Legal Opinion
Organon, Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided February 17, 2004No. CIV.A. 01-2171(FSH), CIV. A.01-3835(FSH), CIV.A. 01-2682(FSH), CIV.A. 01-4246(FSH)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
HOCHBERG, District Judge.
This matter calls upon the Court to decide a legal issue of first impression under the laws of the Netherlands. That question is whether documents noticed by Defendants in 2002 to be produced by Or-ganon’s Dutch patent agents 1 are presumptively entitled to be privileged in the same manner as would a patent attorney’s confidential communications, absent an applicable exception to the attorney-client privilege doctrine.
On April 4, 2003, the Dutch legislature enacted amendments to the Dutch Patent Act. The relevant section states:
Unless otherwise under or…
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