Legal Opinion
Western Electric Company, Incorporated v. Piezo Technology, Inc. v. Donald Quigg, Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 1, 1988No. 88-1216PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHER, Circuit Judge.
Donald Quigg, Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (Commissioner), appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia holding the Commissioner in civil contempt for prohibiting a patent examiner from answering certain deposition questions posed by Piezo Technology, Inc. (Piezo), the defendant in a private patent infringement suit. We reverse,
Background
Western Electric Company, Incorporated (Western Electric) sued Piezo for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 3,564,463 (’463) in the Middle District of…
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