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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:1 Antitrust Litigation

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

(C 12-00805 YGR)

DOWNEY BRAND LLP

JENNIFER RANDLETT MADDEN (Bar No. 184905)

SHAYE SCHRICK (Bar No. 238354)

CAROLINE M. COLANGELO (Bar No. 278071)

621 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor

Sacramento, CA 95814-4731

Telephone: (916) 444-1000

Facsimile: (916) 444-2100

jmadden@downeybrand.com

sschrick@downeybrand.com

ccolangelo@downeybrand.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

HIGH TEK USA, INC.

ROBERT S. SHWARTS (STATE BAR NO. 196803)

rshwarts@orrick.com

RUSSELL P. COHEN (STATE BAR NO. 213105)

rcohen@orrick.com

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP

The Orrick Building

405 Howard Street

San Francisco, California 94105-2669

Telephone: (415) 773-5700

Facsimile: (415) 773-5759

Attorneys for Defendant

HEAT AND CONTROL, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HIGH TEK USA, INC., a California

corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

HEAT AND CONTROL, INC., a California

corporation, and Does 1-10, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. C 12-00805 YGR

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE

ORDER

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(C 12-00805 YGR)

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 may be warranted.

Accordingly, Plaintiff HIGH TEK USA, INC. (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant HEAT AND

CONTROL, INC. (“Defendant”) (collectively, 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 from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or

items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles. The parties

further acknowledge that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 and General Order 62 set forth the procedures that

must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the

court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of

information or items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how

it is generated, stored, or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal

Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c).

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House

Counsel (as well as their support staff).

2.4 Designated Employee: one employee designated by the Receiving Party to

whom Outside Counsel of Record may disclose all “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” information.

The Designated Employee must be designated by each party, in writing, within 14 days following

execution of this Stipulated Protective Order. The same Designated Employee must be used

throughout this litigation and cannot be changed without written agreement by both Parties.

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2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL,”

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.”

2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of

the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other

things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures

or responses to discovery in this matter.

2.7 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.

2.8 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: extremely sensitive

Confidential Information or Items, disclosure of which to another Party or Non-Party would

create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive means.

2.9 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

Information or Items: information comprising, incorporating, or referring to customer-specific

prices or price information.

2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action.

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.

2.11 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.12 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to

this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this

action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of

that party.

2.13 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors,

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support

staffs).

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2.14 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or

Discovery Material in this action.

2.15 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and

organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and

subcontractors.

2.16 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

2.17 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material

from a Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected

Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected

Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any

testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected

Material. However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the

following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to

a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party

as a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the

public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party

prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who

obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating

Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition 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. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of

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(1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final

judgment herein after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or

reviews of this action, including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for

extension of time pursuant to applicable law.

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. The Designating Party must 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 Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating 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,

Disclosure or Discovery 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 (e.g., paper or electronic documents,

but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing

Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” to each page that contains protected

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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. During the inspection and before the

designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or “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 the “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” legend to 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.

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings,

that the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or

other proceeding, all protected 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,”

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.” If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, the

Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s) and specify the

level of protection being asserted.

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5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent

failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating

Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a

designation, the Receiving Party 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. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a

designation of confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary

economic burdens, or a 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. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute

resolution process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing

the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the

written notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with

this specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each

challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice

dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service

of notice. 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

or establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process

in a timely manner. Pursuant to the Court’s Standing Order in Civil Cases, the Parties must meet

and confer in person before seeking judicial intervention.

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6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without

court intervention, they shall file a joint letter brief with the Court within 21 days of the initial

notice of challenge or within 14 days of the Parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will

not resolve their dispute, whichever is later. The joint brief must be no longer than four (4) pages.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating Party.

Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to

sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to

seek judicial action to retain confidentiality as described above, 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 until the court rules on the challenge.

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 13 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 Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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(b) Non-Parties specifically retained to assist the attorneys of record or a party

in copying or computer coding of documents, organizing, filing, translating, converting, storing or

retrieving data, or designing programs for handling data connected with this proceeding,

including the performance of such duties in relation to a computerized litigation support system,

and graphics or design services used for preparation of demonstrative or other exhibits for

deposition, trial or other court proceedings in this action, but only for purposes of performing

such services in connection with this proceeding;

(c) 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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom

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

and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph

7.4 below, have been followed;

(e) the court and its personnel;

(f) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock

jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(g) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound”

(Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. 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;

(h) the author or recipient of a document containing the HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

information.

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7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or “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” or “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 Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) Non-Parties specifically retained to assist the attorneys of record or a party

in copying or computer coding of documents, organizing, filing, translating, converting, storing or

retrieving data, or designing programs for handling data connected with this proceeding,

including the performance of such duties in relation to a computerized litigation support system,

and graphics or design services used for preparation of demonstrative or other exhibits for

deposition, trial or other court proceedings in this action, but only for purposes of performing

such services in connection with this proceeding;

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

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

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4

below, have been followed;

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock

jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(f) the author or recipient of a document containing the HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

information;

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(g) except in the case of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” Information and Items, one Designated Employee.

7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL” and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

Information or Items to Experts.

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to 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” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” pursuant to paragraph 7.3(c) first must make

a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the general categories of “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

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, and (4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s).

(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 14 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 in

person with the Designating Party to try to resolve the matter by agreement within seven days of

the written objection. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court intervention, they

shall file a joint letter brief with the Court within 21 days of the objection or within 14 days of the

Parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is later.

The joint brief must be no longer than four pages. 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.

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8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN

OTHER LITIGATION

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,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,

that Party must:

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall

include a copy of the subpoena or court order;

(b) 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 Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated

Protective Order; and

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by

the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

If the Designating Party 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,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or

order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating

Party shall bear the burden and expense 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. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED

IN THIS LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a

Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,”

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Such information produced

by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided

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by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from

seeking additional protections.

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to

produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an

agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the

Party shall:

1. promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party

that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a

Non-Party;

2. promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated

Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific

description of the information requested; and

3. make the information requested available for inspection by the

Non-Party.

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court

within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may

produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the

Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information

in its possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party

before a determination by the court.1 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall

bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.

10. 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 unauthorized copies of

1 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of confidentiality rights of a

Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to protect its confidentiality interests in this court.

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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.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE

PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties 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), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of

disclosure of a communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work

product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order

submitted to the court.

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.

12.3 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 and General Order

62. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the

sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5 and General

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Order 62, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected Material at

issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to protection under the law.

If a Receiving Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule

79-5(d) and General Order 62 is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the

information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed

by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4,

each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such

material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts,

compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected

Material. 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 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all

the Protected 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 Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to

retain 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 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).

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

/s/ Shaye Schrick

Dated: 12/04/12

Shaye Schrick

Downey Brand LLP

Attorneys for Plaintiff

High Tek USA, Inc.

/s/ Russell P. Cohen

Dated: 12/04/12

Russell P. Cohen

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Attorneys for Defendant

Heat and Control, Inc.

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: ________________________

The Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers

United States District Court Judge

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, , of ,

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 in the case of High Tek USA, Inc. v. Heat and Control, Inc.,

United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. C 12-00805 YGR. 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

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:

Signature:

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