MasterObjects, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
MASTEROBJECTS, INC., Plaintiff, No. C 20-08103 WHA
v.
AMAZON.COM, INC., ORDER GRANTING RENEWED
MOTION TO SEAL
Defendant.
16 In an omnibus order granting in part and denying in part various motions to seal, the Court denied without prejudice a motion to seal filed as to two documents (Dkt. No. 441). Recognizing that the documents were detailed but that defendant’s requests to seal were overbroad, the omnibus order allowed defendant fourteen days to submit revised requests to justify sealing any information still confidential in the documents. Defendant timely filed a revised request to seal information and renewed its motion to seal with respect to one of the two documents, the declaration of Trevor Smedley. This declaration was submitted in connection with defendant’s motion for summary judgment and concerns the source code defendant made available for inspection of its autocomplete technology for digital searches. …