Spectrum Dynamics Medical Limited v. General Electric Company
- Vernon Broderick
- 1:18-cv-11386
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Spectrum Dynamics v. General Electric, Judge Broderick approved redactions to a hearing transcript to protect confidential business information.
The parties and the public’s access to the April 29, 2022 hearing transcript were affected. The specified transcript passages were to be redacted before public filing.
What happened
Spectrum Dynamics Medical Limited v. General Electric Company concerns a joint request about public access to the transcript of an April 29, 2022 hearing. The parties said some transcript passages contained confidential business information.
The defendants asked the court to direct the court reporter to redact highlighted passages on pages 16, 19, 26–27, 32, and 54–55. They said disclosure could cause competitive harm and that the request was narrowly limited.
Judge Vernon S. Broderick approved the requested redactions, as shown by the document’s “SO ORDERED” notation dated August 10, 2022. The order did not decide the underlying dispute.
The detailed version
- Spectrum Dynamics Medical Limited v. General Electric Company · No. 1:18-cv-11386
- Vernon Broderick
- Aug. 10, 2022
Background
The document is a request by the defendants in Spectrum Dynamics Medical Limited v. General Electric Company, et al. The request concerned the transcript of an April 29, 2022 Markman hearing, a hearing used in a patent case to address the meaning of patent-claim terms. The parties had previously entered a confidentiality and protective order.
The request
The defendants stated that the parties jointly asked the court to make the hearing transcript publicly available with redactions. They identified highlighted passages on pages 16, 19, 26–27, 32, and 54–55. According to the request, those passages contained information that one or both parties asserted was competitively sensitive and proprietary. The request said disclosure could create a substantial risk of harm and that the proposed redactions were narrowly tailored.
Ruling
The document bears Judge Vernon S. Broderick’s “SO ORDERED” notation dated August 10, 2022. The court therefore approved the requested redactions before the transcript was made publicly available. The order addressed confidentiality and public access to the transcript; it did not resolve the underlying patent dispute or otherwise state a ruling on the merits.
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