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Case No. 17-CV-00220-LHK 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART, DENYING IN PART WITH PREJUDICE, AND DENYING IN PART WITHOUT 

PREJUDICE SAMSUNG’S MOTIONS TO SEAL

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION,

Plaintiff,

v.

QUALCOMM INCORPORATED,

Defendant.

Case No. 17-CV-00220-LHK 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART,

DENYING IN PART WITH 

PREJUDICE, AND DENYING IN PART 

WITHOUT PREJUDICE SAMSUNG’S 

MOTIONS TO SEAL

Re: Dkts. 1112, 1132

Applying the compelling reasons standard, the Court rules on Samsung’s sealing request 

below: 

Document Page/Line Ruling

Hong Deposition 162:15-24 DENIED. 

CX2621A Entire Document This document has been excluded. 

Therefore, sealing is granted on basis 

of mootness. 

CX2628 Table in § 4.4(a) GRANTED. 

CX2628 § 4.5(a) GRANTED.

CX2628 §§4.5(d), 4.7 GRANTED. 

CX2628 Second line at SFT0036377GRANTED. 

JX0006 § 3.1 GRANTED. 

JX0006 §§ 5.21-5.24 GRANTED. 

JX0006 § 5.4 GRANTED.

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Document Page/Line Ruling

JX0006 § 6.2 GRANTED.

JX0006 § 7.1 GRANTED.

JX0006 Percentages, unit 

values, and dollars 

values in § 1 of Side 

Agreement

GRANTED. 

JX0006 Dollar amounts in § 2 

of Side Agreement 

GRANTED. 

JX0047 § 2 GRANTED. 

JX0047 §§ 4, 4.1 and 

subsections

GRANTED. 

JX0047 § 4.2.3 GRANTED. 

JX0047 § 4.4.1 GRANTED. 

JX0047 § 4.4.3.1 GRANTED. 

JX0047 § 4.4.3.2 GRANTED. 

JX0047 § 7 DENIED. Contrary to Samsung’s 

assertion, § 7 does not contain any 

pricing terms or payment terms. 

JX0047 § 12 GRANTED. 

JX0047 Exhibit C GRANTED. 

JX0122 §§ 2.1-2.2 GRANTED. 

JX0122 § 3 GRANTED. 

JX0122 § 4.1.2.1 GRANTED. 

JX0122 § 6.2 GRANTED. 

JX0122 § 7 GRANTED. 

JX0122 § 17.2 GRANTED. 

QX9214 Entire Document DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. 

QX9224 Entire Document GRANTED as to page 8, which is 

Bates numbered 

Q2014FTC02364186, but DENIED 

WITH PREJUDICE as to pages 1-7 

and 9.

QX9271 Entire Document DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. 

Q2017MDL1_01106145-51 Entire Document DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. 

Q2017MDL3_00039813-14 Entire Document DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. 

Samsung has redacted information that it does not seek to seal, but believes Qualcomm 

might. Qualcomm has not filed any motion or declaration in support of sealing this information. 

Therefore, other than the above Samsung sealing requests that have been granted, Samsung must 

refile redacted versions of these documents consistent with this order by Monday, January 7, 2019 

at noon. 

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Samsung may seal in its Monday, January 7 at noon version the documents for which 

sealing is denied without prejudice. However, Samsung must file a more narrowly tailored sealing 

request that meets the compelling reasons standard for sealing for those documents by Monday, 

January 7, 2019 at noon. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 6, 2019

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LUCY H. KOH

United States District Judge

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