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Parties Involved:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Counter-claimant
Textscape LLC
Counter-defendant

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TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND AND 

CREW LLP 

Theodore T. Herhold (State Bar No. 122895) 

Andrew T. Oliver (State Bar No. 226098) 

Eric M. Hutchins (State Bar No. 245462) 

379 Lytton Avenue 

Palo Alto, CA 94301 

Telephone: (650) 326-2400 

Facsimile: (650) 326-2422 

Email: ttherhold@townsend.com 

 atoliver@townsend.com 

 emhutchins@townsend.com 

Michael E. Dergosits (State Bar No. 118206) 

Teddy K. Joe (State Bar No. 242589) 

DERGOSITS & NOAH, LLP 

Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 410 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 705-6377 

Facsimile: (415) 750-6383 

Email: mdergosits@dergnoah.com 

 tjoe@dergnoah.com 

Gary S. Morris (admitted pro hac vice) 

1301 K Street, N.W. 

Ninth Floor, East Tower 

Washington, D.C. 20005 

Telephone: (202) 481-9900 

Facsimile: (202) 481-3972 

Email: gsmorris@townsend.com 

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant, 

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED 

Edward W. Goldstein (pro hac vice application 

expected) 

Corby R. Vowell (pro hac vice app. expected) 

GOLDSTEIN, FAUCETT & PREBEG, LLP 

1177 West Loop South, Suite 400 

Houston, TX 77027 

Telephone: (713) 877-1515 

Facsimile: (713) 877-1737 

Email: egoldstein@gfpiplaw.com 

 evowell@gfpiplaw.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant 

TEXTSCAPE, LLC 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

TEXTSCAPE LLC, a New Jersey 

Corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED, a 

Delaware Corporation, 

Defendant. 

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED, a 

Delaware Corporation, 

Counterclaimant, 

v. 

TEXTSCAPE LLC, a New Jersey 

Corporation, 

Counterdefendant. 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

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

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

and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted. 

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated 

Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on 

all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the limited 

information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as 

confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated 

Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 

79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards that will be applied 

when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

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

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

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all 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 

non¬party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less 

restrictive 

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

a Producing Party. 

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

Material in this action. 

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

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

Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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

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

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

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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

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

their support 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 

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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, 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 

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qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., 

by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of 

protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

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

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

which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the 

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

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the 

documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or 

portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order, then, before producing the specified 

documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or 

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

contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for 

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

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

being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY”). 

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

proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, 

before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further 

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

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

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

protection, the Party or 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’ 

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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 

non¬party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony. 

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

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

the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only 

portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent 

practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

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

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

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

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

after the original designation is disclosed. 

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

Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by 

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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 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. 

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7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise 

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

disclose any information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

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

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

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

hereto as Exhibit A; 

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

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

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

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

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

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

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

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

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

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

(Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal 

Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 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: 

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(a)(1) Textscape LLC'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; 

(A) Absent the written consent of the Designating Party, any of the 

individuals identified in this paragraph 7.3(a)(1) who receives access to "HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" information shall not be involved in the 

prosecution of patents or patent applications relating to the subject matter of the patent(s) 

asserted in this action or relating in any way to software for use with portable document 

format (PDF) files or otherwise related to graphical user interface (GUI) design including 

without limitation the patent(s) asserted in this action and any patent or application claiming 

priority to or otherwise related to the patent(s) 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, “prosecution” as used in this paragraph does not include 

representing a party challenging a patent before a domestic or foreign agency (including, but 

not limited to, a reissue protest, ex parte reexamination or inter partes reexamination). This 

prosecution bar shall begin when access to “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” information is first received by the affected individual, and shall end two (2) 

years after final termination of this action. 

(B) Teddy K. Joe, counsel for Textscape LLC, does not wish to 

receive access to “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

information and subjected to the patent prosecution bar of paragraph 7.3(a)(1)(A). 

Accordingly, Mr. Joe’s co-counsel shall take reasonable steps to ensure that Mr. Joe does 

not receive access to “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

information of any Designating Party that Mr. Joe does not represent. Further, to avoid 

inadvertent access, all communications from Adobe Systems Incorporated’s Outside 

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Counsel of record in this action that include “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” information may clearly indicate the inclusion of such information in at least 

one prominent location (e.g., at a position in the communication prior to the disclosure of 

such information, in the subject line of an email, in the re: line of a letter, etc.), so that Mr. 

Joe may destroy his copy of such communications prior to viewing the contents. Adobe 

Systems Incorporated’s outside counsel of record are encouraged to refrain from copying 

Mr. Joe as a recipient of communications that include “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information. In the event that a communication including 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information is transmitted 

by Adobe Systems Incorporated’s outside counsel of record with Mr. Joe as a recipient and 

without an indication that “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

information is included, such inadvertent disclosure will not automatically subject Mr. Joe to 

the patent prosecution bar of paragraph 7.3(a)(1)(A). Upon learning that he has received 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information, Mr. Joe shall 

make diligent and reasonable efforts to destroy any copies of such information or materials 

derived from or based upon such information that are in his possession. If Mr. Joe receives 

access to Adobe’s “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

information through other than inadvertent disclosure, Mr. Joe shall notify Adobe Systems 

Incorporated’s Outside Counsel of record in writing that the patent prosecution bar of 

paragraph 7.3(a)(1)(A) is in place and that the provisions of this paragraph 7.3(a)(1)(B) are 

no longer necessary. 

(2) Adobe Systems Incorporated's Outside Counsel of record in this action, as 

well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information 

for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" that is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) House Counsel of Adobe Systems Incorporated (1) who has no 

involvement in competitive decision-making, (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 

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this litigation, and (3) who has signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit 

A); 

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

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

Protective Order” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4, below, 

have been followed; 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

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

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

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

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

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

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

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

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

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

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

category of 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, 

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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 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 

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

caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

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

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

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

The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of 

its confidential material – and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or 

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

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

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

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

unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve 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 

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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. 

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. In particular, the parties have agreed that 

"technical and infringement discovery, including Patent L.R. 3-4 disclosures, should be limited to 

publicly available information related to the functionality of the accused products and not to any 

non-public source code and related technical materials." Should it become necessary to for Adobe 

Systems Incorporated to produce confidential technical information, the parties agree that it may be 

proper to modify this protective order to provide an additional level of protection for such 

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

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

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

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

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DATED: April 2fŠ, 2010

Edward W. Goldstein (pro hac vice application

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Corby R. Vowell (pro hac vice application

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Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant

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Andrew T. Oliver

Eric M. Hutchins

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Attorneys for Defendant and Counterc1aimant

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

TEXTSCAPE LLC, a New Jersey 

Corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED, a 

Delaware Corporation, 

Defendant. 

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED, a 

Delaware Corporation, 

Counterclaimant, 

v. 

TEXTSCAPE LLC, a New Jersey 

Corporation, 

Counterdefendant. 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND 

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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 

_______________, 2010 in the case of Textscape LLC v. Adobe Systems Incorporated, Case No. 

09-CV-04550 BZ. 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. 

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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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