Pentalpha Enterprises, Ltd. v. Cooper & Dunham LLP

Plaintiffs infringed a patent owned by defendant SEB beginning in 1997. SEB sued plaintiffs in Federal District Court in 1998, and successfully obtained a preliminary injunction in 1999, which was affirmed by the Second Circuit in 2000 (SEB S.A. v Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., 77 F Supp 2d 399 [1999], affd 243 F3d 566 [2000]). The following five years consisted of discovery disputes, primarily involving plaintiffs’ accusations of discovery misconduct by defendants concerning document request No. 14. In 2006, the issue was conclusively decided when a federal jury found plaintiffs liable for…