Re: New Pacer--DECLARATION OF EUGENE Y. MAR IN SUPPORT OF [PROPOSED] SEALING
posted on
Apr 24, 2010 11:48AM
<These communications contain specific terms and offers for settling this litigation and also describe confidential proposals for business opportunities between HTC and TPL. The public disclosure of the settlement offers and confidential business proposals found in these correspondences would detrimentally harm TPL’s business by allowing other potential licensees to learn of and take unfair advantage of TPL’s business strategy. >
Well now, that language sounds familiar. I know certain parties here will dismiss it a meaningless babble, such as the reference to a business resolution contained in the Js settlement pr. In that instance the appearance was that the settlement was the business resolution. One and the same. Smoke.
But for the rest of us, perhaps this filing is very telling. The fact that the business opportunities in the current filing are viewed as distinctly separate from settlement offers is interesting. And one can not ask the court to seal smoke, can one? Hmmmm
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