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Parties Involved:
Cellspin Soft, Inc.
Plaintiff
JK Imaging Ltd.
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

 

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

CANON U.S.A., INC., 

Defendant. 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05938-YGR 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

* As Modified by the Court * 

 

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

FITBIT, INC., 

Defendant. 

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

MOOV, INC., 

Defendant.

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

ADIDAS AMERICA, INC., 

Defendant.

CASE NO. 17-cv-05928-YGR 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05929-YGR 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05930-YGR 

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CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

NIKE, INC., 

Defendant.

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

UNDER ARMOR, INC., 

Defendant.

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

FOSSIL GROUP, INC., 

Defendant.

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

GARMIN INTERNATIONAL, INC. ET AL., 

Defendant.

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

NIKON AMERICAS, INC. ET AL., 

Defendant. 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05931-YGR 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05932-YGR 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05933-YGR 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05934-YGR 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05936-YGR 

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CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

GOPRO, INC., 

Defendant.

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

V. 

PANASONIC CORPORATION OF NORTH 

AMERICA, 

Defendant.

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC., 

PLAINTIFF, 

V. 

JK IMAGING LTD., 

Defendant.

CASE NO. 17-cv-05939-YGR 

CASE NO. 17-cv-05941-YGR 

CASE NO. 17-cv-06881-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, 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 

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

acknowledge, as set forth in Section 14.4, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does 

not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets 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 House Counsel: House Counsel who seek access to 

“CONFIDENTIAL” information in this matter. 

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 – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”, or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”. 

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 this litigation who (1) has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert 

witness or as a consultant in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee of a Party or of 

a Party’s competitor, and (3) at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an 

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employee of a Party or of a Party’s competitor. 

2.8 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 – SOURCE CODE” Information or Items: 

extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” representing computer code and 

associated comments and revision histories, formulas, engineering specifications, or 

schematics that define or otherwise describe in detail the algorithms or structure of software 

or hardware designs, 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. 

2.10 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 employed by 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). 

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. 

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2.16 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

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

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 

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

Producing Party. 

2.18 This Action or This Litigation: the above-captioned case only. 

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. 

For clarity, nothing herein shall affect the right of the Designating Party to disclose to 

its officers, directors, employees, attorneys, consultants or Experts, or to any other person, its 

own information. Such disclosure shall not waive the protections of this Protective Order and 

shall not entitle other Parties or their attorneys to disclose such information in violation of it, 

unless by such disclosure of the Designating Party the information becomes public 

knowledge. Similarly, the Protective Order shall not preclude a Party from showing its own 

information to its officers, directors, employees, attorneys, consultants or Experts, or to any 

other person, which information has been filed under seal by another Party. 

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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 (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. To the extent it is practical to do so, 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 at all or do not qualify for the level of 

protection initially asserted, 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 

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(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 – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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. 

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 the 

appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”) 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, 

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or other proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being 

asserted. When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is 

entitled to protection and it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for 

protection, the Designating Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, 

or other proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 21 days to identify the specific 

portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of 

protection being asserted. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately 

designated for protection within the 21 days shall be covered by the provisions of this 

Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at the deposition 

or up to 21 days afterwards if that period is properly invoked, that the entire transcript shall 

be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY.” 

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, 

hearing or other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can ensure 

that only authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

Be Bound” (Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit 

at a deposition shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title 

page that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a 

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

Protected Material and the level of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The 

Designating Party shall inform the court reporter of these requirements. Any transcript that is 

prepared before the expiration of a 21-day period for designation shall be treated during that 

period as if it had been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” in its entirety unless otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that period, the 

transcript shall be treated only as actually designated. 

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any 

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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 – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”. 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. 

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 

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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. 

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

intervention, the parties shall follow the Court’s Standing Order in Civil Cases 

regarding Discovery and Discovery Motions. The parties may file a joint letter brief 

regarding retaining confidentiality 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 earlier. Failure by a Designating Party to file such discovery 

dispute letter within the applicable 21 or 14 day period (set forth above) with the Court 

shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged 

designation. If, after submitting a joint letter brief, the Court allows that a motion may 

be filed, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming 

that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the 

preceding paragraph. The Court, in its discretion, may elect to transfer the discovery 

matter to a Magistrate Judge. 

In addition, the parties may file a joint letter brief regarding a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a 

challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. If, after 

submitting a joint letter brief, the Court allows that a motion may be filed, any motion 

brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a competent declaration 

affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements 

imposed by the preceding paragraph. The Court, in its discretion, may elect to refer 

the discovery matter to a Magistrate Judge. 

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 

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confidentiality designation by failing to file a letter brief 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. Absent further Order from the Court, 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 15 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; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including Designated 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); 

(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 “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

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(d) the court and its personnel; 

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

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information, or a 

custodian or other person who is shown to have otherwise possessed or knew the 

information. 

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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) Experts of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4(a)(2), 

below, have been followed; 

(c) the court and its personnel; 

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

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

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

(e) the author or recipient of a document containing the information, or a 

custodian or other person who is shown to have otherwise possessed or knew the 

information. 

7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY 

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

SOURCE CODE” Information or Items to Experts. 

(a)(1) 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 – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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 – ATTORNEYS’ 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 or to whom the Expert has provided professional services, including in connection 

with a litigation, at any time during the preceding five years,1

 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 offered expert testimony, including through a declaration, report, or testimony 

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 If the Expert believes any of this information is subject to a confidentiality obligation to a thirdparty, then the Expert should provide whatever information the Expert believes can be disclosed without 

violating any confidentiality agreements, and the Party seeking to disclose to the Expert shall be available to 

meet and confer with the Designating Party regarding any such engagement, and can opt to designate 

confidential aspects of the disclosure as Protected Material under this Protective Order. However, nothing 

herein shall require an Expert to disclose anything privileged, namely work performed as a consulting expert 

that has not been disclosed in another lawsuit. 

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at a deposition or trial, during the preceding five years.2

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

preceding respective paragraphs 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. There shall be no disclosure of Protected Material to such individual pending 

resolution of the objection. 

(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 within seven days of the written objection. If 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 why the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess 

the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail, and suggest any additional means that could 

be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration describing the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., 

the extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and setting 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 or 

Expert. 

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 If, after being cleared to view Protected Material, an Expert intends to perform work or consult for 

an entity reasonably believed in good faith by the Expert to be a competitor of a Producing Party, the Expert 

must promptly disclose this information to counsel who retained the Expert in this Action. Counsel must 

then promptly disclose in writing to Producing Party the name, address of the competitor and a description 

of the subject matter of the anticipated work and cooperate with opposing counsel to promptly raise the issue 

with the Court if there is an objection. 

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8. PROSECUTION BAR 

Absent written consent from the Producing Party, any individual employed by, or 

related to, or representing the Plaintiff, who receives access to another Party’s 

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

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” information pursuant to this Order shall 

not be involved in the prosecution of patents or patent applications relating to: 1) wirelessenabled wearable devices that receive and/or collect data relating to health and/or fitness 

from a user; (2) digital media devices, including but not limited to digital cameras and 

camcorders, capable of receiving, transferring, and uploading images and/or data to a mobile 

phone, a tablet, an internet server or website; or (3) the patents asserted in this Action and 

any patent or application claiming priority or otherwise related to the patents asserted in this 

Action, before any foreign or domestic agency, including the United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (“the Patent Office”). For purposes of this paragraph, “prosecution” 

includes directly or indirectly drafting, amending, advising, or otherwise affecting the scope 

or maintenance of patent claims. To avoid any doubt, these prohibitions are not intended to 

and shall not preclude Counsel and members of its firm from participating in reexamination, 

reissue proceedings, inter partes review proceedings, or post-grant proceedings on behalf of 

a party challenging or defending the validity of any patent, but are intended to preclude 

patentee’s Counsel and members of its firm from advising on, consulting on, participating in, 

preparing, drafting, editing or otherwise making any claim amendments in reexamination, 

reissue proceedings, inter partes review proceedings, or post-grant proceedings. This 

Prosecution Bar shall begin when access to “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

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

SOURCE CODE” information is first received by the affected individual and shall end two 

(2) years after final termination of this Action. 

 9. SOURCE CODE 

(a) To the extent production of source code becomes necessary in this case, a 

Producing Party may designate source code as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE 

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CODE” if it comprises or includes confidential, proprietary or trade secret source code. 

Production or designation of HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE shall not be 

construed as a representation or admission by a party that HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

SOURCE CODE is properly discoverable in this action, nor does the inclusion of HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE as part of this agreement obligate any party to produce 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE. For absence of doubt, the Producing Party 

need not produce executable or native code absent agreement by the Parties or by further 

Court Order, provided that the corresponding source code is made available. 

(b) Protected Material designated as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

SOURCE CODE” shall be subject to all of the protections afforded to “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information, including the Prosecution 

Bar set forth in Paragraph 8, and may be disclosed only to the individuals to whom 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information may be 

disclosed, as set forth in Paragraphs 7.3 and 7.4. 

(c) Any 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 (9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. local time), or at other mutually agreeable times, on 

ten (10) calendar days written (including email) notice for the first request and three (3) 

business days’ written (including email) notice for subsequent requests at an office of the 

Producing Party’s counsel, or another mutually agreed upon location. The source code shall 

be made available for inspection on a secured computer in a secured room without Internet 

access or network access to other computers, and the Receiving Party shall not copy, 

remove, or otherwise transfer any portion of the source code onto any recordable media or 

recordable device. Recording devices, recordable media, or other electronic devices 

(including but not limited to sound recorders, computers, PDAs, landline or cellular 

telephones, smartphones, peripheral equipment, cameras, CDs, DVDs, floppy drives, zip 

drives, thumb drives, USB memory sticks, portable hard drives, BlackBerry® devices, or 

Dictaphones) shall not be permitted inside the secure room containing source code. The 

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Receiving Party may request a separate “breakout” room where such devices may be used. 

(d) The Producing Party may visually monitor the activities of the Receiving 

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. The Receiving Party 

shall maintain a paper log indicating the names of any individuals inspecting the source 

code, including dates and times of inspection, and the names of any individuals to whom 

paper copies of portions of the source code are provided. This shall be produced upon 

request. 

(e) The Receiving Party may request paper copies of limited portions of 

source code that are reasonably necessary for the preparation of court filings, pleadings, 

expert reports, or other papers, or for deposition or trial, but shall not request paper copies 

for the purposes of reviewing the source code other than electronically as set forth in 

paragraph (c) in the first instance. The Producing Party shall have up to three (3) business 

days to provide the Receiving Party with the requested paper copies. No more than 20 

consecutive pages, 20 lines of code per page, or more than 300 pages total, of source code 

for any software release of source code produced by any one Producing Party shall be 

printed without prior written approval of the Producing Party, except that if the Receiving 

Party believes, in good faith, that further pages are necessary, the parties shall meet and 

confer to resolve the issue in good faith without the need for Court intervention. For the 

purpose of requesting paper copies of portions of the source code, Plaintiff may identify such 

portions by saving them in an electronic portable document format using the virtual printer 

that is provided in the source code room. For the avoidance of doubt, a “page” for purposes 

of this section will be defined as an 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of paper using 12-point font and a 

single-spaced line spacing. The Producing Party shall provide all such source code in paper 

form including bates numbers and the label “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE 

CODE” and will deliver them to Receiving Party within 3 business days of a request to print 

unless objected to, any such objection to be addressed in accordance with the procedures 

outlined in this paragraph. The Producing Party may challenge the amount of source code 

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requested in hard copy form pursuant to the dispute resolution procedure and timeframes set 

forth in Paragraph 6 whereby the Producing Party is the “Challenging Party” and the 

Receiving Party is the “Designating Party” for purposes of dispute resolution. However, no 

more than one hundred (100) pages of source code for any software release may be in printed 

form in the Receiving Party’s possession at any one time, absent good cause shown. In order 

to stay within the one hundred (100) page limit, the Receiving Party must first: (1) securely 

destroy and certify to the Producing Party in writing the fact of such destruction; or (2) return 

previously printed source code to counsel for the Producing Party. The Receiving Party shall 

ensure that any printed copies of source code are stored in a secured locked area in the 

offices of Receiving Party’s outside counsel. Receiving Party shall not request Source Code 

be printed for the purpose of reviewing blocks of Source Code elsewhere in the first instance, 

i.e., as an alternative to reviewing that Source Code electronically on the Source Code 

computer in good faith before making a determination on whether printing portions of code 

is necessary. If Receiving Party reasonably determines that additional pages of Source Code 

printouts beyond the 300 total pages are necessary, or if Producing Party has any objection to 

the printing of Source Code for any reason, the parties agree to meet and confer promptly in 

good faith. Producing Party shall bear the burden to show good cause why it should not 

produce the requested pages or printouts, and shall move the Court for a protective order 

within five (5) business days of its objection showing why it should not print the requested 

pages or printouts. If, five (5) business days after receipt of Receiving Party’s written notice 

of its request for more printing or pages, Producing Party has neither consented, nor brought 

a motion for protective order, Producing Party is deemed to waive any objection, and 

Receiving Party will be permitted the additional pages or printing. 

 (f) The Receiving Party shall be permitted to make up to five (5) photocopies 

of Source Code Material, all of which shall be designated and clearly labeled “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE,” and the Receiving Party shall include the 

photocopies on the log discussed in paragraph 9(f) above. For purposes of clarification, and 

without limiting the foregoing, the Receiving Party may not create, use, access, or receive 

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electronic images, photographic images, or any other images, of the source code made from 

paper copy; the paper copy may not be converted into an electronic document; and the paper 

copy may not be scanned using optical character recognition technology. 

(g) The Receiving Party’s outside counsel and/or Expert shall be entitled to 

take handwritten or typed notes relating to the source code on a stand-alone computer, with 

MSWord loaded thereon, provided by Producing Party, provided that the Receiving Party 

shall not take notes containing any portion of source code files. Such notes shall themselves 

thereafter be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” for all purposes and 

provisions herein, except that the Receiving Party’s outside counsel and/or Expert may keep 

the original of such notes (but such originals shall be subject to all restrictions placed on 

copies in the possession of the Receiving Party included within this Protective Order) and the 

Receiving Party may load and download working documents and notes using a USB drive to 

the provided computer. However, upon good cause, the Receiving Party may challenge the 

arrangement. 

(h) The Receiving Party shall maintain a record of any individual who has 

inspected any portion of the source code in electronic or paper form. The Receiving Party 

shall maintain all paper copies of any printed portions of the source code in a secured, locked 

area. The Receiving Party shall not create any electronic or other images of the paper copies 

and shall not convert any of the information contained in the paper copies into any electronic 

format. The Receiving Party shall only make additional paper copies if such additional 

copies are (1) necessary to prepare court filings, pleadings, or other papers (including a 

testifying Expert’s expert report), (2) necessary for deposition, or (3) otherwise necessary for 

the preparation of its case with the advance written consent of the Producing Party, which 

consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Any paper copies used during a deposition shall 

be retrieved by the Producing Party at the end of each day and must not be given to or left 

with a court reporter or any other unauthorized individual. The Receiving Party shall provide 

at least one (1) business day’s notice to the Producing Party before including “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” material in a Court filing or pleading, or before using 

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“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” material during a deposition, except for 

good cause shown. The Receiving Party shall take all necessary steps to maintain the 

confidentiality of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE,” including, but not 

limited to, filing such material under seal using at least the following minimum protections 

in making the filing: (i) the Receiving Party will make a good faith effort to rely on expert 

declarations or other means to describe the relevant feature or functionality of the source 

code (including by identifying the corresponding production number(s) and line number(s) 

of the reference source code), rather than by copying portions of the source code into a filing, 

to the extent possible; (ii) if any portion of source code is included in a filing, the Receiving 

Party will copy the minimal amount of source code that is reasonably deemed necessary for 

purposes of that filing; (iii) the filing will be made only under seal, and all confidential 

information concerning the source code must be redacted or removed in any public versions 

of the filed documents; and (iv) the Receiving Party’s communication and/or disclosure of 

electronic files or other materials containing any portion of source code in connection with a 

filing must at all times be limited solely to individuals who are expressly authorized to view 

source code under the provisions of this Protective Order, and all such individuals must be 

identified on the log as an inspector of the source code in accordance with this Protective 

Order. 

(i) Source Code material, in whatever form, including as an excerpt or in a 

Source Code Document, shall not be transmitted (e.g., by email) or taken outside the 

territorial United States without the express prior written consent of the Producing Party; 

 (j) Court reporters and/or videographers shall not retain or be given copies of 

any portions of Source Code, all of which shall be maintained by deposing counsel under the 

secure conditions required herein. If any portion of Source Code Material or Source Code 

Document is used during a deposition, the deposition record will identify the exhibit 

containing any Source Code Material by its production numbers only, and those pages of the 

deposition transcript containing any HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE shall be 

deemed designated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE CODE until further specifically 

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designated in accordance with this Order. To the extent any portion of Source Code material 

is quoted in any document or transcript such as a Source Code document, either the entire 

document or transcript will be stamped and treated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

SOURCE CODE or those pages containing any HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - SOURCE 

CODE will be separately bound, designated, and treated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

SOURCE CODE. 

(k) Source Code material may only be transported by Receiving Party at the 

direction of a person authorized under this Protective Order to another person authorized 

under this Protective Order, on paper or removable electronic media in permitted 

circumstances as set forth herein (e.g., a DVD, CD-ROM, or flash memory “stick”) via hand 

carry. Source Code material may not be transported or transmitted electronically over a 

network of any kind, including a LAN, an intranet, or the Internet, unless as contained in 

draft or final versions of any court filings or expert reports provided that it is maintained on a 

password-protected computer. 

(l) The Parties further reserve the right to modification of the above source code 

limitations as necessary. 

10. 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 – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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 

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(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 – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” 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. 

11. 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 NonParty in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”. Such 

information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 

remedies and relief provided 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 NonParty; 

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 

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description of the information requested; and 

3. make the information requested available for inspection by the NonParty. 

(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. 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. 

12. 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 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. 

13. 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). 

The inadvertent or mistaken production of any Disclosure or Discovery Material 

by a Producing Party, without the designation required under Section 5 (“DESIGNATING 

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PROTECTED MATERIAL”), above, shall not be deemed a waiver in whole or in part of a 

party’s claim of confidentiality or secrecy, either as to the specific discovery produced or as 

to any other discovery relating thereto or on the same related subject matter. Documents 

containing confidential or secret information inadvertently or unintentionally produced 

without being designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – OUTSIDE 

ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE” may 

be retroactively designated by notice in writing of the designated class of each document by 

bates number or other appropriate identification and shall be treated appropriately from the 

date written notice of the designation is provided to the receiving party. Such notice of 

retroactive designation shall be made within ten (10) days of discovery by the Producing 

Party that inadvertently failed to properly designate the document(s). 

To the extent that, prior to such notice, the Receiving Party may have disclosed 

the document or information to persons other than the persons permitted to receive the 

information pursuant to Paragraph 7 above, the Receiving party shall not be deemed to have 

violated the Protective Order, but shall make reasonable efforts to retrieve any document or 

information promptly from such person and to limit any further disclosure pursuant to this 

Protective Order and shall promptly notify the Producing Party in writing of the possible 

disclosure to persons other than the persons permitted to receive the information pursuant to 

Paragraph 7 above. 

The production by a Party herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any right by 

the Producing Party to object to the admissibility of such document or thing on grounds of 

relevance, materiality, privilege, or other valid ground of objection. 

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. 

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14. MISCELLANEOUS 

14.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 

seek its modification by the court in the future. 

14.2 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. 

14.3 Export Control. Disclosure of Protected Material shall be subject to all applicable 

laws and regulations relating to the export of technical data contained in such Protected 

Material, including the release of such technical data to foreign persons or nationals in the 

United States or elsewhere. The Producing Party shall be responsible for identifying any 

such controlled technical data, and the Receiving Party shall take measures necessary to 

ensure compliance. 

14.4 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. 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, 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(e) is 

denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the Protected Material in the public 

record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e)(2) unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

15. 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 

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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, provided that 

Counsel are not required to delete privileged and/or work product emails that may contain 

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). The limitation to one 

archival copy shall not mean that outside counsel must review email or correspondence to 

eliminate duplication. Outside Counsel of Record, however, must destroy or return document 

productions that contain Protected Material, and must destroy all Source Code material and 

may not include it in its archives. In addition, this provision does not require the Receiving 

Party to search through or delete automatically generated computer backup files that are 

created for disaster recovery purposes (e.g., computer backup tapes), if such files are not 

readily accessible. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: February 23, 2018 /s/ John J. Edmonds 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

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DATED: February 23, 2018 /s/ Dalia B. Kothari 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

 

February 27, 2018

YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

CELLSPIN SOFT, INC.,

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

FOSSIL GROUP, INC. ET AL, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 4:17-cv-05933-YGR 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 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 ___________________ [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 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. 

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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 __________________________ [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] 

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