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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP 

(SINGAPORE) PTE LTD.,,

Plaintiff,

v.

ASUSTEK COMPUTER, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-04525-EMC 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND 

DEFERRING IN PART DEFENDANTS’

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO FILE 

DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL

Docket No. 256

ASUS has moved to file under seal certain documents it has submitted in support of its 

motion for partial summary judgment. The Court has reviewed the supporting declarations 

submitted from ASUS (Docket No. 256-1), Avago (Docket No. 268), and third parties (Docket 

Nos. 265, 266-1, and 266-3).

Based on those declarations, the Court hereby GRANTS the motion to file under seal as to 

all documents (or portions thereof) identified in ASUS’s proposed order (Docket No. 256-2), 

except for Exhibits 12 and 18.

As to Exhibit 18, it appears that the third party is not claiming confidentiality, but it is not 

entirely clear. As to Exhibit 12, no declaration has been received from the third party, and it is not 

even clear whether any claim of confidentiality is being made in the first place (e.g., nothing 

appears to have been redacted).

Out of an abundance of caution, the Court DEFERS ruling on the motion to seal Exhibits 

12 and 18. As to these exhibits, the Court orders ASUS to immediately contact those third parties 

and inform those third parties that the exhibits shall be publicly filed unless, within a week of the 

date of this order, the third parties submit declarations justifying a filing under seal. ASUS shall 

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immediately file a declaration certifying that it has given the notice required herein.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 18, 2016

______________________________________

EDWARD M. CHEN

United States District Judge

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