Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC, et al. v. MaxLinear, Inc.

Document type and request

The provided text is a letter from counsel for subpoenaed nonparty Broadcom Corporation. Broadcom asks the court to maintain certain exhibits under seal permanently. The letter refers to a September 29, 2025 joint discovery letter and to an amended stipulated protective order.

Materials at issue

Broadcom identifies two sets of deposition excerpts:

- Comcast Exhibit C contains excerpts from the deposition of Broadcom employee Niki Pantelias, who testified as Broadcom’s corporate representative in response to subpoenas. - MaxLinear Exhibit 8 contains additional excerpts from Pantelias’s deposition. Broadcom specifically identifies excerpts beginning on page 10 as containing confidential information.

Reason for requested sealing

Broadcom states that the testimony reveals sensitive internal business and design practices concerning products involved in the case. According to the letter, the testimony includes aspects of Broadcom’s product-design decision-making, technical innovations, and development milestones. Broadcom says disclosure would cause competitive harm by giving competitors insight into how Broadcom designs its products.

Broadcom also submitted redacted versions of the exhibits and argues that this approach limits sealing to the portions requiring confidentiality. The letter cites the principle that sealing must be essential to protect a higher value and narrowly tailored, as well as authority recognizing that protection of business information affecting competitive standing may overcome the presumption of public access.

Disposition

The provided text does not contain a judicial order or state that Judge Hellerstein granted or denied Broadcom’s request. Accordingly, no ruling on sealing is reported here.