LG Seeks Court OK to File Dolby Patent Reply Under Seal

LG sought permission to file under seal its reply memorandum of law and related documents in support of its request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to bar Dolby from terminating LG’s license to AC-4 audio codec patents for NextGenTV, in a letter motion Monday to U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty in Manhattan. It appears from heavily redacted public filings in the case that disputed patent royalty audit reports are at the root of the LG-Dolby court fight (see 2202090028). The papers LG wants to file under seal, LG lawyers wrote Crotty, include declarations in support of the TRO and PI from Justin Lewis, managing director of Ocean Tomo’s intellectual property practice, and Allan Shampine, an antitrust expert at Compass Lexecon. LG has “a significant interest in maintaining the confidentiality of highly sensitive commercial information concerning its business relationships and sensitive financial information that, if disclosed, would cause competitive harm, including by giving an unfair advantage to competitors,” they said.