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Parties Involved:
Saul Zaentz Company
Counter-defendant
Tolkien Enterprises
Plaintiff
Wozniak Travel, Inc.
Counter-claimant

Document Text:

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LAURA J. HEIN (pro hac vice) 

NORMAN M. ABRAMSON (pro hac vice) 

GRAY, PLANT, MOOTY, MOOTY & BENNETT 

500 IDS Center 

80 South Eighth Street 

Minneapolis, MN 55402-3796 

Telephone: (612) 632-3342 

Facsimile: (612) 632-4444 

JEFFREY G. KNOWLES (SB# 129754) 

JULIA D. GREER (SB# 200479) 

COBLENTZ, PATCH, DUFFY & BASS LLP 

One Ferry Building, Suite 200 

San Francisco, California 94111-4213 

Telephone: (415) 391-4800 

Facsimile: (415) 989-1663 

ef-jgk@cpdb.com, ef-jdg@cpdb.com 

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant 

[Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant listed on signature page] 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

THE SAUL ZAENTZ COMPANY d.b.a. 

TOLKIEN ENTERPRISES, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

WOZNIAK TRAVEL, INC., 

Defendant. 

No. C 06 5421 MHP 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIM

 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 

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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 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 

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“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 

Materials (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 

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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 of 

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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’ EYE 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 nonparty 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 

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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 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 take 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 

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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 

communications 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. 

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 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 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 

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“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 or original recipients 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 designed “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) 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); 

 (c) the Court and its personnel; 

 (d) 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 

 (e) the author or original recipients of the document, or the 

original source of the information. 

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 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 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 

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person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound” that 

is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

 10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. 

 Without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order 

secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the 

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

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

 11. FINAL DISPOSITION. 

 Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, 

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

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

Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other 

form of reproducing or capturing 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. 

 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. 

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 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: March 8, 2007 MARTIN R. GLICK (No. 40187) 

Email: mglick@howardrice.com 

JEFFREY E. FAUCETTE (No. 193066) 

Email: jfaucette@howardrice.com 

SARAH J. GIVAN (No. 238301) 

Email: sgivan@howardrice.com 

HOWARD RICE NEMEROVSKI 

CANADY FALK & RABKIN 

A Professional Corporation 

Three Embarcadero Center, 7th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111-4024 

Telephone: 415/434-1600 

Facsimile: 415/217-5910 

 /s/ Martin R. Glick 

MARTIN R. GLICK 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant 

THE SAUL ZAENTZ COMPANY d.b.a. 

TOLKIEN ENTERPRISES 

DATED: March 8, 2007 GRAY, PLANT, MOOTY, MOOTY & 

BENNETT, P.A. 

 

 /s/ Laura J. Hein 

Laura J. Hein (pro hac vice) 

Norman M. Abramson (pro hac vice) 

and 

COBLENTZ, PATCH, DUFFY & BASS LLP 

 /s/ Jeffrey G. Knowles 

 

Jeffrey G. Knowles (#129754) 

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

The Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel 

United States District/Magistrate Judge 

3/8/2007 SUBJECT TO SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER ATTACHED HERETO:

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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EXHIBIT A

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 The Saul 

Zaentz Company d.b.a Tolkien Enterprises v. Wozniak Travel, Inc. 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. 

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City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

 [printed name] 

Signature: 

 [signature] 

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