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Parties Involved:
FieldTurf International, Inc.
Counter-claimant
FieldTurf, Inc.
Counter-claimant
Sportexe Construction Services, Inc.
Counter-defendant
Sportexe, Inc.
Counter-defendant
Triexe Management Group, Inc.
Counter-defendant

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER [BFLO Doc. # 1492484]

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PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP

Michael J. Berchou, Admitted Pro Hac Vice

Rowland Richards, Admitted Pro Hac Vice

3400 HSBC Center

Buffalo, New York 14203

Telephone: (716) 847-8400

Facsimile: (716) 852-6100

FACTOR & LAKE, LTD.

Jody L. Factor, Admitted Pro Hac Vice

William J. Lenz, Admitted Pro Hac Vice

1327 West Washington Blvd., Suite 5G/H

Chicago, Illinois 60607

Telephone: (312) 226-1818

Facsimile: (312) 226-1919

PERKINS COIE LLP

Kenneth Wilson (Bar No. 130009)

Stefani E. Shanberg (Bar No. 206717)

Sarah E. Piepmeier (Bar No. 227094)

180 Townsend Street, 3rd Floor

San Francisco, California 94107-1909

Telephone: (415) 344-7000

Facsimile: (415) 344-7050

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

TRIEXE MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC., 

SPORTEXE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, 

INC. and SPORTEXE, INC.

LUCE, FORWARD, HAMILTON, & 

 SCRIPPS LLP

William L. Marchant (Bar No. 154445)

121 Spear Street, Suite 200

San Francisco, CA 94105-1582

Telephone: (415) 356-4600

Facsimile: (415) 356-4610

Attorneys for Defendants

FIELDTURF INTERNATIONAL, INC.

and FIELDTURF, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

TRIEXE MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC., 

SPORTEXE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, 

INC., and SPORTEXE, INC.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

FIELDTURF INTERNATIONAL, INC. and 

FIELDTURF, INC.,

Defendants.

No. 04-4918 BZ

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or non-party

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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 

“Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential” or as “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 

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employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or 

trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation.

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

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

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

subcontractors.

3. SCOPE

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

Material (as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as 

all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected 

Material.

4. DURATION

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations 

imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing 

or a court order otherwise directs.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

Each Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must 

take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate 

standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of 

material, document, items, or oral or written communications that qualify - so that other portions 

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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 “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 “CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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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 

“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 “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 “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 “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 30 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 

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“CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). Only those portions of the testimony that 

are appropriately designated for protection within the 30 days shall be covered by the provisions 

of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound 

by the court reporters who must affix to the top of each such page the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the 

Party or nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony.

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

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

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

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “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 

“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 “ConfidentialAttorneys’ 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 “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.

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6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

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

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

promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

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

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

process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not 

sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must 

explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give 

the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen 

designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if 

it has engaged in this meet and confer process first.

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

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party 

may file and serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and compliance with Civil Local 

Rule 79-5, if applicable) that in 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.

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

Designating Party. Until the Court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the

material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s 

designation.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

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

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be 

disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order.

When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of 

section 11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

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

location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized 

under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information 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;

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(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 “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 

“CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to:

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(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;

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (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 of the document or the original source of the 

information.

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 “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 

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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 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 clays after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all 

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

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

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

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

Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a 

written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the 

Designating Party) by the sixty day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all 

the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party 

has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or 

capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, 

correspondence or attorney work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material.

Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this 

Protective Order as set forth in Section4 (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.

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.

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Dated: June 29, 2005

Respectfully submitted, 

PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP FACTOR & LAKE, LTD.

By /s/ Michael J. Berchou By /s/ Jody L. Factor

Michael J. Berchou Jody L. Factor

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Attorneys for Defendants

TRIEXE MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC., FIELDTURF INTERNATIONAL, INC.

SPORTEXE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, and FIELDTURF, INC.

INC. and SPORTEXE, INC.

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: _______________, 2005 __________________________________________

 Hon. Bernard Zimmerman

 United States Magistrate Judge

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, ________________________________________ [print or type full name], of 

________________________________________________________ [print or type full address], 

declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated 

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

California on [date] in the case of Triexe Management Group, Inc., Sportexe Construction 

Services, Inc., et al. v. Fieldturf International, Inc., et al. (Northern District of California Case 

No. 04-4918 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.

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:

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER [BFLO Doc. # 1492484]

CASE NO. 04-4918 BZ

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Printed name:

[printed name]

Signature:

[signature]

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