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Parties Involved:
Stephen Jackson
Defendant
Quickie Tie-Down Enterprises, LLC
Plaintiff
USA Products Group, Inc.
Defendant

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Edwin Wheeler (SBN 189991)

WHEELER IP LAW 

220 Dedalera Dr. 

Portola Valley, CA 94028 

Tel: (650) 963-4960 

edwin@wheeleriplaw.com 

Michael B. Marion (admitted pro hac 

vice) 

BYCER & MARION

7220 N. 16th Street, Suite H 

Phoenix, Arizona 85020 

Tel: (602) 944-2277 

michael@bycermarion.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Jennifer Lantz (SBN 202252) 

Jeremy T. Elman (SBN 223696) 

DUANE MORRIS LLP 

260 Homer Avenue, Suite 202 

Palo Alto, CA 94301-2777 

E-mail: twahearn@duanemorris.com 

jmlantz@duanemorris.com 

jelman@duanemorris.com 

D. Stuart Bartow (SBN 233107) 

DUANE MORRIS LLP 

1201 North Market Street, Suite 501 

Wilmington, DE 19801-1160 

dsbartow@duanemorris.com 

Attorneys for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Quickie Tie-Down Enterprises LLC, an 

Arizona limited liability company, 

 Plaintiff, 

v.

USA Products Group, Inc., a California 

Corporation; Stephen Jackson and Unknown 

Jackson, a married couple,

 Defendants. 

Case No. 2:24-cv-00799-DAD-JDP

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

FOR LITIGATION INVOLVING 

PATENTS, HIGHLY SENSITIVE 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

AND/OR TRADE SECRETS 

All parties to this action have jointly moved this Court for the entry of a protective

order to govern the production of Discovery Material (defined below), by both parties and 

non-parties, in the above-captioned action (the “Lawsuit”). 

I. 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 purposes other than prosecuting this litigation may be 

warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the 

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following Stipulated Protective Order (“Order”). The parties acknowledge that this Order 

does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the 

protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or 

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

parties further acknowledge, as set forth herein, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order 

does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Local Rules of the United 

States District Court, Eastern District of California (“L.R.”) 140 (redaction) and L.R. 141 

(sealing) set forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied 

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

II. DEFINITIONS 

A. Designated Material 

The term “Designated Material” shall mean any Discovery Material (as defined in

Section II.C) designated by a Designating Party (as defined in Section II.H) as either

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in 

accordance with Paragraphs IV.A to IV.D below. All Designated Material and any

information or material copied or derived therefrom, and all copies, excerpts, and summaries 

thereof, as well as testimony and oral conversations which reveal that information, shall be 

treated as and hereinafter referred to as Designated Material. 

B. CONFIDENTIAL and HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 

1. “CONFIDENTIAL” comprises or contains information that the 

Producing Party claims in good faith to constitute or relate to sensitive business, 

financial, or commercial information (including identifying information for customers 

of the Producing Party) that is not publicly available and provides a commercial 

advantage to its possessor and the disclosure of which to persons other than those set 

forth in Section VI.A below would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could 

not be avoided by less restrictive means.

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2. “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

comprises or contains information that the Producing Party claims in good faith is 

information that is of a highly confidential nature and is competitively sensitive or 

important to the Producing Party’s business, including, but not limited to, non-public 

pricing and revenue information, and other sensitive financial data, the disclosure of 

which to persons other than those set forth in Section VI.B below could create a risk of 

harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive means.

C. Discovery Material

The term “Discovery Material” shall mean any Document (as defined at Section II.D), 

material, item, testimony, or thing filed with or presented to the Court or produced, served, 

exchanged, or generated during the discovery process, including, for example, exhibits; 

answers to interrogatories; responses to requests for admissions; responses to requests for 

production and any documents produced in connection therewith; subpoenas; declarations; 

affidavits; letters; emails; deposition testimony or transcripts; and all copies, extracts, 

summaries, compilations, designations, and portions thereof. 

D. Documents

The term “Document” shall mean all writings, recordings, or photographic materials as

described and defined in Rule 1001 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, including electronically

stored information and data, whether produced or created by a Party or another person, and

whether produced pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34, pursuant to a subpoena, by

agreement, or otherwise. This shall include, but not be restricted to, all interrogatory answers,

responses to requests for production or for admission(s), deposition testimony, and deposition

exhibits. This Protective Order is not intended to, and shall not, expand, enlarge, or otherwise

change any Party’s obligations concerning the scope, limitations, and form of discovery as set

forth in any Discovery Plan and Scheduling Order put in place in the Lawsuit.

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E. Party 

The term “Party” shall refer to any plaintiff or defendant in the Lawsuit. 

F. Producing Party 

The term “Producing Party” shall mean any Party to the Lawsuit or any non-party, 

including its counsel, retained experts, directors, officers, employees, or agents, who produces 

any Discovery Material during discovery for the Lawsuit. 

G. Receiving Party

The term “Receiving Party” shall mean any Party to the Lawsuit, including its counsel, 

retained experts, directors, officers, employees, or agents, who receives any Discovery 

Material. 

H. Designating Party 

The term “Designating Party” shall mean any Party or Non-Party to the Lawsuit, 

including its counsel, retained experts, directors, officers, employees, or agents, who 

designates Designated Material (as defined in Section II.A of this Order) in this Lawsuit. 

I. Challenging Party 

The term “Challenging Party” a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order. 

III. RESTRICTION ON DISCLOSURE AND USE OF DESIGNATED MATERIAL 

A. Scope

This Order shall encompass all Discovery Material produced during this Lawsuit

except that this Order shall not encompass information that (a) is lawfully in the possession of 

or otherwise known to the Receiving Party or the public before the date of its transmission to 

the Receiving Party, (b) lawfully comes into the possession of the Receiving Party by means 

other than by production by Producing Party, or (c) lawfully comes into the possession of or 

otherwise becomes known to the public after the date of its transmission to the Receiving 

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Party, provided that such information does not become publicly known by any act or 

omission of the Receiving Party that would be in violation of this Order.

B. Purpose

Designated Materials shall be used solely for purposes of and in connection with this 

Lawsuit and the information contained therein shall not be used or disclosed for any other 

purpose, including, without limitation, any business or commercial purpose.

C. Confidentiality

Designated Material and the information derived from such Designated Material

(excluding information which is derived lawfully from an independent source) shall not be 

given, shown, made available, discussed, or otherwise communicated or disclosed in any 

manner, either directly or indirectly, to any person not authorized to receive the information 

under the terms of this Order.

D. Maintenance of Designated Material

Designated Material shall be maintained by the Receiving Party at a location and under 

circumstances reasonably designed to ensure compliance with this Order. The Receiving 

Party shall protect the confidentiality of Designated Material using procedures that are no less 

stringent than the measures used to protect the Receiving Party’s own Designated Material or 

similar confidential material.

E. Restrictions on Designated Materials

The restrictions on the use of Designated Material established by this Order are

applicable to the Receiving Party. A Designating Party is free to do whatever it desires with 

its own Designated Material.

F. Discovery from Non-Parties

Information sought or obtained from a person not a Party to the Lawsuit (“Nonparty”)

shall be treated as Designated Material if requested by the Non-party. Any such information 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

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ONLY” pursuant to Section IV by a Non-party will be accorded the same protection as the 

Parties’ Designated Material, and will be subject to the same procedures as those governing 

disclosure of the Parties’ Designated Material pursuant to this Order. Any Party may seek to 

challenge designations by a non-party under the provisions of Paragraph V.B after providing 

at least ten (10) business days written notice to the non-party and agreeing that it will not 

object to the non-party appearing in this Lawsuit for the limited purpose of seeking to 

preserve its requested designation. 

G. Unintentional Disclosure of Designated Material 

If Designated Material, or any portion thereof, is disclosed by the Receiving Party to 

any person or Party not authorized to receive such Designated Material under this Protective 

Order, then the Receiving Party shall use its best efforts to retrieve immediately all copies of 

such Designated Material, and to bind such person to the terms of this Order. In such event, 

the Receiving Party shall also (a) promptly inform such person of all the provisions of this 

Order; (b) identify such person immediately to the Designating Party; and (c) request that 

such person execute the Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A.

IV. PROCEDURE FOR MARKING DESIGNATED MATERIAL 

Any Producing Party may mark Designated Material as either “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in accordance with this Order. 

The burden of establishing that Designated Material is either “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” as defined herein shall be on 

the Producing Party. The designation of Designated Material as either “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” shall be deemed effective 

unless and until the Court orders otherwise or the Designating Party withdraws the 

designation. Designated material must be marked in the following manner: 

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1. In the case of documents or any other tangible thing produced, designation 

shall be made by placing the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” on each page of the document or

on the cover or in a prominent place on any other tangible thing prior to production of

the document or tangible thing along with a designation, e.g., bates number prefix, of

the identity of the Designating Party;

2. In the case of electronically stored information (“ESI”) produced in native 

format, designation shall be made by contemporaneously producing a bates numbered

slip sheet bearing the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” and including the corresponding bates number in the 

file name of the native-format file (e.g., [FILENAME].xls). Any Party printing or 

otherwise creating a tangible copy of the native file shall include the legend 

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

on each page of the document;

3. In producing original files and records for inspection, no marking need be 

made by the Designating Party in advance of the inspection. For the purposes of the

inspection, all documents produced shall be considered as marked “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Thereafter, upon selection of

specified documents for copying by the Receiving Party, the Designating Party shall

mark as either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’

EYES ONLY,” as applicable, the copies of such documents as may contain either

CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, as

defined in Paragraphs II.B.1 and II.B.2 at the time the copies are produced to the

Receiving Party. There will be no waiver of confidentiality by the inspection of 

CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY

information before it is copied and marked pursuant to this Order; and

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4. In the case of testimony provided during a deposition or hearing, transcripts 

or portions thereof shall be designated by the Designating Party either (i) on the record 

during the deposition or hearing, in which case the pages of the transcript containing 

Designated Material shall be marked “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as applicable, by the reporter, as a 

Party may direct; or (ii) by captioned, written notice to the reporter and all counsel of 

record, given within thirty (30) days after the reporter sends written notice to the 

witness or the witness’s counsel that the transcript is available for review, in which 

case all counsel receiving such notice shall be responsible for marking the copies of 

the designated transcript or portion thereof in their possession or control as directed by 

the Designating Party or witness. Pending expiration of the thirty-day period or the 

receipt of such written notice from a Party (whichever comes first), all Parties and, if 

applicable, any Non-party witnesses or attorneys, shall treat the deposition transcript 

and the information contained therein as if it had been designated HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY. If no such written notice is 

provided within the thirty-day period, the designation(s) made during the deposition 

shall stand. If such written notice is provided, the designation(s) provided in such 

notice shall be effective upon receipt. No person other than a court reporter or Court 

personnel shall attend the designated portions of such depositions unless such person is 

an authorized recipient of Designated Material under the terms of this Order.

5. In the event that a deposition or hearing is attended only by persons

authorized to receive Designated Material, counsel may, for purposes of efficiency,

state on the record that the entire transcript for that day is to be treated as Designated

Material until such time as there is a written request to specifically identify the

portions of the transcript that are CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY. In the event of such request, the Party desiring to

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maintain the treatment of any portion of the transcript as CONFIDENTIAL or

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY shall specify, by page and 

line numbers, the designated portions within thirty (30) days of the written request. 

V. CONTESTING THE DESIGNATION 

A. No Party to this Lawsuit shall be obligated to challenge the propriety of any

designation by any Designating Party, and a failure to do so shall not constitute a waiver or 

in any way preclude a subsequent challenge in the Lawsuit to the propriety of such 

designation. Any Party may contest a claim of confidentiality. 

B. 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 within 14 days of 

the date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for 

its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating 

Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, 

if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A 

Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has 

engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party is 

unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 

C. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court intervention, the 

Challenging Party shall file and serve a motion to challenge confidentiality under Local Rule 

233 (and in compliance with Local Rule 141, if applicable) 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. Each such motion must be accompanied 

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by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. 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. 

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

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

Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation, 

all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it 

is entitled under the Designating Party’s designation until the court rules on the challenge. 

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VI. DISCLOSURE OF DESIGNATED MATERIALS 

A. Unless otherwise directed by the Court or authorized in writing by the Designating 

Party, Discovery Material designated as CONFIDENTIAL under this Order may be disclosed 

by the Receiving Party only to the following persons: 

1. counsel of record for the Receiving Party, including their regularly employed 

support staff (law clerks, paralegals, secretaries, and clerical staff) assisting with the 

Lawsuit; 

2. the officers, directors, and employees of the Receiving Party to whom

disclosure is directly necessary for the Lawsuit; 

3. Judges, Magistrate Judges, law clerks, and clerical personnel of the Court 

before which the Lawsuit is pending including any appellate Court, and the jury, if 

any; 

4. court reporters and other persons involved in recording or transcribing

hearings, trial testimony, or deposition testimony in the Lawsuit; 

5. consultants (not including trial and jury consultants), or experts and their staff 

who are expressly retained or sought to be retained by an attorney described in 

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subparagraph 1 of this section to provide assistance in the Lawsuit, provided that any 

such persons first execute the Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A;

6. any person who authored and/or received the particular CONFIDENTIAL 

information sought to be disclosed to that person, or any witness testifying in a 

deposition or hearing when the examining attorney has a good faith basis to believe the 

witness is the author and/or received the particular CONFIDENTIAL information 

sought to be disclosed to that witness. Any witness testifying in a deposition or hearing 

may be shown CONFIDENTIAL information of a Designating Party provided that the 

witness is: (a) a current employee, attorney, director, officer, or agent of the 

Designating Party, or a corporate designee of the Designating Party under Rule 

30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; or (b) a former employee, attorney, 

director, officer, or agent of the Designating Party if, at the time of the witness’ 

employment, the CONFIDENTIAL information was in existence and the witness had 

access to such CONFIDENTIAL information;

7. litigation support vendors retained by outside counsel for such functions as 

photocopying, scanning, stenography, videography, imaging, or preparation of 

graphics, demonstratives, and audio and/or video productions or other exhibits for 

deposition, trial, or other court proceedings in the Lawsuit, but only if they execute the 

Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A, and only to the extent necessary for the 

particular litigation support services being rendered and in accordance with the 

vendor’s ordinary operating procedure;

8. mock jurors, trial consultants, and jury consultants engaged by the Parties in 

preparation for trial, provided that (i) no Party will use any mock juror, trial consultant, 

or jury consultant who is employed or affiliated with or who knows any person 

employed by or affiliated with either Party to the Lawsuit; (ii) mock jurors, trial 

consultants, and jury consultants will not be allowed to retain any tangible materials 

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that contain or disclose any Designated Material; and (iii) any such persons first 

execute the Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A; and

9. persons who have been retained by a Party to provide translation or

interpretation from one language to another, provided that such translators execute the

Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A.

B. Unless otherwise directed by the Court or authorized in writing by the Producing

Party, Discovery Material designated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY may be disclosed by the Receiving Party only to the following persons:

1. counsel of record for the Receiving Party, including their regularly employed

support staff (law clerks, paralegals, secretaries, and clerical staff) assisting with the 

Lawsuit;

2. Judges, Magistrate Judges, law clerks, and clerical personnel of the Court

before which the Lawsuit is pending including any appellate Court, and the jury, if

any;

3. court reporters and other persons involved in recording or transcribing 

hearings, trial testimony, or deposition testimony in the Lawsuit;

4. consultants (not including trial and jury consultants), or experts and their staff

who are expressly retained or sought to be retained by an attorney described in

subparagraph 1 of this section to provide assistance in the Lawsuit, provided that any 

such persons first execute the Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A. 

5. any person who authored and/or received the particular HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY information sought to be disclosed

to that person, or any witness testifying in a deposition or hearing when the examining 

attorney has a good faith basis to believe the witness is the author and/or received the 

particular HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY information 

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sought to be disclosed to that witness. Any witness testifying in a deposition or hearing 

may be shown HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 

information of a Producing Party provided that the witness is: (a) a current employee, 

attorney, director, officer, or agent of the Producing Party, or a corporate designee of 

the Producing Party under Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; or (b) 

a former employee, attorney, director, officer, or agent of the Producing Party if, at the 

time of the witness’ employment, the HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY information was in existence and the witness had access to such 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY information;

6. litigation support vendors retained by outside counsel for such functions as

photocopying, scanning, stenography, videography, imaging, or preparation of

graphics, demonstratives, and audio and/or video productions or other exhibits for

deposition, trial, or other court proceedings in the Lawsuit, but only if they execute the 

Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A, and only to the extent necessary for the

particular litigation support services being rendered and in accordance with the

vendor’s ordinary operating procedure;

7. mock jurors, trial consultants, and jury consultants engaged by the Parties in 

preparation for trial, provided that (i) no Party will use any mock juror, trial consultant, 

or jury consultant who is employed or affiliated with or who knows any person 

employed by or affiliated with either Party to the Lawsuit; (ii) mock jurors, trial 

consultants, and jury consultants will not be allowed to retain any tangible materials 

that contain or disclose any Designated Material; and (iii) any such persons first 

execute the Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A; and

8. persons who have been retained by a Party to provide translation or

interpretation from one language to another, provided that such translators execute the

Confidentiality Undertaking in Exhibit A.

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VII. COURT PROCEDURES

Without written permission from the Producing 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 Designated Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Designated Material 

must comply with Local Rule 141. The Designating Party retains the burden of proving the 

need to seal the Protect Material. If the Receiving Party files Designated Material with the 

Court, the Receiving Party will file the Designated Material with the Court indicating that it is 

not the Designating Party with its “Request to Seal Documents” but is not otherwise obligated 

to provide the required basis for sealing under Local Rule 141(b). The Designating Party will 

then file a response to the “Request to Seal Documents” providing the required basis for 

sealing under Local Rule 141(b). 

VIII. PROCEDURE FOR DISCLOSURES TO OTHER PERSONS

At the written request of the Receiving Party, the Designating Party may agree in

writing to allow the Receiving Party to disclose to a specified Non-party any of the Producing 

Party’s Designated Material identified in the written request. 

IX. UNINTENTIONAL FAILURE TO DESIGNATE 

If any Producing Party discovers that it has inadvertently failed to designate and mark 

any Discovery Material as either CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, the Producing Party may subsequently inform the Receiving 

Party of the confidential nature of the disclosed Designated Material, and the Receiving Party 

shall treat the disclosed Discovery Material as either CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY upon receipt of written notice from the 

Producing Party. Disclosure of such Discovery Material to persons not authorized to receive 

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that material prior to receipt of the confidentiality designation shall not be deemed a violation 

of this Order. However, in the event the material has been distributed in a manner inconsistent 

with the later-applied designation, the Receiving Party will take the steps necessary to

conform distribution to the categorical designation, i.e., by retrieving all copies of the

Discovery Material, or notes or extracts thereof, in the possession of the persons not

authorized under this Order to possess such Discovery Material and advising the persons to 

whom disclosure was made that the Producing Party has designated the material as

confidential and that such material must be treated as provided in the Order unless otherwise 

agreed by the Parties or ordered by the Court. 

X. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

A. No Limitation of Other Rights 

This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of any Party to oppose production of 

any information on any and all grounds other than confidentiality. 

B. Release From or Modification of This Order 

This Order is entered without prejudice to the right of any Party to apply to the Court 

at any time for additional protection, or to release, rescind, or modify the restrictions of this 

Order, to determine whether a particular person shall be entitled to receive any particular 

information or to seek relief from inadvertent disclosure of privileged or work-product 

information. This Order does not preclude all of the Parties to this Order from entering into 

any stipulation (in writing or on the record) constituting a modification of this Order subject 

to the Court’s review. 

C. Admissibility and No Admissions 

Nothing herein shall be construed to affect in any way the evidentiary admissibility or 

relevance of any document, testimony, or other matter at any court proceeding related to this 

matter. Neither designation or lack of designation of documents or information as 

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“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” nor 

agreeing to treat documents produced under those designations pursuant to this Agreement 

constitutes any admission or acknowledgement that any such documents or information do or 

do not constitute trade secrets or proprietary information or do or do not enjoy any other legal 

status, and is inadmissible for any such purpose.

D. Non-Party Request/Subpoena of Designated Material

If a Receiving Party receives a subpoena or other compulsory process from a nonparty

to this Order seeking production or other disclosure of a Designating Party’s Designated 

Material, that Receiving Party shall give written notice to outside counsel of record for the 

Designating Party (or, if the Designating Party is not represented by counsel in this Lawsuit, 

to the Designating Party itself) within ten (10) business days after receipt of the subpoena or 

other compulsory process identifying the specific Designated Material sought and enclosing a 

copy of the subpoena or other compulsory process. If the Designating Party timely seeks a 

protective order, the Receiving Party to whom the subpoena or other compulsory process was 

issued or served shall not produce the Designated Material requested prior to receiving a 

Court order or consent of the Designating Party. In the event that Designated Material is 

produced to the Non-party, such material shall be treated as Designated Material pursuant to 

this Order.

E. Counsel’s Right to Provide Advice

Nothing in this Order shall bar or otherwise restrict any counsel herein from rendering 

advice to the counsel’s Party-client with respect to the Lawsuit, and in the course thereof, 

relying upon an examination of Designated Material, provided, however, that in rendering 

such advice and in otherwise communicating with the Party-client, the counsel shall not 

disclose any Designated Material, nor the source of any Designated Material, to anyone not 

authorized to receive such Designated Material pursuant to the terms of this Order.

F. Privileged and Irrelevant Materials

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Nothing in this Order shall be construed as requiring disclosure of privileged materials, 

materials subject to protection under the work product doctrine, or materials which are 

otherwise beyond the scope of permissible discovery. 

XI. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, each Receiving Party must, to 

the extent commercially reasonable, return all Designated Material to the Designating Party 

or destroy such material, and shall certify, in writing, the return or destruction of such 

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

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

Designated 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 Designated 

Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Designated Material remain 

subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section XII (Termination). 

XII. TERMINATION 

The termination of the Lawsuit shall not automatically terminate the effectiveness of 

this Order, and persons subject to this Order shall be bound by the confidentiality obligations 

of this Order until the Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or this Court (or any 

other court or competent jurisdiction) orders otherwise. 

XIII. USE AT TRIAL 

This Order is not intended to govern the use of Designated Material at the trial of the 

Lawsuit. Procedures governing the use of Designated Material at trial, if necessary, will be 

established by separate order, pursuant to application by one or more of the Parties to the 

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Court, or sua sponte pursuant to the Court’s own procedures, and may be addressed at the 

pre-trial conference. 

//

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated this 12th day of November, 2024.

By: /s/Michael B. Marion

Edwin Wheeler (SBN 189991) 

WHEELER IP LAW 

220 Dedalera Dr. 

Portola Valley, CA 94028 

Tel: (650) 963-4960 

edwin@wheeleriplaw.com 

Michael B. Marion (admitted pro hac vice) 

BYCER & MARION

7220 N. 16th Street, Suite H 

Phoenix, Arizona 85020 

Tel: (602) 944-2277 

michael@bycermarion.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Quickie Tie-Down 

Enterprises, LLC 

By: /s/D. Stuart Bartow (with permission) Jennifer Lantz (SBN 202252) 

D. Stuart Bartow (SBN 233107) 

Jeremy T. Elman (SBN 223696) 

DUANE MORRIS LLP 

260 Homer Avenue, Suite 202 

Palo Alto, CA 94301-2777 

Phone: 650-847-4150 

jmlantz@duanemorris.com 

dsbartow@duanemorris.com 

jelman@duanemorris.com 

Attorneys for Defendants USA Products 

Group, Inc. and Stephen Jackson 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

Dated: November 14, 2024 JEREMY D. PETERSON 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A 

CONFIDENTIALITY UNDERTAKING 

I, ______________________________, state that: 

My business address is _______________________________________________. 

My present employer and job description are_______________________________________ 

_____________________________________________________. 

My relationship to the Parties to the above-captioned lawsuit is as follows________________ 

___________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________. 

I have read and reviewed in its entirety the Protective Order (“Protective Order”) 

entered in this matter. 

I hereby agree to be bound by and comply with the terms of the Protective Order, and 

not to disseminate or disclose any information subject to the Protective Order that I review or 

about which I am told, to any person, entity, Party, or agency for any reason, except in 

accordance with the terms of the Protective Order. 

I understand that contempt sanctions may be entered for violation of this Protective 

Order and further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of 

enforcement of the terms of this Protective Order. 

DATED this ____ day of ______________, 20___. 

 _______________________________________________ 

 Name

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