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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

MARSHALL DIVISION

COBBLESTONE WIRELESS, LLC,

 Plaintiff,

v.

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.,

 Defendants.

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CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:23-cv-00455-JRG-RSP

(LEAD CASE)

PROTECTIVE ORDER

WHEREAS, Plaintiff Cobblestone Wireless, LLC (“Cobblestone”) and Defendants Cisco 

Systems, Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, and Aruba Networks, LLC (“Defendants”), 

hereafter referred to as “the Parties,” believe that certain information that is or will be encompassed 

by discovery demands by the Parties involves the production or disclosure of trade secrets, 

confidential business information, or other proprietary information;

WHEREAS,thePartiesseek a protective orderlimiting disclosure thereofin accordancewith 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c):

THEREFORE, it is hereby stipulated among the Parties and ORDERED that:

1. Each Party may designate as confidential for protection underthis Order, in whole or in part,

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any document, information or material that constitutes or includes, in whole or in part, 

confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of the Party or a Third Party to whom 

the Party reasonably believes it owes an obligation of confidentiality with respect to such 

document, information or material (“Protected Material”). Protected Material shall be 

designated by the Party producing it by affixing a legend or stamp on such document, 

information or material as follows: “CONFIDENTIAL.” The word “CONFIDENTIAL” 

shall be placed clearly on each page of the Protected Material (except deposition and hearing 

transcripts) for which such protection is sought. For deposition and hearing transcripts, the 

word “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be placed on the cover page of the transcript (if not already 

present on the cover page of the transcript when received from the court reporter) by each 

attorney receiving a copy of the transcript after that attorney receives notice of the 

designation of some or all of that transcript as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

2. Any document produced under Patent Rules 2-2, 3-2, and/or 3-4 before issuance of this 

Order with the designation “Confidential” or “Confidential- Outside Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

shall receive the same treatment as if designated “RESTRICTED - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” under this Order, unless and untilsuch document isredesignated to have a different 

classification under this Order.

3. With respect to documents, information or material designated “CONFIDENTIAL, 

“RESTRICTED - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL 

SOURCE CODE” (“DESIGNATED MATERIAL”),1 subject to the provisions herein and

1 The term DESIGNATED MATERIAL is used throughout this Protective Order to refer to the 

class of materials designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “RESTRICTED - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY,” or “RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE,” both individually and 

collectively.

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unless otherwise stated, this Order governs, without limitation: (a) all documents, 

electronically stored information, and/or things as defined by the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure; (b) all pretrial, hearing or deposition testimony, or documents marked as exhibits 

or for identification in depositions and hearings; (c) pretrial pleadings, exhibits to pleadings 

and other court filings; (d) affidavits; and (e) stipulations. All copies, reproductions, 

extracts, digests and complete or partial summaries prepared from any DESIGNATED 

MATERIALS shall also be considered DESIGNATED MATERIAL and treated as such 

under this Order.

4. A designation of Protected Material (i.e., “CONFIDENTIAL,” “RESTRICTED -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE”) 

may be made at any time. Inadvertent or unintentional production of documents, 

information or material that has not been designated as DESIGNATED MATERIAL shall 

not be deemed a waiver in whole or in part of a claim for confidential treatment. Any party 

that inadvertently or unintentionally produces Protected Material without designating it as 

DESIGNATEDMATERIALmay request destruction ofthatProtectedMaterial bynotifying 

the recipient(s), as soon as reasonably possible after the producing Party becomes aware of 

the inadvertent or unintentional disclosure, and providing replacement Protected Material 

that is properly designated. The recipient(s)shall then destroy all copies of the inadvertently 

or unintentionally produced Protected Materials and any documents, information or material 

derived from or based thereon.

5. “CONFIDENTIAL” documents, information and material may be disclosed only to the 

following persons, except upon receipt of the prior written consent of the designating party, 

upon order of the Court, or as set forth in paragraph 12 herein:

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(a) outside counsel of record in this Action for the Parties;

(b) employees of such counsel assigned to and reasonably necessary to assist such 

counsel in the litigation of this Action;

(c) in-house counsel for the Parties who either have responsibility for making decisions 

dealing directly with the litigation of this Action, or who are assisting outside 

counsel in the litigation of this Action;

(d) up to and including three (3) designated representatives of each of the Parties to the 

extent reasonably necessary for the litigation of this Action, except that either party 

may in good faith request the other party’s consent to designate one or more 

additional representatives, the other party shall not unreasonably withhold such 

consent, and the requesting party may seek leave of Court to designate such 

additional representative(s) if the requesting party believes the other party has 

unreasonably withheld such consent;

(e) outside consultants or experts2 (i.e., not existing employees or affiliates of a Party 

or an affiliate of a Party) retained for the purpose of this litigation, provided that:

(1) such consultants or experts are not presently employed by the Parties hereto for 

purposes other than this Action; (2) before access is given, the consultant or expert 

has completed the Undertaking attached as Exhibit A hereto and the same is served 

upon the producing Party with a current curriculum vitae of the consultant or expert 

at least ten (10) days before access to the Protected Material is to be given to that 

consultant or Undertaking to object to and notify the receiving Party in writing that 

it objectsto disclosure of Protected Material to the consultant or expert. The Parties 

agree to promptly confer and use good faith to resolve any such objection. If the 

Parties are unable to resolve any objection, the objecting Party may file a motion 

with the Court within fifteen (15) days of the service of the Undertaking and CV, or 

within such other time as the Parties may agree, seeking a protective order with 

respect to the proposed disclosure. To the extent no timely motion is filed, any 

objection is deemed resolved. The objecting Party shall have the burden of proving 

the need for a protective order. No disclosure shall occur until all such objections 

are resolved by agreement or Court order;

(f) independent litigation support services, including persons working for or as court 

reporters, graphics or design services, jury or trial consulting services, and 

photocopy, document imaging, and database services retained by counsel and 

reasonably necessary to assist counsel with the litigation of this Action; and

(g) the Court and its personnel.

2 An outside consultant or expert is defined to include the outside consultant’s or expert’s direct 

reports and other support personnel, such that the disclosure to a consultant or expert who 

employs others within his or her firm to help in his or her analyses shall count as disclosure to a 

single consultant or expert.

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6. A Party shall designate documents, information or material as “CONFIDENTIAL” only 

upon a good faith belief that the documents, information or material contains confidential 

or proprietary information or trade secrets of the Party or a Third Party to whom the Party 

reasonably believesit owes an obligation of confidentiality with respect to such documents, 

information or material.

7. Documents, information or material produced pursuant to any discovery request in this 

Action, including but not limited to Protected Material designated as DESIGNATED 

MATERIAL, shall be used by the Parties only in the litigation of this Action and shall not 

be used for any other purpose. Any person or entity who obtains access to DESIGNATED 

MATERIAL or the contents thereof pursuant to this Order shall not make any copies, 

duplicates, extracts,summaries or descriptions ofsuch DESIGNATED MATERIAL or any 

portion thereof except as may be reasonably necessary in the litigation of this Action. Any 

such copies, duplicates, extracts, summaries or descriptions shall be classified 

DESIGNATED MATERIALS and subject to all of the terms and conditions of thisOrder.

8. To the extent a producing Party believes that certain Protected Material qualifying to be 

designated CONFIDENTIAL is so sensitive that its dissemination deserves even further 

limitation, the producing Party may designate such Protected Material “RESTRICTED --

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or to the extent such Protected Material includes computer 

source code and/or live data (that is, data as it exists residing in a database or databases) 

(“Source Code Material”), the producing Party may designate such Protected Material as 

“RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE.”

9. For Protected Material designated RESTRICTED -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, access 

to, and disclosure of, such Protected Material shall be limited to individuals listed in

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paragraphs 5(a-c) and (e-g); provided, however, that access by in-house counsel pursuant to 

paragraph 5(c) be limited to in-house counsel who exercise no competitive decision-making 

authority on behalf of the client.3

10. For Protected Material designated RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE, 

the following additional restrictions apply:

(a) Access to a Party’s Source Code Material shall be provided only on “stand-alone” 

computer(s) (that is, the computer may not be linked to any network and is disabled 

from having external drives attached to it) or a remote thin client over a secured 

connection to Defendant’s source code repository (that is, the computer may not 

be linked to any network, including a local area network (“LAN”), an intranet or 

the Internet). The stand-alone computer(s) may be connected to (i) a stand-alone 

printer provided by the producing Party, or (ii) a stand-alone device capable of 

temporarily storing electronic copies solely for the limited purposes permitted 

pursuant to paragraphs 10 (h and k) below. The producing Party may maintain an 

internal log of what has been printed from the stand-alone printer or stored on the 

stand-alone device. Additionally, except as provided in paragraph 10(k) below, the 

stand-alone computer(s) may only be located at the Texas offices of the 

producing Party’s outside counsel or by agreement of the parties, or at the 

location of a witness providing deposition testimony on behalf of a producing 

Party. Any review of source code on the stand-alone computer by the receiving 

Party must occur prior to the close of expert discovery unless otherwise agreed 

among the parties or ordered by the Court;

(b) The receiving Party shall make reasonable efforts to restrict its requests for such 

accessto the stand-alone computer(s) orremote thin clientsto normal business hours, 

which for purposes of this paragraph shall be 9:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. 

However, upon reasonable notice from the receiving party, the producing Party 

shall make reasonable efforts to accommodate the receiving Party’s request for 

accessto the stand-alone computer(s) outside of normal business hours. The Parties 

agree to cooperate in good faith such that maintaining the producing Party’s Source 

Code Material at the offices of its outside counsel shall not unreasonably hinder

3 Plaintiff represents that currently there are no in-house counsel subject to paragraph 9. If 

Plaintiff hires in-house counsel subject to paragraph 9, whom Plaintiff intends to disclose 

confidential information subject to this paragraph, Plaintiff will immediately notify Defendants 

and the Parties will meet and confer with respect to revising paragraph 9.

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the receiving Party’s ability to efficiently and effectively conduct the prosecution 

or defense of this Action;

(c) The producing Party shall provide the receiving Party with information explaining 

how to start, log on to, and operate the stand-alone computer(s) or remote thin client 

in order to access the produced Source Code Material on the stand-alone 

computer(s). No recordable media, recordable devices, input/output devices, 

devices with Internet or network access, or other electronic devices capable of 

recording, copying, or transmitting the source code, including without limitation 

laptops, USB devices, sound recorders, computers, cellular telephones, 

smartphones, peripheral equipment, cameras, CDs, DVDs, or drives of any kind, 

shall be permitted in the source code reviewing room. Norshall the reviewing Party 

or its expert(s) attempt to circumvent the security of the review computer or 

confidentiality of the source code displayed. The Producing Party may visually 

monitor, in a non-intrusive fashion and at reasonable intervals, through a glass wall 

or window, the activities of the Receiving Party’s representatives during any 

Source Code Material review, but only to ensure that no unauthorized electronic 

records of the Source Code Material are being created or transmitted in any way, 

and only so long as the Producing Party cannot hear the Receiving Party or view 

any handwritten notes. Nor may the Producing Party physically enter the limited 

access review room when the Receiving Party is present without the Receiving 

Party’s consent. The Producing Party shall not monitor the review conducted by 

the Receiving Party through analyzing the electronic access record on the 

standalone computer (e.g., command histories, recent file lists, file access dates, 

undo histories, and etc.) or otherwise, all of which the Producing Party 

acknowledges constitutes the Receiving Party’s work product and shall not be used 

for any purpose or admitted into evidence in this or any other proceeding. To be 

clear, the Producing Party will not monitor, listen in on, or otherwise inhibit the 

Receiving Party's privileged communications or note-taking in the Source Code 

Review Room, and the Producing Party's supervision will not, by itself, be deemed 

to cause any waiver or other loss of any privilege covering such notes or 

communications. The Producing Party shall have the right to confirm identities of 

the persons accessing Source Code Material.

(d) The producing Party will produce Source Code Material in computer searchable 

format on the stand-alone computer(s) as described above;

(e) Access to Protected Material designated RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL -

SOURCE CODE shall be limited to outside counsel and up to three (3) outside 

consultants or experts4 (i.e., not existing employees or affiliates of a Party or an 

affiliate of a Party) retained for the purpose of thislitigation and approved to access

4 For the purposes of this paragraph, an outside consultant or expert is defined to include the outside 

consultant’s or expert’s direct reports and other support personnel, such that the disclosure to a 

consultant or expert who employs others within his or her firm to help in his or her analysis shall 

count as a disclosure to a single consultant or expert.

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such Protected Materials pursuant to paragraph 5(e) above. A receiving Party may 

include excerpts of Source Code Material in a pleading, exhibit, expert report, 

discovery document, deposition transcript, other Court document, provided that the 

Source Code Documents are appropriately marked under this Order, restricted to 

those who are entitled to have access to them as specified herein, and, if filed with 

the Court, filed under seal in accordance with the Court’s rules, procedures and 

orders;

(f) To the extent portions of Source Code Material are quoted in a Source Code 

Document, either (1) the entire Source Code Document will be stamped and treated 

asRESTRICTEDCONFIDENTIALSOURCECODEor(2)those pages containing 

quoted Source Code Material will be separately stamped and treated as 

RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE;

(g) Except as set forth in paragraph 10(k) below, no electronic copies of Source Code 

Material shall be made without prior written consent of the producing Party, except 

as necessary to create documents which, pursuant to the Court’s rules, procedures 

and order, must be filed or served electronically;

(h) The receiving Party shall be permitted to make a reasonable number of printouts and 

photocopies of Source Code Material, all of which shall be designated and clearly 

labeled “RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE,” and the receiving 

Party shall maintain a log of all such files that are printed or photocopied. In 

considering what is reasonable, the receiving Party shall not, in general, ask that 

more than 35 pages of a continuous block or 800 total pages per defendant of 

Source Code Material be printed, without prior written permission of the 

Producing Party, and the Producing Party shall not unreasonably withhold or 

delay such permission. The parties shall work in good faith if any party needs to 

print additional pages. The producing Party will provide any printed paper copies

to the receiving Party within three (3) business days of the receiving Party’s

request, unless otherwise agreed or the producing Party objects to the request for 

exceeding the limitation set forth in this paragraph. The producing Party shall 

strive to accommodate shorter turnaround requests. At the receiving Party’s 

request, up to two additional sets (or subsets) of printed Source Code may be 

requested and provided by the Producing Party in a timely fashion. In the event

the producing Party believes that a particular printing request is unreasonable, the 

producing Party and receiving Party shall meet and confer in good faith to attempt

to resolve this dispute without the Court’s involvement, within 2 days of the print 

request. If they cannot resolve the issue, the producing Party must seek an order 

from the Court within 5 days of the receiving Party’s print request. If no timely 

request for relief is filed by the producing Party, the receiving Party shall

immediately produce the printouts to the receiving Party;

(i) Should such printouts or photocopies be transferred back to electronic media, such

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media shall be labeled “RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE” and 

shall continue to be treated as such;

(j) If the receiving Party’s outside counsel, consultants, or experts obtain printouts or 

photocopies of Source Code Material, the receiving Party shall ensure that such 

outside counsel, consultants, or experts keep the printouts or photocopies in a 

secured locked area in the offices of such outside counsel, consultants, or expert. 

The receiving Partymay also temporarily keep the printouts or photocopies at:(i)the 

Court for any proceedings(s) relating to the Source Code Material, for the dates 

associated with the proceeding(s); (ii) the sites where any deposition(s) relating to 

the Source Code Material are taken, for the dates associated with the deposition(s); 

and (iii) any intermediate location reasonably necessary to transport the printouts or 

photocopies (e.g., a hotel prior to a Court proceeding or deposition). In no instance 

may any produced source code printouts be transported to, or reviewed by any 

person located in, any other country, other than the United States, unless as 

necessary for a deposition in another country; and

(k) A producing Party’s Source Code Material may only be transported by the receiving 

Party at the direction of a person authorized under paragraph 10(e) above to another 

person authorized under paragraph 10(e) above, on paper or removable electronic 

media (e.g., a DVD, CD-ROM, or flash memory “stick”) via hand carry, Federal 

Express or other similarly reliable courier. Source Code Material may not be 

transported or transmitted electronically over a network of any kind, including a 

LAN, an intranet, or the Internet. Source Code Material may only be transported 

electronically for the purpose of Court proceeding(s) or deposition(s) as set forth in 

paragraph 10(j) above and is at all timessubject to the transport restrictionsset forth 

herein. But, for those purposes only, the Source Code Materials may be loaded onto 

a stand-alone computer.

(l) A producing Party may, at its election, prohibit a receiving Party’s source code 

reviewer(s) from bringing electronic devices (other than medical devices) into the 

room containing the stand-alone computer. If the producing Party so elects, the 

producing Party must provide (1) a separate, secure, and substantially private 

workspace convenient to the review room for use by the receiving Party’s 

reviewer(s) to store and use electronic devices; and (2) a note-taking laptop located 

in the review room. The note-taking laptop must be equipped with Microsoft Word 

and Microsoft OneNote, or (after reasonable notice to the reviewing Party) 

equivalent software. The producing Party must provide for any reviewer to load 

notes, including electronic documents, onto the note-taking laptop prior to a review 

session and to retrieve notes from the note-taking laptop after a review session, for 

example by supervised use of a USB storage device. All notes, whether electronic 

or otherwise, will remain protected as work product and shall not be reviewed by 

producing Party. The note-taking laptop computer will not track, keep any file 

histories of, or otherwise record notes generated by the Reviewing Party, including 

through any keyloggers, tracking software, or recording software.

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(m) Furthermore, for depositions of persons qualified to view Source Code Material, 

at least one (1) week before the date of the deposition, or in the case of a deposition 

reasonably scheduled less than (1) week in advance, no later than 24 hours after 

scheduling such deposition, the receiving Party shall notify the producing party if 

the receiving Party wishes to have the stand-alone computer or remote thin client 

available at the deposition. To the extent the location and schedule of depositions 

makes it impractical to have a stand-alone computer or remote thin client at 

multiple depositions where it is necessary, the parties will meet and confer to 

determine which portions of source code will be used at which depositions, so that 

a reasonable number of additional stand-alone computers or remote thin clients 

may be efficiently created and made available. The computer upon which Source 

Code Material is made available at the deposition shall include appropriate 

software analysis tools as discussed above, provided the receiving Party has, at its 

expense, provided the supplier with a license for such software tool in sufficient 

time to have it properly loaded on the deposition source code computer.

11. Any attorney representing a Party, whether in-house or outside counsel, and any person 

associated with a Party and permitted to receive the other Party’s Protected Material that is 

designated RESTRICTED -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY and/or RESTRICTED 

CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE (collectively “HIGHLY SENSITIVE MATERIAL”), 

who obtains, receives, has access to, or otherwise learns, in whole or in part, the other 

Party’s HIGHLY SENSITIVE MATERIAL under this Order shall not prepare, prosecute, 

supervise, or assist in the preparation or prosecution of any patent application pertaining to 

the field of the invention of the patents-in-suit on behalf of the receiving Party or its 

acquirer,successor, predecessor, or other affiliate during the pendency of this Action and for 

one year afterits conclusion, including any appeals. For the avoidance of doubt, “prosecute” 

as used in this paragraph does not include representing a Party in an Inter Partes Review 

proceeding or other administrative proceeding related to the patents-in-suit (such as ex 

parte reexamination), even if they have received and/or reviewed the other HIGHLY 

SENSITIVE MATERIAL, provided that they do not participate or assist in any claim 

drafting or amendment of claims in such proceedings. To ensure compliance with the

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purpose of this provision, each Party shall create an “Ethical Wall” between those persons 

with access to HIGHLY SENSITIVE MATERIAL and any individuals who, on behalf of 

the Party or its acquirer, successor, predecessor, or other affiliate, prepare, prosecute, 

supervise or assist in the preparation or prosecution of any patent application pertaining to 

the field of invention of the patent-in-suit.

12. Nothing in this Order shall require production of documents, information or other material 

that a Party contends is protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege, the work 

product doctrine, or other privilege, doctrine, or immunity. If documents, information or 

other materialsubject to a claim of attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, or other 

privilege, doctrine, or immunity is inadvertently or unintentionally produced, such 

production shall in no way prejudice or otherwise constitute a waiver of, or estoppel as to, 

any such privilege, doctrine, or immunity. Any Party that inadvertently or unintentionally 

producesdocuments,informationorothermaterialitreasonablybelieves areprotectedunder 

the attorney-clientprivilege,workproductdoctrine,orotherprivilege,doctrine,orimmunity 

may obtain the return of such documents, information or other material by promptly 

notifying the recipient(s) and providing a privilege log for the inadvertently or 

unintentionally produced documents, information or other material. The recipient(s) shall 

gather and return all copies of such documents, information or other material to the 

producingParty, exceptfor any pages containing privileged or otherwise protectedmarkings 

by the recipient(s), which pages shall instead be destroyed and certified as such to the 

producing Party.

13. There shall be no disclosure of any DESIGNATED MATERIAL by any person authorized 

to have accessthereto to any person who is not authorized forsuch access under this Order.

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The Parties are hereby ORDERED to safeguard all such documents, information and 

material to protect against disclosure to any unauthorized persons or entities.

14. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prejudice any Party’s right to use any 

DESIGNATED MATERIAL in taking testimony at any deposition or hearing provided that 

the DESIGNATED MATERIAL is only disclosed to a person(s) who is: (i) eligible to have 

access to the DESIGNATED MATERIAL by virtue of his or her employment with the 

designating party,(ii)identified in theDESIGNATEDMATERIALas an author, addressee, 

or copy recipient of such information, (iii) although not identified as an author, addressee, 

or copy recipient of such DESIGNATED MATERIAL, has, in the ordinary course of 

business, seen such DESIGNATED MATERIAL, (iv) a current or former officer, director 

or employee of the producing Party or a current or former officer, director or employee of 

a company affiliated with the producing Party; (v) counsel for a Party, including outside 

counsel and in-house counsel (subject to paragraph 9 of this Order); (vi) an independent 

contractor, consultant, and/or expert retained for the purpose of this litigation; (vii) court 

reporters and videographers; (viii) the Court; or (ix) other persons entitled hereunder to 

accessto DESIGNATEDMATERIAL. DESIGNATEDMATERIALshall not be disclosed 

to any other persons unless prior authorization is obtained from counsel representing the 

producing Party or from the Court.

15. Parties may, at the deposition or hearing or within thirty (30) days after receipt of a 

deposition or hearing transcript, designate the deposition or hearing transcript or any portion 

thereof as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “RESTRICTED - ATTORNEY’ EYES ONLY,” or 

“RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE” pursuant to this Order. Accessto the 

deposition or hearing transcript so designated shall be limited in accordance with the terms

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of this Order. Until expiration of the 30-day period, the entire deposition or hearing 

transcript shall be treated as confidential.

16. Any DESIGNATED MATERIAL that is filed with the Court shall be filed under seal and 

shall remain underseal until further order of the Court. The filing party shall be responsible 

for informing the Clerk of the Court that the filing should be sealed and for placing the 

legend “FILED UNDER SEAL PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” above the 

caption and conspicuously on each page of the filing. Exhibits to a filing shall conform to 

the labeling requirements set forth in this Order. If a pretrial pleading filed with the Court, 

or an exhibit thereto, discloses or relies on confidential documents, information or material, 

such confidential portions shall be redacted to the extent necessary and the pleading or 

exhibit filed publicly with the Court.

17. The Order applies to pretrial discovery. Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to prevent 

the Parties from introducing any DESIGNATED MATERIAL into evidence at the trial of 

this Action, or from using any information contained in DESIGNATED MATERIAL at 

the trial of this Action, subject to any pretrial order issued by this Court.

18. A Party may request in writing to the other Party that the designation given to any 

DESIGNATED MATERIAL be modified or withdrawn. If the designating Party does not 

agree to redesignation within ten (10) days of receipt of the written request, the requesting 

Party may apply to the Court for relief. Upon any such application to the Court, the burden 

shall be on the designating Party to show why its classification is proper. Such application 

shall be treated procedurally as a motion to compel pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure 37, subject to the Rule’s provisions relating to sanctions. In making such 

application, the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the LocalRules

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of the Court shall be met. Pending the Court’s determination of the application, the 

designation of the designating Party shall be maintained.

19. Each outside consultant or expert to whom DESIGNATED MATERIAL is disclosed in 

accordance with the terms of this Order shall be advised by counsel of the terms of this 

Order, shall be informed that he or she is subject to the terms and conditions of this Order, 

and shall sign an acknowledgment that he or she has received a copy of, has read, and has 

agreed to be bound by this Order. A copy of the acknowledgment form is attached as 

Appendix A.

20. To the extent that any discovery is taken of persons who are not Parties to this Action 

(“Third Parties”) and in the event that such Third Parties contended the discovery sought 

involves trade secrets, confidential business information, or other proprietary information, 

then such Third Parties may agree to be bound by this Order.

21. Information originating with a Third Party and in a producing Party’s custody or control 

that a producing party reasonably and in good faith believes is subject to a confidentiality 

obligation may be designated by a producing Party as “CONFIDENTIAL, 

“RESTRICTED - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL 

SOURCE CODE” followed by the legal name of the Third Party to whom confidentiality 

is being attributed and such protected information shall be subject to the restrictions on 

disclosure specified in this Order. The foregoing notwithstanding, if a Party has a good 

faith belief that the production of the documents, information, or material is objectionable 

on the grounds that the requested documents, information, or material is subject to a Third 

Party confidentiality obligation, the producing Party promptly shall confer with the Third 

Party to resolve the confidentiality issue. Any Party to this Action intending to disclose

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Third Party confidential information subject to this Order should first provide to such 

Third Party a copy of this Order and a description of information to be disclosed, in which 

case the producing Party shall cooperate in providing the contact information ofsuch Third 

Party.

22. To the extent that discovery or testimony is taken of Third Parties, the Third Parties may 

designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “RESTRICTED -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

any documents, information or other material, in whole or in part, produced or given by 

such Third Parties. The Third Parties shall have ten (10) days after production of such 

documents, information or other materials to make such a designation. Until that time 

period lapses or until such a designation has been made, whichever occurs sooner, all 

documents, information or other material so produced or given shall be treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” in accordance with thisOrder.

23. Within sixty (60) days of final termination of this Action, including any appeals, all 

DESIGNATEDMATERIAL,includingallcopies,duplicates,abstracts,indexes,summaries, 

descriptions, and excerpts or extracts thereof (excluding excerpts or extracts incorporated 

into any privileged memoranda of the Parties and materials which have been admitted into 

evidence in this Action), shall at the producing Party’s election either be returned to the 

producing Party or be destroyed. The receiving Party shall verify the return or destruction 

by affidavit furnished to the producing Party, upon the producing Party’s request.

24. The failure to designate documents, information or material in accordance with this Order 

and the failure to object to a designation at a given time shall not preclude the filing of a 

motion at a later date seeking to impose such designation or challenging the propriety 

thereof. The entry of this Order and/or the production of documents, information and

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material hereunder shall in no way constitute a waiver of any objection to the furnishing 

thereof, all such objections being hereby preserved.

25. Any Party knowing or believing that any other party is in violation of or intends to violate 

this Order and has raised the question of violation or potential violation with the opposing 

party and has been unable to resolve the matter by agreement may move the Court for such 

relief as may be appropriate in the circumstances. Pending disposition of the motion by the 

Court, the Party alleged to be in violation of or intending to violate this Order shall 

discontinue the performance of and/or shall not undertake the further performance of any 

action alleged to constitute a violation of this Order.

26. Production of DESIGNATED MATERIAL by each of the Parties shall not be deemed a 

publication of the documents, information and material (or the contents thereof) produced 

so asto void or make voidable whatever claim the Parties may have asto the proprietary and 

confidential nature of the documents, information or other material or its contents.

27. Nothing in this Order shall be construed to effect an abrogation, waiver or limitation of any 

kind on the rights of each of the Parties to assert any applicable discovery or trial privilege.

28. Each of the Partiesshall also retain the right to file a motion with the Court (a) to modify this 

Order to allow disclosure of DESIGNATED MATERIAL to additional persons or entities 

if reasonably necessary to prepare and present this Action and (b) to apply for additional 

protection of DESIGNATED MATERIAL.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS 

MARSHALL DIVISION

Case No. 2:23-cv-00454 JRG-RSP

(LEAD CASE)

JURY TRIAL DEMANDED

Case No. 2:23-cv-00457-JRG-

(MEMBER CASE)

JURY TRIAL DEMANDED

APPENDIX A

UNDERTAKING OF EXPERTS OR CONSULTANTS REGARDING 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

I, , declare that:

1. My address is .

My current employer is . 

My current occupation is .

2. I have received a copy of the Protective Order in this action. I have carefully read and 

understand the provisions of the Protective Order.

3. I will comply with all of the provisions of the Protective Order. I will hold in confidence, 

will not disclose to anyone not qualified under the Protective Order, and will use only for

COBBLESTONE WIRELESS, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.

Defendants.

COBBLESTONE WIRELESS, LLC,

v.

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE 

COMPANY; ARUBA NETWORKS, LLC

Defendants.

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purposes of this action any information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” 

“RESTRICTED -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL

SOURCE CODE” that is disclosed to me.

4. Promptly upon termination of these actions, I will return all documents and things 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “RESTRICTED -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” 

or “RESTRICTED CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE CODE” that came into my possession, 

and all documents and things that I have prepared relating thereto, to the outside counsel 

for the party by whom I am employed.

5. I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purpose of enforcement of the 

Protective Order in this action.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Signature

Date

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