SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria faced an unusual request last month in his first patent case. Apple Inc. moved to seal the courtroom for an entire summary-judgment hearing to protect Apple’s “highly confidential technical, financial and licensing information.”
“That is absolutely not going to happen,” Chhabria told Apple’s Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher trial team at the April 22 hearing. Not only would the hearing be public, Chhabria ordered Apple and its opponent, non-practicing entity Unwired Planet Inc., to resubmit their heavily redacted briefs with fewer omissions.
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