Quidel Corporation v. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

11 QUIDEL CORPORATION, Case No. 16-cv-3059-BAS-AGS 12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO SEAL

v. [ECF Nos. 302, 304, 307, 311, 316]

SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA, INC., et al., 16 Defendants.

Both parties have filed motions to seal. (ECF Nos. 302, 304, 307, 311, 316.) The parties seek to seal various exhibits filed as attachments of their motions, oppositions, and reply briefs. For the most part, the parties seek to seal exhibits solely because the other party has marked information within the exhibits as confidential pursuant to a protective order. Therefore, the Court ordered each party to respond to the other’s motions to seal and provide compelling reasons for the sealing of the material, as well as file a public version of that document with proposed redactions. The parties did so. I. LEGAL STANDARD “[T]he courts of this country recognize a general right to inspect and copy…