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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 CO.,LTD., et al.,

Defendants /

No. C 06-0162 MMC

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO FILE

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS UNDER

SEAL

Before the Court is defendants’ “Administrative Motion to File Under Seal

Unredacted Versions of its Response to Nichia’s Objections to the March 19th Order and

Hom Declaration in Support of its Response,” filed April 27, 2007. In said motion,

defendants seek leave to file under seal documents defendants and/or plaintiff have

designated as confidential.

To the extent defendants seek leave to file under seal documents assertedly

designated as confidential by plaintiff, the motion is hereby DENIED, because plaintiff has

failed to file, within the time provided under Civil Local Rule 79-5(d), a declaration

establishing that any such document is sealable. (See Order Deferring Ruling on Defs.’

Admin. Mot., filed May 1, 2007, at 2:4-7.)

To the extent defendants seek leave to file under seal documents designated as

confidential by defendants, the Court, having reviewed the Supplemental Declaration of

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Judith S. H. Hom filed May 4, 2007, finds the portions of the documents identified by

defendants therein as confidential are sealable. Accordingly, to such extent, the motion is

hereby GRANTED, and the Clerk is DIRECTED to file under seal the unredacted version of

(1) “Seoul Semiconductor Defendants’ Response to Nichia’s Objections to the March 19th

Order Denying Nichia’s Motion to Compel,” and (2) “Declaration of Judith S. H. Hom in

Support of the Seoul Semiconductor Defendants’ Response to Nichia’s Objections to the

March 19th Order Denying Nichia’s Motion to Compel.”

In that regard, however, defendants do not assert that the entirety of the response

and supporting declaration are confidential. Accordingly, defendants are hereby

DIRECTED to file in the public record, no later than May 21, 2007, a redacted version of

said response and supporting declaration, such that only the material identified as

confidential by defendants, in the above-referenced Supplemental Declaration of Judith S.

H. Hom, has been redacted therefrom. If defendants fail to timely file such redacted

version of the response and supporting declaration, the Court will strike the unredacted

versions thereof from the record.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 16, 2007 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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