STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER [PROPOSED]

ALICIA G. ROSENBERG, Magistrate Judge.

The Court recognizes that at least some of the documents and information being sought through discovery in the above-captioned action ("Action") are not publicly available and, for competitive reasons, normally kept confidential by Plaintiff Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. ("Plaintiff' or "Merck") and Defendants Genentech, Inc. and City of Hope (collectively, "Defendants") ("Plaintiff' and "Defendants" collectively referred to herein as the "parties"). The parties have agreed to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order ("Order") in this Action. The materials to be exchanged throughout the course of the litigation between the parties may contain trade secret or other confidential research, technical, cost, price, marketing or other commercial information, as is contemplated by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(1)(G). The purpose of this Order is to protect the confidentiality of such materials as much as practical during the litigation. THEREFORE:

DEFINITIONS

1. The terms "CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION" and "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY" (collectively, "RESTRICTED MATERIAL") shall mean and include information contained or disclosed in any material that satisfies the requirements of Paragraphs 7 and 8, respectively. The term "material" shall mean all documents, communications, depositions, pleadings, exhibits, things and all other material or information subject to discovery in this Action, including responses to requests for production of documents, answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, deposition testimony, expert testimony and reports and all other discovery taken pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as testimony adduced at trial, trial exhibits, matters in evidence and any other information used or disclosed at trial, hereafter furnished, directly or indirectly, by or on behalf of any party, nonparty, or witness in connection with this Action. For the avoidance of doubt, RESTRICTED MATERIAL of a non-party produced in this Action shall be afforded the same degree of protection from disclosure as the RESTRICTED MATERIAL of the parties to this Action. Each party or non-party shall act in good faith in designating such information as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY. Any information produced in prior litigations and designated Highly Confidential Attorneys' Eyes Only shall be treated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY in this litigation.

2. The term "Designated In-House Counsel" shall mean up to four in-house counsel in the employ of a party, whose duties require them to assist Outside Counsel to prepare for trial in this matter, and any administrative staff assisting such personnel. Designated In-House Counsel will be subject to the provisions of Paragraph 4.

a. The Designated In-House Counsel for Merck shall be Gerard Devlin and Richard Grochala.

b. The Designated In-House Counsel for Genentech shall be Rebecca Charnas Grant.

c. The Designated In-House Counsel for City of Hope shall be Greg Schetina and Lydia Chan.

d. A party wishing to substitute other, or designate other, Designated In-House Counsel shall provide written notice identifying the counsel and counsel's position and responsibilities. If the party receiving a notice designating in-house counsel objects to the designation, such party shall make its objections known to the sender of the notice, in writing, within seven business days of receipt of the written notification. Such objection must be for good cause and state with particularity the reasons for the objection. If the parties are unable to resolve their objections, the party seeking to make the disclosure may apply to the Court to resolve the matter. No RESTRICTED MATERIAL shall be disclosed to the replacement designated in-house counsel until (i) the seven-day period for objecting has passed and no objection is served, or (ii) if a timely written objection is served, the objection is resolved by an order of the Court or by an agreement among the parties involved.

3. The term "Outside Counsel" shall mean outside counsel of record, and other attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, and other support staff employed by the law firm(s) of the outside counsel of record, or other persons hired or used by these firms for the purpose of preparation and trial of this Action, such as discovery vendors, mock jurors, and trial and jury consultants.

4. Designated In-House Counsel shall have no involvement in the Prosecution of any patent or patent application claiming priority to the patents-insuit or any other patent or patent application relating to the manufacture of antibodies through the transformation of a host cell with DNA and subsequent expression of an antibody from that cell including applications related to cell culture media, formulating an antibody, and methods for purifying or characterizing an antibody ("Patent Prosecution Activities") from the time of receipt of any RESTRICTED MATERIAL through and including two years following (a) the entry of a final, non-appealable judgment or order in the liability phase of this Action, or (b) the complete settlement of all claims against all parties in this Action, whichever is later. "Prosecution" as used in this Paragraph means direct participation in drafting, amending, modifying or advising regarding the drafting or amending of patent claims or participation in domestic and/or foreign patent office correspondences in connection with such activities or fee payments related to any such activities. "Prosecution" does not include representing a party in connection with a challenge to or in defense of a patent before a domestic or foreign agency (including, but not limited to, an opposition proceeding, a reissue proceeding, ex parte reexamination, inter partes reexamination, inter partes review, or other postgrant review), provided such representation shall still prohibit a person from participating in the drafting, amendment, modification, or addition of patent claims in the context of an inter partes review and/or a challenge to a patent or patent application before a domestic or foreign agency. For clarity, no party will contend that Designated In-House Counsel have "involvement" in the Patent Prosecution Activities by virtue of their having formal supervisory responsibility over other in-house counsel or patent agents involved in the Patent Prosecution Activities, unless the Designated In-House Counsel in fact exercise that responsibility to direct the preparation or prosecution of specific patent applications relating to the Patent Prosecution Activities.

5. The term "Producing Party" shall mean any party or any non-party who produces for inspection, provides access to, provides copies of, or otherwise discloses RESTRICTED MATERIAL in connection with this litigation.

6. The term "Receiving Party" shall mean any party who receives the RESTRICTED MATERIAL of a Producing Party.

GENERAL RULES

7. Material may be designated as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION when the Producing Party believes in good faith that the material contains or pertains to information that is not publicly available and that, for competitive reasons, is normally kept confidential by the Producing Party.

8. Material may be designated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY when the Producing Party believes in good faith that the material contains CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION that is considered to be the most sensitive by the party, the unrestricted disclosure of which could be potentially harmful to the business or operations of such party, and that relates to:

a. Licensing agreements unrelated to the patents-in-suit and documents discussing the terms of such licensing agreements;

b. Business plans or business strategy, marketing plans, financial information, and sales forecasts;

c. Research and development, manufacturing, commercialization, and/or sales of products or potential products related to pembrolizumab, other PD-1 or PD-L1 targeting products, bezlotoxumab, or other Clostridium difficile toxin B neutralizing products;

d. Such additional categories as may become necessary and are agreed to between the parties in this Action in writing; or

e. Materials provided by a non-party to this Action at the request of the non-party and with a showing of good cause.

9. In the event the Producing Party elects to produce materials for inspection, no marking need be made by the Producing Party in advance of the initial inspection. For purposes of the initial inspection, all materials produced shall be considered HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY, and shall be treated as such pursuant to the terms of this Order. Thereafter, upon selection of specified materials for copying by the inspecting party, the Producing Party shall, within a reasonable time prior to producing those materials to the inspecting party, mark the copies of those materials that contain CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY with the appropriate confidentiality marking.

10. The Producing Party may redact the following RESTRICTED MATERIAL or information subject to the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, or other legal privilege protecting information from discovery in this lawsuit from documents that it produces:

a. names, addresses, Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and any other information that would identify patients;

b. names, addresses, Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and any other personal identifying information of health care providers, including but not limited to individuals, organizations, or facilities that furnish, bill, or are paid for healthcare services or supplies;

c. names, addresses, Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and any other personal identifying information (not to include race, age, or gender) of individuals enrolled as subjects in clinical studies or adverse event reports;

d. street addresses, Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers, dates of birth, home telephone numbers, and cellular telephone numbers of employees;

e. names, addresses, Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and other personal identifying information of any clinical investigator submitting an adverse event to the FDA on a MedWatch form;

f. materials that contain information protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, or other legal privilege protecting information from discovery in this lawsuit, which shall be identified in a privilege log; and

g. those portions of documents that contain information relating to the parties' products or molecules not at issue in this litigation.

11. The Producing Party that has redacted information pursuant to Paragraph 10, shall, upon request, identify the nature of the information redacted in a specific document with sufficient detail to allow the Receiving Party to determine whether a challenge to the redacted information may be appropriate. If the Receiving Party has a good-faith basis for challenging the redaction, that party shall inform counsel for the Producing Party in writing of said challenge within fourteen calendar days of receipt of the Producing Party's explanation of the redaction. If, after conferring, the parties cannot resolve the dispute, the Receiving Party challenging the redaction may move for a ruling on the issue of whether certain information is entitled to redaction. If the Court finds that said information should remain redacted, said information shall remain redacted and may not be used as evidence by either party at trial or at a hearing or be relied upon by either party's experts. If the Court finds that said information should not remain redacted, the Producing Party shall provide or file an unredacted version of the document within fourteen calendar days of the Court's decision or, if the Producing Party challenges such a decision, within fourteen calendar days of the conclusion of any and all proceedings or interlocutory appeals challenging the decision.

12. All RESTRICTED MATERIAL designated as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY shall not be disclosed by the Receiving Party to anyone other than those persons designated herein and shall not be used for any purpose other than this Action as set forth in Paragraph 16, unless and until such designation is removed either by agreement of the parties, or by order of the Court.

13. Information designated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY shall be viewed only by:

a. Outside Counsel;

b. Subject to Paragraph 15 of this Order, outside consultants or experts retained by a Receiving Party in this litigation who are not employees or consultants of a Receiving Party or its affiliates;

c. Any person indicated on the face of the document to be its originator, author or a recipient of a copy thereof;

d. The Court and its law clerks, staff, and any jury selected to hear this Action;

e. Stenographic reporters, videographers and their respective assistants who are engaged in such proceedings as are necessary for the preparation and trial of this Action;

f. Independent copying services, independent computer consulting and support services, independent exhibit makers, independent translators, and other independent litigation support services retained by counsel for purposes of this Action and who are obligated to not disclose CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION received from counsel; and

g. Others as to whom the Producing Party has given written consent.

14. Information designated CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION shall be viewed only by those individuals who have access to HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY, as well as Designated In-House Counsel.

15. The following provisions shall control the dissemination of CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION and HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY to consultants and experts:

a. A party proposing to show RESTRICTED MATERIAL to a consultant or expert per Paragraphs 13(b) and/or 14 shall first submit the signed acknowledgment attached hereto as Exhibit A, and a curriculum vitae (a "C.V.") to the other party. The C.V. must include or be accompanied by a document setting forth the consultant's or expert's name, current business affiliation and address, and any known present or former relationships between the consultant or expert and the parties to this litigation. The requirements of prior disclosure in this provision will not be a basis for seeking discovery from a non-testifying consultant or expert.

b. Such consultants and experts for the parties shall be entitled to use staff, assistants and clerical workers as they normally do in organizing documents, preparing opinions and doing the other analysis and investigation necessary to assist the experts in completing their assignments provided such persons shall first submit the signed acknowledgment attached hereto as Exhibit A.

c. If a party receiving a notice pursuant to this Paragraph objects to any RESTRICTED MATERIAL being disclosed to the selected consultant or expert, pursuant to this Order, such party shall make its objections known in writing to the sender of the notice within seven business days of receipt of the written notification required by this section. Such objection must be for good cause, stating with particularity the reasons for the objection. RESTRICTED MATERIAL may be disclosed to the consultant or expert if the seven business day period has passed and no objection has been made. If an objection is made, then within seven business days of receipt of an objection, the parties shall meet and confer to attempt to resolve their dispute. If the parties are unable to resolve their objections, the party making the objection has seven business days after the meet and confer to seek relief from the Court. If the party making the objection seeks such relief from the Court, the intended disclosure shall not be made unless and until the Court enters an order authorizing such disclosure. If relief from the Court is not sought within the above seven business days, the objection shall be deemed to have been withdrawn. The party making the objection shall have the burden of proof that the intended disclosure should not occur. If a timely written notice of objection is provided, no RESTRICTED MATERIAL shall be disclosed to the selected consultant or expert until the objection is resolved by an order of the Court or by an agreement among the parties involved.

16. All RESTRICTED MATERIAL disclosed by a Producing Party shall be held in confidence by the Receiving Party, and shall be used by the Receiving Party solely for matters reasonably related to the prosecution or defense of the claims in this Action, including pursuing the allegations in the pleadings in the Action, and for the depositions, preparation of motions, trial of this lawsuit, any appeal of this Action, settlement discussions and negotiations, or any form of alternative dispute resolution in this Action, and for no other purpose whatsoever, whether directly or indirectly, unless and until the restrictions herein are removed either by written agreement of counsel for the parties, or by Order of the Court. Notwithstanding the restrictions of this Paragraph, RESTRICTED MATERIAL disclosed by a Producing Party in this Action may be used by the parties in the inter partes review proceedings brought by Merck with respect to U.S. Patent No. 6,331,415 under the terms of the protective order entered in those proceedings.

17. Each person receiving RESTRICTED MATERIAL shall take reasonable precautions to prevent the unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure of such information. If RESTRICTED MATERIAL is disclosed to any person other than a person authorized by this Order, the party responsible for the unauthorized disclosure must immediately bring all pertinent facts relating to the unauthorized disclosure to the attention of the other parties and, without prejudice to any rights and remedies of the other parties, make every effort to retrieve the improperly disclosed RESTRICTED MATERIAL and prevent further disclosure by the party and by the person(s) receiving the unauthorized disclosure.

18. No party shall be responsible to another party for disclosure of RESTRICTED MATERIAL under this Order if the information in question is not labeled or otherwise identified as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY, in accordance with this Order.

19. A Producing Party, on its own initiative or at the request of any other party, may remove the designation HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY or re-designate it as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or may remove the designation CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.

20. This Protective Order shall be without prejudice to the right of any party to bring before the Court the question of whether any particular item should no longer be designated as RESTRICTED MATERIAL under the terms of this Order. If counsel for a Receiving Party objects to documents or information designated as such, the following procedure shall apply:

a. Counsel for the Receiving Party shall serve on the Producing Party a written objection to such designation, which shall describe with particularity the documents or information in question and shall state the grounds for objection. Counsel for the Producing Party shall respond in writing to such objection within fourteen calendar days, and shall state with particularity the grounds for asserting that the document or information is RESTRICTED MATERIAL. If no timely written response is made to the objection, the challenged designation will be deemed to be void. If the Producing Party makes a timely response to such objection asserting the propriety of the designation, counsel shall then confer in good faith in an effort to resolve the dispute within five business days.

b. If a dispute as to the designation of a document or item of information as RESTRICTED MATERIAL cannot be resolved by agreement, the proponent of the designation being challenged shall present the dispute in accordance with the Local Rules and the Court's Discovery Order in this Action. The document or information that is the subject of the filing shall be treated as originally designated pending resolution of the dispute.

c. In any motion challenging the classification, the Producing Party shall have the burden of establishing the need for classification as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY.

21. Any party may reasonably request, in writing, that a party filing or serving a paper in this Action, such as an expert report, dispositive motion, discovery motion, or similar paper, that is marked as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY shall produce to the other side a redacted copy of such paper, removing the information that has been designated as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY. Such redacted copy shall be provided within five (5) calendar days of such request or otherwise at a date agreed upon by the parties.

22. To the extent that any party has produced documents in this Action prior to the entry of this Order that it has indicated contain or pertain to confidential information, those documents will be treated as having been produced marked HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY pending any re-designation pursuant to this Order.

23. Whenever a deposition taken on behalf of any party involves a disclosure of RESTRICTED MATERIAL of any party:

a. said deposition or portions thereof shall be designated as containing CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY subject to the provisions of this Order; such designation shall be made on the record whenever possible, but a party may designate portions of depositions as containing CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY after transcription of the proceedings; a party shall have until twenty (20) days after receipt of the deposition transcript to inform the other party or parties to these Actions of the portions of the transcript designated CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY, and each deposition transcript shall be presumptively deemed to be HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY until the twenty-day period has expired;

b. the Producing Party shall have the right to exclude from attendance at said deposition, during such time as the RESTRICTED MATERIAL is to be disclosed, any person not authorized to receive such RESTRICTED MATERIAL pursuant to this Order; and

c. the originals of said deposition transcripts and all copies thereof shall bear the legend CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY, as appropriate.

24. Before any RESTRICTED MATERIAL is filed with the Court for any purpose, the party seeking to file such material shall seek permission of the Court to file said material under seal. The parties will follow and abide by applicable law, including relevant local rules, with respect to filing documents under seal in this Court. The party filing any material pursuant to this paragraph shall also file with the Court and make publicly available at the same time a redacted version that deletes or obscures any RESTRICTED MATERIAL.

25. This Protective Order is intended to be an Order within the meaning of FRE 502(d) and FRE 502(e). The inadvertent, unintentional disclosure of material or information subject to the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine or other privilege or immunity shall not be deemed a waiver, in whole or in part, of the relevant privilege or immunity. If a Producing Party at any time notifies the Receiving Party, in writing, that it inadvertently produced documents, testimony, information, or things that are protected from disclosure under the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, or any other applicable privilege or immunity from disclosure, the Receiving Party:

a. shall return or destroy all copies of such documents, testimony, information, or things to the Producing Party within three business days of receipt of such notice;

b. shall destroy all notes or other work product reflecting the content of such material and delete or sequester such material from any litigation support or other database within three business days of receipt of such notice; and

c. shall not further use such items for any purpose unless and until further order of the Court.

26. The return of any discovery item to the Producing Party shall not in any way preclude the Receiving Party from moving the Court within ten business days after serving an objection to the Producing Party for a ruling that: (i) the document or thing is not protected by the attorney-client privilege, the common-interest privilege, the work-product immunity, or any other immunity, or (ii) any applicable privilege or immunity has been waived other than by the inadvertent production of such material. In addition, the parties shall comply with Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(5)(B). The Receiving Party shall not rely upon the fact or circumstances of the production of the information in challenging the claim of privilege or protection. Prior to moving as allowed above, the parties will promptly meet and confer to attempt to resolve any dispute. In no event is this provision intended to be narrower in scope than FRE 502(b), rather it is intended to be as broad as its terms can be reasonably interpreted.

27. To the extent consistent with applicable law, the inadvertent or unintentional disclosure of CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY that should have been designated as such, regardless of whether the information, document or thing was so designated at the time of disclosure, shall not be deemed a waiver in whole or in part of a party's claim of confidentiality, either as to the specific information, document or thing disclosed or as to any other material or information concerning the same or related subject matter. Such inadvertent or unintentional disclosure may be rectified by notifying in writing counsel for all parties to whom the material was disclosed that the material should have been designated CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY within a reasonable time after becoming aware of the inadvertent disclosure. Such notice shall constitute a designation of the information, document or thing as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY under this Order and the Receiving Party shall take prompt steps to ensure that all known copies of such material are marked appropriately and treated as such. Nothing in this section shall preclude a party from challenging the propriety of the claim of confidentiality.

28. Nothing in this Order shall require disclosure of information, documents or things which a party contends is protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine, or any other applicable privilege or immunity. This Order will not preclude any party from moving the Court for an order directing the disclosure of such information, documents or things.

29. Nothing in this Order shall bar counsel from rendering advice to their clients with respect to this Action and, in the course thereof, relying upon any information designated as CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY, provided that the contents of the information shall not be disclosed.

30. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of any party to oppose production of any information for lack of relevance or any other ground other than the mere presence of RESTRICTED MATERIAL. The existence of this Order shall not be used by either party as a basis for discovery that is otherwise not proper under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

31. Drafts of expert reports and notes or outlines for draft reports shall not be discoverable by any party and do not need to be identified on a privilege log. Communications between experts and counsel relating to the preparation of expert reports shall not be discoverable and do not need to be identified on a privilege log, except that any facts and/or documents provided to an expert, whether from counsel or any other source, and the source of those documents and/or information are discoverable. Similarly, communications (including any notes and memorandum) involving Outside Counsel for each Party do not need to be identified on a privilege log if the communications occurred during the pendency of or in reasonable anticipation of U.S. District Court litigations relating to U.S. Patent Nos. 6,331,415 or 7,923,221. The materials, communications and other information exempt from discovery under the foregoing sentences shall be treated as protected by the attorney-client privilege and/or attorney work product doctrine.

32. Upon final termination of this Action, all persons subject to the terms hereof shall collect and return to the respective parties all RESTRICTED MATERIAL and all copies, excerpts, and summaries thereof within 60 calendar days of final termination of this Action (including any appeals), including all copies of such designated materials which may have been made. Alternatively, all persons subject to the terms of this Order may elect to destroy such materials and documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Outside Counsel for deponents or each party may retain: one paper copy of all court pleadings and briefs containing such designated materials; one paper copy of all deposition transcripts and deposition exhibits containing such designated materials; paper copies of attorney work product or other documents incorporating or referring to such designated materials; and Outside Counsel's electronic files other than the production sets of documents and things. All such documents retained by Outside Counsel shall remain subject to the terms of this Protective Order. The fulfillment of the obligations imposed by this paragraph, whether by return, destruction, or both, shall be certified in writing by the Receiving Party within 60 calendar days.

33. All obligations and duties arising under this Order shall survive the termination of this Action. The Court retains jurisdiction indefimitely over the parties, and any persons provided access to RESTRICTED MATERIAL under the terms of this Order, with respect to any dispute over the improper use of such designated materials.

34. The restrictions and obligations set forth herein shall not apply to any information that: (a) the parties agree should not be designated CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY; (b) is already public knowledge; (c) has become public knowledge other than as a result of disclosure by the Receiving Party, its employees, or its agents in violation of this Order; or (d) has come or shall come into the Receiving Party's legitimate knowledge independently of the production by the designating party. Prior knowledge must be established by pre-production documentation.

35. The restrictions and obligations herein shall not be deemed to prohibit discussions of any RESTRICTED MATERIAL with anyone if that person already has or obtains legitimate possession thereof.

36. Nothing herein shall be construed to limit in any way a party's use of its own RESTRICTED MATERIAL.

37. In the event that a new party is added, substituted or brought in, this Order will be binding on and inure to the benefit of the new party, subject to the right of the new party to seek relief from or modification of this Order.

38. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent disclosure of RESTRICTED MATERIAL if such disclosure is required by law or by order of the Court. In the event that a Producing Party's RESTRICTED MATERIAL is sought from a Receiving Party by any person not a party to this Action, by subpoena, by service with any legal process, by order or otherwise, prompt written notice shall be given to the Producing Party. Such notice shall include a copy of such subpoena, legal process or order. The Producing Party shall have ten (10) business days from receipt of notice to object. Nothing in this Order shall be construed as authorizing a party to disobey a lawful subpoena issued in another action. Nothing in this Order shall be construed as requiring anyone covered by this Order to contest a subpoena or other process, to appeal any order requiring production of RESTRICTED MATERIAL covered by this Order or to subject itself to penalties for noncompliance with any subpoena, legal process or order. Any persons seeking such RESTRICTED MATERIAL who take action to enforce such subpoena or other legal process shall be apprised of this Order.

39. Transmission by facsimile and/or e-mail is acceptable for all notification purposes herein.

40. This Order may be modified by agreement of the parties, subject to approval by the Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Exhibit A

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA WESTERN DIVISION

I, ________________________, hereby acknowledge and agree that:

1. My address is ____________________________.

2. My present employer(s) is/are ________________________.

3 My present occupation(s) or job description(s) is/are ___________________.

4. I have read and understood the provisions of the Protective Order in this case signed by the Court in the above-captioned matter, and I will comply with all provisions of the Protective Order.

5. I will hold in confidence and not disclose to anyone not qualified under the Protective Order any RESTRICTED MATERIAL or any words, summaries, abstracts, or indices of such information disclosed to me.

6. I will limit use of designated information disclosed to me solely for purpose of this action pursuant to the provisions of the Protective Order.

7. No later than the final conclusion of the case, I will destroy or return all designated materials and information, as well as all summaries, excerpts, abstracts, and indices thereof which come into my possession, and documents or things which I have prepared relating thereto, to counsel for the party for whom I was employed or retained.

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