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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:0271 Patent Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN RE: QUALCOMM LITIGATION Case No.: 17cv108-GPC-MDD

ORDER GRANTING IN PART 

MOTIONS TO FILE DOCUMENTS 

UNDER SEAL

[ECF No. 647]

On October 9, 2018, Apple filed a Motion to Seal certain documents. 

(ECF No. 647). The motion seeks to seal an unredacted copy of Apple and 

Qualcomm’s Joint Motion for Determination of Discovery Dispute regarding

thirty-four clawed back documents and certain declarations and exhibits in 

support (“April 27 Joint Motion,” ECF No. 455), and the Joint Motion for 

Determination of Discovery Dispute regarding six clawed back documents 

and certain exhibits in support (“June 28 Joint Motion,” ECF No. 546). (Id.). 

Federal courts recognize “a strong presumption in favor of access to 

judicial documents which can be overcome only be showing sufficiently 

important countervailing interests.” Phillips ex rel. Estates of Byrd v. Gen. 

Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1212-13 (9th Cir. 2002) (quoting San Jose 

Mercury News, Inc. v. U.S. Dist. Ct., 187 F.3d 1096, 1102 (9th Cir. 1999)) 

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(additional citations omitted). However, this presumption does not apply to 

“sealed discovery document[s] attached to ... non-dispositive motion[s].” In re 

Nat’l Sec. Agency Telcoms. Records Litig., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14473, WL 

549854, *42 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 20, 2007) (citing Kamakana v. City & Cnty. Of 

Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1179 (9th Cir. 2006).

The Court finds that the April 27 Joint Motion and the June 28 Joint 

Motion shall be sealed. Accordingly, the Motion to Seal is GRANTED. Apple

has already electronically lodged on the docket the necessary redacted 

version of the papers publicly and the unredacted version of the papers under 

seal. The Clerk shall file the lodged documents at ECF No. 658 under seal.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 27, 2018

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