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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1338 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NICHIA CORPORATION,

Plaintiff

 v.

SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR, LTD., et al.,

Defendants

 /

No. 06-0162 MMC 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

PLAINTIFF’S ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION

TO FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL;

DIRECTIONS TO CLERK; DIRECTIONS

TO PLAINTIFF; AFFORDING

DEFENDANTS LEAVE TO FILE

SURREPLY; CONTINUING HEARING ON

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR

PERMANENT INJUNCTION

Before the Court is plaintiff’s “Administrative Motion to File Documents Under Seal,”

filed January 4, 2008, by which plaintiff seeks leave to file under seal the unredacted

version of its reply in support of its motion for a permanent injunction and the unredacted

version of Exhibit A to the Declaration of Jason M. Julian, said exhibit being the Declaration

of Daniel Doxsee. According to plaintiff, the reply and the Doxsee Declaration “include

information about [plaintiff’s] customers, pricing and sales.” (See Julian Decl., filed January

4, 2008, ¶ 5.)

The Local Rules of this District require that a request to seal be “narrowly tailored to

seek sealing only of sealable material.” See Civil L.R. 79-5(a). Plaintiff has not publicly

filed a redacted version of the Doxsee Declaration. The only information included in the

Doxsee Declaration that is properly sealable is the dollar amount set forth in ¶ 6 therein,

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because the other information contained therein relating to plaintiff’s “customers, pricing

and sales,” specifically, the location of plaintiff’s customers, the name of a product sold by

plaintiff, and the years of plaintiff’s sales as to which such figure pertains, is set forth in the

redacted version of plaintiff’s reply as filed in the public record. (See Docket # 958 at 3:24-

27.)

Accordingly, plaintiff’s administrative motion is hereby GRANTED in part, as follows:

1. The Clerk is DIRECTED to file under seal the unredacted version of plaintiff’s

Reply to Seoul Semiconductor’s Opposition to Nichia’s Motion for Permanent Injunction,

and the unredacted version of Exhibit A to the Declaration of Jason M. Julian.

2. Plaintiff is DIRECTED to file in the public record, no later than January 14, 2008,

a redacted version of the Doxsee Declaration in which only the dollar amount set forth in

¶ 6 is redacted therefrom.

Further, because plaintiff has submitted new evidence with its reply, defendants

have not had the opportunity to respond thereto. Accordingly, defendants will be afforded

leave to file a surreply, no later than January 18, 2008 and not to exceed three pages

exclusive of exhibits, said surreply being limited to a response to the new evidence offered

with plaintiff’s reply.

The hearing on plaintiff’s motion for a permanent injunction is hereby CONTINUED

to February 8, 2008, at 9:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 9, 2008 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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