The opinion
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1 SPEARHEAD LEGAL LLP
Ryan R. Owens (Bar No. 269370)
2 ryan.owens@spearheadlegal.com
Kristopher M. Dawes (Bar No. 261170)
3 kris.dawes@spearheadlegal.com
Andrew J. Fossum (Bar No. 250373)
4 andrew.fossum@spearheadlegal.com
620 Newport Center Dr., Suite 1100
5 Newport Beach, CA 92660
Telephone: (949) 409-8401
6 Facsimile: (949) 336-3830
7 Attorneys for Plaintiff,
GENE POOL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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[Counsel for Defendant listed on next page]
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
10 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
EASTERN DIVISION
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GENE POOL TECHNOLOGIES, Case No. 5:21-cv-01328-JWH(SHKx)
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13 Plaintiff,
[PROPOSED] STIPULATED
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15 COASTAL HARVEST, LLC,
16 Defendant.
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Timothy L. Alger (SBN 160303)
2 tim@emergelawgroup.com
EMERGE LAW GROUP
3 100 Spectrum Center Drive, Suite 900
Irvine, CA 92618
4 Tel: 949-936-2610
5 Cole Mackey (pro hac vice)
cole@mackey.legal
6 MACKEY LAW FIRM PLLC
9525 Katy Freeway, Suite 260
7 Houston, TX 77024
Tel: 346.954.8287
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9 COASTAL HARVEST, LLC
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1 1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS
2 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or
3 private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any
4 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
8 limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal
9 principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 13.3, below, that this
10 Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil
11 Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be
12 applied when a party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal.
13 2. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT
14 This action is likely to involve trade secrets, customer and pricing lists and other valuable
15 research, development, commercial, financial, technical and/or proprietary information for which
16 special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecution of
17 this action is warranted. Such confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of,
18 among other things, confidential business or financial information, information regarding
19 confidential business practices, or other confidential research, development, or commercial
20 information (including information implicating privacy rights of third parties), information
21 otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be privileged or otherwise protected
22 from disclosure under state or federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law.
23 Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes
24 over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties are
25 entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of
26 such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at the end of
27 the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is justified in
28 this matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be designated as confidential for
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1 tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that it has been
2 maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause why it should not be
3 part of the public record of this case.
4 3. DEFINITIONS
5 3.1. Action: Gene Pool Technologies, Inc. v. Coastal Harvest, LLC, Case No. 5:21-cv-01328-
6 JWH(SHKx) and its consolidated action Gene Pool Technologies, Inc. v. ANM, Inc., Case No.
7 2:21-cv-08756-JWH(SHKx).
8 3.2. Challenging Party: A Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of information or
9 items under this Order.
10 3.3. “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: Information (regardless of how it is generated,
11 stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil
12 Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in the Good Cause Statement.
13 3.4. “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items:
14 Extremely sensitive “CONFIDENTIAL” In formation or Items, disclosure of which to another
15 Party or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by
16 less restrictive means.
17 3.5. Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their support staff).
18 3.6. Designating Party: A Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it
19 produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY
20 CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”
21 3.7. Disclosure or Discovery Material: All items or information, regardless of the medium or
22 manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony,
23 transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to
24 discovery in this matter.
25 3.8. Expert: A person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to the
26 litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a
27 consultant in this Action.
28 3.9. House Counsel: Attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. House Counsel
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1 does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.
2 3.10. Non-Party: Any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity
3 not named as a Party to this action.
4 3.11. Outside Counsel of Record: Attorneys who are not employees of a party to this Action
5 but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and have appeared in this Action on
6 behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party,
7 and includes support staff.
8 3.12. Party: Any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, employees,
9 consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).
10 3.13. Producing Party: A Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material in
11 this Action.
12 3.14. Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g.,
13 photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing,
14 storing, or retrieving data in any form or me dium) and their employees and subcontractors.
15 3.15. Protected Material: Any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as
16 “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”
17 3.16. Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a
18 Producing Party.
19 4. SCOPE
20 4.1. The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material
21 (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2)
22 all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony,
23 conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material.
24 4.2. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the trial judge.
25 This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.
26 5. DURATION
27 Once a case proceeds to trial, absent a contrary order by the trial judge, Protected Material
28 that was used or introduced as an exhibit at trial becomes public and will be presumptively
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1 available to all members of the public, including the press, unless compelling reasons supported
2 by specific factual findings to proceed otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance of the
3 trial. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1180-81 (distinguishing "good cause" showing for sealing
4 documents produced in discovery from "compelling reasons" standard when merits-related
5 documents are part of court record).
6 For Protected Material not used at trial, after final disposition of this litigation, subject to
7 Section 14, below, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order shall remain in effect
8 until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Even after
9 final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order shall
10 remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise
11 directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of: (1) dismissal of all claims and
12 defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the
13 completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action,
14 including the time limits for filing any moti ons or applications for extension of time pursuant to
15 applicable law.
16 6. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
17 6.1. Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party or
18 Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to
19 limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. The
20 Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or
21 oral or written communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents,
22 items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within
23 the ambit of this Order. Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited.
24 Designations that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper
25 purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose unnecessary
26 expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating Party to sanctions. If it comes
27 to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not
28 qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other Parties that it is
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1 withdrawing the inapplicable designation.
2 6.2. Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order (see, e.g.,
3 Section 6.3 below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that
4 qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is
5 disclosed or produced.
6 Designation in conformity with this Order requires the following:
7 (a) For information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but
8 excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing
9 Party affix at a minimum, the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL
10 legend”) or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” legend (hereinafter
11 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that contains protected material. If only a
12 portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also
13 must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the
14 margins).
15 (b) A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection need not
16 designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which documents it
17 would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the
18 material made available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL” or, by notice given
19 before the inspection, “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the
20 inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party
21 must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order.
22 Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the
23 “CONFIDENTIAL legend” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL legend” to each page that contains
24 Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection,
25 the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making
26 appropriate markings in the margins).
27 (c) For testimony given in depositions, that the Designating Party identify the Disclosure
28 or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the deposition all protected testimony.
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1 (d) For information produced in form other than document and for any other tangible
2 items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container or
3 containers in which the information is stored the “CONFIDENTIAL legend” or “HIGHLY
4 CONFIDENTIAL legend.” If only a portion or portions of the information warrants protection,
5 the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).
6 6.3. Inadvertent Failure to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate
7 qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to
8 secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a designation, the
9 Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance
10 with the provisions of this Order.
11 7. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS
12 7.1. Timing of Challenges. Any party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of
13 confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s Scheduling Order.
14 7.2. Meet and Confer. The Challenging P arty shall initiate the dispute resolution process under
15 Local Rule 37.1 et seq.
16 7.3. Judicial Intervention. Any challenge submitted to the Court shall be via a joint stipulation
17 pursuant to Local Rule 37-2.The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be
18 on the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to
19 harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging
20 Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality
21 designation, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to
22 which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the challenge.
23 8. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
24 8.1. Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or
25 produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this Action only for prosecuting,
26 defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to
27 the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the Action has
28 been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of Section XIV below.
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1 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a
2 secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.
3 8.2. Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the
4 Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any
5 information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:
6 (a) The Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as well as employees
7 of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information
8 for this Action;
9 (b) The officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving
10 Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;
11 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is
12 reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement
13 to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
14 (d) The Court and its personnel;
15 (e) Court reporters and their staff;
16 (f) Professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom
17 disclosure is reasonably necessary or this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and
18 Agreement to be Bound” attached as Exhibit A hereto;
19 (g) The author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or
20 other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;
21 (h) During their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the Action to
22 whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (i) the deposing party requests that the
23 witness sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound;” and (ii) they will not be
24 permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the “Acknowledgment and
25 Agreement to Be Bound,” unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the
26 Court. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected
27 Material may be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone
28 except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and
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1 (i) Any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, mutually agreed
2 upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.
3 8.3. Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information
4 or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party,
5 a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
6 – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to:
7 (a) The Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as well as employees
8 of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information
9 for this Action;
10 (B) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is
11 reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement
12 to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
13 (d) The Court and its personnel;
14 (e) Court reporters and their staff;
15 (f) Professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom
16 disclosure is reasonably necessary or this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and
17 Agreement to be Bound” attached as Exhibit A hereto;
18 (g) The author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or
19 other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;
20 (i) Any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, mutually agreed
21 upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.
22 9. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER
23 LITIGATION
24 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels
25 disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that
26 Party must:
27 (a) Promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a
28 copy of the subpoena or court order;
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1 (b) Promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the
2 other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this
3 Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and
4 (c) Cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the
5 Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.
6 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the
7 subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as
8 “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the Court from which the subpoena or order
9 issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party
10 shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material
11 and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving
12 Party in this Action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.
13 10. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN
14 THIS LITIGATION
15 The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this
16 Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’
17 EYES ONLY.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is
18 protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should
19 be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections.
20 In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a Non-
21 Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with
22 the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall:
23 (a) Promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that some or all of
24 the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party;
25 (b) Promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order in this
26 Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the information
27 requested; and
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1 (c) Make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party, if
2 requested.
3 If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within 14 days of receiving
4 the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the Non-Party’s
5 confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a
6 protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or
7 control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination
8 by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and
9 expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.
10 11. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
11 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected
12 Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective
13 Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (1) notify in writing the Designating Party of the
14 unauthorized disclosures, (2) use its best eff orts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the
15 Protected Material, (3) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were
16 made of all the terms of this Order, and (4) request such person or persons to execute the
17 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
18 12. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE
19 PROTECTED MATERIAL
20 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently
21 produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the
22 Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This
23 provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery
24 order that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of
25 Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a
26 communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product
27 protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the Stipulated Protective Order
28 submitted to the Court.
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1 13. MISCELLANEOUS
2 13.1. Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its
3 modification by the Court in the future.
4 13.2. Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order, no
5 Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any
6 information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly,
7 no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material
8 covered by this Protective Order.
9 13.3. Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must
10 comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a
11 court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party's request
12 to file Protected Material under seal is denied by the Court, then the Receiving Party may file the
13 information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the Court.
14 14. FINAL DISPOSITION
15 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in Section 5, within sixty (60) days of
16 a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return all Protected
17 Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all
18 Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format
19 reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material is
20 returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing
21 Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that
22 (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or
23 destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts,
24 compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected
25 Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all
26 pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda,
27 correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and
28 consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such
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1 archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective
2 Order as set forth in Section 5.
3 Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate measures
4 including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.
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7 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.
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Dated: February 4, 2022 /s/ Ryan R. Owens
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Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s)
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11 Dated: February 4, 2022 /s/ Cole Mackey
Attorney(s) for Defendant(s)
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FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO ORDERED.
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Hon. Shashi H. Kewalramani
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1 EXHIBIT A
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
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I, [full name], of
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[full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the
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Stipulated Protective Order that was issue by the United States District Court for the Central
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7 District of California on ______[date] in the case of Gene Pool Technologies, Inc. v. Coastal
8 Harvest, LLC, Case No. 5:21-cv-01328-JWH(SHLx). I agree to comply with and to be bound by
9 all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to
10 so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly
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promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this
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Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions
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of this Order.
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15 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the
16 Central District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective
17 Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. I hereby
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appoint [full name] of
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[full address and telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection
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with this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.
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Date:
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23 City and State where sworn and signed:
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Signature:
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