, map files, object 

files, linker files, browse info files, and debug files. 

5.2 Location and Supervision of Inspection. Any HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

SOURCE CODE produced in discovery shall be made available for inspection, in a format 

allowing it to be reasonably reviewed and searched, during normal business hours, which for 

purposes of this Paragraph shall be 9:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. local time at the reviewing 

location, or at other mutually agreeable times, at an office of the designating party’s counsel or 

another mutually agreeable location. The inspecting party shall identify in writing who will be 

present at any inspection at least one (1) business day prior to the inspection. Such identification 

shall be in addition to the disclosures required under Section 4.4.1. Only under exceptional 

circumstances, not to exceed three separate instances covering no more than four total days (i.e, 

the number of days of review over those three separate instances shall not exceed four total days in 

the aggregate), upon reasonable notice from the inspecting party, which shall not be less than three 

(3) business days in advance, the designating party shall make reasonable efforts to accommodate 

the inspecting party’s request for access to the computer outside of normal business hours. Such 

an expanded review period shall not begin earlier than 8:00 a.m. and shall not end later than 8:00 

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p.m. local time at the reviewing location. The parties agree to cooperate in good faith such that 

maintaining the Source Code at the offices of the designating party’s counsel shall not 

unreasonably hinder the inspecting party’s ability to efficiently conduct the prosecution or defense 

in this litigation. 

5.2.1 The source code shall be made available for inspection on a secured computer in a 

secured room, and the inspecting party shall not copy, remove, or otherwise transfer any portion of 

the source code onto any recordable media or recordable device. If the requesting party desires 

one additional secured computer to be made available, the designating party shall make such a 

computer available so long as the requesting party agrees to cover all additional expenses 

necessitated by the additional secured computer. The secured computers may not be linked to any 

network, including a local area network (“LAN”), an intranet, or the Internet and may not be 

connected to any printer or storage device other than the internal hard disk drive of the computer. 

The secure computer(s) may be password protected and shall have the Source Code stored on a 

hard drive contained inside the computer(s). 

5.2.2 The secured computer(s) shall, at the inspecting party’s request, include reasonable 

analysis tools appropriate for the type of Source Code. The inspecting party shall be responsible 

for providing the tools or licenses to the tools that it wishes to use to the designating party so that 

the designating party may install such tools on the stand-alone computer. To the extent that such 

tools record local working files or other records reflecting the work performed by the inspecting 

party, such files and records shall not be reviewed, altered, or deleted by the designating party. 

Nothing may be removed from the stand-alone computer, either by the inspecting party or at the 

request of the inspecting party, during the inspection. No person other than the Source Code 

supplier may alter, dismantle, disassemble, or modify the stand-alone computer(s) in any way, or 

attempt to circumvent any security feature of the computer. The designator may visually monitor 

the activities of the inspecting party’s representatives during any Source Code review, but only to 

ensure that there is no unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of the source code. In the 

event some portion of conversation is overheard during Source Code review, no part or portion of 

what is overheard by the monitoring person can be used in the litigation for any reason unless it 

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pertains to a potential violation of the terms of this Protective Order. The parties will make 

reasonable efforts to minimize the possible use of (1) attorneys of record in the case, and (2) patent 

agents, individuals and other attorneys with any role in the analysis of the technical merits of the 

case, as monitors during normal business hours. The parties will further not use any technical 

experts or support staff for such experts as monitors in the case. 

5.3 Paper Copies of Source Code Excerpts. The inspecting party may request paper 

copies of limited portions of Source Code that are reasonably necessary for the preparation of 

court filings, pleadings, expert reports, other papers, or for deposition or trial. The designator 

shall provide all such source code in paper form, including Bates numbers and the label “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” and hard copies shall be maintained by the receiving 

party’s outside counsel in a secured locked area. At the request of the inspecting party, the 

designating party shall within three (3) business days provide one (1) hard copy print out of the 

specific lines, pages, or files of the Source Code that the inspecting party believes in good faith are 

necessary to understand a relevant feature of an accused product. For avoidance of doubt, an 

access restricted location within the facilities of outside counsel or an expert disclosed under 

Section 4.4.1, such as a conference room within an access restricted office or a locked drawer or 

cabinet shall constitute a secured locked area. If the designating party objects in any manner to the 

production of the requested Source Code (e.g., the request is too voluminous), it shall state its 

objection within the allotted two (2) business days pursuant to this paragraph. In the event of a 

dispute, the parties will meet and confer within five (5) business days of the objection being 

raised. All unresolved challenges from the designator shall proceed under L.R. 37-1 through L.R. 

37-4. 

5.3.1 The inspecting party is permitted to make up to five (5) additional hard 

copies for use at a deposition. One hard copy of the Source Code may be marked as an 

exhibit for the deposition, and then maintained by outside counsel for the party presenting 

the exhibit during the deposition in a secured locked area. All other copies shall be 

destroyed or returned to the producing party at the producing party’s option immediately 

after the deposition is concluded. 

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5.3.2 The inspecting party is permitted to make up to five (5) additional hard 

copies in connection with a Court filing, hearing, or trial, and of only the specific pages 

directly relevant to and necessary for deciding the issue for which the portions of the 

Source Code are being filed or offered. To the extent portions of Source Code are quoted 

in a Court filing, those pages containing quoted Source Code will be separately stamped 

and treated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE. 

5.4 Electronic Copies of Source Code Excerpts. Electronic copies of excerpts of 

Source Code may be made to be included in documents which, pursuant to the Court’s rules, 

procedures and order(s), may be filed or served electronically. Only the necessary amount of 

electronic copies to effectuate such filing or service may be stored on any inspecting party server, 

hard drive, thumb drive, or other electronic storage device at any given time. After any such 

electronic filing or service, the inspecting party may maintain reasonable copies of such filings, 

but shall delete all other electronic copies of Source Code from all inspecting party electronic 

storage devices. 

5.5 CD-ROM Copies of Source Code Excerpts. The inspecting party is permitted to 

possess up to six (6) CD-ROMs or DVDs that contain an electronic copy of all or any portion of 

the hard copy print-outs of Source Code provided by the designating party. The inspecting party 

may provide these CD-ROMs or DVDs to qualified persons under this Order, who may use such 

CD-ROMs or DVDs solely for active review of the Source Code. The inspecting party is also 

permitted to make temporary copies necessarily made in the production of these CD-ROMs or 

DVDs, provided any such copies are immediately deleted once the temporary copies are no longer 

required for the production of the CD-ROMs or DVDs. The CD-ROMS and DVDs shall not be 

copied, in whole or in part, under any other circumstances. A inspecting party may destroy one or 

more of the six (6) previously created CD-ROMs or DVDs and create one or more new CD-ROMs 

or DVDs provided that the total number in possession of the inspecting party does not exceed six 

(6). All CD-ROMs or DVDs shall be destroyed within thirty (30) days after the final disposition of 

the litigation, whichever occurs first. The receiving party shall keep and maintain a log of all 

custodians for all of the CD-ROMs or DVDs as well as the destruction of all such CD-ROMs or 

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DVDs. The viewing of any such CD-ROMs or DVDs shall be done when all network 

communication functions of the viewer's device are disabled. 

5.6 Access Record. Outside counsel for the inspecting party shall maintain a record of 

any individual who has inspected any portion of the Source Code in electronic or paper form, and 

shall maintain all paper copies of any printed portions of the Source Code in a secured, locked 

area. The inspecting party shall not convert any of the information contained in the paper copies 

into any electronic format other than for the preparation of a pleading, exhibit, expert report, 

discovery document, deposition transcript, or other Court document. Any paper copies used 

during a deposition shall be retrieved at the end of each day and must not be left with a court 

reporter or any other unauthorized individual. Outside counsel for the inspecting party shall 

produce, upon request, each such record to the supplier within thirty (30) days of a final resolution 

of this litigation. 

5.7 Depositions. The designating party shall, on request, make a searchable electronic 

copy of the Source Code available on a stand-alone computer during depositions of witnesses who 

would otherwise be permitted access to such Source Code. The inspecting party shall make such 

request at the time of the notice for deposition. 

6. PROSECUTION BAR 

Absent written consent from the designator, any individual who receives access to 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

SOURCE CODE information shall not be involved in the prosecution of patents or patent 

applications concerning the field of the invention of the patents-in-suit for the receiving party or 

its acquirer, successor, predecessor, or other affiliate during the pendency of this action and for 

one year after its conclusion, including any appeals. “Prosecution” means drafting, amending, 

advising on the content of, or otherwise affecting the scope or content of patent claims or 

specifications. These prohibitions shall not preclude counsel from participating in reexamination 

or inter partes review proceedings to challenge or defend the validity of any patent, but counsel 

may not participate in the drafting of amended claims in any such proceedings. 

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7. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

7.1 Subpoenas and Court Orders. This Order in no way excuses non-compliance 

with a lawful subpoena or court order. The purpose of the duties described in this section is to 

alert the interested parties to the existence of this Order and to give the designator an opportunity 

to protect its confidentiality interests in the court where the subpoena or order issued. 

7.2 Notification Requirement. If a party is served with a subpoena or a court order 

issued in other litigation that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this 

action as CONFIDENTIAL, HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY, or 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE, that party must: 

7.2.1 Promptly notify the designator in writing. Such notification shall include a 

copy of the subpoena or court order; 

7.2.2 Promptly notify 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 subject to this Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Order; and 

7.2.3 Cooperate with all reasonable procedures sought by the designator whose 

material may be affected. 

7.3 Wait For Resolution of Protective Order. If the designator timely seeks a 

protective order, the party served with the subpoena or court order shall not produce any 

information designated in this action as CONFIDENTIAL, HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE before a 

determination by the court where the subpoena or order issued, unless the party has obtained the 

designator’s permission. The designator shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection 

of its confidential material in that court. 

8. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF DESIGNATED MATERIAL 

If a receiving party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed designated 

material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Order, it must immediately 

(1) notify in writing the designator of the unauthorized disclosures, (2) use its best efforts to 

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retrieve all unauthorized copies of the designated material, (3) inform the person or persons to 

whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (4) use reasonable 

efforts to have such person or persons execute the Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit A). 

9. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL 

When a producing party gives notice that certain inadvertently produced material is subject 

to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the receiving parties are those set 

forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify 

whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production 

without prior privilege review pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e). 

10. FILING UNDER SEAL 

Without written permission from the designator or a Court order, a party may not file in the 

public record in this action any designated material. A party seeking to file under seal any 

designated material must comply with L.R. 79-5.1. Filings may be made under seal only pursuant 

to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific material at issue. The fact that a document 

has been designated under this Order is insufficient to justify filing under seal. Instead, parties 

must explain the basis for confidentiality of each document sought to be filed under seal. Because 

a party other than the designator will often be seeking to file designated material, cooperation 

between the parties in preparing, and in reducing the number and extent of, requests for under seal 

filing is essential. If a receiving party’s request to file designated material under seal pursuant to 

L.R. 79-5.1 is denied by the Court, then the receiving party may file the material in the public 

record unless (1) the designator seeks reconsideration within four days of the denial, or (2) as 

otherwise instructed by the Court. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

After the final disposition of this action, within 60 days of written request by the disclosing 

party, each party shall return all designated material to the designator or destroy such material, 

including all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or 

capturing any designated material. The receiving party must submit a written certification to the 

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designator by the 60- day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the 

designated material that was returned or destroyed, and (2) affirms that the receiving party has not 

retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, or any other format reproducing or 

capturing any of the designated material. This provision shall not prevent counsel from retaining 

an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal 

memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, 

and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain designated material. Any 

such archival copies remain subject to this Order. 

12. PROVISION TO THIRD PARTIES 

To the extent information is sought from non-parties, a copy of this Order shall be 

provided to the non-party by the requesting party at the same time as any requests for documents 

and/or testimony is made. 

13. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION RECORD

13.1 Documents Produced. Documents produced in United States International Trade 

Commission Investigation No.337-TA-837 (“the ITC Investigation”) and designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION, SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” shall 

be treated as though designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY” 

pursuant to this Order. Documents produced in the ITC Investigation and designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE-ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY INFORMATION” shall be 

treated as though designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” pursuant to this 

Order. Documents produced in the ITC Investigation need not be re-stamped with a Bates stamp 

reflecting this litigation. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: _8/20/15__ _____________________________________ 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

 

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EXHIBIT A 

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 by the United States District Court for the Central 

District of California on ____________ [date] in the case of ______________________________ 

[insert formal name of the case and the number and initials assigned to it by the court]. I 

agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Protective Order, and I understand 

and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment for 

contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that 

is subject to this Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with this 

Order. 

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

Central District of California for the purpose of enforcing 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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