1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 | IQVIA INC., a Delaware corporation; Case No. 3:21-cv-02081-GPC-DEB and IQVIA AG, a Swiss company, 12 ORDER GRANTING 3 Plaintiffs, DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO y FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER 14 , SEAL

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15 | SYSTEMS, INC., a California [ECF No. 34] corporation; and DALE BROWN, 16 || individually, 17 Defendants. Judge: The Hon. Gonzalo P. Curiel 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Case No. 3:21-cv-02081-GPC-DEB

1 Before the Court is Defendants’ Motion to Seal Documents in Support of 2 || Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (the “Motion to Seal’’). (ECF No. 34.) The Motion 3 || to Seal seeks to seal from the public view the following documents: 4 e Portions of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil 5 || Procedure 12(b)(6) (the “Motion”); and 6 e Certain exhibits or portions of exhibits attached to the Declaration of 7 || Jennifer Bennett filed concurrently in support of the Motion (the “Bennett 8 || Exhibits”). 9 Compelling reasons exist here to file under seal the requested portions of the 10 || Motion and the Bennett Exhibits. Defendants seek to seal documents or references 11 | to documents submitted in a prior arbitration under the rules of the DIFC-LCIA 12 | Arbitration Centre, which require arbitration submissions to remain confidential. 13 || Defendants also seek to seal documents and references to documents that were 14 | produced and subject to a protective order in a related case. Additionally, the 15 || information to be sealed implicates the parties’ sensitive business information, 16 || including trade secrets purportedly owned by Plaintiffs IQVIA Inc. and IQVIA AG; 17 || and Defendants’ nonpublic prospective customers and confidential business 18 || strategies, projects, and products. The disclosure of this information would risk 19 || substantially harming or prejudicing Plaintiffs and Defendants. See McArdle v. 20 || AT&T Mobility LLC, No. 09-cv-1117, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 218070, at *13-14 21 || (N.D. Cal. Aug. 13, 2018). 22 Based on the foregoing, the Court finds that there are compelling reasons to 23 || GRANT the Motion to Seal. It is ORDERED that portions of the Motion and the 24 || identified Bennett Exhibits shall be SEALED until further order of this Court. 25 IT IS SO ORDERED. 06 Dated: March 22, 2022 7 sale As ( 27 Hon. Gonzalo P. Curiel 28 United States District Judge

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