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`QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP
` Sean Pak (Bar No. 219032)
` seanpak@quinnemanuel.com
` Melissa Baily (Bar No. 237649)
` melissabaily@quinnemanuel.com
` James Judah (Bar No. 257112)
` jamesjudah@quinnemanuel.com
` Lindsay Cooper (Bar No. 287125)
` lindsaycooper@quinnemanuel.com
` Iman Lordgooei (Bar No. 251320)
` imanlordgooei@quinnemanuel.com
`50 California Street, 22nd Floor
`San Francisco, California 94111-4788
`Telephone:
`(415) 875-6600
`Facsimile:
`(415) 875-6700
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` Marc Kaplan (pro hac vice)
` marckaplan@quinnemanuel.com
`191 N. Wacker Drive, Ste 2700
`Chicago, Illinois 60606
`Telephone:
`(312) 705-7400
`Facsimile:
`(312) 705-7401
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`Attorneys for Google LLC
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
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`SONOS, INC.,
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`Plaintiff,
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`GOOGLE LLC,
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`Defendant.
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`CASE NO. 3:20-cv-06754-WHA
`Related to CASE NO. 3:21-cv-07559-WHA
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`DECLARATION OF JOCELYN MA IN
`SUPPORT OF SONOS, INC.’S
`ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION TO
`CONSIDER WHETHER ANOTHER
`PARTY’S MATERIAL SHOULD BE
`SEALED RE SONOS, INC.’S MOTION IN
`LIMINE NO. 5 (DKT. NO. 601)
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`CASE NO. 3:20-cv-06754-WHA
`DECLARATION OF JOCELYN MA
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`I, Jocelyn Ma, declare and state as follows:
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`I am an attorney licensed to practice in the State of California and am admitted to
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`practice before this Court. I am an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP representing
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`Google LLC (“Google”) in this matter. I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth in this
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`Declaration, and if called as a witness I would testify competently to those matters.
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`2.
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`I make this declaration in support of Sonos, Inc.’s (“Sonos”) Administrative
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`Motion to Consider Whether Another Party’s Material Should Be Sealed (“Administrative
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`Motion”) (Dkt. 601) filed in connection with Sonos, Inc.’s (“Sonos”) Motion in Limine No. 5
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`(“Sonos’s Motion”) and Google’s Response to Motion in Limine No. 5 (“Google’s Response”). If
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`called as a witness, I could and would testify competently to the information contained herein.
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`3.
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`Google seeks an order sealing the materials as listed below:
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`Document
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`Sonos’s Motion
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`Exhibit A to Kolker
`Declaration
`Exhibit B to Kolker
`Declaration
`Exhibit C to Kolker
`Declaration
`Google’s Response
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`Portions Sonos
`Sought to Be Filed
`Under Seal
`Portions highlighted
`in yellow
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`Entire document
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`Entire document
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`Portions Google
`Seeks to Be Filed
`Under Seal
`Portions
`highlighted in
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`Portions outlined
`in red
`None
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`Entire document
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`None
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`Portions highlighted
`in yellow
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`Portions
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`Designating
`Party
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`Google
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`Google
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`Google
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`Google
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`Google
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`4.
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`I understand that this Court has analyzed sealing requests in connection with motions in
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`limine pursuant to the “good cause” standard for non-dispositive motions. See, e.g., Gearsource
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`Holdings, LLC v. Google LLC, No. 18-CV-03812-HSG, 2021 WL 1123630, at *2 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 24,
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`2021) (“Because Defendant’s motion in limine is not a dispositive motion, the Court applies the lower
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`good cause standard.”); Racies v. Quincy Bioscience, LLC, No. 15-CV-00292-HSG, 2019 WL
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`8438448, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 16, 2019) (“Because the parties move to file documents related to their
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`motions in limine, the Court will apply the lower good cause standard.”); TVIIM, LLC v. McAfee, Inc.,
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`No. 13-CV-04545-HSG, 2015 WL 3776424, at *2 (N.D. Cal. June 16, 2015) (“Because motions in
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`limine are nondispositive motions, the Court applies the ‘good cause’ standard to the pending motions
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`to seal.”). I also understand that material that is confidential and could harm a litigant’s competitive
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`standing if disclosed may be sealed under the good cause standard. See, e.g., Skillz Platform Inc. v.
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`AviaGames Inc., No. 21-CV-02436-BLF, 2022 WL 875654, at *2 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 24, 2022) (finding
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`“good cause to file the documents and portions of documents at issue under seal given the sensitive
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`financial and business information they contain”); Dugan v. Lloyds TSB Bank, PLC, No. 12-CV-
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`02549-WHA NJV, 2013 WL 1435223, at *2 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 9, 2013) (“There may be ‘good cause’ to
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`seal records that are privileged, contain trade secrets, contain confidential research, development or
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`commercial information, or if disclosure of the information might harm a litigant’s competitive
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`standing.”).
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`5.
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`The portions of Sonos’s Motion and Google’s Response highlighted in yellow and
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`portions of Exhibit A to Kolker’s Declaration outlined in red contain references to Google’s
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`confidential business information, including details regarding the architecture and technical operation
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`of Google’s products. The specifics of how these functionalities operate is confidential information
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`that Google does not share publicly. Thus, I understand that the public disclosure of such information
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`could lead to competitive harm to Google, as competitors could use these details regarding the
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`architecture and functionality of Google’s products to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace
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`with respect to their competing products. Google has therefore designated this information as
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`HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY under the protective order (Dkt. No. 92).
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`I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that to the
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`best of my knowledge the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on May 2, 2023, in San Francisco,
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`California.
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`DATED: May 2, 2023
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