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`J. DAVID HADDEN (CSB No. 176148)
`dhadden@fenwick.com
`SAINA S. SHAMILOV (CSB No. 215636)
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`TODD R. GREGORIAN (CSB No. 236096)
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`RAVI R. RANGANATH (CSB No. 272981)
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`SHANNON E. TURNER (CSB No. 310121)
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`CHIEH TUNG (CSB No. 318963)
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`FENWICK & WEST LLP
`Silicon Valley Center
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`Counsel for TWITCH INTERACTIVE, INC.
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
`SAN JOSE DIVISION
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` Case No. 5:18-md-02834-BLF
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`IN RE: PERSONAL WEB TECHNOLOGIES,
`LLC ET AL., PATENT LITIGATION
`PERSONALWEB TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, a
` Case No.: 5:18-cv-05619-BLF
`Texas limited liability company, and LEVEL 3
`DECLARATION OF
`COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, a Delaware limited
`TODD R. GREGORIAN IN SUPPORT
`liability company,
`OF PERSONALWEB TECHNOLO-
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`GIES, LLC’S ADMINISTRATIVE
`Plaintiffs,
`MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL
`(DKT. 549)
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`November 15, 2019
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`9:00 a.m.
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`Courtroom 3, 5th floor
`Dept:
`Hon. Beth L. Freeman
`Judge:
`Trial Date: March 16, 2020
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`TWITCH INTERACTIVE, INC. a Delaware cor-
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`I, Todd R. Gregorian, 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 Twitch Interactive, Inc. (“Twitch”) in the
`above-captioned action. I have personal knowledge of the facts set forth in this declaration.
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`I submit this declaration in support of the Administrative Motion to File Under Seal
`(Case No. 18-cv-02834, Dkt. 549, Case No. 18-cv-05619, Dkt. 70) (“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’s Motion for Summary Judgment of Noninfringement and Partial Opposition to Motion
`to Exclude Testimony of Erik de la Iglesia. (“Response to Twitch”) (Case No. 18-cv-02834, Dkt.
`551, Case No. 18-cv-05619-BLF, Dkt. 69).
`3. The Administrative Motion seeks an order sealing the following documents (“Re-
`quested Sealed Material”):
`i. The redacted Technical Expert Report of Erik de la Iglesia, dated August 23,
`2019 (“Redacted de la Iglesia Expert Report”), attached as Exhibit 1 to the Dec-
`laration of Erik de la Iglesia in Support of PersonalWeb’s Response to Twitch
`(“de la Iglesia Declaration”); and
`ii. Excerpts of the transcript of the October 1, 2019 deposition of Twitch corporate
`representative James Richard (“Richard Deposition”) attached as Exhibit 7 to
`the Declaration of Viviana Boero Hedrick in Support of Personalweb’s Re-
`sponse to Twitch (“Hedrick Declaration”).
`4. The Requested Sealed Material comprises information designated as “HIGHLY
`CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’
`EYES ONLY” pursuant to the Stipulated Protective Order (Case No. 18-md-02834, Dkt. 290).
`5. The Redacted de la Iglesia Expert Report attached as Exhibit 1 to the de la Iglesia
`Declaration reflects Twitch’s confidential and sensitive business information. It contains refer-
`ences to and characterizations of Twitch’s proprietary source code and excerpts of the deposition
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`testimony of Twitch’s technical witnesses. Accordingly, PersonalWeb designated this deposition
`transcript as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” A party seeking to
`file documents under seal in connection with a dispositive motion must establish compelling rea-
`sons 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 Twitch’s trade secrets
`regarding the operations of its servers and source code. 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 tailored” to only seal portions of the exhibit that might
`put sensitive business information at risk). The Court previously granted Twitch’s Administrative
`Motion to Seal Exhibit 1 for substantially the same reasons. (Case No. 18-cv-2834, Dkt. 535).
`6.
`I am informed and believe that the way that Twitch designed the backend for its web-
`site to achieve top performance is competitively sensitive because a competitor could, for example,
`seek to improve their website’s performance by replicating Twitch’s combination of different soft-
`ware packages. Disclosure of non-public details regarding the operation of Twitch’s services would
`put Twitch at a competitive disadvantage with respect to competitors and competing services.
`7. The excerpts of the Richard Deposition attached as Exhibit 7 to the Hedrick Declara-
`tion are designated “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” pursuant to the Stipulated
`Protective Order. This exhibit contains excerpts of the deposition transcript of Twitch Senior Soft-
`ware Engineer and corporate designee James Richard. In this testimony, Mr. Richard provides non-
`public and proprietary information concerning the operation of Twitch’s servers. The information
`in this transcript also meets the Foltz standard because, as explained above, disclosure of this in-
`formation would put Twitch at a competitive disadvantage with respect to competitors and com-
`peting services. See Phoenix Technologies, 2018 WL 1169188, at *2.
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`In light of the foregoing, there is a compelling interest in maintaining the confidenti-
`ality of the Requested Sealed Material described above. Public disclosure of this highly confiden-
`tial information would put Twitch at undue risk of serious harm by revealing trade secrets and
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`confidential operational information that may put them at a competitive disadvantage relative to
`competitors and competing services.
`9. Accordingly, Twitch requests that the Court maintain under seal Exhibit 1 to the de la
`Iglesia Declaration and Exhibit 7 of the Hedrick Declaration.
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` 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 San Francisco, California.
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`/s/ Todd R. Gregorian
`Todd R. Gregorian
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