Jay V. Zimmerman Co. v. National Mask & Puppet Corp.

BYERS, District Judge.

This is a defendants’ motion for a protective order under Rule 30(b), Fed.Rules Civ. Proc. 28 U.S.C.A., respecting the taking and the subject-matter of depositions of the defendants specified in the . notice dated October 8, 1952.

The action is for unfair competition and the third alleged cause as pleaded, asserts' that the defendants filed on March 2, 1952 an application for a patent on substantially the same subject-matter of an application by the plaintiff already on file in the Patent Office, and that the oath accompanying the defendants’ application to the effect…