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EDVA Judge Denies Motion to Seal Parties’ Settlement

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Much like our recent egarding an EDVA judge’s denial of a joint request to vacate the court’s earlier rulings after a settlement, another recent EDVA decision reinforces that EDVA judges are unwilling to simply rubber-stamp...more

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The Presumption That Papers and Pleading Filed in Court are Public and The Circumstances in Which They May Be Sealed or Redacted

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Most litigants think that financial documents, such as tax returns, are confidential. The same is true with regard to trade secrets and other proprietary business information. While those sentiments are most often true, as...more

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Recent Opinion Denying Unopposed Motion to Seal Holds Lessons for Federal Practitioners in the District of New Jersey

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Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Pascal recently denied an unopposed Motion to Redact and Seal (“Motion”) portions of a transcript of a telephone conference with the Court. In denying the Motion, the Court found multiple...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

2022 Business Court CLE: What the Business Court Judges Want You to Know

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On October 14, 2022, the Mecklenburg County Business Court CLE was back in person, with a full day of amazing presentations and, as is tradition, concluded with the panel of Business Court Judges....more

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How To Navigate Claims Brought By 'Trust' Employees

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In a typical enterprise, most employees are hired to further the primary mission of the organization — whether providing goods and services, creating new products, engaging in sales and marketing, and so forth. ...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Third-Party Licensing Information May Be Exception to General Right of Public Access to Court Records

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In a second appeal relating to sealing third-party licensing information, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a district court’s order denying a motion to seal because the district court...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Keep Out: Uniloc Gets Second Chance to Seal Licensing Documents

Patent owners that lack sufficient resources are often required to utilize the services of an outside litigation funding source to vindicate their patent rights. Often times, these patent owners communicate with such...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court - February 2022 #2

Adapt Pharma Operations Limited v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Appeal No. 2020-2106 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 10, 2022) - In our Case of the Week, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in both the majority opinion and...more

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Take Care When Modifying the PTAB’s Default Protective Order

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After an initial denial, the PTAB recently granted Unified Patents’ motions for entry of protective order and for seal in Unified Patents, LLC v. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, IPR2020-01048, Paper 33...more

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Motions to Seal in the Commercial Division Require Specificity

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Under the Commercial Division Rules, a court may seal court records “upon a written finding of good cause.” So, what led Justice Robert R. Reed to deny two unopposed motions to seal in a recent decision in the New York...more

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District of New Jersey Amends Local Civil Rules Relating to Sealing and Confidentiality Orders

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The District of New Jersey recently amended its local civil rules relating to sealing procedures and confidentiality orders, which are more commonly referred to as protective orders in other jurisdictions.  Specifically,...more

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For Certain Not Secret Now: Court Declines to Seal Alleged Trade Secret in Amended Complaint

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision declining to seal information in an amended complaint where the defendant failed to prove that the information was a trade secret. DePuy Synthes Products,...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Employers’ Toolbox Series: Lessons On Ex Parte Seizure In Five Years Of The DTSA

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The Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), 18 U.S.C. § 1836, et seq., is approaching its fifth anniversary after being signed into law by President Barack Obama on May 11, 2016. To celebrate, we are highlighting some of the...more

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Third Parties Not Responsible for Defective Motion to Seal

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a district court did not abuse its discretion in denying reconsideration of a previous order denying a litigant’s defective motion to seal with regard to the...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2020 #1

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Uniloc 2017 LLC v. Apple, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2019-1922, -1923, -1925, -1926 (Fed. Cir. July 9, 2020) - This week’s case of the week focuses, not on a patent issue, but on a procedural issue common...more

Knobbe Martens

The Risks of Overbroad Motions to Seal

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UNILOC 2017 LLC, UNILOC USA, INC., UNILOC LUXEMBOURG S.A. v. APPLE, INC., ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION - Before Prost, Mayer, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of...more

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Be Careful What You Wish For: DoorDash Must Arbitrate Thousands of Wage Claims

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Many employers strongly prefer arbitration to litigating with their employees in court. Employers often believe—and the Supreme Court has agreed—that arbitration of employment disputes has many benefits, including potential...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Court Seals Commercial Lease Provisions in Landlord Tenant Dispute

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Commercial leases are not all boilerplate. The nature and sophistication of the business or industry of the tenant can lead to lease terms, addenda, riders and exhibits that are complicated and in some cases contain what the...more

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Issue Nineteen: PTAB Trial Tracker

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The availability of post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has changed the face of patent litigation. This monthly digest is designed to keep you up-to-date by highlighting interesting PTAB,...more

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Want to File Under Seal? Here’s the Deal

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To the uninitiated litigant, filing documents containing private, potentially embarrassing information under seal might seem like it should be easy and straightforward, especially if the opposing party has agreed to treat the...more

Carlton Fields

District Court Declines to Decide Procedural Arbitrability Issue, Separately Seals Docket, Finding “Reasonably Significant Privacy...

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Everest Reinsurance Co. reinsured Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. under several treaties requiring the parties to arbitrate all disputes....more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - July 2018: 5 Informative Decisions From The PTAB

On July 10, 2018, the PTAB informed the patent bar that they designated five decisions as informative for: issue preclusion; use of and versus or when referencing lists; DJ bar for joinder cases; depositions in foreign...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

PTAB Strategies and Insights - July 2018

The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

In The Ninth Circuit, Your Fate (And Documents) May Not Be Sealed

Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California handed down a strongly worded order denying a motion to seal alleged trade secret information, and sanctioning counsel for defendant for the frivolous request. ...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

Mine Your Own Business: Multinational Mining Company Seeks Protection Of Alleged Trade Secrets During Discovery

Last week, multinational mining giant Rio Tinto asked a federal court in Manhattan to shield its document disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from the public eye....more

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