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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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Jason K. Singleton, State Bar #166170 

Richard E. Grabowski, State Bar #236207 

SINGLETON LAW GROUP 

611 “L” Street, Suite A 

Eureka, CA 95501 

lawgroup@sbcglobal.net 

(707) 441-1177 

FAX 441-1533 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, R&D COMPUTERS 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RITCHIE PHILLIPS, dba R&D COMPUTERS, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

NETBLUE, INC., formerly known as 

YFDIRECT, INC., also doing business as 

MARKETSURVEYGROUP.COM, also dba 

EASYEZSTREET.COM, also dba 

MINGLYCOMP.INFO, also dba 

EVERYFREEGIFT.COM, KENNETH CHAN, 

aka KENNETH CHEN, SCOTT REWICK, 

DEREK PILCH, FREDRICK HARMAN, and 

DOES ONE through FIFTY, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

1. 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 and from use for 

any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation 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 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no 

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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 outside 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 matter. 

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’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: extremely sensitive 

“Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or nonparty would create a 

substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 

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 

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staffs).

2.12 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 employee of a Party or a competitor of a 

Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this 

litigation. 

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 Stipulation and 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. 

4. DURATION

Even after the termination of this litigation, 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 nonparty 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 

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be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber 

or retard the case development process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other 

parties), 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: 

(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 

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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 testimony, 

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 portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or nonparty 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 20 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 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 Party or nonparty 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 

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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. If timely 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 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 Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a 

later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a 

confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the original designation 

is disclosed. 

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 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. 

6.3 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

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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 

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. 

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-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 Order. When the litigation 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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information 

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

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

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement 

to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) 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 Stipulated Protective Order. 

(f) 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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information 

for this litigation 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) who has no involvement in competitive decision-making or in 

patent prosecutions involving Plaintiff’s email addresses, 

(2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, and 

(3) 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 litigation, 

(2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A), and 

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(3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 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 litigation 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 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 

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 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 by whom the Expert has been retained as a 

consultant or expert witness in connection with any litigation at any time 

during the preceding five years, and 

(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. 

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the preceding 

paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, within seven court 

days of delivering the request, the 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 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 

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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 do so. 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 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.

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 three 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 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 

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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. 

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 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 Order, and (d) request 

such person or persons to 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 sixty 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 sixty day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the 

Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party 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 

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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 Protective 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. 

12.2 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 any information or 

item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any 

right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

 SINGLETON LAW GROUP 

Dated: April 17, 2006 /s/ Richard E. Grabowski 

 Jason K. Singleton 

Richard E. Grabowski, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

Ritchie Phillips, dba R&D Computers

CARR & FERRELL 

DATED: April 10, 2006 /s/ Stuart Clark 

Stuart Clark, Attorneys for Defendants, 

NETBLUE, INC., et al. 

ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ________________________ _____________________________________ 

 SAMUEL CONTI 

United States District Judge 

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4/24/06

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Samuel Conti

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, __________________________________ of _____________________________________________ 

[print or type full name] [print or type full address], 

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 [date] 

in the case of RITCHIE PHILLIPS, dba R&D COMPUTERS vs NETBLUE, INC., formerly 

known as YFDIRECT, INC., et al, United States District Court, Northern District of California, 

Case Number C-05-4401 SC. 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. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any 

manner any information or item that is subject to this 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: 

I, __________________________________ of _____________________________________________ 

[print or type full name] [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 Stipulated Protective Order. 

Date: _________________________ __________________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature: __________________________________

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 13 C-05-4401 SC 

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