Shande

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 6 TAVERSHIMA SHANDE, Case No. 22-cv-05821-BLF

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S

v. MOTION TO SEAL WITHOUT

PREJUDICE

ZOOX, INC., [Re: ECF 31] Defendant.

12 This action arises from the parties’ dispute regarding the rights to digital street scenery (“Street Scenery Content”) that Plaintiff Tavershima Shande (“Shande”) created while employed by Defendant Zoox, Inc. (“Zoox”) as a Staff Technical Artist. In that role, Shande created digital street scenery for use in training Zoox’s autonomous vehicles to navigate an urban environment. Shande contends that he created the Street Scenery Content at issue separately from his work at Zoox, without using any Zoox proprietary material or equipment. Shande claims that he had every right to create and sell the Street Scenery Content on his own time, and that Zoox acted unlawfully in interfering with his sale and distribution of the Street…