Zoetis, Inc. v. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, GmbH
- Denise Cote
- 1:21-cv-08319
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Zoetis v. Boehringer, Judge Cote received Boehringer’s request to seal defense filings and exhibits, but the text contains no ruling.
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, GmbH, Zoetis, Inc., and the nonparties whose agreements and privacy interests were described in the sealing request.
What happened
In Zoetis, Inc. v. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, GmbH, Boehringer asked the Southern District of New York to keep several defense filings and exhibits from public view. The request concerned materials submitted in opposition to Zoetis’s motion for partial summary judgment.
Boehringer said the exhibits contained proprietary, trade-secret, or other sensitive information, as well as private information involving nonparties. It also asked to seal its memorandum, statement of facts, and declaration because those documents referred to the exhibits and the circumstances surrounding them.
The letter was addressed to Judge Denise L. Cote and asked her to grant the sealing request. The provided text does not include a ruling on the motion.
The detailed version
- Zoetis, Inc. v. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, GmbH · No. 1:21-cv-08319
- Denise Cote
- Nov. 28, 2022
Nature of the document
The provided text is a November 23, 2022 letter motion submitted on behalf of defendant Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, GmbH. It asks the court to seal specified filings and exhibits in connection with Boehringer’s opposition to Zoetis’s motion for partial summary judgment. The text does not contain a judicial order or disposition.
Requested sealing
Boehringer requested that the court seal:
- its memorandum of law opposing Zoetis’s motion for partial summary judgment; - its response to Zoetis’s statement of material undisputed facts and its statement of additional material undisputed facts; - the November 23, 2022 declaration of Martin B. Jackson; and - Exhibits A, B, and C accompanying that declaration.
Reasons offered
Boehringer stated that Exhibit A was a license agreement between Boehringer and a nonparty and was marked confidential because it contained proprietary, trade-secret, or otherwise sensitive nonpublic information. It stated that Exhibits B and C were agreements between nonparties and were marked highly confidential because they implicated nonparties’ privacy rights. Exhibit B was identified as a license agreement, and Exhibit C as a settlement agreement.
Boehringer further argued that its memorandum, statement of facts, and declaration repeatedly and necessarily cited the exhibits and the circumstances surrounding them, so those filings should also be sealed. The letter cited a prior Southern District of New York decision concerning confidential information, including information about settlements with third parties.
Disposition
The letter asks Judge Denise L. Cote to grant the motion to seal. The provided text ends with that request and does not state whether the court granted, denied, or otherwise resolved it.
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