Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. et al
Filing
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Administrative Motion to File Under Seal Motion to Compel Depositions of Apple Reply Expert Declarants filed by Samsung Electronics America, Inc.(a New York corporation), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Hankil Kang, # 2 Proposed Order Granting Samsung's Administrative Motion to File Documents Under Seal, # 3 Motion to Compel Depositions of Apple Reply Expert Declarants, # 4 Declaration of Victoria F. Maroulis, # 5 Exhibit 1 to Declaration of Victoria F. Maroulis, # 6 Proposed Order Granting Samsung's Motion to Compel Depositions of Apple Reply Expert Declarants)(Maroulis, Victoria) (Filed on 11/16/2012)
1 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP
Charles K. Verhoeven (Cal. Bar No. 170151)
charlesverhoeven@quinnemanuel.com
50 California Street, 22nd Floor
San Francisco, California 94111
Telephone: (415) 875-6600
Facsimile: (415) 875-6700
Kathleen M. Sullivan (Cal. Bar No. 242261)
kathleensullivan@quinnemanuel.com
Kevin P.B. Johnson (Cal. Bar No. 177129)
kevinjohnson@quinnemanuel.com
Victoria F. Maroulis (Cal. Bar No. 202603)
victoriamaroulis@quinnemanuel.com
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555 Twin Dolphin Drive 5 Floor
Redwood Shores, California 94065
Telephone: (650) 801-5000
Facsimile: (650) 801-5100
Susan R. Estrich (Cal. Bar No. 124009)
susanestrich@quinnemanuel.com
Michael T. Zeller (Cal. Bar No. 196417)
michaelzeller@quinnemanuel.com
865 S. Figueroa St., 10th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90017
Telephone: (213) 443-3000
Facsimile: (213) 443-3100
Attorneys for SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS
CO., LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS
AMERICA, INC. and SAMSUNG
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN JOSE DIVISION
APPLE INC., a California corporation,
CASE NO. 11-cv-01846-LHK (PSG)
Plaintiff,
SAMSUNG’S ADMINISTRATIVE
MOTION TO FILE DOCUMENTS
UNDER SEAL
vs.
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., a
Korean business entity; SAMSUNG
ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC., a New
York corporation; SAMSUNG
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company,
Defendants.
Case No. 11-cv-01846-LHK (PSG)
SAMSUNG’S ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL
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Pursuant to Civil L.R. 7-11 and 79-5, and General Order No. 62, Samsung Electronics Co.
2 Ltd., Samsung Electronics America, Inc., and Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC
3 (collectively, “Samsung”) hereby bring this administrative motion for an order to seal portions of
4 Samsung’s Motion to Compel Depositions of Apple Reply Expert Declarants (“Samsung’s Motion
5 to Compel”).
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Samsung’s Motion to Compel contains descriptions of the operation of confidential
7 Samsung source code.
(Declaration of Hankil Kang ¶ 2.) Disclosure of this information poses
8 a competitive harm to Samsung as competitors can re-create the features found in Samsung’s
9 products using the information contained in the document.
(Id.)
“Compelling reasons” to seal
10 exist where the documents to be sealed are “sources of business information that might harm a
11 litigant’s competitive standing.” Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc., 435 U.S. 589, 598
12 (1978) (emphasis added).
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Portions of Samsung’s Motion to Compel should thus be sealed.
Pursuant to General Order No. 62, Samsung’s entire filing will be lodged with the Court
14 for in camera review and served on all parties.
A proposed redacted version of Samsung’s
15 Motion to Compel is filed concurrently with this motion.
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17 DATED: November 16, 2012
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By /s/ Victoria Maroulis
Charles K. Verhoeven
Kevin P.B. Johnson
Victoria F. Maroulis
Michael T. Zeller
Attorneys for SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,
LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA,
INC., and SAMSUNG
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC
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Case No. 11-cv-01846-LHK (PSG)
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