Legal Opinion
Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Bausch & Lomb, Inc.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided July 17, 1987No. Civ. A. Nos. C 84-20642 RPA, C 86-20406 RPAPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER RE DISCOVERY
WAYNE D. BRAZIL, United States Magistrate.
The Court addresses here complex issues of first impression. Plaintiff seeks to discover from defendant documents of two different kinds: (1) drafts of a declaration that defendant’s expert, Maurice F. Holmes, submitted to the Patent Office as part of defendant’s effort to survive a reexamination of the patent whose validity plaintiff is challenging in this litigation, and (2) a draft of a “Reply Under C.F.R. sec. 1.111” that outside counsel for defendant prepared at the request of defendant’s in-house lawyer (after…
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