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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

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

NORTEK AIR SOLUTIONS, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

DMG CORPORATION, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-02919-BLF 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND 

DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTIONS TO 

FILE UNDER SEAL

[Re: ECF 221, 341, 343]

Before the Court are Defendants’ administrative motions to file under seal the Court’s 

order regarding summary judgment motions and their bench trial brief and proposed findings of 

fact and conclusions of law. ECF 221, 341, 343. The portions of the summary judgment motion 

sought to be sealed contain confidential excerpts from technical documents detailing the design, 

components, and technical features of specific Energy Labs air-handling unit; and information 

regarding its customers’ facilities. Accordingly, the Court GRANTS the motion to file under seal 

portions of the Court’s order on summary judgment. ECF 221. See, e.g., U.S. Ethernet

Innovations, LLC v. Acer, Inc., Case No. 10-3724 CW, 2014 WL 6664621, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 

24, 2014) (granting motion to seal documents attached to summary judgment motion with 

redactions limited to confidential technical, sales, and financial information).

As to the motions to seal the identified portions of the Trial Brief and the Proposed 

Findings of Fact, Court finds that Defendants have articulated compelling reasons to seal certain 

portions of the submitted documents and the proposed redactions are also narrowly tailored.

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However, in failing to respond to these motions, Plaintiff proffered no reasons to seal the 

portions designated “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” by Plaintiff. Accordingly, the Court 

denies the motion to seal with respect to those portions. The Court’s rulings on the sealing 

requests are set forth in the table below:

Identification of Documents 

to be Sealed

Description of Documents Court’s Order

Order Granting Plaintiff’s 

Motion for Order (1) Granting 

Plaintiff’s Motion For 

Summary Judgment And (2) 

Denying Defendants’ Motion 

For Summary Judgment

Plaintiff’s Confidential

Material, redacted at: 19:15-

23, and 21:10-11, contains 

Nortek’s technical and 

business information.

Defendants’ Confidential 

Information, redacted at: 8:21-

9:6, 9:18-19, 13:3, 5-6, and 12; 

and 13:9, 10, contains Energy 

Labs’s technical information 

and customer information.

GRANTED as to the specific 

portions mentioned in 

preceding column.

Defendants’ Bench Trial Brief Plaintiff’s Confidential 

Information redacted at:

2:20-22, 23, 24; 3:7-9, 10-11, 

12-13, 13-14, 14-16, 17, 18-

19; 5:1-4; 6:14-16, 17-19, 19-

20, 21, 22, 22-24; 7:19-20; 

13:2-3, 8-10, 12, 14, 15-16

DENIED.

Exhibit 1 to Defendants’ 

Bench Trial Brief

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of Joe Naccarello (January 13, 

2016)

DENIED.

Exhibit 2 to Defendants’ 

Bench Trial Brief

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of John Albert (March 10, 

2016)

DENIED.

Exhibit 3 to Defendants’ 

Bench Trial Brief

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of Susan Snyder (January 15, 

2016)

DENIED.

Exhibit 4 to Defendants’ 

Bench Trial Brief

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of Stephen Prowse, Ph.D. 

(February 23, 2016)

DENIED.

Defendants’ Proposed 

Findings of Fact and 

Conclusions of Law

Defendants’ Confidential 

Information, redacted at 

paragraphs: 120-123, contains 

Energy Labs’s business and 

GRANTED as to paragraphs 

120-123 and DENIED as to 

remainder.

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strategy information.

Plaintiff’s Confidential 

Information redacted at 

paragraphs: 26-28, 30, 33-36, 

38, 93-97, 103-107, 125-127, 

130-134, 141, 142, 211, 214-

219, 237

Exhibit 3 to Defendants’ 

Proposed Findings of Fact and 

Conclusions of Law

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of John Habel (November 10, 

2015)

DENIED.

Exhibit 4 to Defendants’ 

Proposed Findings of Fact and 

Conclusions of Law

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of Joe Naccarello (January 13, 

2016) 

DENIED.

Exhibit 5 to Defendants’ 

Proposed Findings of Fact and 

Conclusions of Law

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of Susan Snyder (January 15, 

2016)

DENIED.

Exhibit 6 to Defendants’ 

Proposed Findings of Fact and 

Conclusions of Law

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of Stephen Prowse (February 

23, 2016)

DENIED.

Exhibit 7 to Defendants’ 

Proposed Findings of Fact and 

Conclusions of Law

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of John Albert (March 1, 2016)

DENIED.

Exhibit 8 to Defendants’ 

Proposed Findings of Fact and 

Conclusions of Law

Excerpts from the Deposition 

of John Habel (March 10, 

2016)

DENIED.

For the foregoing reasons, the sealing motions at ECF 221, 341, 343 are GRANTED IN 

PART and DENIED IN PART. Under Civil Local Rule 79-5(e)(2), for any request that has been 

denied because the party designating a document as confidential or subject to a protective order 

has not provided sufficient reasons to seal, the submitting party must file the unredacted (or lesser 

redacted) documents into the public record no earlier than 4 days and no later than 10 days form 

the filing of this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 24, 2016

 ______________________________________

BETH LABSON FREEMAN

United States District Judge

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