The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a
district court did not abuse its discretion in denying
reconsideration of a previous order denying a litigant's
defective motion to seal with regard to the litigant's own
information, but vacated and remanded for further consideration
with regard to third-party information. Uniloc 2017 LLC v.
Apple, Inc., Case Nos. 19-1922, -1923, -1925, ‑1926
(Fed. Cir. July 9, 2020) (Mayer, J.).
Uniloc sued Apple for patent infringement in the Northern
District of California. Apple moved to dismiss. The briefing on the
motion included material that Uniloc had designated as highly
confidential. Both parties filed motions to seal. Uniloc's
motions to seal covered quotations from published opinions and
matters of public record, among other things. Uniloc's
supporting declarations included only boilerplate assertions of
harm from disclosure. Non-party Electronic Frontier Foundation
asked Uniloc to narrow its redactions, and
