Philips North America LLC v. Advanced Imaging Services, Inc.

District Court, E.D. California·Decided July 29, 2021·No. 2:21-cv-00876·Unknown

Opinion

1 BUCHALTER James T. Hultquist (pro hac vice) A Professional Corporation Email: jhultquist@reedsmith.com 2 DYLAN W. WISEMAN (SBN: 173669) Jennifer Y. DePriest (pro hac vice) JACQUELINE N. VU (SBN: 287011) Email: jdepriest@reedsmith.com 3 500 Capitol Mall, Suite 1900 Ismail C. Kuru (pro hac vice) Sacramento, CA 95814 Email: ikuru@reedsmith.com 4 Telephone: 916.945.5170 REED SMITH LLP Email: dwiseman@buchalter.com 10 South Wacker Drive 5 Chicago, IL 60606-7507 Attorneys for Defendants Telephone: +1 312 207 1000 6 ADVANCED IMAGING SERVICES, INC., Facsimile: +1 312 207 6400 d/b/a ADVANCED IMAGING PARTS; and 7 WANG XIUYUAN a/k/a SEAN WANG Christopher J. Pulido (SBN 313142) Email: cpulido@reedsmith.com 8 REED SMITH LLP 101 Second Street, Suite 1800 9 San Francisco, California 94105-3659 Telephone: +1 415 543 8700 10 Facsimile: +1 415 391 8269

11 Attorneys for Plaintiff Philips North America LLC 12 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 15 SACRAMENTO DIVISION 16 PHILIPS NORTH AMERICA LLC, Case No. 2:21-cv-00876-JAM-AC 17 Plaintiff, STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL 18 vs. INFORMATION

19 ADVANCED IMAGING SERVICES, INC., d/b/a ADVANCED IMAGING PARTS; and Judge: Hon. John A. Mendez 20 WANG XIUYUAN a/k/a SEAN WANG, Mag. Judge: Hon. Allison Claire 21 Defendants. 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 1 1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 2 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of confidential, 3 proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for 4 any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the Parties hereby 5 stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The Parties 6 acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to 7 discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited 8 information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles. The 9 Parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 13.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does 10 not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 141 and any pertinent orders 11 of the assigned District Judge and Magistrate Judge set forth the procedures that must be followed and the 12 standards that will be applied when a Party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 13 B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT 14 In light of the nature of the claims and allegations in this case and the Parties’ representations that 15 discovery in this case will involve production of confidential records, and in order to expedite the flow of 16 information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to 17 adequately protect information the Parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the Parties are 18 permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in connection with this Action, to address their 19 handling of such material at the end of the litigation, and to serve the ends of justice, a protective order for 20 such information is justified in this matter. The Parties shall not designate any information/documents as 21 confidential without a good faith belief that such information/documents have been maintained in a 22 confidential, non-public manner, and that there is good cause or a compelling reason why it should not be 23 part of the public record of this case. 24 2. DEFINITIONS 25 2.1 Action: the instant action, Philips North America LLC v. Advanced Imaging Services, Inc. 26 d/b/a Advanced Imaging Parts and Wang Xiuyuan a/k/a Sean Wang, Case No. 2:21-cv-00876-JAM-AC. 27 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of information or 28 items under this Order. 1 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is generated, 2 stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 3 26(c), and as specified in the Good Cause Statement. 4 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their support staff). 5 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it 6 produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 7 CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE”. 8 2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium or 9 manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 10 transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in 11 this matter. 12 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to the 13 litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a consultant in 14 this Action. A party retaining an Expert who is a current officer, director, or employee of a competitor of 15 a Party or anticipated to become one will be subject to the requirements set forth in Section 7.3(c), below. 16 2.8 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items: 17 extremely sensitive “CONFIDENTIAL Information or Items,” disclosure of which to another Party or 18 Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive 19 means. 20 2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. House Counsel does not include 21 Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 22 2.11 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity 23 not named as a Party to this Action. 24 2.12 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but are retained to 25 represent or advise a Party and have appeared in this Action on behalf of that Party or are affiliated with a 26 law firm which has appeared on behalf of that Party, and includes support staff. 27 2.13 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 28 consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 1 2.14 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material in 2 this Action. 3 2.15 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., 4 photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or 5 retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors. 6 2.16 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 7 “CONFIDENTIAL,” as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or as “HIGHLY 8 CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE.” 9 2.17 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a Producing 10 Party. 11 3. SCOPE 12 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as 13 defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, 14 excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 15 presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material.

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