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Parties Involved:
Conference Systems, Inc.
Defendant
Elizabeth A. Giannini
Plaintiff
Visual Aids Electronics Corporation
Defendant

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PHILIP BOROWSKY, P.C. (State Bar No. 56590)

CHRISTOPHER J. HAYES (State Bar No. 184287)

NORMAN P. ENGLISH (State Bar No. 213179)

BOROWSKY & HAYES LLP

One Market Plaza, Steuart Tower, Suite 1275

San Francisco, California 94105-1431

Telephone: (415) 896-6800

Facsimile: (415) 896-0600

Attorneys for Plaintiff ELIZABETH A. GIANNINI

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

ELIZABETH A. GIANNINI,

Plaintiff,

v.

CONFERENCE SYSTEMS, INC., a District of

Columbia corporation doing business in

California as Conference Systems Inc.–West;

and VISUAL AIDS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION,

a District of Columbia corporation,

Defendants.

No. C 05-4629 JCS

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of confidential,

proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use

for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties

hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The

parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses

to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are

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

acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no

entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures

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

from the court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff).

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony,

transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery

in this matter.

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated,

stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed under

F.R.Civ.P. 26(c).

2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: extremely

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

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

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

Producing Party.

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery

Material in this action.

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

it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential —

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

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

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.9. Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained

to represent or advise a Party in this action.

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

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their

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support staffs).

2.12 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent

to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a

consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of

a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a

competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in

connection with this litigation.

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services

(e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing,

storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors.

3. SCOPE

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

defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts,

summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or

counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material.

4. DURATION

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order

otherwise directs.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party

or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to

limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. A

Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of material, documents,

items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of the material,

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documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably

within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are

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

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

other parties), expose the Designating Party to sanctions.

If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s attention that information or items that it

designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for the level of

protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that it is

withdrawing the mistaken designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material

that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is

disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of depositions

or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL”

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top of each page that contains

protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the

Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate

markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted

(either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which

material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of

the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants

copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof,

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qualify for protection under this Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing

Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) at the top of each page that contains Protected Material. If only a

portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must

clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and

must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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

that the Party or non-party offering orsponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close

of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any

portions of the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.” When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection,

the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before

the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific

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

asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20

days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by

the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the Party or nonparty

offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony.

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

other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the

container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the information

or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected

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portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’

Eyes Only.”

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

designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes

Only” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this

Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as “Confidential” or “Highly

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party,

on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive

its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after

the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating Party’s

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly

(in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel for the

Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the

confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to

review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is

offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next

stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a

motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) that

identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such motion

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must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has complied with the

meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity

the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meet

and confer dialogue.

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

Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question

the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed

or produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting,

defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the

categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has been

terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11, below (FINAL

DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location

and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information orItems. Unless otherwise ordered

by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any

information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached

hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the

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

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

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

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is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

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

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit

A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material

must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted

under this Stipulated Protective Order.

(g) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

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

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating

Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached

hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) (intentionally omitted);

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”

(Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed;

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and

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(f) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts”

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined in this Order) any

information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” first must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the specific

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose to the

Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence,

(3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s), (5)

identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has received compensation for work in his or

her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided professional services at any time during the

preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by name and number of the case, filing date, and location of

court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert has provided any professional services

during the preceding five years.

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

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

seven court days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the Designating

Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based.

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with

the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by

agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert may file

a motion as provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if

applicable) seeking permission from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the

circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert

is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and suggest any

additional means that might be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be

accompanied by a competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to resolve

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the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets

forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure.

In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear

the burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards

proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

LITIGATION.

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that

would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL”

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” the Receiving Party must so notify

the Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three

court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the

subpoena or court order.

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused

the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must deliver

a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that caused the

subpoena or order to issue.

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence

of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to protect

its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The Designating

Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of its confidential

material – and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a

Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected

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Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective Order,

the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized

disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the

person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d)

request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that

is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. Without written permission from the Designating

Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file

in the public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any

Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5.

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing

Party, within sixty days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all

Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material”

includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing

any of the Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving

Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the Protected

Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the

Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the sixty day

deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned

or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts,

compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material.

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion

papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney work product, even if such materials

contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material

remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above.

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12. MISCELLANEOUS

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

seek its modification by the Court in the future.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective

Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any

information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no

Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by

this Protective Order.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: /s/ 4/25/06 /s/ Christopher J. Hayes 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: /s/ 4/25/06 /s/ R. Michael Smith 

Attorneys for Defendant

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: ________________________ _____________________________________

Hon. Joseph C. Spero

United States Magistrate Judge

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Stipulated Protective Order No. C 05-4629 JCS

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print

or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand

the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Northern

District of California on [date] in the case of ___________ Elizabeth A. Giannini, Plaintiff, v.

Conference Systems, Inc., and Visual Aids Electronics Corporation, Defendants, No. C 05-4629 JCS.

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 __________________________ [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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