Appendice 12. Sample Protective Order

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APPENDIX 12 12-1

Sample Protective Order

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE __________ DISTRICT OF ____________

DIVISION

______________________________________

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION )

6th Street and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. )

Washington, D.C. 20580, )

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Plaintiff, ) Civil Action No.

vs. )

)

ACME, INC., )

)

Defendant. )

______________________________________ )

PROTECTIVE ORDER

In the interest of ensuring that matters raised by this proceeding are

open to the public, and at the same time to ensure that confidential

commercial information submitted by defendants or any third parties,

whether pursuant to compulsory process or voluntarily, is not improperly

disclosed, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:

1. As used in this Order, “confidential material” shall refer to any

portion of any document that contains information that is a trade secret or

other confidential research, development, or commercial information, as

such terms are used in Rule 26(c)(7) of the Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure, Section 6(f) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, as

amended, and in the cases so construing them, and in any rules

promulgated pursuant to or in implementation of them, and all such

confidential information contained in any document, regardless of the

form in which it is disclosed. “Document” shall refer to any

discoverable writing or transcript of oral testimony in the possession of a

party or a third party, as well as to any discoverable materials previously

obtained by the Federal Trade Commission (Commission or FTC) during

its precomplaint investigation.