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`SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`TACTION TECHNOLOGY, INC.,
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`APPLE INC.,
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`Plaintiff,
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`Defendant.
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`ORDER:
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`(1) GRANTING JOINT MOTION
`FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER; AND
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`(2) ENTERING STIPULATED
`PROTECTIVE ORDER
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`[ECF No. 36]
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`Before the Court is the parties’ Joint Motion for Protective Order. (ECF No. 36.)
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`In their Joint Motion, the parties provide that they have stipulated to a Protective Order,
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`materials designated as “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” (“C-AEO”).
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`(Id. at 2.) The parties request that the Court “select between the parties’ competing
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`proposals.” (Id.) The Court declines to enter a Stipulated Protective Order that includes a
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`Good cause appearing as to the parties’ agreed-upon provisions, the parties Joint
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`Motion (ECF No. 36) is GRANTED, and the Stipulated Protective Order is entered as
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`Plaintiff Taction Technology, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Apple Inc.
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`(“Defendant”) anticipate that documents, testimony, or information containing or
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`reflecting confidential, proprietary, trade secret, and/or commercially sensitive information
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`are likely to be disclosed or produced during the course of discovery, initial disclosures,
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`and supplemental disclosures in this case and request that the Court enter this Order setting
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`forth the conditions for treating, obtaining, and using such information.
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`Pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Court finds good
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`cause for the following Agreed Protective Order Regarding the Disclosure and Use of
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`Discovery Materials (“Order” or “Protective Order”).
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`PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS
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`(a)
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`Protected Material designated under the terms of this Protective Order
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`shall be used by a Receiving Party solely for this case, and shall not be used directly or
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`indirectly for any other purpose whatsoever.
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`(b) The Parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket
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`protections on all disclosures during discovery, or in the course of making initial or
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`supplemental disclosures under Rule 26(a). Designations under this Order shall be made
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`with care and shall not be made absent a good faith belief that the designated material
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`satisfies the criteria set forth below. If it comes to a Producing Party’s attention that
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`designated material does not qualify for protection at all, or does not qualify for the level
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`of protection initially asserted, the Producing Party must promptly notify all other Parties
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`DEFINITIONS
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`“Discovery Material” means all items or information, including from
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`“Outside Counsel” means (i) outside counsel who appear on the
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`“Patents-in-suit” means U.S. Patent Nos. 10,659,885 (“the ’885
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`“Producing Party” means any Party or non-party that discloses or
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`“Source Code” means computer code, scripts, assembly, binaries,
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`COMPUTATION OF TIME
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`The computation of any period of time prescribed or allowed by this Order
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`Procedure 6.
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`SCOPE
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`(a) The protections conferred by this Order cover not only Discovery
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`Material governed by this Order as addressed herein, but also any information copied or
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`extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof,
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`plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their counsel in court or in
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`other settings that might reveal Protected Material.
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`(b) Nothing in this Protective Order shall prevent or restrict a Producing
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`Party’s own disclosure or use of its own Protected Material for any purpose, and nothing
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`in this Order shall preclude any Producing Party from showing its Protected Material to an
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`individual who prepared the Protected Material.
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`(c) Nothing in this Order shall be construed to prejudice any Party’s right
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`to use any Protected Material in court or in any court filing with the consent of the
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`(d) This Order is without prejudice to the right of any Party to seek further
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`or additional protection of any Discovery Material or to modify this Order in any way,
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`including, without limitation, an order that certain matter not be produced at all.
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`ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
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`Patent Prosecution Bar. Absent the written consent of the Producing
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`specifications, claims, and/or responses to office actions for patents or patent applications
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`relating to haptics, before any foreign or domestic agency, including the United States
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`Patent and Trademark Office; and (ii) the acquisition of patents (including patent
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`applications), or the rights to any such patents or patent applications with the right to
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`sublicense, relating to haptics. These prohibitions are not intended to and shall not preclude
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`counsel from participating in proceedings challenging the validity of any patent, including
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`reexamination, inter partes review, covered business method review, and/or reissue
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`proceedings. These prohibitions shall begin when access to “CONFIDENTIAL –
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`Secure Storage, No Export. Protected Material must be stored and
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`maintained by a Receiving Party at a location in the United States and in a secure manner
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`that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order. To ensure
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`(e) Limitations. Nothing in this Order shall restrict in any way a Producing
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`Party’s use or disclosure of its own Protected Material. Nothing in this Order shall restrict
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`in any way the use or disclosure of Discovery Material by a Receiving Party: (i) that is or
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`acquired by or known to the Receiving Party independent of the Producing Party; (iii)
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`DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
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`(a) Available Designations.
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` Any Producing Party may designate
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`Discovery Material with any of the following designations, provided that it meets the
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`requirements for such designations as provided for herein: “CONFIDENTIAL,”
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`“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “CONFIDENTIAL – OUTSIDE
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`the appropriate designation on every page of the written material prior to production. For
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`digital files being produced, the Producing Party may mark each viewable page or image
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`(b) Native Files. Where electronic files and documents are produced in
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`indicating whether the file contains
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`ONLY – SOURCE CODE,” material, or shall use any other reasonable method for so
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`designating Protected Materials produced in electronic format. When electronic files or
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`documents are printed for any use, the party printing the electronic files or documents shall
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`affix a legend to the printed document corresponding to the designation of the Designating
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`To the extent native files are used during the course of litigation, the Receiving Party agrees
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`(c) Depositions and Testimony. Parties or testifying persons or entities
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`may designate depositions and other testimony with the appropriate designation by
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`indicating on the record at the time the testimony is given or by sending written notice of
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`how portions of the transcript of the testimony is designated within thirty (30) days of
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`receipt of the transcript of the testimony. If no indication on the record is made, all
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`information disclosed during a deposition shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL –
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`ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” until the time within which it may be appropriately
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`designated as provided for herein has passed. Any Party that wishes to disclose the
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`transcript, or information contained therein, may provide written notice of its intent to treat
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`the transcript as non-confidential, after which time, any Party that wants to maintain any
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`portion of the transcript as confidential must designate the confidential portions within
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`fourteen (14) days, or else the transcript may be treated as non-confidential. Any Protected
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`Material that is used in the taking of a deposition shall remain subject to the provisions of
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`this Protective Order, along with the transcript pages of the deposition testimony dealing
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`Order. In the event the deposition is videotaped, the original and all copies of the videotape
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`subject to this Protective Order, substantially along the lines of “This videotape contains
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`confidential testimony used in this case and is not to be viewed or the contents thereof
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`to be displayed or revealed except pursuant to the terms of the operative Protective
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`immediate paralegals and staff, and any copying or clerical litigation support services
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`working at the direction of such counsel, paralegals, and staff;
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`such work; and provided that: (a) such expert or consultant has agreed to be bound by the
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`believes that the disclosure of such Discovery Material is likely to cause economic harm
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`or significant competitive disadvantage to the Producing Party. The Producing Party must
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`admission that Source Code is properly discoverable in this action, or to obligate any Party
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`(c) Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, Discovery Material designated
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`to assist in this action, provided that disclosure is only to the extent necessary to perform
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`such work; and provided that: (a) such expert or consultant has agreed to be bound by the
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`provisions of the Protective Order by signing a copy of Exhibit A; (b) such expert or
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`consultant is not a current officer, director, or employee of a Party, nor anticipated at the
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`time of retention to become an officer, director or employee of a Party; and (c) no
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`Parties as set forth in Paragraph 12 below;
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`Any Source Code that is produced by Apple Inc. will be made available for inspection in
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`electronic format at either the San Diego or Silicon Valley office of Fish & Richardson
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`P.C. Source Code will be made available for inspection between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6
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`p.m. on business days (i.e., weekdays that are not Federal holidays), although the Parties
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`ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY – SOURCE CODE” shall be produced for inspection and
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`review subject to the following provisions, unless otherwise agreed by the Producing Party:
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`(i) All Source Code shall be made available by the Producing Party
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`to the Receiving Party’s outside counsel and/or experts in a secure room on a secured
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`computer without Internet access or network access to other computers and on which all
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`access ports have been disabled (except for one printer port), as necessary and appropriate
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`transfer of any Source Code outside or away from the computer on which the Source Code
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`is provided for inspection (the “Source Code Computer” in the “Source Code Review
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`Room”). The Producing Party shall install tools that are sufficient for viewing and
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`searching the code produced, on the platform produced. The Receiving Party’s outside
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`counsel and/or experts may request that commercially available software tools be installed
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`on the secured computer, provided, however, that the Receiving Party possesses an
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`appropriate license to such software tools and provides the Producing Party with the
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`information necessary to download such software tools (i.e., download links or a CD/DVD
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`containing the software tools). To the extent such a request is made, it will be done at least
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`fourteen (14) days in advance of the date upon which the Receiving Party wishes to have
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`the additional software tools available for use on the Source Code Computer. The parties
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`further agree that any such software tools will not be used to compile or alter the source
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`code in any way. To the extent the Producing Party objects to the requested installation of
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`limitation sound recorders, computers, cellular telephones, peripheral equipment, cameras,
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`with the exception of a single laptop computer, provided by the Producing Party, without
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`Internet access or network access to any other computer, which may be used by the
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`Receiving Party to take notes relating to the Source Code but may not copy the Source
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`Code into the notes. The Producing Party will not monitor the contents of any notes taken
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`using the single authorized laptop computer, except to the extent necessary under
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`Paragraph 11(c)(iv) below. The Receiving Party may attach a USB thumb drive to the
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`single authorized laptop computer for the sole purpose of copying notes.
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`entitled to take notes relating to the Source Code but may not copy the Source Code into
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`Receiving Party’s representatives during any Source Code review, but only to ensure
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`(v) No copies of all or any portion of the Source Code may leave
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`the room in which the Source Code is inspected except as otherwise provided in Paragraph
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`11. The Producing Party shall make available a laser printer with commercially reasonable
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`printing speeds for on-site printing during inspection of the Source Code. Any printed
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`portion that consists of more than ten (10) page