Scramoge Technology Limited v. Apple Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SCRAMOGE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, Case No. 22-cv-03041-JSC
Plaintiff,
ORDER RE: APPLE’S MOTION FOR A
v. PROTECTIVE ORDER
APPLE, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 124 Defendant.
12 Apple has moved for summary judgment on Scramoge’s patent infringement claims on the grounds that it has a license to the patents. (Dkt. No. 126.) Now pending before the Court is a joint discovery letter regarding Apple’s insistence that the license agreements be shown in unredacted form only to Scramoge’s outside counsel, and that Scramoge’s designated representatives only be allowed to review particular paragraphs Apple deems relevant. (Dkt. No. 124.) Upon a showing of “good cause,” a court may “protect a party or person from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense” in discovery by “requiring that trade secret or other confidential . . . commercial information not be revealed, or be revealed only in a specified way.” Fed. R. Civ.…