Zenith Radio Corp. v. Radio Corp. of America

LEAHY, Chief Judge.

Claiming sanctuary for some 1600 documents, defendants have refused to produce them for various reasons of privilege, opinion, “work product”, and absence of good cause. The withheld documents roughly fall into five categories: (1) those passing between the inventor and patent department employees; (2) those passing between various employees of the same patent department and their related memoranda; (3) those passing between patent department employees and employees of other departments of the same corporation, exclusive of “house counsel”; (4) those passing between patent…