Finjan LLC v. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. ( 2023 )

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 FINJAN LLC, Case No. 3:14-cv-04908-JD 8 Plaintiff, ORDER RE MOTIONS TO SEAL v. 9 10 PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC., Defendant. 11 12 A hallmark of our federal judiciary is the “strong presumption in favor of access to court 13 records.” Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 331 F.3d 1122, 1135 (9th Cir. 2003); see In re 14 Google Play Store Antitrust Litig., 556 F. Supp. 3d 1106, 1107 (N.D. Cal. 2021). Public access 15 maintains confidence in the fair and impartial administration of justice, and protects the integrity 16 and independence of the courts. This is why the business of the federal judiciary is done in open 17 court. 18 In limited circumstances, there may be grounds for curtailing public access. This is an 19 exception to the rule, and so a party requesting that a document or evidence be sealed from the 20 public needs to present a good reason explaining why. A particularized showing of good cause is 21 required to seal documents related to non-dispositive motions, and a compelling reason supported 22 by specific facts is needed before the Court will consider sealing records involving dispositive 23 motions such as a summary judgment motion. See Kamakana v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu, 447 24 F.3d 1172, 1179-80 (9th Cir. 2006); DZ Rsrv. v. Facebook, Inc., No. 18-cv-04978-JD, 2021 WL 25 75734, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 8, 2021). General assertions of potential competitive or commercial 26 harm are not enough to establish good cause for sealing court records, and the “fact that the parties 27 may have designated a document as confidential under a stipulated protective order is also not 1 This order addresses a slew of sealing motions. Dkt. Nos. 195, 199, 203, 208, 229, 234, 2 || 237,241. The Court’s sealing determinations are stated in the attached chart. See Ex. A. All 3 sealing requests that are granted may be revisited as circumstances warrant. See Civil L.R. 79- 4 |} 5(g)(1) (“When the Court grants a motion to seal or otherwise permits a document to remain under 5 seal, the document will remain under seal until further order of the Court.”). 6 The “‘default posture of public access prevails’” for the documents, or portions thereof, 7 that the Court declines to seal. In re Google Play Store, 556 F. Supp. 3d at 1108 (quoting 8 Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1182). The parties are directed to file unredacted versions of the relevant 9 documents on ECF within 7 days of this order. Civil L.R. 79-5(g). 10 IT IS SO ORDERED. 11 Dated: August 14, 2023 12 JAMESPONATO 14 Unitedfftates District Judge 15 16 = 17 Z 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Exhibit A to Order re Motions to Seal 1 2 Document Information Proffered reason for sealing Ruling 3 sought to be sealed 4 5 PAN’s Motion to Highlighted Contains specific details of Granted. The proposal Strike Finjan’s portions of the PAN-OS and hardware is narrowly tailored to 6 Infringement pages 7, 8, source code that runs PAN’s prevent disclosure of Contentions for the and 12 Next-Generation Firewall specific technical 7 ’154, ’408, and (NGFW) products. (Dkt. No. information/source code. ’731 Patents, Dkt. 195-1 ¶ 4) 8 No. 195-3 9 Exhibit 2 to the Highlighted Contains specific details, Granted. See ruling re 10 Van Nort Decl. portions of pathnames, and filenames of Dkt. No. 195-3. ISO PAN’s pages 184- the PAN-OS and hardware 11 Motion to Strike, 206, 264-65, source code that runs PAN’s Dkt. No. 195-4 294-96 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 12 195-1 ¶¶ 4-5). 13 Exhibit 3 to the Highlighted Contains specific details, Granted. See ruling re Van Nort Decl. portions of pathnames, and filenames of Dkt. No. 195-3. 14 ISO PAN’s pages 108- the PAN-OS source code that 15 Motion to Strike, 09, 121-29 runs PAN’s NGFW products. Dkt. No. 195-5 (Dkt. No. 195-1 ¶¶ 4-5). 16 Exhibit 4 to the Highlighted Contains specific details, Granted. See ruling re 17 Van Nort Decl. portions of pathnames, and filenames of Dkt. No. 195-3. 18 ISO PAN’s pages 111- the PAN-OS and hardware Motion to Strike, 12, 116, 118- source code that runs PAN’s 19 Dkt. No. 195-6 25, 144-49, NGFW products, and 165 specific technical details re 20 PAN’s WildFire products. (Dkt. No. 195-1 ¶¶ 4-5). 21 22 Finjan’s Highlighted Reflects specific details of Granted. The proposal Opposition to portions of source code, specific is narrowly tailored to 23 PAN’s Motion to pages 6, 9, pathnames and filenames of prevent disclosure of Strike, Dkt. No. 10-12, 15 source code, or specific specific technical 24 199-2 technical details re PAN’s information/source code. NGFW and WildFire 25 products. (Dkt. No. 199-1 26 ¶¶ 4-6.) 27 1 Document Information Proffered reason for sealing Ruling sought to be 2 sealed 3 Exhibit B to Jarvis Highlighted Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re Decl. ISO Finjan’s portions of source code and specific Dkt. No. 199-2. 4 Opposition to pages 3 and 7 technical details re PAN’s 5 PAN’s Motion to NGFW products. (Dkt. No. Strike, Dkt. No. 199-1 ¶¶ 4, 6.) 6 199-3 7 Exhibit C to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted source code, specific Dkt. No. 199-2. 8 Opposition to document pathnames and filenames of PAN’s Motion to source code, or specific 9 Strike, Dkt. No. technical details re PAN’s 10 199-4 NGFW and WildFire products. (Dkt. No. 199-1 11 ¶¶ 4-6.) 12 Exhibit D to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted source code, specific Dkt. No. 199-2. 13 Opposition to document pathnames and filenames of PAN’s Motion to source code, or specific 14 Strike, Dkt. No. technical details re PAN’s 15 199-5 NGFW and WildFire products. (Dkt. No. 199-1 16 ¶¶ 4-6.) 17 Exhibit E to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted source code, specific Dkt. No. 199-2. 18 Opposition to document pathnames and filenames of 19 PAN’s Motion to source code, or specific Strike, Dkt. No. technical details re PAN’s 20 199-6 NGFW and WildFire products. (Dkt. No. 199-1 21 ¶¶ 4-6.) 22 PAN’s Reply ISO Highlighted Contains specific details of Granted. The proposal Motion to Strike, portions of the PAN-OS and hardware is narrowly tailored to 23 Dkt. No. 203-3 pages 4, 7, source code that runs PAN’s prevent disclosure of 24 and 8 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. specific technical 203-1 ¶ 4.) information/source code. 25 26 27 1 Document Information Proffered reason for sealing Ruling sought to be 2 sealed 3 Discovery Dispute Highlighted Includes information Denied. Finjan did not Letter re Finjan’s portions of designated as “highly file a sealing statement or 4 Patent Valuations, pages 2 and 3 confidential -- attorneys’ declaration in response. 5 Dkt. No. 208-3 eyes only” by Finjan. (Dkt. See Civil L.R. 79-5(f)(3). No. 208-1 ¶ 4.) While the docket entry 6 for Dkt. No. 214 indicates that it is a 7 response, it is a duplicate of the letter brief at Dkt. 8 No. 215. 9 Exhibit A to Entire Document is designated as Granted. While Finjan 10 Discovery Dispute document “highly confidential -- did not file a sealing Letter re Finjan’s attorneys’ eyes only” by statement or declaration 11 Patent Valuations; Finjan. (Dkt. No. 208-1 ¶ 4.) in response (see ruling re Finjan’s Dkt. No. 208-3), there is 12 September 3, 2021 good cause for keeping Privilege Log, Dkt. the privilege log under 13 No. 208-4 seal. 14 PAN’s Motion to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. The proposal 15 Strike Finjan’s portions of details of PAN-OS and the is narrowly tailored to Experts’ page 6 hardware that runs PAN’s prevent disclosure of 16 Undisclosed NGFW products. (Dkt. No. specific technical Infringement 229-1 ¶ 4.) information/source code. 17 Theories, Dkt. No. 18 229-3 19 Exhibit 1 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re DeStefano Decl. portions of details of PAN-OS and the Dkt. No. 229-3. 20 ISO PAN’s pages 3-8, hardware that runs PAN’s Motion to Strike, 10-13, 15-18, NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 21 Dkt. No. 229-4 20-22, 24-25, 229-1 ¶ 4.) 27-31, 35-39 22 Exhibit 2 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re 23 DeStefano Decl. portions of details of PAN-OS and the Dkt. No. 229-3. 24 ISO PAN’s pages 1-4 hardware that runs PAN’s Motion to Strike, NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 25 Dkt. No. 229-5 229-1 ¶ 4.) 26 27 1 Document Information Proffered reason for sealing Ruling sought to be 2 sealed 3 Exhibit 4 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re DeStefano Decl. portions of details of PAN-OS and the Dkt. No. 229-3. 4 ISO PAN’s pages 1-2 hardware that runs PAN’s 5 Motion to Strike, NGFW products. (Dkt. No. Dkt. No. 229-6 229-1 ¶ 4.) 6 Exhibit 5 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re 7 DeStefano Decl. portions of details of PAN-OS and the Dkt. No. 229-3. 8 ISO PAN’s page 1 hardware that runs PAN’s Motion to Strike, NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 9 Dkt. No. 229-7 229-1 ¶ 4.) 10 Exhibit 6 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re DeStefano Decl. portions of details of PAN-OS and the Dkt. No. 229-3. 11 ISO PAN’s pages 57, 72- hardware that runs PAN’s 12 Motion to Strike, 73 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. Dkt. No. 229-8 229-1 ¶ 4.) 13 Exhibit 8 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re 14 DeStefano Decl. portions of details, pathnames, and Dkt. No. 229-3. 15 ISO PAN’s pages 73-76 filenames of PAN-OS and Motion to Strike, the hardware that runs PAN’s 16 Dkt. No. 229-9 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 229-1 ¶¶ 4-6.) 17 Finjan’s Highlighted Reflects specific details of Granted. The proposal 18 Opposition to portions of source code, specific is narrowly tailored to 19 PAN’s Motion to pages 2-15 pathnames and filenames of prevent disclosure of Strike Finjan’s source code, or specific specific technical 20 Experts’ technical details re PAN’s information/source code. Undisclosed NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 21 Infringement 234-1 ¶¶ 4-6.) Theories, Dkt. No. 22 234-2 23 Exhibit A to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re 24 Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted source code, specific Dkt. No. 234-2. Opposition to document pathnames and filenames of 25 PAN’s Motion to source code, or specific Strike, Dkt. No. technical details re PAN’s 26 234-3 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 234-1 ¶¶ 4-6.) 27 1 Document Information Proffered reason for sealing Ruling sought to be 2 sealed 3 Exhibit B to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted source code, specific Dkt. No. 234-2. 4 Opposition to document pathnames and filenames of 5 PAN’s Motion to source code, or specific Strike, Dkt. No. technical details re PAN’s 6 234-4 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 234-1 ¶¶ 4-6.) 7 Exhibit C to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re 8 Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted source code, specific Dkt. No. 234-2. Opposition to document pathnames and filenames of 9 PAN’s Motion to source code, or specific 10 Strike, Dkt. No. technical details re PAN’s 234-5 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 11 234-1 ¶¶ 4-6.) 12 Exhibit D to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted source code, specific Dkt. No. 234-2. 13 Opposition to document pathnames and filenames of PAN’s Motion to source code, or specific 14 Strike, Dkt. No. technical details re PAN’s 15 234-6 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 234-1 ¶¶ 4-6.) 16 Exhibit E to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific details of Granted. See ruling re 17 Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted source code, specific Dkt. No. 234-2. Opposition to document pathnames and filenames of 18 PAN’s Motion to source code, or specific 19 Strike, Dkt. No. technical details re PAN’s 234-7 NGFW products. (Dkt. No. 20 234-1 ¶¶ 4-6.) 21 Exhibit F to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific technical Granted. See ruling re Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted details re PAN’s NGFW Dkt. No. 234-2. 22 Opposition to document products. (Dkt. No. 234-1 PAN’s Motion to ¶ 6.) 23 Strike, Dkt. No. 24 234-8 25 Exhibit G to Jarvis Entirety of Reflects specific technical Granted. See ruling re Decl. ISO Finjan’s excerpted details re PAN’s NGFW Dkt. No. 234-2. 26 Opposition to document products. (Dkt. No. 234-1 PAN’s Motion to ¶ 6.) 27 Strike, Dkt. No. 1 Document Information Proffered reason for sealing Ruling sought to be 2 sealed 3 PAN’s Reply ISO Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. The proposal of Motion to Strike portions of details re PAN’s NGFW and is narrowly tailored to 4 Finjan’s Experts’ pages 3-6 WildFire products, as well as prevent disclosure of 5 Undisclosed pathnames and filenames of specific technical Infringement the PAN-OS source code that information/source code. 6 Theories, Dkt. No. runs PAN’s NGFW products. 241-3 (Dkt. No. 241-1 ¶¶ 4-5.) 7 Amended Exhibit Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re 8 1 to DeStefano portions of details re PAN’s NGFW Dkt. No. 241-3. Decl. ISO PAN’s pages 1-8, products. (Dkt. No. 241-1 9 Reply, Dkt. No. 10-22, 24-28 ¶ 4.) 10 241-4 11 Exhibit 2 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re DeStefano Decl. portions of details re PAN’s NGFW Dkt. No. 241-3. 12 ISO PAN’s Reply, pages 1-4 products. (Dkt. No. 241-1 13 Dkt. No. 241-5 ¶ 4.) 14 Exhibit 17 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re 15 DeStefano Decl. portions of details re PAN’s WildFire Dkt. No. 241-3. 16 ISO PAN’s Reply, pages 41-44 products. (Dkt. No. 241-1 Dkt. No. 241-6 ¶ 4.) 17 18 Exhibit 18 to Highlighted Contains specific technical Granted. See ruling re 19 DeStefano Decl. portions of details re PAN’s WildFire Dkt. No. 241-3. ISO PAN’s Reply, pages 217-19 products. (Dkt. No. 241-1 20 Dkt. No. 241-7 ¶ 4.) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27