Cook Inc. v. Boston Scientific Corp.

ENTRY and ORDER on plaintiffs motion for a protective order (doc. no. 64) and defendants’ cross-motion for a protective order (doc. no. 67).

FOSTER, United States Magistrate Judge.

In this case, the plaintiff, Cook, Inc., claims that the defendants are infringing one of its patents for a medical device known as a “Zstent”. Because commercially sensitive information has been and will be requested in discovery and the plaintiff and the defendants are direct competitors in many lines of medical devices, the parties agree that a protective order is warranted, but they disagree on the terms.

The…