Knogo Corp. v. United States

The court is presented here with a request for review of Trial Judge Joseph V. Colaianni’s order of December 16, 1980, which denies access for discovery to four documents alleged to contain the first written disclosure of an alleged invention authored by persons involved in development of the invention but not named on the patent in suit. The request for review is submitted by the third-party defendant, Checkpoint Systems, Inc., which makes a vigorous *622presentation that the trial judge’s order should be reversed and the documents should be held not privileged and should be ordered to be…