`Patent No. 10,621,228
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`APPLE, INC.
`Petitioner
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`MEMORYWEB, LLC
`Patent Owner
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`Patent No. 10,621,228
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`Inter Partes Review No. IPR2022-00031
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`PATENT OWNER’S UNOPPOSED MOTION TO SEAL
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`Patent Owner MemoryWeb, LLC (“MemoryWeb”) submits this Motion to
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`Seal (“Motion”) Patent Owner’s Updated Exhibit List (Paper 81). Patent Owner
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`submits this Motion to safeguard Petitioner’s and Unified Patents, LLC’s
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`(“Unified”) confidential information, pursuant to the Protective Order. See Paper 52.
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`Patent Owner provides redacted versions of its Updated Exhibit List concurrently
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`with this Motion.
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`Patent Owner certifies that it has conferred with Petitioner through counsel,
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`and Petitioner does not oppose this Motion to seal.
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`MOTION TO SEAL
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`In an inter parties review, it is the default rule that all filings are publicly
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`available. 35 U.S.C. § 326(a)(1); 37 C.F.R. § 42.14. Where an exhibit contains
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`confidential information, a party may file “a motion to seal with a proposed
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`protective order as to the confidential information.”1 See 37 C.F.R. § 42.55; see also
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`35 U.S.C. § 326(a)(1). A motion to seal will only be granted if the movant
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`demonstrates “good cause.” 37 C.F.R. § 42.54(a). Good cause exists if the movant
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`“demonstrate[s] adequately that (1) the information sought to be sealed is truly
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`1 Patent Owner filed an unopposed motion for entry of a Protective Order (Paper 52)
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`and the Board granted Patent Owner’s motion (Paper 55). All relevant parties have
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`executed the Protective Order.
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`confidential, (2) a concrete harm would result upon public disclosure, (3) there exists
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`a genuine need to rely in the trial on the specific information sought to be sealed,
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`and (4), on balance, an interest in maintaining the confidentiality outweighs the
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`strong public interest in having an open record.” Argentum Pharm. LLC v. Alcon
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`Research, Ltd., IPR2017-01053, Paper 27 at 4 (PTAB Jan. 19, 2018) (citing 37
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`C.F.R. § 42.54(a)). All four prongs are satisfied here.
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`First, the Updated Exhibit List contains non-public, confidential proprietary
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`business information pertaining to Unified. Patent Owner understands that this
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`information includes confidential commercial information that Unified has not
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`made, and does not intend to make, publicly available. Patent Owner also
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`understands that this information was produced pursuant to the Protective Order.
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`Second, Patent Owner understands from Unified that public disclosure of this
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`information would expose Unified’s confidential business activities. Patent Owner
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`understands the Updated Exhibit List contains information Petitioner and/or Unified
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`maintains as confidential. Patent Owner believes that the public will not be harmed
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`by sealing Unified’s confidential business information.
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`Third, the information in the Updated Exhibit List concerns exhibits that are
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`directly relevant to whether Petitioner is a real party in interest (“RPI”) to Unified’s
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`IPR. See Unified Patents, LLC v. MemoryWeb, LLC, IPR2021-01413. Patent Owner
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`must rely on Unified’s confidential information to prove that Petitioner is an RPI to
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`Unified’s IPR.
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`Fourth, on balance, the interest in maintaining confidentiality outweighs the
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`public interest in having an open record. Accordingly, the redacted portions of the
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`Updated Exhibit List should be sealed. Patent Owner respectfully requests that the
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`Board grant this Motion.
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`II. GOOD CAUSE EXISTS FOR SEALING THE MOTION TO
`TERMINATE AND THE RELEVANT EXHIBITS
`In deciding whether to seal exhibits, the Board must find “good cause” and
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`must “strike a balance between the public’s interest in maintaining a complete and
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`understandable file history and the parties’ interest in protecting truly sensitive
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`information.” Garmin Int’l, Inc. v. Cuozzo Speed Techs. LLC, IPR2012-00001,
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`Paper 36 at 4 (PTAB Apr. 5, 2013).
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`The Updated Exhibit List discloses the exhibits Patent Owner relied on in
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`support of its Motion to Terminate and its Reply in Support of the Motion to
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`Terminate. The exhibits disclosed in the Updated Exhibit List were produced
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`pursuant to the Protective Order in this case. Thus, the Updated Exhibit List contains
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`sensitive business information that Petitioner and Unified assert has not been
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`published or otherwise made publicly available.
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`The balance favors protecting Petitioner’s and Unified’s confidential
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`information. The information in the Updated Exhibit List is not related to
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`patentability, the scope of the ʾ228 patent, or any matter generally impacting the
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`public interest in evaluating the ʾ228 patent. Rather, the information sought to be
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`sealed relates to Petitioner’s status as an RPI to the Unified IPR. The information
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`relates to business dealings between Unified and its members, including Petitioner.
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`Unified has represented this information is not known to the public. See e.g., Unified
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`Patents, IPR2021-01413, Paper 24 at 7.
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`The Board should seal this information to prevent the incidental public
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`exposure of confidential business information. The public interest is well-served in
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`keeping this information confidential.
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`III. NON-CONFIDENTIAL VERSIONS
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`As required by the Board’s Trial Practice Guide, the Default Protective Order,
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`and the agreed-upon Protective Order, a non-confidential redacted version of the
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`Updated Exhibit List is being filed concurrently with this Motion. The redactions
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`are minimal and limited in nature and scope to the confidential information.
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`IV. REQUEST FOR CONFERENCE CALL WITH THE BOARD
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`Should the Board not be inclined to grant the present Motion, the Patent
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`Owner and the relevant parties hereby request a conference call with the Board to
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`discuss any concerns prior to the Board issuing a decision on the Motion.
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`V. CONCLUSION
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`For the foregoing reasons, Patent Owner respectfully requests that the Board
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`seal and protect Petitioner’s and Unified’s confidential information in unredacted
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`versions of the Updated Exhibit List.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`Dated: November 17, 2023
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`/Jennifer Hayes/
`By:
`Jennifer Hayes
`Reg. No. 50,845
`Nixon Peabody LLP
`300 South Grand Avenue,
`Suite 4100,
`Los Angeles, CA 90071-3151
`Tel. 213-629-6179
`Fax 866-781-9391
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that a copy of the foregoing Patent Owner’s
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`Unopposed Motion to Seal was served on November 17, 2023, upon the following
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`parties via electronic service:
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`Jeffrey P. Kushan
`Thomas A. Broughan, III
`Sidley Austin LLP
`1501 K Street, N.W.
`Washington, D.C. 20005
`jkushan@sidley.com
`tbroughan@sidley.com
`SidleyAppleMemoryWebIPRs@sidley.com
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`J. Steven Baughman
`Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
`801 17th Street, NW, Suite 1050
`Washington, DC 20006
`Steve.baughman@groombridgewu.com
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`Counsel for Petitioner, Apple Inc.
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`/s/ Jennifer Hayes
`By:
`Lead Counsel for Patent Owner
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