Standard Packaging Corporation v. Curwood, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

AUSTIN, District Judge.

This matter comes before me on Defendant’s motion for an order compelling answers to questions posed to a former patent examiner, Mark Litman, during his deposition earlier this year. Litman represented the United States Patent Office in the examination and approval of the patent under scrutiny in this infringement action. The fourteen certified questions at issue relate to Litman’s official actions in his capacity as examiner of this patent.

Defendant argues that Litman’s answers are relevant to the contentions that the invention claimed was…