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`J. DAVID HADDEN (CSB No. 176148)
`dhadden@fenwick.com
`SAINA S. SHAMILOV (CSB No. 215636)
`sshamilov@fenwick.com
`TODD R. GREGORIAN (CSB No. 236096)
`tgregorian@fenwick.com
`RAVI R. RANGANATH (CSB No. 272981)
`rranganath@fenwick.com
`CHIEH TUNG (CSB No. 318963)
`ctung@fenwick.com
`FENWICK & WEST LLP
`Silicon Valley Center
`801 California Street
`Mountain View, CA 94041
`Telephone:
`650.988.8500
`Facsimile:
`650.938.5200
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`Counsel for AMAZON.COM, INC.
`and AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC.
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
`SAN JOSE DIVISION
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`IN RE: PERSONAL WEB TECHNOLOGIES,
`LLC ET AL., PATENT LITIGATION
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` Case No. 5:18-md-02834-BLF
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` Case No.: 5:18-cv-00767-BLF
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`DECLARATION OF
`RAVI R. RANGANATH IN SUPPORT
`OF PERSONALWEB TECHNOLO-
`GIES, LLC’S ADMINISTRATIVE MO-
`TION TO FILE UNDER SEAL
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`November 15, 2019
`Date:
`9:00 a.m.
`Time:
`Courtroom 3, 5th floor
`Dept:
`Hon. Beth L. Freeman
`Judge:
`Trial Date: March 16, 2020
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`AMAZON.COM, INC., and AMAZON WEB
`SERVICES, INC.,
`Plaintiffs,
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`v.
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`PERSONALWEB TECHNOLOGIES, LLC and
`LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC,
`Defendants.
`PERSONALWEB TECHNOLOGIES, LLC and
`LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC,
`Counterclaimants,
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`v.
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`AMAZON.COM, INC., and AMAZON WEB
`SERVICES, INC.,
`Counterdefendants.
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`DECLARATION OF RAVI R. RANGANATH ISO
`PERSONALWEB AND LEVEL 3’S ADMIN. MOTION
`TO FILE UNDER SEAL
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`I, Ravi R. Ranganath, hereby declare as follows:
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`I am an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of California and am an associate
`with the law firm of Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Amazon.com, Inc. and Amazon Web Ser-
`vices, Inc. (“Amazon”) in the above-captioned action. I have personal knowledge of the facts set
`forth in this declaration.
`2.
`I submit this declaration in support of the Administrative Motion to File Under Seal
`(Case No. 18-md-02834, Dkt. 549, Case No. 18-cv-00767, Dkt. 160) (“Administrative Motion”)
`filed by PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC (“PersonalWeb”). The Administrative Motion was filed
`in support of PersonalWeb’s Non-Opposition to Amazon’s Motion for Summary Judgment of Non-
`infringement and Opposition to Motion Regarding Standing, and PersonalWeb’s Non-Opposition
`to Twitch Interactive, Inc.’s Motion for Summary Judgment of Noninfringement and Partial Oppo-
`sition to Motion to Exclude Testimony of Erik de la Iglesia (“Response to Amazon”) (Case No. 18-
`md-02834, Dkt. 550, Case No. 18-cv-00767, Dkt. 159).
`3. The Administrative Motion seeks an order sealing the following documents (“Re-
`quested Sealed Material”):
`i. The unsigned Declaration of PersonalWeb’s expert Erik de la Iglesia attached as
`Exhibit 2 to the Declaration of Michael A. Sherman in Support of Personal-
`Web’s Response to Amazon (“De la Iglesia Declaration”); and
`ii. Excerpts of the transcript of the July 24, 2019 deposition of Amazon corporate
`representative Matthew Baldwin attached as Exhibit 8 to the Declaration of Viv-
`iana Boero Hedrick in Support of Personalweb’s Response to Amazon (the
`“Baldwin Deposition”) (“Hedrick Declaration”).
`4. The unsigned declaration of PersonalWeb’s expert Erik de la Iglesia attached as Ex-
`hibit 2 to the Sherman Declaration reflects Amazon’s confidential and sensitive business infor-
`mation. It contains references to and characterizations of the source code used by Amazon’s Cloud-
`Front service, and a description of the operation of CloudFront based, purportedly, on Mr. de la
`Iglesia’s review of Amazon’s confidential technical documents and the testimony of Amazon wit-
`nesses.
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`SONALWEB AND LEVEL 3’S ADMIN. MOTION TO
`FILE UNDER SEAL
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`5. The excerpts of the Baldwin Deposition attached as Exhibit 8 to the Hedrick Declara-
`tion are designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” pursuant to the
`Stipulated Protective Order, (Case No. 18-md-02834, Dkt. 290). This exhibit contains excerpts of
`the deposition transcript of Amazon Principal Engineer and corporate designee Matthew Baldwin.
`In this testimony, Mr. Baldwin provides non-public and proprietary information regarding the op-
`eration of Amazon Web Services’ CloudFront service.
`6. A party seeking to file documents under seal in connection with a dispositive motion
`must establish compelling reasons for doing so to rebut the presumption against public access. See
`Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 331 F.3d 1122, 1136 (9th Cir. 2003). The sensitive business
`information which PersonalWeb seeks to file under seal meets this standard, as it represents Ama-
`zon’s trade secrets regarding the design and operation of the CloudFront service and its cloud serv-
`ers. See Phoenix Technologies Ltd. v. VMware, Inc., No. 15-cv-01414-HSG, 2018 WL 1169188,
`at *2 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 14, 2018) (good cause exists to protect business information that might harm
`a litigant’s competitive standing if disclosed, and where the redaction is “sufficiently narrowly tai-
`lored” to only seal portions of the exhibit that might put sensitive business information at risk).
`7. The information in both Exhibit 2 to the Sherman Declaration and Exhibit 8 to the
`Hedrick Declaration meets the Foltz standard. Both exhibits include competitively sensitive infor-
`mation regarding the technical design and operation of the accused CloudFront service, the disclo-
`sure of which would put Amazon at a competitive disadvantage with respect to competitors and
`competing services. See Phoenix Technologies, 2018 WL 1169188, at *2. I am informed and be-
`lieve that the way that CloudFront internally operates and handles requests is competitively sensi-
`tive because, for example, a competitor content delivery network could seek to improve their serv-
`ers’ efficiency and performance by mimicking CloudFront’s internal caching techniques.
`8.
`In light of the foregoing, there is a compelling interest in maintaining the confidenti-
`ality of the Requested Sealed Material. Public disclosure of this highly confidential information
`would put Amazon at undue risk of serious harm by revealing trade secrets and confidential oper-
`ational information that may put them at a competitive disadvantage relative to competitors and
`competing services.
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`9. Accordingly, Amazon requests that the Court maintain under seal Exhibit 2 to the
`Sherman Declaration and Exhibit 8 of the Hedrick Declaration.
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`I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing is
`true and correct.
`Executed this 29th day of October, 2019, in Mountain View, California.
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`/s/ Ravi R. Ranganath
`Ravi R. Ranganath
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