Norfin, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp.

SHERMAN G. FINESILVER, District Judge.

In this patent infringement suit the Court has been asked to issue a protective order, to prevent or limit Defendant’s attempted deposition of Plaintiff’s expert' witness. In the suit, Plaintiff contends that Defendant has infringed patent no. 3,414,254 relating to photocopy machine collating devices. Defendant denies any infringement and affirmatively alleges that the ’254 patent is invalid, due to its obviousness at the time of the invention to persons having ordinary skill in the relevant art.

To support the validity of its patent, Plaintiff acquired…