Request for Confidential Treatment

0096-EX-ML-2011 Text Documents

Commlabs, Inc.

2011-05-03ELS_115643

SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY (US) LLP Suite 500 SQU 1RE § LEGAL 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. SANDE % COUNSEL Washington, DC 20004 N RS |i wWORLDWIDE Office: +1.202.626.6600 Fax: +1.202.626.6780 Direct Dial: +1.202.626.6615 bruce.olcott@ssd.com May 3, 2011 BY ELECTRONIC FILING James Burtle Experimental Licensing Branch Office of Engineering and Technology Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20554 Re: Commlabs, Inc. Request for Confidential Treatment; Application for Modification of Experimental License File No. 0096—EX—ML—2011 (Call Sign WF2XLW) Dear Mr. Burtle: Commilabs, Inc. ("Commiabs"), through its attorneys, hereby requests that its application form and the included exhibit to its modification of its experimental authorization be given confidential treatment and withheld from public inspection pursuant to Section 0.459 of the Commission‘s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 0.459.‘ Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), public disclosure is not required for "trade secrets, commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged and confidential.‘"" The commercial information contained herein falls squarely within this exemption from public disclosure. Pursuant to Section 0.459(b) of the Commussion‘s Rules, 47 CF.R. § 0.459(b), the following information is provided in support of the request for confidential treatment. The information for which confidential treatment is sought is a description of Commilabs‘ specific efforts to develop and test wireless location technology, filed as an attachment to the Commlabs‘ application for modification of its experimental license, ELS File No. 0096—EX—ML—2011, as well as technical details regarding its equipment in the application form. This information is proprietary trade secrets and commercial information of Commilabs." The market for development of wireless location technologies is a very ‘ Commlabs‘ experimental license being modified is call sign WF2XLW, ELS File No. 0268—EX—PL—2010. > 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(4); see also 47 C.F.R. § 0.457(d). * See 47 CF.R. § 0.459(b)(1), (2). * See 47 CF.R. § 0.459(b)(3). 36 OrFicES in 16 CoUNTRIES SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSE ) LLP is part or tH SANDERS & DEMPSEY, WHICH OP ES WORLDWIDE THROUGH A PLEASE VISIT WWW.SSD.COM FOR MOREINFORMATION,

James Burtle SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY (US) LLP May 3, 2011 Page 2 competitive one." Due to the competitive environment for such services, release of this information could harm Commlabs." This is especially true due to the fact that equipment has not yet been developed to provide cost effective and reliable terrestrial—based wireless location monitoring services and competing efforts are ongoing to develop and deploy such equipment. It is customary for companies such as Commiabs not to disclose the details of its technologies and methods. The commercial information contained in the exhibit and form have been strictly controlled by Commilabs, with distribution limited to internal use only and to other parties (pursuant to appropriate non— disclosure agreements) only for the specific purpose of conducting research, development, and testing of the technology.‘ Commlabs has not disclosed this commercial information to the public and disclosure to any other party has been only as described herein.‘ Commiabs requests that the subject information not be made routinely available for public inspection at any time." The competitive technical and commercial information contained in the exhibit would benefit Commlabs®‘ competitors and harm Commlabs if it is released for public inspection at any time. Finally, the public interest will be served by the granting of this request for confidential treatment. It is in the public interest that equipment and technologies be developed to provide wireless location monitoring services to facilitate competition in the provision of such services.‘" Sincerely, COMMLABS,NC. be* w TA . 4 22on Bruce A.Olcott Joshua T. Guyan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (US) LLP 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 Its Attorneys ° See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(4). ° See 47 CFR. § 0.459(b)(5). ‘ See 47 CFR. § 0.459(b)(6). 8 See 47 CFR. §0.459(b)(7). ° See 47 CF.R. § 0.459(b)(8). * See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(9).


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