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

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Deborah Bailey-Wells (SBN 114630)

dbaileywells@klng.com

Ramiz I. Rafeedie (SBN 215070)

rrafeedie@klng.com

KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART LLP

4 Embarcadero Center, 10th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111-4106

Telephone: (415) 249-1000

Fax: (415) 249-1001

Of Counsel

Patrick J. McElhinny

pmcelhinny@klng.com

KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART LLP

Henry W. Oliver Building

535 Smithfield Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2312

Telephone: (412) 355-6500

Fax: (412) 355-6501

Attorneys for Defendant

BLACK BOX CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TURN-LUCKILY INTERNATIONAL, INC., 

d/b/a TOTAL TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., a 

California Corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

BLACK BOX CORPORATION, a California 

Corporation,

Defendant.

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Complaint Filed: December 31, 2003

Trial Date: None 

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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 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 terms 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 maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under 

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

2.4 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

2.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action.

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2.6. Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information 

or items that it produces or in responses to discovery as “Confidential.”

2.7 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential.”

2.8 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but 

who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party.

2.10 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel 

(as well as their support staffs).

2.11. 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.

2.12 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.

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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 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, 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:

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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” 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).

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. 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 legend “CONFIDENTIAL” 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).

(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. 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 non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony 

may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceedings is concluded) a right to 

have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which

protection is sought. 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.

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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,” 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.” If only portions of the information or item 

warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the 

protected portions.

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. Inadvertent Failures to 

Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate qualified information 

or items as “Confidential” 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” 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, 

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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 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).

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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 term 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);

(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) 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); 

(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 

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reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated 

Protective Order.

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,” 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 Receding 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 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 

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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 “Acknowledgement 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 Propounding Party (and, if the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by 

the sixth 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 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.

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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 STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: /s/

Duncan Palmatier

Attorney for Plaintiff

Turn-Luckily International, Inc. 

dba Total Technologies, Ltd.

DATED: /s/

Ramiz Rafeedie

Attorney for Defendants

Black Box Corporation

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED:

Jeffrey S. White

United States District Judge

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May 31, 2005 /s/ Jeffrey S. White

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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 that was issued by 

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

Stipulated Protective Order Case No. C 03-5913-JSW. 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 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 Stipulated Protective Order.

Date:

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

[printed name]

Signature:

[signature]

SF-94946 v1

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