Micron Technology, Inc. v. United Microelectronics Corporation et al, No. 3:2017cv06932 - Document 91 (N.D. Cal. 2018)

Court Description: ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFERRED PORTION OF PLAINTIFF'S ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL; DIRECTIONS TO PLAINTIFF. Signed by Judge Maxine M. Chesney on September 13, 2018. (mmclc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/13/2018)

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1 2 3 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC., Plaintiff, 8 9 10 United States District Court Northern District of California 11 v. UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION, et al., Defendants. Case No. 17-cv-06932-MMC ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFERRED PORTION OF PLAINTIFF’S ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL; DIRECTIONS TO PLAINTIFF Re: Dkt. No. 75 12 13 By order filed August 27, 2018, the Court granted in part, denied in part, and 14 deferred ruling in part on plaintiff Micron Technology, Inc.'s (“Micron”) "Administrative 15 Motion to File Under Seal," filed August 13, 2018. In particular, to the extent Micron 16 seeks leave to file under seal Exhibit 1-4 and 26 to the Declaration of Douglas L. Clark, 17 the Court found the showing made by the parties was insufficient to support sealing of the 18 entirety of those five exhibits and afforded the parties leave to file supplemental 19 declarations to identify any specific portions that are properly filed under seal. 20 The Court has now received a supplemental declaration, filed August 31, 2018, by 21 Micron, and a supplemental declaration, filed September 1, 2018, by defendant United 22 Microelectronics Corporation. Having read and considered the parties’ supplemental 23 filings, the Court rules as follows: 24 25 1. With respect to Exhibit 1, the motion to seal is hereby GRANTED as to the following portions thereof and DENIED as to all other portions: 26 a. Pages 41:18-44:9 27 b. Pages 48:25-50:1 28 c. Pages 50:10-51:15 United States District Court Northern District of California 1 d. Pages 57:23-58:21 2 e. Page 59:18-23 3 f. Page 64:20-65:18 4 g. Page 66:8-16 5 h. Pages 68:23-70:2 6 i. Pages 70:6-71:17 7 j. Page 72:8-23 8 k. Pages 74:14-75:25 9 l. Page 81:5-24 10 m. Page 82:11-83:3 11 n. Pages 83:15-84:19 12 o. Pages 85:24-87:6 13 p. Pages 102:1-103:1 14 q. Page 103:9-18 15 r. Pages 104:20-105:17 16 Plaintiff is hereby DIRECTED to file in the public record, within seven days of the 17 date of this order, a version of Exhibit 1 in which the portions identified above are 18 redacted. 19 20 2. With respect to Exhibit 2, the motion to seal is hereby GRANTED as to the following portions thereof and DENIED as to all other portions: 21 a. Page 33:13-21 22 b. Pages 35:21-36:21 23 c. Page 69:2-23 24 d. Pages 70:20-72:13 25 e. Pages 77:18-78:4 26 f. Pages 96:12-100:18 27 g. Page 101:11-15 28 h. Pages 103:7-104:10 2 1 i. Pages 111:1-112:23 2 j. Page 120:1-7 3 k. Pages 127:18-128:20 4 l. Pages 146:2-154:24 5 6 date of this order, a version of Exhibit 2 in which the portions identified above are 7 redacted. 8 9 United States District Court Northern District of California Plaintiff is hereby DIRECTED to file in the public record, within seven days of the 3. With respect to Exhibits 3 and 4, the motion to seal is hereby GRANTED as to the following portions thereof and DENIED as to all other portions: 10 a. 2016/01/08 – entire conversation 11 b. 2016/01/09 – 24:23-24:41; 9:46; 9:49; 10:02-11:04 12 c. 2016/01/11 – entire conversation 13 d. 2016/01/12 – 6:53, 8:25, 20:00-20:01 14 e. 2016/01/18 – 18:12 15 f. 2016/01/23 – 11:14; 13:47 16 g. 2016/01/24 – 11:24 17 h. 2016/01/27 – entire conversation 18 i. 2016/01/31 – 19:11; 21:02 19 j. 2016/02/01 – 11:54 20 k. 2016/02/05 – 14:18 (first entry) 21 l. 2016/02/06 – 9:16; 9:35-9:43; 9:45; 9:51; 9:57 22 m. 2016/02/07 – 11:47; 12:02; 12:25-12:30 23 n. 2016/02/09 – 11:47 (first entry) 24 o. 2016/02/16 – 22:51 25 p. 2016/02/21 – 12:36-13:21; 13:23-13:24; 17:07 26 r. 2016/03/04 – 20:30-20:33 27 s. 2016/03/13 – 22:33 (monthly salary only) 28 t. 2016/03/22 – 21:37 (second entry); 21:38; 21:50; 21:51 (second entry); 3 1 2 United States District Court Northern District of California 3 21:52-21:54; 21:56 (second entry); 21:57; 21:58 (second entry) u. 2016/03/30 – 20:20; 20:24 (first entry); 20:29 (second entry); 20:3020:31; 20:32 (first entry); 20:35-20:40; 20:44-21:03 4 v. 2016/04/01 – 17:15; 17:16 (first entry; last two words); 20:19 5 w. 2016/04/02 – 21:57; 22:39; 23:06-23:10 6 x. 2016/04/03 – 12:16-12:19; 21:04; 21:08-21:20; 21:21 (second entry; last 7 word); 21:23-21:34; 21:56-21:57; 21:58 (first entry); 21:58 (third entry; 8 last word); 21:59-22:00; 22:08; 22:19; 22:21 9 y. 2016/04/04 – 17:23-22:10 10 z. 2016/04/06 – 9:09-18:17 11 aa. 2016/04/07 – 17:08 12 bb. 2016/04/13 – 19:53; 19:58-20:00; 20:35-21:46 13 cc. 2016/04/14 – 22:38-22:40 14 dd. 2016/04/17 – 14:42-20:41 15 ee. 2016/04/20 – 8:08; 21:12-21:57; 21:59; 22:13 16 ff. 2016/04/26 – 16:21-16:34; 16:36 (first and second entries); 16:37 (third 17 entry; last word); 16:41 (last word); 16:58-18:10 18 gg. 2016/04/27 – 20:24 (first entry); 20:17 19 hh. 2016/05/01 – 21:19 20 ii. 2016/05/06 – 19:40-20:58 21 jj. 2016/06/30 – 9:27 22 kk. 2016/07/04 – 20:12-20:16; 20:24-20:27 23 ll. 2016/08/10 – entire conversation 24 mm. 2016/08/25 – 22:20 25 nn. 2016/09/09 – 19:32-22:08; 22:11 (second entry); 22:14; 22:16; 26 oo. 2016/09/13 – 23:11 27 pp. 2016/09/22 – 21:27 28 qq. 2016/09/25 – 19:58-20:00; 20:03-20:17 4 1 rr. 2016/09/28 – 21:58 2 ss. 2016/10/23 – entire conversation 3 tt. 2016/10/24 – 6:16 (second entry; last two words); 6:17 (first entry); 20:42 4 5 uu. 2016/10/28 – 20:16-20:38; 20:40; 20:41 (first entry); 20:42 (second 6 entry); 20:44-20:46; 20:47 (first entry); 20:48 (second entry); 20:49- 7 20:50; 20:56; 21:11-21:34; 21:39 8 vv. 2016/10/29 – 17:52 9 ww. 2016/10/31 – 8:03; 9:34; 22:42 United States District Court Northern District of California 10 xx. 2016/11/18 – 18:53; 20:52 (first and third entries); 20:57; 20:59 (first 11 entry); 21:01-21:02; 21:03 (first entry); 21:04; 21:05 (first entry); 21:06 12 (second entry); 21:07 (first entry); 21:08 (third entry); 21:09 (first entry) 13 yy. 2016/11/22 – 21:56 (first entry); 22:12-22:15 14 zz. 2016/11/30 – 21:13 (first sentence) 15 aaa. 2016/12/08 – 22:04 (first entry) 16 bbb. 2016/12/13 – 21:16 (first entry) 17 ccc. 2016/12/27 – 22:05-22:06; 22:09 (first entry) 18 ddd. 2017/01/05 – 21:39; 21:44 (second entry); 21:45-21:49; 21:51 (phrase 19 after “University”); 21:52 (second sentence); 21:54; 21:55 (first entry); 20 22:08; 23:00; 23:07 (first entry) 21 eee. 2017/01/09 – 22:11; 22:42; 22:50-22:51 22 fff. 23 ggg. 2017/01/24 – 23:01-23:07; 23:08 (second entry); 23:09-23:13; 23:16 2017/01/18 – 20:37 (second and third sentences); 20:54 (first entry) 24 25 hhh. 2017/02/03 – 23:15 26 iii. 2017/02/04 – 14:11; 17:49; 18:18-19:05 27 Plaintiff is hereby DIRECTED to file in the public record, within seven days of the 28 date of this order, versions of Exhibits 3 and 4 in which the portions identified above are 5 1 2 redacted. 4. With respect to Exhibit 26, the motion is DENIED, the designating party, 3 UMC, not having identified any specific portions it asserts are properly filed under seal. 4 Plaintiff is hereby DIRECTED to file Exhibit 26 in the public record, within seven days of 5 the date of this order. 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 8 Dated: September 13, 2018 MAXINE M. CHESNEY United States District Judge 9 10 United States District Court Northern District of California 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 6

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