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Parties Involved:
Massively Parallel Instruments, Inc.
Counter-defendant
Waters Corporation
Counter-claimant
Waters Technologies Corporation
Counter-claimant

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED ORDER RE: 

DISCOVERY OF ESI 

CASE NO. 3:15-cv-01400-WHA

All Counsel listed on signature page 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

MASSIVELY PARALLEL 

INSTRUMENTS, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

 v. 

WATERS CORPORATION and 

WATERS TECHNOLOGIES 

CORPORATION, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 3:15-cv-01400-WHA

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED ORDER RE: 

DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY 

STORED INFORMATION 

 

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED ORDER RE: 

DISCOVERY OF ESI 

CASE NO. 3:15-cv-01400-WHA

Plaintiff Massively Parallel Instruments, Inc. (“Plaintiff” or “MPI”) and Defendants 

Waters Corporation and Waters Technologies Corporation (“Defendants” or “Waters”) 

(collectively, “the parties”) hereby stipulate as follows: 

1. PURPOSE 

This Order will govern discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”) in this 

case as a supplement to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, this Court’s Guidelines for the 

Discovery of Electronically Stored Information, and any other applicable orders and rules. It is 

intended to streamline ESI production to promote a “just, speedy, and inexpensive 

determination” of this action, as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1. 

2. COOPERATION 

The parties are aware of the importance the Court places on cooperation and commit to 

cooperate in good faith throughout the matter consistent with this Court’s Guidelines for the 

Discovery of ESI. 

3. LIAISON 

Each Party agrees to designate an ESI Liaison who is and will be knowledgeable about 

and responsible for discussing their respective ESI. Each ESI liaison will be, or have access to 

those who are, knowledgeable about the technical aspects of e-discovery, including the 

location, nature, accessibility, format, collection, search methodologies, and production of ESI 

in this matter. The parties will rely on the ESI liaisons, as needed, to confer about ESI and to 

help resolve disputes without court intervention. Any Party is free to change their designated 

ESI Liaison by providing written notice to the other Party. 

4. PRESERVATION 

The parties have discussed their preservation obligations and needs and agree that 

preservation of potentially relevant ESI will be reasonable and proportionate. The parties have 

discussed the subject matter of potentially relevant ESI that should be preserved and have 

taken appropriate steps to preserve such information. 

To reduce the costs and burdens of preservation and to ensure proper ESI is preserved, 

the parties agree that: 

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a) Back-up tapes or other materials retained primarily for back-up or disaster 

recovery purposes, whether in tape, floppy disk, optical disk, or similar formats 

are deemed not reasonably accessible under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(2)(B) and, 

accordingly, are not subject to production unless specific facts demonstrate a 

particular need for such evidence that justifies the burden of retrieval. 

b) Similarly, in view of the needs of the case and the amount in controversy, and in 

order to streamline the discovery process, the parties agree that the following 

sources of ESI need not be preserved, searched or produced: 

 Deleted, slack, fragmented, or other data only accessible by forensics. 

 Random access memory (RAM), temporary files, or other ephemeral 

data that are difficult to preserve without disabling the operating system. 

 On-line access data such as temporary internet files, history, cache, 

cookies, and the like. 

 Data in metadata fields that are frequently updated automatically, such 

as last-opened dates. 

 Voice messages. 

 Instant messages. 

 Text messages or similar mobile message formats (e.g. iMessages). 

 Electronic mail sent to or from mobile devices (e.g., iPhone and 

Blackberry devices), provided that a copy of such mail is routinely saved 

elsewhere. 

 Other electronic data stored on a mobile device, such as calendar or 

contact data or notes, provided that a copy of such information is 

routinely saved elsewhere. 

 Logs of calls made from mobile devices. 

 Server, system or network logs. 

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 Electronic data temporarily stored by laboratory equipment or attached 

electronic equipment, provided that such data is not ordinarily preserved 

as part of a laboratory report. 

 Data remaining from systems no longer in use that is unintelligible on 

the systems in use. 

c) Archives stored on computer servers, external hard drives, notebooks, or 

personal computer hard drives that are created primarily for back-up or disaster 

recovery purposes and not used as reference materials in the ordinary course of 

a party’s business operations need not be searched or produced absent good 

cause, and further subject to the producing party’s claim of undue burden or 

cost or other objections. No party need deviate from the practices it normally 

exercises with regard to preservation of such “back-up tapes or other materials 

retained primarily for back-up or disaster recovery purposes” that it does not 

otherwise exercise when not in anticipation of litigation (e.g., recycling of backup tapes is permitted). If responsive documents are located on a centralized 

server or network, the producing party shall not be required to search for 

additional copies of such responsive documents that may be located on the 

personal computer, or otherwise in the possession, of individual employees 

absent a showing of good cause that the production of such additional copies is 

necessary. No party need deviate from the practices it normally exercises with 

regard to preservation of such “additional copies” that it does not otherwise 

exercise when not in anticipation of litigation (e.g., recycling of back-up tapes is 

permitted). 

5. COST-SHIFTING 

As in all cases, costs may be shifted for disproportionate ESI production requests 

pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26. Likewise, a party’s nonresponsive or dilatory 

discovery tactics will be cost-shifting considerations. A party’s meaningful compliance with 

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this Order and efforts to promote efficiency and reduce costs will be considered in cost-shifting 

determinations. 

6. DOCUMENTS PROTECTED FROM DISCOVERY 

a) Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 502(d), the inadvertent (i.e. absent intentional waiver) 

production of a privileged or work-product-protected document is not a waiver of 

privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other federal or state 

proceeding. For example, the mere production of privileged or work-productprotected documents in this case as part of a mass production is not itself a waiver 

in this case or in any other federal or state proceeding. 

b) Communications involving trial counsel that post-date the filing of the complaint 

need not be placed on a privilege log. Communications may be identified on a 

privilege log by category, rather than individually, if appropriate. For each 

document withheld or redacted, the Privilege Log shall contain the following 

information: (i) the date of the document; (ii) the identity of all persons who 

authored, signed or otherwise prepared the document; (iii) the identity of all persons 

designated as addressees or copyees, including blind copyees; (iv) a description of 

the contents of the document that, without revealing information itself privileged or 

protected, is sufficient to understand the subject matter of the document and the 

basis of the claim of privilege or immunity; (vi) the type or nature of the privilege 

asserted (e.g., attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, common interest, 

etc.); (vii) the unique document number assigned to the withheld document; and 

(viii) the Bates numbers corresponding to the first and last page of any redacted 

document, if the document has been assigned any such Bates numbers. Any email 

message (whether produced individually or as part of a series or chain of emails 

linked together by email responses and forwarding) that is withheld or redacted on 

the grounds of privilege, immunity or any similar claim shall be logged as one 

document and shall be identified by the top-most email in the thread that is withheld 

or redacted (e.g., if a party withholds on the basis of privilege an email thread 

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consisting of a sent email, a first reply email and a second reply email, the thread 

shall be identified by the second reply email; if a party produces the same email 

thread but redacts the sent email and the first reply email, the thread shall be 

identified by the first reply email) . The parties shall not be required to log identical 

copies of an email that is included in a thread that has been logged in accordance 

with this Paragraph. The parties hereby agree to exchange privilege logs by no later 

than four weeks after the document production to which each log relates. 

c) Testifying experts shall not be subject to discovery on any draft of their reports in 

this action and such draft reports, notes, or outlines for draft reports are also exempt 

from production and discovery. No discovery can be taken from any non-testifying 

expert except to the extent that the non-testifying expert has provided information, 

opinions, or other materials to a testifying expert, who relies upon such information, 

opinions, or other materials in forming his or her final report, or any opinion in this 

action. No conversations or communications between counsel and any testifying or 

non-testifying expert, including emails or correspondence, will be subject to 

discovery unless the conversations or communications are relied upon by a 

testifying expert in formulating his or her final report, or any opinion in this action. 

Materials, communications, and other information exempt from discovery under 

this paragraph shall be treated as attorney work product for the purposes of this 

action. 

 d) If a party believes that it cannot process or produce documents or information 

because doing so would require it to violate any foreign laws, including data 

privacy or blocking laws, the parties agree to meet-and-confer about those issues 

and seek guidance from the court if necessary. 

7. MANNER OF SERVICE 

The following memorializes the parties’ agreement regarding electronic service 

applicable to service occurring on or after the date this stipulation is filed. The parties will 

serve all documents related to this Litigation by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on the day of service, 

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and such service shall constitute timely service on that day. Where service of is not made 

through the ECF, service may be made by electronic mail to counsel of record (identified 

below), with the filed, submitted, or produced documents attached in .pdf format. When the 

size of the file containing any such document(s) are too large for service by electronic mail, 

service may be made by hand delivery or by Federal Express (or similar means) for next day 

delivery, and a CD, diskette, FTP site or other means of electronically providing the documents 

being served shall be provided. Where service is made by via FTP or any other electronic 

means where the documents are immediately available to the receiving party, service shall be 

effective on the day access is provided to the receiving party. Where service is made by next 

day delivery, service shall be effective on the day received. The Parties may electronically 

serve large documents via an FTP site in accordance with the same rules applicable to e-mail. 

All discovery requests shall be served by electronic means in .pdf format accompanied by 

a Word version for use by the receiving party. All responses and objections thereto (but not 

necessarily documents produced pursuant to any such request) shall be served by electronic mail 

in a searchable .pdf format. 

All such electronic service under this agreement will be effective as if service had been 

accomplished by hand delivery, i.e., 3 days will not be added under the Federal Rules or any 

local rule. The parties designate the following counsel to receive documents pursuant to this 

stipulation: 

Party Service by E-mail Service by Hand 

MPI tbrown@kilpatricktownsend.com

mmeyer@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Theodore G. Brown, III 

tbrown@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Matthew J. Meyer 

mmeyer@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, 

LLP 

1080 Marsh Road 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

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Waters lawrence.gotts@lw.com 

waterspatentlitigation.lwteam@lw.com

aslan.baghdadi@plumsea.com 

waterslitigation@plumsea.com 

Lawrence J. Gotts 

lawrence.gotts@lw.com 

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

555 Eleventh Street, NW 

Suite 1000 

Washington, DC 20004-1304 

Telephone: (202) 637 2384 

Facsimile: (202) 637 2201 

Aslan Baghdadi 

aslan.baghdadi@plumsea.com 

PLUMSEA LAW GROUP LLC 

6710A Rockledge Dr., Ste. 400 

Bethesda, MD 20817 

8. MODIFICATION 

This Stipulated Order may be modified by a Stipulated Order of the parties or by the 

Court for good cause shown. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, through Counsel of Record. 

Dated: November 19, 2015 Respectfully submitted, 

By: /s/ Matthew J. Meyer 

 Matthew J. Meyer 

Theodore G. Brown, III 

tbrown@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Matthew J. Meyer 

mmeyer@kilpatricktownsend.com 

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP 

1080 Marsh Road 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

Telephone: (650) 326-2400 

Fax: (650) 326-2422 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

MASSIVELY PARALLEL 

INSTRUMENTS, INC.

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Dated: November 19, 2015 Respectfully submitted, 

By: /s/ David F. Kowalski 

 David F. Kowalski 

Lawrence J. Gotts (pro hac vice) 

lawrence.gotts@lw.com 

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

555 Eleventh Street, NW 

Suite 1000 

Washington, DC 20004-1304 

Telephone: (202) 637 2384 

Facsimile: (202) 637 2201 

Andrew J. Fossum (SBN 250373) 

andrew.fossum@lw.com

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

811 Main Street, Suite 3700 

Houston, TX 77002 

Telephone: (713) 546-5400 

Facsimile: (713) 546-5401

David F. Kowalski (SBN 265527) 

david.kowalski@lw.com 

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

12670 High Bluff Drive 

San Diego, CA 92130 

Telephone: (858) 523-5400 

Facsimile: (858) 523-5450 

Aslan Baghdadi (pro hac vice) 

aslan.baghdadi@plumsea.com 

PlumSea Law Group, LLC 

6710A Rockledge Drive, Suite 400 

Bethesda, MD 20817 

Telephone: (301) 365-9040 

Attorneys for Defendants 

WATERS CORPORATION and 

WATERS TECHNOLOGIES 

CORPORATION

SIGNATURE ATTESTATION 

Pursuant to Civil L.R. 5.1, I hereby attest that I have obtained the concurrence in the 

filing of this document from all the signatories for whom a signature is indicated by a 

“conformed” signature (/s/) within this e-filed document and I have on file records to support this 

concurrence for subsequent production for the Court if so ordered or for inspection upon request. 

Dated: November 19, 2015 By: /s/ David F. Kowalski 

 David F. Kowalski 

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IT IS ORDERED that the forgoing Agreement is approved. 

Dated: 

WILLIAM ALSUP 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

November 20, 2015.

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