Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. v. C.R. Bard, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER RE MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY

BACKGROUND

BRAZIL, United States Magistrate Judge.

We address here defendant C.R. Bard’s motion to compel (1) disclosure of communications between inventors and their patent counsel made in anticipation of filing the application of the patent in issue and (2) testimony by inventors and their patent counsel setting forth directly their understanding of several key technical phrases used in the patent claims.

The principal purpose of defendant’s motion is to compel both the inventors and their patent counsel to disclose communications that preceded…