Legal Opinion
Wang Laboratories, Inc. v. Toshiba Corp.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided May 9, 1991No. Civ. A. 90-1477-APublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
This is an effort to disqualify an expert. It is occasioned by unusual circumstances: Both sides in a patent infringement suit, first plaintiff Wang Laboratories, Inc. (“Wang”) and then the NEC defendants (“NEC”), 1 apparently engaged the same expert for the same purpose, namely to furnish an opinion on the validity of the patents in issue. Wang moves to disqualify the expert and for leave to conduct discovery aimed at ascertaining what use, if any, the expert made of Wang’s putatively confidential information. For the reasons recorded here, the Court…
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