Patent Case Watch

Patent opinions from the Eastern District of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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Discovery

Discovery is the pre-trial exchange of evidence, and in patent litigation it is unusually heavy: source code, technical documents, licence agreements, sales data, and the testimony of engineers and executives. Disputes reaching a written ruling typically concern the scope of what must be produced, claims of privilege over opinion-of-counsel or work-product material, the burden of producing source code under restrictive inspection terms, and the sufficiency of a party's responses. Magistrate judges resolve most of these, and their orders are reviewed by the district judge only on objection. The opinions collected here include orders compelling production, protective rulings limiting it, and sanctions for failures to comply.

342 opinions and orders, showing 1–200.